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Morningside Heights Project Timeline

April 27th – Finish research portion of paper (~ 12 pages)

April 30th – Meeting with Professor Beeman

April 30th – Visit Morningside Heights and finish gathering                   information ( video and interviews)

May 4th – Incorporate additional information from field research (interviews) in paper and finish paper

May 4th to May 11th – Edit and finalize website

May 12th or May 14th – Presentation

Aishwarya Bhatia, Alan Chen, Ariel Yuan, Xiaoji Zou

Chinatown Project Timeline

For our neighborhood project on Chinatown, here is our tentative timeline:

Tuesday, April 22nd: All media done (video, interviews, timeline)

April 23rd-May 7th: Making of the website + editing process.

Wednesday, April 30th: Meet with Professor Beeman.

Thursday, May 8th:

1. Papers emailed to Emily for revision.

2. Website edited and finalized.

 By: Emily, Christine, Nick, Shixu, and Stella

Getting started on your final project

As we hit the mid-way mark of the semester, it is time to start planning your final project. Your ITF is here to help!

As a class:

Start by identifying the elements you think are effective in previous course sites by browsing the Encyclopedia (shown to you at Tech Fair and examples posted by your professor). Consider especially:

  1. Theme – How many columns are there? Does it have a custom header? How many navigation menus are there?
  2. Menus – Where are they on the site (top, side, bottom, embedded in a map or slider)? Do they contain sub-menus?
  3. Pages – How are the pages designed? Do the pages contain linked indexes? What kind of multimedia is used? How and where is the media embedded (link, image, etc)?

You will want to choose the elements you think will work best for your site, and then come together as a class and assign roles to different people in order to achieve a cohesive site. In other words, everyone should have a task to work on and you should create a schedule that makes sense in terms of workflow in order to complete the project on time.

As a group:

  1. Organize your information – What topics do you wish to cover? Can you identify keywords for your project?
  2. Select your media – What medium will best feature your work: video, timeline, map, images, text, or a combination?
  3. Assign roles – Again, you want to think about this in terms of tasks that individuals can complete in order to realize your cohesive vision. You may want to assign a writer, editor, designer, and put someone in charge of finding and testing digital tools.

Tool Ideas:

Based on the preliminary ideas Professor Beeman described, here are a list of tools you may want to consider using to showcase your work-

  • Timelines
    Tiki-Toki: Example (made by ITF Amanda)
    Dipity
    TimelineJS and this tutorial (by ITF Emily)
  • Maps
    Custom Google Maps: Examples, another example, and tutorial
  • NEW Maps Engine Lite: Watch the tutorial video
    Maps Marker: Example and tutorial (by ITF Maggie)
  • Images
    Resizing or this tutorial ( from ITF Brian)
    Adding an image gallery tutorial ( from ITF Brian)
  • Videos
    iMovie: Tutorial  from ITFs at Brooklyn, a tutorial (from ITF Amanda Favia), and tutorials from Apple
  • Audio
    Finding, editing, and embedding audio tutorial (from ITF Amanda)
    GarageBand: Tutorials from ITFs and tutorials from Apple
  • A bit of everything
    Example
    Tutorials (from ITF Jenny)And please remember, every image, audio clip, video, or selection of text you take from the Internet must be given proper attribution (citation! link!) and it must be free to use. Please ask your professor or an ITF for more help with understanding copyright and fair use…In order to ensure you are within your rights to use the material you have selected, please assess any work of art you utilize (for any project you embark on at Macaulay and beyond) by considering these factors:
    FairUse

    1. the purpose and character of the use (commercial or educational, transformative or reproductive);
    2. the nature of the copyrighted work (fictional or factual, the degree of creativity);
    3. the amount and substantiality of the portion of the original work used; and
    4. the effect of the use upon the market (or potential market) for the original work.

    (source, Ugoretz “Free as Air” presentation, 2013)

    Please email your ITF to set up an appointment during office hours if you need help.