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Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n As you apply the concepts, skills, and interpretive methods you learned this year to complete your own research project, expand your personal academic website to share your process and product with an online public.<\/strong><\/p>\n Review the reflection you wrote at the end of Winter quarter, and think about what opportunities for the evolving appearance, thematic consistency, and personal writing style of your pages you would like to pursue. This quarter, building on the digital literacy skills and interpretive methods you have developed, you will use your website as a space for 1) sharing and reflecting on the exploratory process of articulating and investigating your own humanistic research question and 2) presenting your research findings in an online, multimodal form. You might choose to experiment more this quarter with video creation, image manipulation, or podcasting.<\/p>\n 1. Research blog: Blog your explorations<\/strong> 2. Multimodal presentation of your research<\/strong> <\/p>\n *Until May 31, UCI students can use Adobe Creative Cloud apps for free<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Audio editing and mixing apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Anchor<\/a> podcast creation and hosting<\/p>\n Audacity<\/a>: Free, open source software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The manual<\/a> includes tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n GarageBand<\/a> for Mac and iOS<\/p>\n OBS Studio<\/a> for Windows, Mac, and Linux<\/p>\n Your preferred iPhone or Android app<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Video editing apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Your preferred mobile app<\/p>\n Adobe Premiere from Adobe Creative Cloud*<\/p>\n iMovie on Mac<\/a>\/iPad\/iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n Photos app<\/a> in Windows 10 + Creator\u2019s Update<\/p>\n DaVinci Resolve<\/a> for Windows<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Image editing apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Photoshop and Illustrator from Adobe Creative Cloud*<\/p>\n iPhoto or Windows Photos app<\/p>\n GIMP<\/a> Gnu Image Manipulation Program (Photoshop alternative)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Mapping and Timelines<\/strong><\/p>\n Google MyMaps<\/a>\u00a0 Allows you to plot locations on a map and add descriptions and images.<\/p>\n Timeline JS<\/a>\u00a0 Allows you to create a chronological narrative of events on a timeline, with multimedia.<\/p>\n StoryMap JS<\/a>\u00a0 Allows you to present descriptions of events, with multimedia, plotted on a map.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Online sharing and file formats<\/strong><\/p>\n Audio in the MP3 file format and video in the MP4 file format (container) should be playable by most everyone (though compression in these formats is lossy). Before sharing any material online, you must confirm that you have the proper consent of every person involved.<\/p>\n Google Drive in UCI Google Apps<\/a><\/p>\n Google Sites in UCI Google Apps<\/a><\/p>\n EEE Canvas<\/a><\/p>\n SoundCloud<\/a> for public sharing<\/p>\n YouTube<\/a> for public sharing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/i> Presentation apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Slides (in Google Drive) Google Sites in UCI Google Apps: Allow you to create and selectively share a webpage with embedded elements, for example a set of Google Slides or other media hosted on Google Drive<\/p>\n To record a screencast video of slides or other visuals plus your narration: Microsoft PowerPoint Apple Keynote<\/a> Prezi<\/a>: for nonlinear presentations with motion (can be slow to load, offers Adobe Spark<\/a> platform (free option): Make a webpage, video, or slideshow<\/p>\n
\nAdd a page to your website and use it to present four posts (three during the first six weeks of the quarter and one at the end of the quarter), sharing and reflecting on your research process. How are you exploring possibilities for what you\u2019d like to write about? Where are you looking for primary sources and scholarly secondary sources \u2013 and have you found them? Do the lectures suggest possible interpretive approaches or sources for your own research? What difficulties are you encountering, and what discoveries have you made? As you reflect on your personal research process, be sure to consider what kinds of information, explanation, and word choice a more general audience (beyond this class) needs in order to understand the topics and methods you\u2019re writing about. To communicate, speculate about, and reflect on your research journey, also use images, links, or other multimedia responsibly to enrich your posts, which should each be at least 300 words.<\/p>\n
\nTo present your research findings to a larger audience, an online public, create a multimodal presentation by taking advantage of the visual, organizational, and multimedia capacities of your website. Use your creativity to inform and communicate to others why your research is interesting and thought-provoking and how it contributes to thinking about your topic.<\/p>\nRecommended Tools (list under construction)<\/h4>\n
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\n-easy collaboration, embedding of videos hosted on Google Drive or YouTube, options for transitions and animation. See information on presenting with Google Slides<\/a>, including setting automated, timed slide advance.<\/p>\n
\nQuickTime Player for Mac, Xbox App<\/a> in Windows 10, or OBS Studio<\/a> for Windows<\/p>\n
\n-many themes, easy editing, not-so-reliable embedding of videos, some options for transitions and animation. See information on presenting with PowerPoint<\/a>, including recording a slide show with narration and timing.<\/p>\n
\n-extensive design options, including transitions and animation; files can be exported as .pptx; also available as an iCloud app<\/p>\na free edu account to students<\/del> only a very basic account for free)<\/p>\n