- Guidelines for White Papers
- Popular Education/Public Engagement Resources:
- Flyers and Brochures:
- Pop-Ed Organizations, Websites, and Tons of Examples:
- The Center for Urban Pedagogy: an NYC based non-profit that uses art and design to enhance civic engagement. They are pros at making complex policy and planning issues more accessible to the general public, and in a way that is strategic for community organizing goals. See especially their Making Policy Public, Envisioning Development and Urban Investigations series for group project ideas.
- Hester Street Collaborative: another super cool NYC non-profit that uses art and design for social change, in collaboration with community groups and students.
- Interference Archive: an archive/exhibition space in Brooklyn with all kinds of ephemera from social movements, or objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves like posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials.
- Dr. Pop: a popular education website that helps people become better story-tellers and strategic thinkers; Dr. Pop tells complicated stories in simple ways, through games, videos, and other media, and then explains how to do it.
- Data Visualization Tools: Depending on the kinds of data you end up gathering for your projects, you may choose to use one or more of the following data visualization tools. They are all free, or at least offer a F/OSS version for students.
- JpGraph – http://jpgraph.net/features/gallery.php
- Wiki (these options would be most useful if embedded in a website):
- Simile TimeLine – http://simile-widgets.org/timeline/
- TimeLine JS (WP Plugin)- http://timeline.knightlab.com/#
- Infographic Creators:
- Easel.ly – http://www.easel.ly
- Mapping:
- CartoDB – http://cartodb.com/
- OpenHeatMap – http://www.openheatmap.com/
- MHC Logo: Policy and Files (for all research projects)
