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Month: February 2016 (Page 1 of 2)
Here is the link to the seminar 2 encyclopedia page. Check out all the Seminar 2 projects from other campuses.
Be sure to join the site and look through all the readings, previous course documentary films, and resources.
Here is where you will post your interview outlines and documentary scripts.
Our documentary films will be posted on a separate Eportfolio site – so you can share them far and wide.
Here are last year’s films from Seminar 2 students:
GENERAL RESOURCES
Imprint: Resources Regarding Skilled Immigrants
Fiscal Policy Institute Immigration
Feet in 2 Worlds: Telling the stories of Today’s Immigrants
Fi2W on the Radio: DREAMers No Longer of One Mind on Immigration Reform
Fi2W: Hard Work, Long Hours, Big Dreams – Audio Postcards of NY Immigrants in Business & On the Job
Not Coming to America: Why the U.S. is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent
SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
STUDENTS
New York State Youth Leadership Council
RESTAURANT WORKERS
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
Immigrant Workers and the Minimum Wage Report – The Fiscal Policy Institute
Behind the Kitchen Door: Pervasive Inequality in NYC’s Thriving Restaurant Industry
Food Insecurity of Restaurant Workers
Feeding New York: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers in NYC’s Manufacturing
STREET VENDORS AND TAXI DRIVERS
DOMESTIC WORKERS AND DAY LABORERS
Here is a great quick guide to moving from start to finish with your documentary film made by ITF Caroline Loomis
Here are some resources that might be helpful for creating charts, graphs or maps to include in your film:
Charts and Graphs
- Charts & Graphs — spreadsheet software is best if you have data (Microsoft Excel, Open Office, etc)
- If you’re new to making charts and graphs in Excel, here’s a tutorial from Microsoft itself, and one from WikiHow
- Social Explorer (US Census and American Community Survey data)
- Interactive Timelines — Dipity, Tiki-toki
Maps
- Google Maps (My Maps)
- Social Explorer (US Census and American Community Survey data)
- New York Public Library Map Collection
- U Mapper
- StoryMap JS
Data
If you’re looking for more NYC-specific data to create charts from, here are some resources I find helpful (not all of them are on-topic for this project, but some of you might find them helpful) –
Bytes of the Big Apple – including the PLUTO database (I mentioned this one in our workshop)
Infoshare (out of Queens college) features both census data (like Social Explorer) but also public health data, etc. A great resource! (more about Infoshare here)
Investigate NYC is user-friendly, with lots of links to useful data sources.
I Quant NY is a tumblr blog about the stories told by NYC datasets. Great for thinking about the link between data, visualizations (maps & charts) and written analysis.
Finally, NYC Open Data is an amazing resource, featuring all the data collected by the city. It can be a bit tricky to navigate, but it’s all there.
CUNY Mapping Services at the Center for Urban Research works to understand how broad forces like the global economy and immigration are reshaping work, politics, and neighborhood life in large metropolitan areas
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