New York Times/Social Explorer:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/23/nyregion/20110123-nyc-ethnic-neighborhoods-map.html
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp
NY Data Center
http://esd.ny.gov/NYSDataCenter/Census2010.html
NY Housing and Vacancy Survey:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/nychvs/nychvs.html
Social Explorer:
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map3.aspx?g=0&mapi=SE0012
InfoShare
http://www.infoshare.org/main/public.aspx
Hi all:
I hope you had a chance to attend the Tech Fair at Macaulay and that you took a look at the sites in the Seminar Two Encyclopedia:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/encyclopedia/
We will talk a little bit about this final project next week, but if there was anything you saw while looking through the sites that you would like to learn, please let me know. Keep your current research papers in mind. Did you see anything that you feel would help you conduct research or help you present your work?
I will put these links on our course site, but you can also look through these applications:
Time lines:
http://www.dipity.com/
http://www.tiki-toki.com/
Maps and Census Data:
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx
http://maps.nypl.org/warper/
Zotero for references: http://www.zotero.org/
Audacity for recording: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
See you on Tuesday.
Best,
Karen
Hi all:
Hope you enjoyed your walking tours today. I was with the 125th group and we saw a number of interesting things– things mentioned on the Walking Tour Map that Professor Gardner handed out. If you haven’t looked at that map, be sure to go back and read through the information there. We learned that Emma Goldman‘s office was on 125th street, that a historic Turkish bath house is now for rent, and that Eugene McCabe is not the Irish playwright, but rather the founder of North General Hospital. We also saw the beautiful ode to Picasso by De La Vega.
Also, this blog seems to have a number of interesting posts about recent developments in East Harlem, particularly renovated buildings and rental costs (sometimes even offers a peak inside those buildings): http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/
And, this map entitled Place Matters is quite interesting now that you have seen the neighborhood: http://placematters.net/ESRImap/index.html
Be sure to start uploading your photos– instructions are posted on the blog already. If you have any trouble, email me.
Best,
Karen
There are two Tech Fairs for freshmen students at Macaulay Honors College: one in the fall, and one in the spring. We offer several sessions; you choose one time slot that fits your schedule best. These events focus on hands-on learning about your Mac laptops and what you can accomplish with them. Workshops are led by Macaulay ITFs, and give students from all seven Macaulay campuses a chance to get to know one another.
Hi all:
You should all be able to post your photographs now. Please log in to the course blog and play around with creating a photo gallery. The course blog is here:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/eastharlemblog/
You will see that I changed its appearance a little. I think this makes it easier to see all the pages and navigate the site.
In order to post, you will need to log into the blog through eportfolio. Then go into the site’s “dashboard”. Once there, look to the lower left, at the bottom of the sidebar, where you will see Gallery.
Click GALLERY.
Click ADD GALLERY/IMAGES
Click ADD NEW GALLERY (at the top of the page.)
Title your Gallery. I am assuming each walking group will create their own Gallery, meaning we will have three galleries based on which section of East Harlem you are walking. Perhaps assign one person from each group to create the Gallery and use the titles: “East Harlem, North”; “East Harlem, Central”; “East Harlem, South”
Once the Gallery is created, you can then upload images to it using the Upload Images tab.
It will prompt you to select images, do so, and then wait. Be patient. It will take a while.
This tab will also prompt you to CHOOSE A GALLERY. Make sure you post your photos to the right Gallery.
Then, click UPLOAD IMAGES.
Once all the images are uploaded, you must then MANAGE the Gallery and caption your images. You can do this by clicking MANAGE GALLERY, which will take you to a page of Gallery titles. Click your appropriate title and you will then see all the images that have been uploaded. You will see a space to title your images, as well as write a description. Here is where your notes are essential.
In the title, make sure you have listed the photo’s location. In the description, please add a caption that tell us what we’re looking at, if necessary. It’s possible that you won’t need to caption each photo, but please add as much information as you have collected.
Then, click SAVE CHANGES.
Your photos have now been uploaded and captioned.
There is one last step, which we will take care of once all the photos are there and that is to embed the gallery into the correct blog page, but one thing (or a million little steps) at a time.
Hi all:
While searching for an image for your blog’s header, I came across this story in the New York Times about “The Spirit of East Harlem,” a four-story landmark at the corner of East 104th Street and Lexington Avenue, which has been in the neighborhood since 1978. Keep an eye out for this during your walking tour and make sure to take your own photographs of this historic artwork.
The article also mentions a book that might be helpful for your future research entitled On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City.
For your trip to East Harlem, please take a look at Field Guide_Prof_Gardner.
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/06/vintage_video_shows_the_city_of_won.php
and also check out the collection of photographs from the Museum of the City of New York:
http://collections.mcny.org/MCNY/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MNYO28_7_VForm&AERID=24UPN47B97
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