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Historical Research Resources

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ITF ed. note: This resource guide was originally crafted by ITF Maggie Galvan and Professor Paul Moses for use in Professor Paul Moses’s 2015 Seminar 2 course to help students with their historical research on Flatbush, Brooklyn. Read the original post here.

In addition to the databases electronically available to you through Brooklyn College, here are some further resources to help you with “The Peopling of Flatbush,” your project assessing and reporting about the people living in Flatbush across time. Remember, not every database will be relevant for every time period: Continue reading →

Of Formatting & Media

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ITF ed. note: This resource guide was originally crafted by ITF Maggie Galvan for use in Professor Paul Moses’s 2015 Seminar 2 course as students were building their website, The Peopling of Flatbush. Read the original post here.

In class today, we kickstarted the process of putting our research about Flatbush onto the course website as I demonstrated how to upload text and images. Then, each group met to discuss their specific content and action plan both for putting & formatting existing content online and for gathering & creating additional content (e.g. text, images, interactive media). To this end, this informational post introduces a few plugins that I, your Instructional Technology Fellow, have activated to help you format your text and also shares information for those of you who wish to create timelines.

If there are other functions that are important for your group, be in contact. The next time we spend class time working on the website, we will definitely cover how to create excerpts, how to create galleries, and how to create menus to organize our content. I can cover other relevant materials, but it is imperative that I am aware of these needs as soon as possible so that I can research and prepare. Continue reading →

Information on Audio Recording Software, Format, & Transcription

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ITF ed. note: This resource guide was originally crafted by ITF Maggie Galvan for use in Professor Paul Moses’s 2015 Seminar 2 course where students were creating oral histories. Read the original post here.

In addition to the recorders that you can check out from Macaulay, which you used to record audio during the Night at the Museum last semester, you can also check out recorders from the Brooklyn College Library. However, you may want to use your smart phone to record audio. In fact, you may want to have both a recorder and your smart phone along, for, “Good standard practice is to always use two recorders, so that if one dies you have a running backup,” as ITF Stephen Boatright pointed out when the ITFs discussed this issue. Other good, practical advice for recording includes:

  • test your device(s)/apps at home; asking yourself questions like:
    • Am I comfortable with how recording works, and do I know how close I need to be to get good sound?
    • Do I have my settings correctly configured (see below)?
    • Do I have enough space and battery life to record a 30 min.-1 hr. interview?
  • do a test recording at the interview before you start the real interview so that you’re sure that both you and your interviewee are audible
  • check in periodically during the interview to make sure your device is still recording
  • make sure that your recording environment has as little background noise as possible. It’s easier to get a good recording in the first place rather than trying to correct it later.

While the recorders you can check out are fairly straight forward (and we can discuss this more!), when it comes to your smart phone, you may wonder: what app should I use? The following answers, suggestions, and resources come from the cohort of ITFs across the various Macaulay Honors College campuses. Continue reading →

Maps Marker, Maps Marker, make me a map

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ITF ed. note: This resource guide was originally crafted by ITF Maggie Galvan for use in Professor Jessica Siegel’s 2014 Seminar 2 course. The original post, linked in the previous sentence, contained an in-class demonstration of Maps Marker. Some examples of student projects using Maps Marker can be found here: Brighton Beach, Chinatown, Corona, Crown Heights, Crown Heights (#2), Flatbush, Harlem, Jackson Heights, Kensington, Sunset Park.

(This tutorial draws from the Maps Marker tutorial of CCNY ITFs, Logan and John.)
Skip down to: Layers, Markers, Seeing Your Map.

Maps Marker is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create a map with marked points of interest. You’ll see a menu item called Maps Marker on the left-hand side of the Dashboard. If you hover over or click this item, you’ll see the full submenu for Maps Marker. Continue reading →

Social Explorer, Infoshare

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ITF ed. note: This resource guide was originally crafted by ITF Maggie Galvan for use in Professor Jessica Siegel’s 2014 Seminar 2 course. The functionality of Social Explorer especially changes frequently, so use the below as a guide for the basic uses, but also check out Social Explorer’s own documentation to learn about new and more nuanced functions.

“Immigration is still part of the continuous cycling of population, as people who have lived in the city move on and are replaced by immigrants. This ‘demographic ballet’ is a source of strength for the city because it provides a supply of talent upon which its institutions rest.”
—Arun Peter Lobo and Joseph J. Salvo, “Portrait of New York’s Immigrant Mélange,” p. 36 Continue reading →

Embedding documents in post

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We will make use of the Google Doc Embedder plugin for WordPress to embed Powerpoint, Word, and PDF documents into posts. The steps involved are:

  1. Upload your document as an attachment through the “Add Media” button
  2. Copy the URL for the uploaded attachment
  3. Click the Google Doc Embedder button in the formatting toolbar
  4. Paste the URL you copied in #2 into the URL field. This generates a shortcode which will look something like
    GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found)
  5. Click Insert to add the shortcode string to your post.

We also support embedding Prezi presentations through the Prezi WP plugin. Simply insert the shortcode [prezi id='{Insert ID for your Prezi here}'].

Audio Resources

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Note: This post was originally composed for use in Professor Sharman’s Seminar 2 class in Spring 2013.

During our audio workshop, we’ll be discussing how to construct an audio narrative about a specific neighborhood. We’ll be drawing on resources from This American Life, a popular weekly radio show that thematically reflects on contemporary society.

In an episode from 1996 entitled “New Year,” host Ira Glass and teenager Claudia Perez introduce the listeners to 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. We’ll listen to a clip from this episode to think through how Perez and Glass include details to build their location-based narrative. I encourage you to listen to the entire clip when you have the time. It runs from approximately 5:35 to 22:00 in the episode.

We will also watch and discuss the first part of “Ira Glass on Storytelling” where Glass introduces the two elements that he believes are essential when creating an audio narrative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA

 

I encourage you to listen to the other three parts (roughly five minutes each) of “Ira Glass on Storytelling.” In Part 2, he reflects on the importance of giving yourself time to find your story and editing out the boring parts. In Part 3, he talks how it’s hard to get an adequate reflection of your good taste in your early work, and he analyzes the problems in one of his earlier recordings. In Part 4, he details two common pitfalls of audio recording and how to avoid them.

More:

Google Fusion Tables

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Google’s new Fusion Tables is a data visualization app that we will use to map publicly available data.

Before you get started, there are a few things you’ll need in place:
1) A Google Docs account
2) Download your desired data files. Info on acceptable formats for use in Fusion Tables can be found here, but typically you’ll use spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx or google spreadsheets) or CSV files
3) Connect to the Fusion Tables app: In Google Docs, click the red “Create” button, then click “Connect more apps” and select Fusion Tables

In order to map your data, you will need a file with geocoded (location) data
1) In Google Docs, click “Create” and select Fusion Tables
2) Choose your first data file to import into Google Docs (if you have a .csv file, make sure the “comma” is selected as the Separator character), click Next
3) Review the preview, click Next
4) Give your table a name, attribution information, and a description. Click Finish. You should then see your data as a Fusion Table
5) If your data already has location data, you will see a tab for an automatically generated map. If your data needs location data, you will need to fuse your data file with a geocoded table (one that contains latitude/longitude, zip codes, countries, states, or cities, etc.)

To fuse your table with another location data set:
1) In your Fusion table, click “File” then “Merge…” Select the location file and click Next
2) Confirm the source of match, and click Next
3) Select the columns you want to merge, and click Merge
4) View your newly merged table, which will now have a “Map of latitude” tab with an automatically generated map
5) You should now be able to change the map styles and manipulate the map in various ways

*Note: if your location file contains names of countries, states, cities, etc., then those names will be highlighted in yellow in your Fusion table. You will have to change those names into geocoded locations. To do so, click File, then “Geocode”. Click here for a video tutorial (geocoding starts at around minute 3).

Resources
Fusion Tables video tutorials (see especially the video by Kathryn Hurley)
About Fusion Tables
Help & Troubleshooting
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
NYC Department of City Planning public data

Uploading Audio Projects & A Note About Plugins

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Uploading your audio project from Garageband to the course blog is a fairly painless process, which will allow you to share your work in a public-facing manner. I’ll describe the process below and provide some take-away points applicable to further instructional technology work you’ll likely do in the future.

1. To convert your audio into a format that you can access outside of Garageband, you will need to go to the Share menu (pictured) and select the “Export Podcast to Disk” option. This option will compress the file into m4a format, which you can use outside of Garageband, and it will make the file easily findable in whatever location you have saved it in. When working with the Brooklyn Museum audio earlier in the semester, you may have used the “Send Podcast to iTunes” option, which works well when you’re planning to continue to use the audio with iLife suite software (like iMovie), but it’s potentially less helpful here because it makes the file more difficult to locate to upload to the web.

2. Login to the WordPress site and create a new post where you will want to post this project. Select the category “Audio Project” from the Categories list in the right-hand column.

3. Click “Upload/Insert” media, which you will see in the space right above where you write your posts. When the pop-up window comes up, locate and upload your file. Basic information about your file will appear in the pop-up box (pictured at right, click to enlarge). Scroll down to where the Link URL is listed. Copy the URL and close the media uploader. (Note: Do not insert the file into the post. Doing this will simply put a link to the file rather than embedding the audio, which I will walk you through.)

4. To embed the file in the post, you will use the podPress plugin. Plugins (basic info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins) allow you to extend the in-built functionality of WordPress, and you’ll likely encounter and interact with them more as you start to build your own sites and take on more advanced roles in further course sites. Different plugins, based on their functionality, live and are controlled from different spaces within the WordPress Dashboard. Sometimes they’ll get their own special menu, sometimes they’ll be  listed under Settings, sometimes they’ll be in the Widgets area (Appearance>Widgets), sometimes they’ll be in the page/post editor, and sometimes they’ll be manipulable in a combination of those areas.

5. The part of the podPress plugin that’s important to you for this assignment lives directly in the page/post editor, under the area where you write your post (pictured at right). You’ll want to click “Add Media File.” Doing so will open up a set of fields (pictured in second image at right here) where you can give the information about your file. You will paste your file location (that you copied in step #3) into the Location field. You can give your file a title, as well, here. Type/file size/duration should be auto-detected by podPress.

6. Once you have all of that information filled in, you just need to take the line of code [display_podcast] and paste it wherever in the post you want the audio player to appear. You can also put whatever contextualizing information necessary to situate your audio project.

Posting Images to the Macaulay Gallery

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Photo Gallery Instructions

We’ve set up a gallery for the class in the Macaulay system, which will allow you to upload your pictures, comment on each others pictures, even rate which ones you like the best.

If you’re having trouble seeing it, it’s because you need FIRST to follow these simple instructions.  The only trick is that this is a two stage process, involving registering, emailing me, then reentering the platform to upload your photo/make comments/etc.

1.  Go to http://macaulay.cuny.edu/gallery/index.php/ and register for the site, giving yourself a password.  You can use any username/password for this site, and connect it to any email address (this is where you’ll get your new password if you forget yours).

2.  Email your ITF with your username.  They don’t need to know your password, just the username. They will need to know your username to add you to the class gallery. You should register and email your ITF as soon as possible.

3.  Receive an email from your ITF indicating that you’ve been added to the group gallery.

4. Go to http://macaulay.cuny.edu/gallery/index.php/ to find the correct album.

5. Log in. Search for your class/topic/assignment.

6. Click on the gallery image.

7. Add images.  You can add images to the gallery by hovering over “Options” and clicking “+ Add a photo” or by using the top menu bar and hovering over “Add” then selecting “Add photos.”

8.  Upload your picture, or pictures.  “Select file” which will prompt you find your file on your computer and hit “Open,” then you can add a caption, then hit ‘Done.’  To change the title, type a title in the ‘Caption’ field, then choose ‘caption’ under ‘set item titles from.’

9. Comment on or rate photos on the site! Yes, it is just like Facebook! Join the fun!

10. You’re done!  Email your ITF with any questions/problems/etc.

Making videos in PhotoBooth and embedding them into posts (helpful for iMovie as well)

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1) On your Mac, open Photobooth (icon pictured here) by finding it in your dock or in Applications. This program can capture still images or video.

2) If you want, add effects (sample shown here) to still images. This feature works best when you are in front of a solid, simple background.

3) Make a video by clicking on the button marked with a flim strip on the left below the screen, and wait for the countdown.

4) To upload the video within a post or page you need to use the add media button above the text editor (it has an image like camera with a music note and says “add media”). Once your file is uploaded, click on it and copy the File URL which appears in a text box (should have */file/* somewhere in the url, and should end in .mov). Don’t actually insert the files, but grab the URLs (ie: copy them using command+C). And make sure you’re not grabbing the link to the attachment page, but to the file itself.

6) Then write the post and embed the video by clicking the Q button on the toolbar (for Quicktime). It will ask you for that URL you grabbed (ITFs and admins, make sure the Viper Video Quicktags plugin is activated and Quicktime is enabled as a button in the Viper Video Quicktags Settings).

This will work with iMovie, or any other movie filmed with a Mac program as well! (All mac-produced videos will be classified as mp4.)

Embedding Wix, Tiki-Toki

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Here is a basic guide on how to embed Wix or Tiki-Toki within your sites.

Embedding Wix
To embed Wix, you can insert this very simple line of HTML code into the HTML view of your page: <center><iframe height="430" scrolling="no" width="530" frameBorder="0" src="YOUR WIX URL"></iframe></center>. This code creates a frame area for the Wix page that you paste where it says YOUR WIX URL, making sure to keep the quotations around the URL. Once you have the page location specified, you should see the embedded Wix page once you publish your page.

However, depending on the dimensions of your Wix, you may want to finesse the code a bit more. The height and width suggestions in the code provided here will ensure that the Wix fits snugly on pages with sidebars, but that may not be ideal. You can change scrolling to “yes” to enable allow users to scroll within the frame, which will help viewers see your entire Wix. A better option may be to increase the size of your Wix frame and hide the sidebars to give yourself more space. To hide your sidebars, you will want to select “Hide Primary Sidebar” and “Hide Secondary Sidebar” in the PageLines Section Control area that you will find under the Page Attributes area on the right side of the Page Editor.

Embedding Tiki-Toki
To embed Tiki-Toki, you select Embed from the top of the timeline menu. A Timeline Embed Code pop-up will appear on your frame with these instructions: “Enter the width and height you want for your embeddable timeline. You should then copy the code from the ’embed’ box and add it to your website or blog.” Tiki-Toki provides a suggested width and height, which is a good place to start and can be edited later, so you need only copy the code and paste it into the HTML editor view on the page where you want to show the timeline. Once you paste the code, you will notice that width and height are specified within the first bit of code, which is where they can be edited. Note that the default width will render a timeline a bit wider than fits with sidebars, which means that you might want to use the trick above or reduce the width to around 530.

Mapping, timelines, video, audio, plugins, etc.

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Here’s a list of resources particularly useful for Seminar 2, but likely useful for other courses, as well.

Making Radio
This American Life has a page of extensive resources about how to structure/write engaging audio.

Mapping Software Other than Google Maps
Google Maps, linked above, is often the go-to for map-making on the web, but it is not ideal for every use. Here’s a list of some other options that you can also edit and embed on your site. (If you want to extensively use maps on your site, you should activate the UMapper plugin that supports easy embedding of certain online map formats.)
ArcGIS Online
GeoCommons
Social Explorer
UMapper

Timelines
To make timelines, you might request a class version of Tiki-Toki that will allow for the creation of 5 embeddable timelines for the class under one account. For some basic information on how to use different media in Tiki-Toki, visit the FAQ page.

Audio
For those of you looking to use audio clips on the website, you should activate the podPress plugin.

Images
NextGEN Gallery is the one of the best plugins to use when presenting images. There are capabilities within this plugin to create the pop-up style image viewing you’re familiar with on Facebook.

Flash
If you want to have a Flash portion of your website, Wix is likely your best bet. You can create a page on there that can be embedded in the class site. You can see Wix in action on the main page of a past Seminar 2 East Harlem site.

For those of you who wanted to make a recipe book, this might be the best way to achieve that. Check out this book-like template on Wix. To access those kind of pages, once in Wix, you go to Add > Page Parts > Page Groups > More > Sketchbook. More information about Page Groups in Wix can be found here.

Making a Photoessay Slideshow

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SAMPLE PHOTOESSAY SLIDESHOW

click on image to activate slideshow

alternate text

this is the caption

ocess. I was selected as one of 10 people (out of a firm of more than 30,000)

ing money; this alone will not sustain a firm for so long. It had something to do with pride and belief in the organization. I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for

INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING YOUR PICTURES:

1. Uploading images
Dashboard > Media > Add new
–You can drag and drop all the pictures at once or upload them manually

2. Set the order for your images.
Decide which image you want to be the “cover” image–the one that will show on the page and be clicked to start the show.  If you want, you can create (in Powerpoint or Keynote or whatever) a customized “cover” with words on it “My awesome slideshow, click me to start.” Or it can just be the first picture with text above it that reads “click the picture to start the slideshow.”  Then determine the order of the rest of the photos.

Media > Library > Click on image title > Change the title to the name of the your photoessay project followed by the number in the order your photos (Ex: “Food in Flatbush and Jackson Heights – 1” for the first picture; “Food in Flatbush and Jackson Heights – 2″ for the second pictures, etc.”

3. Adding text
Media > Library > Click on image title > Write your text in the “Alternate Text” field (NOT the “Caption” field.  I know, that’s tricky).

4. Make your page for the slideshow
Dashboard > Pages > Add New > Enter the title of photoessay on top > Add text to introduce your photoessay and describe your project

Make Sure to go to Page Attributes (on the right hand side) > Parent > Photoessays

Make sure to press the blue “Update” button to save your work!

5. I will embed your slideshows from the media library.  If you’d like to do it yourself to learn this feature on wordpress, please contact me to set up an appointment during office hours.

-Laurel

 

Making your profile name your full name, changing your password

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**THIS POST IS IMPORTANT!**

Please make your profile name your full name and change your password to something you can remember.  If your profile name is xzb1990, no one will know who you are when you make posts for the class.  If your password is K0AyUubDrfOgO4s, you will never remember it and it will drive you crazy!  See the directions below on how to change both.

Make your profile name your full name:
1) Click on your name on the top right side of the screen, where it says “Howdy, your name” > scroll to “Edit My Profile”
2) Scroll to: “Full Name (required)” and fill in your first name and last name
3) In the box next to “Display Name Publicly As,” make sure it has your full name

Change your password to something you will remember:
1) Click on your name on the top right side of the screen, where it says “Howdy, your name” > scroll to “Edit My Profile”
2) On the bottom of the right-hand column, click on “Change your password to something you will remember”

Change your Avatar (Optional):
1) Click on your name on the top right side of the screen, where it says “Howdy, your name” > scroll to “Edit My Profile”
2) On the top of the right-hand column, click on “Upload an Avatar”
3) Click on “Browse” > Click on the image you’d like to upload > “Open” > “Upload Image”

Seminar 3/Presentation Resources

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Poster
If you’re creating a poster, you can do so in Powerpoint or Keynote. The standard size is 36”x48” (one side MUST be 36”), or 3456 pixels by 2592 pixels (300 dpi). To change the size in Keynote, go to Inspector > Document Inspector > Slide Size > Custom Slide Size. To change the size in Powerpoint, go to File > Page Setup. If you want to print the poster for free at Macaulay, you’ll have to do so a week in advance and fill out this form.

Blog entry on the ins and outs of poster construction
Short video on how to make a scientific poster with Keynote
Examples of past Seminar 3 posters

Presentation
Using slides for presentations is so standard that the two major programs, Keynote and Powerpoint, both use this format. As we talked about in class, it might be useful to experiment with the idea of spatially grouping concepts and ideas together by using a Prezi. For your presentation at Macaulay, you will need to limit yourself to fifteen minutes.

Keynote Tutorials
Powerpoint Tutorials
Prezi for Education sign up
Prezi Tutorials
Powerpoint and Presentation Suggestions

Additional resources
In putting together your poster and/or presentation, you may find that you have a particular set of data that you want to visualize or organize in a particular way. Here’s a run-down of some resources that might be of use to you.

How to Use WordPress!

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The links that follow are largely a collection of very short videos (around 1 minute) that walk you through how to perform different tasks on WordPress. I’ve collected them together intuitively in groups of increasing complexity. You’ll want to review the links in “Ready?” as you start writing, move onto “Set.” as you begin to customize and add flavor to your content, and continue on to “Go!” as you further branch out with your eportfolio.

Ready?
Writing and publishing a post
Adding categories and tags to your posts
Saving and returning to draft posts & pages
Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts
Previewing and activating themes

Set.
Creating an image gallery
Choosing a theme for your blog
Adding and deleting categories
Using Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to manage your posts in half the time
Adding an ‘About Me’ (or any other static) page

Go!
Changing your default media settings
Customizing your header image
The Text Widget for WordPress
Import your WordPress blog into Facebook
How to embed a YouTube or other off-site video into a post

How to Modify Your Images

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Image Manipulation Programs from simple to more complex

On your MacBook Pro, you’ll find two programs that more or less obviously deal with photo manipulation: iPhoto and Gimp. As its name suggests, iPhoto is made for tweaking your photographs. Gimp’s great for more powerful image manipulations—it is very much an open-source Adobe Photoshop. However, you may not realize that Preview, which is most often used to view PDF documents, also handles a low level of image manipulation, making it the perfect tool to use when you quickly need to make your image web-ready. In this post, I’ll be discussing how to make all these easy adjustments—namely, rotating, cropping, and retouching— in Preview.

1. Rotating
In Preview, all of the image manipulation you need can be found in the Tools menu. Preview allows you to rotate images in four directions very simply—left by 90 degrees (counterclockwise), right by 90 degrees (clockwise), horizontally (mirror image), and vertically (upside down image). As you can see from the screencapture at right where I’ve highlighted these menu options, you can also rotate left and right using key shortcuts (command-L and command-R, respectively).

2. Cropping
As you may notice in the screencapture in the section above, the Crop option is grayed out in the Tools menu, meaning that it is currently unavailable to use. To activate the Crop tool, you must select an area to be cropped. When you open a file in Preview, you are given a small set of tools directly on the top of the image panel, as seen in the screencapture at right. The dotted box is the selection tool that will allow to select what parts of the image you want to save and what parts you want to crop out. To perform this operation, you click the tool, then click and draw a rectangle in the image that selects the area you want to save. (Note, there are other shapes and ways you can use to crop your images in Preview, but the default rectangle shape will probably be what you use most of the time.) You can readjust the rectangle after you’ve initially drawn it, to modify what it is you’ll be cropping out (i.e. the unselected bits). Once you’re satisfied with the area you’ve selected, click the Crop option in the Tools menu or use the keyboard shortcut, command-K.

3. Retouching
To retouch your images, you select Adjust Color, highlighted in the Tools menu in the screencapture at right. Once you click that, another panel will appear (as seen in the next screencapture). This panel allows you perform a lot of different things that can radically adjust your image. I’ll quickly detail a few here that might be of use to you:
Exposure & Contrast—Both of these tools will allow you to adjust the colors in your image to make them lighter or darker.
Saturation—This tool can increase or decrease how vivid or intense the colors in your image are. If you want to easily convert your image to black and white, you can drag the saturation all the way to the left and dispose of the colors completely.
Temperature—Dragging this tool to the right will ‘warm’ up your colors (increasing the yellowish tone of your image), while dragging this tool to the left will ‘cool’ your colors down (giving your image a bluish cast).
Sepia—Dragging this tool to the right will increase the brownish cast of the image. If you drag the tool completely to the right, you will have a fully sepia-toned image.
Sharpness—Dragging this tool to the left will make your image more blurry, while the rightward direction will sharpen it up.

4. Saving Your Image
In OS X Lion, the way you save your file has changed, and the terminology may be a little confusing to you. Under the File menu, you’ll see Save a Version, which is synonymous with Save, meaning that clicking this option will save your changes over your existing file. You will also see Export, which is synonymous with Save As, meaning that you can save your edited file under a new name and can also change the file extension if you’d like. On that note, most images you create for the web, you’ll want to save as a JPEG. For more information on how to save files in OS X Lion, check out this document.

5. Extra Credit
Check out these posts written by fellow ITFs about how to do even more with your images:
How to Resize Photos (gives directions for both Preview and iPhoto)
Creating a Slideshow (using the NextGEN Gallery plugin—to use this feature on your blog, select Plugins from the options along the left-side of your Dashboard, find NextGEN Gallery in the alphabetized list, and click “Activate.”)

6. Need More Help?
As always, you should feel free to send me an email. However, your issue may be something that other students are experiencing, so you should also feel free to comment here about any image modification frustrations, and I can answer you in the comment train or in a new post.

iMovie Tutorials

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via Jenny Kijowski

These “advanced” screencast tutorials will help you add visual and audio effects to your iMovie project. *Note: If the screencast freezes frequently, wait for the progress bar at the bottom to fully load before hitting play.

  • Part 1: How to trim clips, split clips, freeze frames, and add chapter markers, all by right-clicking on the clip in your Project window.
  • Part 2: How to create visual effects for your movie using Clip Adjustments and Video Adjustments.
  • Part 3: How to crop, rotate, and add a Ken Burns effect to your video clips.
  • Part 4: How to add and edit basic audio files, such as sound effects and music, to your project.
  • Part 5: How to create voiceovers, how to detach the audio from a clip in your Project window, how to add just the audio from a clip in your Events window, and how to adjust sound levels.

Video Tutorials

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via Jenny Kijowski

WordPress (which hosts our Eport system) has created video tutorials for some of the basics. If you need a refresher, check these out:

Writing and publishing a post

Saving and returning to draft posts & pages

Adding an “About Me” (or any other static) page

Adding categories and tags to your posts

Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts