These resources are based on materials compiled by Senior ITF Maggie Dickinson.  Thanks, Maggie!

As you work on your community history projects and eventually on your final group projects, you will have to think about how to present your research in an engaging, possibly interactive way.  Here are some examples and tools you may find helpful, but you are not limited to the technologies or modes of presentation here.   Feel free to contact me for more information on any of the suggestions below or to work through your ideas.

 

Images
To find Creative Commons images you can use, search in Flickr.
flickr
To represent data, you might also try making charts in Excel (see this tutorial) or make info graphics with tools listed below.

Examples from Eports:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/nydreams/
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/collectiveproject/our-theme/68-2/

Useful Tools: Images: Flickr; Image editing: Gimp (already on your Macs), Photoshop; Charts: Excel; Infographics: Easelly, Tableau

 

Presentations
Prezi: here are examples from past students of Professor Rodberg:


You can make Prezi presentations that are publicly available and hosted online for free.  You may want to look into these tutorials to get started.

Here is a presentation with tips on creating a Prezi:

Useful Tools: PowerPoint, Prezi

 

Interactive Timelines
Example from Eports:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/vellon/politicalneighborhood-organizations/young-lords/
Timelines could be a good way to represent your research on a particular organization. Here are some good non-Macaulay examples:
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/55/The-Fight-for-Democracy-in-the-Middle-East/#vars!date=2010-12-17_00:00:00!
http://backtoghana.com/timeline

Useful Tools: Dipity, Tiki-Toki

 

Mapping

You can search for any neighborhood in NYC or the US on these maps of neighborhood income levels.
You can search census data and produce demographic maps using Infoshare and Social Explorer.
Examples from Eport:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/drabik13/visits/
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/vellon/demographics/race/

Useful Tools: Google MyMaps, UMapper, Infoshare, Social Explorer

 

Audio
Example from Eports:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/degraauw13/combined-immigration-stories/

Useful Tools: Garage Band, Audacity, Sound Cloud

 

Documentary Video:
The first project, “Dig Your Hands in the Dirt” is an outstanding example of documentary work by a group of Queens students: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/rodberg2012/

This is another wonderful example of a neighborhood study, using photographs, voice-over and iMovie.

Useful Tools: Video editing: iMovie; Sound and Image tools above