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Contents
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- Section 1: Pre-colonial to Post-revolution (1500 – 1790)
- Section 2: Revolution to New Metropolis (1790-1860)
- Section 3: From New Metropolis to the Industrial City (1860 – 1940)
- Section 4: Food and the global city (1940 – present)
- Ch 15: Conclusions
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- Support for Authors
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Interactive Timelines
Hi all:
If you are thinking of using a timeline in your presentation, check out http://www.dipity.com/
You can create something like this:
Note that videos, images, locations, and links can be embedded in the timeline.
Unfortunately, Dipity doesn’t have a print function yet, but you can take a screen shot of the timeline and include it in your poster.
From Dipity’s Q &A:
The best way to print a timeline currently is to use screenshots of your timeline. You can edit the screen shots to the right size in order to create a hard copy of your Dipity timeline.
To take screen shots on Mac:
Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
PC
Hit the “Print Screen” button
Open any image software.
Hit paste
Voila!
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Customize themes for imovie using iDVD
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/119
I haven’t tried this, but someone asked about modifying the themes in iMovie. If you try it, let me know how it goes.
– Karen
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Free HD Stock Video on Vimeo
If you’re looking for some good establishing shots or filler shots for your video, stock footage might help you:
http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd/videos
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Finding the video story
Hi all:
Many of the ideas you’ve posted here could work well as short videos and it looks like a lot of you are thinking stylistically, which is good. Do you want to make a cooking show, a documentary, a “journalistic investigation” of a particular object, a “video letter” to city politicians, or maybe a really short thriller called “Hunter: The Cafeteria!” Any of these formats can work and you’ll probably be most comfortable with a style that you know and like (i.e. if you always listen to NPR or Ira Glass you might want to take a simple storytelling approach or perhaps you are a really awesome rapper and want to make an educational music video: http://www.northeastern.edu/edtech/links/biology_rap)
Whichever style you choose, however, you’ll need to decide what the main point, or thesis, is for your video and this is primarily a writing exercise. Those in the video groups should meet and write out a short script or storyboard. Once you have a short script, it’s time to think of the footage you’ll need. Can you find footage online? Or are you going to film it yourself? Will you need a voice-over or a soundtrack?
Remember, your video is part of an overall presentation of your research and should accompany your poster and talk. I think the best advice for the video is to keep it simple. Try to convey one or two ideas that elaborate on the chapter you have created. A simple investigation of a day in the life of a soda can or Hunter cafeteria salad could be very revealing.
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USDA research images
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Short, simple videos
This video project is not related to food, but I wanted post it as an example of what can be done (in just a few minutes) with photos and an interview voice over. Note the attention to detail in the photos they use.
This approach might work if you’re making a video about a place that still exists in NYC, but has a history you want to explore or a person who can tell you a story.
http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=3455
Video content
Here are two programs that will allow you to download video content from the web:
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
and
Library of Congress online
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/
Hi everyone, I’ll start posting more resources– online sources of video and photos, as well as examples of short videos you might want to watch in order to get some ideas for your presentations. In the meantime, enjoy the Library of Congress photos.
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Maps of NYC
Here are some historic maps that I’ve found…. just to give you a sense of what’s out there.
And here is an example of the UMapper program. There are still some glitches with their software when it comes to making custom maps, but when it works it can be really great!
However, it works perfectly when you want to use current maps. Here is an example of a map of cheap food around the Graduate Center:
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