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Digital Writing/Humanities/Tools
CCCC Position Statement on Digital Environments
Scrapbooks in a Composition Classroom
Debates in the Digital Humanities
Assessing New Media Compositions
Teaching and Assessing Digital Writing
Why I Mind…Importance of Subtitling
Interactive Documentary: Hollow
Guide to Teaching with Copyrighted Materials
Stanford Copyright/Fair Use Portal
Still Photography
Behold at Slate (Great images)
Big Fat List of Documentaries about Photography
Street Photography and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Design/Type
9 Amazing Type Designers to Inspire
Typography Captures the Essence of Great Cities
Don’t Use Comic Sans. Here is a good summary of why.
6 Things to Remember When Designing a Logo
Free Design Software: Inkscape
Great Advertising for Inspiration
The 10 Most Beautiful Colors of All Time
Short Film Examples
Herzog’s Text/Driving Documentary
Documentary/Objects
Let Us Now Contemplate the Key
Documentary Educational Resources
More Documentary Resources
For historical documentary photographs, sounds, films and text, visit the Library of Congress’s American Memory Project.
For historical film images and sound files, free for educational purposes, visit the Internet Archive’s collection of films from Prelinger Archives.
For radio documentary, listen to WBEZ’s The American Life.
There are many other sources for audio documentary, including: soundportraits.org
transom.org, and hearingvoices.com
For historical films housed at the University of South Carolina, see the Moving Image Research Collections, Newsfilm Library. Rate schedule and access rules available here. This is an amazing local resource with a helpful and informed staff.
Visiting filmmakers and scholars – Throughout the semester there are usually opportunities to view work by independent documentary filmmakers at the Nickelodeon Theater and other venues. Some filmmakers may be present with their films and it will be a great opportunity for students to interact with other makers. Opportunities and events should be posted to Blackboard.
About Blogs/Blogging
50 Best Blogs for Creative Writing Students
80 Free WordPress Themes for Inspiration
Customize Your Word Press Themes
10 Ways to Customize Your Blog
How to Make a Twitter Background
Audio Production
Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
NPR Pulling Back the Curtain (on audio production)
DALN The Lost Art of Note Passing
DALN Sword Drill
Keller Audio Project (referenced in the Selfe essay)
Film Production
10 Minute Film School with R. Rodriguez
Dealing with Different Frame Rates
Student Video Production at Penn St.
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