The CUNY Academic Commons is a social and academic media hub for Graduate Center students.
On the commons you can:
Connect, communicate, and collaborate with other GC students.
Access and share course materials.
Create professional websites on with wordpress, hosted and supported by the Commons.
Sign up now!
The Anthropology website on the Commons was created to accompany the official GC Anthro website. Like the official page, the commons page has course information and faculty listings. But it also has more!
There you can also:
View and download fliers of upcoming Anthro Colloqs.
Create and view student profiles.
Follow the twitter feed.
Browse the faculty bookshelf on pinterest.
Cultural anthropology students, looking for resources to help design an intro to anthropology course? Preparing for the 1st or 2nd exam? Writing a research proposal?
All the support you need is in one convenient place, the cultural anthropology student resource page!
A professional website, hosted on the commons, is a great way to show off your academic resume as it develops. Contact me (mwebb@gradcenter.cuny.edu) if you need support starting a page or want more info about upcoming wordpress workshops.
As anthropology students, you will be reading tens of thousands of pages of scanned pdfs in the coming years!!!
Save time and trees, have a plan to read on a digital device.
I recommend IAnnotate as a versatile and powerful pdf reading application for your digital device.
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Make sure the text in your PDFs is “recognizable” before you import them into your PDF reading application. This will allow you to search for words and copy/paste the text from the pdf into a word document or email. Watch this video to learn how to make text recognizable using the Adobe Pro software on all GC computers.
One of the best pieces of advice I got when I went to orientation was to begin organizing my research citations from the start. Easier said than done, but there are some digital tools that help make this happen.
There are many programs such as zotero, refworks (the GC library offers a free license), and endnote that help do this. The GC library also offers free advice/tutorials to help sort through the options as well.
Mendeley was recommended to me and has proven to be quite useful. With Mendeley you can:
Easily transfer citation information from worldcat into your Mendeley library.
Organize your pdfs into themes.
Instantly export your citations into works cited lists.
