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Multimedia Resources for Research and Content Creation October 28th 3 – 4:30pm Addlestone Library, Room 120

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A session and Library How-To Research Guide about interdisciplinary resources available to support the creation of scholarly digital projects and presentations.

Are your students creating presentations in your class?  Are you tired of the standard linear PowerPoint presentation (a presentation WMD)?  This session will showcase the many different production and presentation tools available to you and your students as well as the copyright and fair use considerations that go into creation of digital and online content (ever tried to put something up on YouTube and suffered the “copyright infringement smack down?”).   Learn about the creative commons, the Center for Social Media, and online production tools for any kind of multimedia presentation.  From finding media for digital storytelling to creating exceptionally memorable presentations with new software tools, this LITE session will spice up your teaching, your presentations, and pretty much your life* in general.

Feel free to stop in or email vanarnhemj@cofc.edu to reserve your seat for Thursday at 3pm in the Addlestone.

*please note that knowledge of digital presentation whiz-bang is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for life spicing

Community Collections

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The Great War Archive (part of the the University of Oxford digitization project The First World War Poetry Digital Archive) includes historical materials related to First World War experiences that have been digitally captured and cataloged by members of the public.  Digital copies of publicly owned artifacts were submitted via the Web between March and June 2008.   The collection includes family photos, diaries, letters, artifacts, and oral histories.  The collection is still growing on The Great War Archive Flickr Group.

If you are interested in how to go about starting a community collection, Stuart D. Lee and Kate Lindsay’s article If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections is a great place to start!

Another great digital collection based on the community collection principle is Flickr’s The Commons. This great picture of Stubby, the American army dog with the rank of sergeant contributed by Nationaal Archief is one of many great photos that can be found and used without copyright restriction.

Stubby the American Army Dog

New online copyright education tools from the Office for Information Technology Policy

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The OITP announced the release of two new online copyright education tools: the Fair Use Evaluator and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool.  These great new resources–developed by Copyright Committee member Michael Brewer–add to OITP’s repertoire of copyright tools, including the Public Domain Slider and the Section 108 Spinner.
fair use evaluator