What: ITF Tech Day Check-in Where: Honors Lounge, 2nd floor of Boylan Hall When: 12:30-3:30 PM on Wednesday, April 20 How to sign up: one group member schedules the appointment at this Doodle appointment event scheduler: Seminar 2 – ITF Tech Day Check-in Appointments are 30 minutes long and filled on a first come, first served basis. […]
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What is an annotated bibliography? Annotated bibliographies provide basic bibliographic information in a standard style of documentation, as in a traditional bibliography or “works cited” page; the only difference is that each source is “annotated” with a statement about the text. This statement can range in length from 150-250 words and should provide insight into […]
ITF office hours are cancelled for Tuesday, March 15 and Wednesday, March 16. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email: acarrozza@gradcenter.cuny.edu. I also wanted to add a note about the online tool Social Explorer that lets you map census data onto a chosen geographic area, and then create maps […]
A recent NYT article by Jennifer Schuessler reports about Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond’s upcoming book Evicted: Poverty and Property in the American City that will be published next week: The sociologist William Julius Wilson called Mr. Desmond’s research, which combines ethnographic observation with reams of hard-won data, “one of the most comprehensive field studies of the […]
This is a friendly reminder that the ITF Tech Day survey closes tomorrow, Feb. 22, at 5 pm, so if you haven’t already, please take the time to fill it out. The survey is available here: ITF Survey for Seminar 2, The Peopling of New York (Prof. Williams). Your survey answers will influence which topics […]
Fill out the survey by clicking ITF Survey for Seminar 2, The Peopling of New York (Prof. Williams). If you have trouble with the link, you can copy/paste it into your address bar: http://svy.mk/1mLe3Zu. Please fill out the survey before 5 pm on Monday, Feb. 22 so that I have enough time to prepare a relevant and awesome tech […]
No field notes here, sorry, but here are the instructions for adding your field notes to the site. The process for adding your field notes to the eportfolio site is very similar to the process for posting your discussion posts. Log in to the course site > Dashboard > Posts > Add New Write your field notes […]
This post is a sample post and also contains instructions for posting to the course Discussion Blog. Log in to the eportfolio site and create a new post: Dashboard > Posts > Add New Write your post. Tag your post with “Week ____.” For example, this post is tagged “week 2.” Categorize as “Discussion Blog” by clicking the box […]
On the first day of class, students surveyed the contents of each other’s bag and then wrote profiles based on what they found, so I thought Lifehacker’s “Featured Bag” series might be interesting to some of you. This series features reader-submitted photos of their bags and the stuff inside their bags. The title of each post is explanatory, […]
update 2/16/16: The “Add Users” Widget in the sidebar is acting wonky so if you’re having trouble adding yourself to the site, The “Add Users” widget can only be located in a sidebar but this WordPress theme doesn’t have one. But! There’s another solution: tell your ITF the email address that is associated with your eportfolio account. (If […]
Click the widget in the sidebar and add the password found in the syllabus distributed on the first day of class on 2/3/2016. If you’re having trouble getting added, you can be added if you send an email to your ITF with the email address associated with your eportfolio account: acarrozza@gradcenter.cuny.edu. You can check which email address […]
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