Prepare

Module Introduction Video

Watch our module introduction video to prepare for the rest of the activities.

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Explore

We will be using the CUNY Academic Commons to organize all materials you’ll need for the summer.

1. Access the two CITE PD Commons websites:

Click around to familiarize yourself with what’s on them:

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2. Acquaint yourself with some of the tools we will be using this summer.

The list below is not exhaustive of the tools you will be using this summer, but it’s a good place to start. The links will lead you to implementations of the tools, informational pages, or “tinkering spaces” where you are invited to edit collaboratively and try to break things!

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3. (optional) Explore some of the Featured Commons websites

The Commons is a vibrant community of CUNY faculty, staff, and students. See what other groups are using the Commons to do, steal ideas, be inspired, be bored, be annoyed. By poking around at what others do with tech, we can learn what works for us and what works for others.

What do you notice? What do you wonder? What scares you? What excites you?

Apply

1. Sign up with the Commons, learn how to post on Commons Forums

Throughout this month, we will ask you to use the Commons Group Forum to reflect on the asynchronous modules in writing.

Follow the directions on the slides below to get onboarded and posting on the Commons.

Fun Fact: Online forums originated as bulletin boards created by Chicagoans to keep up with their bulletin board during a particularly bad blizzard (optional, read more here).

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2. Update your Commons Profile

You can help your colleagues get to know you when they read your posts this summer by updating your Commons profile. See the instructions for updating your Commons profile here. Included on this page are details on who can see your profile information. Consider:

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3. Make your first Forum post on your college discussion thread.

Introduce yourself and share what you’ve learned in this module in a Forum post. Check out the slides above if you need help posting.

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4. Walkthrough of Flipgrid

We want you to use computing as more than a textual medium. Click through the slides below to get onboarded to Flipgrid, the tool you’ll be using to create video reflections this summer.

Food for thought: In 1994 the computer scientist Alan Kay said “Each medium has a special way of representing ideas that emphasize particular ways of thinking and de-emphasize others.” in a talk he gave at the “Superhighway Summit. (optional, read more here

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5. Access your College’s Flipgrid Video Discussion Board

Last Step! Click below to join your college’s Flip Discussion Group and, optionally, click on the Module 0 – Introductions post to say hello to your college colleagues.

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Consolidate

Module Exit Video

Exit videos are here to help you consolidate and reflect on all the knowledge contained in a module. Feel free to take notes and consider your key takeaways!