Category Archives: Resources
Mapping The 20-Year-Long Gentrification Of 5 NYC Enclaves – Cool Map Thing – Curbed NY
Final Website Project Resources
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:
- Site Theme – How many columns are there? Does it have a custom header? How many navigation menus are there?
- Menus – Where are they on the site (top, side, bottom, embedded in a map or slider)? Do they contain sub-menus?
- 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:
- Organize your information – What topics do you wish to cover? How do you want to organize the various elements (menus, qualitative and quantitative descriptions)? Can you identify keywords for your project?
- Select your media – What medium will best feature your work: video, timeline, map, images, text, or a combination?
- 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:
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
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 Internetmust be given proper attribution (citation! link!) and it must be free to use.
Please email your ITF (maggie.dickinson@gmail.com) to set up an appointment during office hours if you need help.
Amid Mayoral Missteps, Irish Eyes Are Rolling in New York City – NYTimes.com
The Unhealthy Meat Market – NYTimes.com
The Unhealthy Meat Market – NYTimes.com.
Meat then and now –
“When President Herbert Hoover dreamed of putting “a chicken in every pot,” chicken was a luxury dish more expensive than beef. In 1930, whole dressed chicken retailed for $6.48 a pound in today’s currency, according to the National Chicken Council. By last year, partly because of Tyson, chicken retailed for an average price of $1.57 per pound — much less than beef.”
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“Poultry Science journal has calculated that if humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human by the age of two months would weigh 660 pounds.”
In the News: Immigration
Hi everyone,
Since we have been discussion immigration in NYC in class recently, I thought I would share some relevant news that concerns immigration. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear appeals from the cities of Farmer’s Branch, Texas and Hazleton, Pennsylvania that wanted to enforce stricter laws regarding illegal immigration. The Supreme Court decided not to hear the cases, in which the towns wanted to revive ordinances aiming to keep illegal immigrants from being able to rent housing. The last time the Supreme Court dealt with an immigration case was in 2012 when it partially upheld Arizona’s immigration law, letting police check people’s papers if there was “reasonable suspicion.” These two cases address a bigger issue about the power of local governments versus the federal government to monitor and make laws regarding immigration. What do you think about the Supreme Court’s decision? Who should be responsible for policing immigration- local or federal government? And to what extent should it even be regulated?
Here is a link to an article further discussing the news:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/03/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSBREA221C220140303