Media Resources

Interview Resources:

Best practices for interviews and oral histories from the Oral History Association.

Use this permission form as a template whenever you record an interview. W05M Consent Form Template

IV Related Archives and Histories

AS Living History Project
UCSB archives on Isla Vista
A  local wiki on Isla Vista
Coastlines article by George Thurlow, “Isla Vista: So Close to UCSB, So Far from Good” (an “unofficial history” written by the Executive Director of the UCSB Alumni Association

UCSB Resources

You may be able to get access to media production software in the UCSB Open Access Labs or the Associated Student Media Center. The AS media center also has a lot of production equipment, including cameras, audio recorders, etc.

Platforms for Story Publication:

Medium.com
Atavist.com is more trendy than the name suggests. 🙂
Many students are finding Wix useful, but I would urge you not to use the overly-flashy themes (these are cheesy).
Knight lab has a whole suite of web-based programs that create stories in timelines, maps, audio programs
Shorthand.
Storymaps

Media Production:

If you are interested in getting a job in multimedia production or writing, I 100% recommend investing in the Adobe Creative Cloud, which is the industry standard. But it gets expensive. For my course, you are welcome to try any free or affordable alternative to adobe creative cloud, but you will need to find tutorials for that program.

Photoshop alternatives:

Affinity: download the free beta version of a very robust photo editing program that will eventually cost approx. $80
Pixlr: free online photo editing program
GIMP: free, open-source, desktop program
Picasa: a photo editor/organizer, powered by Google

Screencasting:

To screencast/record your multimedia writing process, you can try Camstudio, and here are instructions for creating videos with google hangout. Screencast-o-matic is a bit wonky but works.

Text Visualization:

Wordle
Tagxedo, and 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo (for inspiration)
textify.it

Concept Mapping:

bubbl.us

Information Visualization:

Infogr.am
Venngage
Easel.ly
Daytum
Pictochart is an infographic maker.
ThingLink. Create interactive images, maps, and videos.
Infogram looks really cool and it is easy to embed into your site.

Custom maps

Tutorial on how to create custom google maps
Scribble works with google maps and is super cool.
You can also check out the archive of National Geographic maps overlaid with google maps
Map Stack lets you create and overlay different maps and it looks spiffy.

Open Source Historical Images and Audio

The Public Domain Project collects huge archives of multimedia artifacts.
NASA collects sounds and video of space.
Flikr’s Commons  and WikiMedia Commons have both contemporary and historic images

Stock & Copyright-friendly images

Creative Commons Search
Metropolitan Museum of Art collection of 400,000 high resolution images, free to download and use
Shutterstock
iStock Photo
Corbis Images
or do a Google search for “free vector graphics”

Stock & Copyright-friendly Sounds

Freesounds
List of 20 sources for free sounds

Tutorials

Lynda.com is the best and most comprehensive resource for tutorials, and UCSB staff have free access.
The Ultimate Collection of Useful Photoshop Actions
Top 7 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts