Resources

Miami Writing & Technology Resources

Circulation Desk–King Library–Equipment Checkout
Video cameras, flip cameras, audio recorders for check out. Bring ID.

Remember: You must use only creative commons licensed images and sounds unless you can demonstrate that your use of copyrighted material falls under fair use guidelines.

Center for Information Management
Computing resource center in the Library. Staff on duty to help students with mulimedia and web authoring.

Howe Student Writing Center in King Library

Online Writing Labs

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue is an excellent resource, covering a wide variety of topics. Besides the link to the main page, here's a good sub-page to bookmark, showing a wide variety of writing samples for different writing contexts (e.g., resumes, engineering reports, literary essays, science labs etc.): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Writing at Colorado State
One of the most comprehensive web resources for writing.

Copyright

Creative Commons
An organization that allows people to copyright their work under shared licensing agreements (meaning other people can use it).

Chilling Effects
A website (from a libertarian slant) detailing threats to Free Speech online. Covers numerous topics including fan fiction, linking, domain names, etc.

Crash Course in Copyright
If you create pages for the Internet, you need to know about copyright law. This site is an excellent (and easily comprehensible) place to begin (and end).

Fair Use Information
A quick guide to what constitutes Fair Use.

Stanford University Library Fair Use Site
An extensive collection of legal cases and legal codes that are geared for law students and lawyers. The listing of WWW links is probably the most useful for our purposes as is the timeline of U.S. copyright history.

Places to Find Images & Audio

Digital Collections Accessible through MU Libraries
A rich resource of digital works, includes the following: American Memory Project (created and maintained bu the Library of Congress), Artstor (over 300,000+ images from around the world), and Greater Cincinnati Memory Project (archives from the city and surrounding counties in Ohio and Kentucky).

Searches all Government Web Sites: http://usasearch.gov

Creative Commons Images and Sounds:

Free sites for converting video
<http://zamzar.com
http://mediaconverter.org

Shooting Video

Video Survival Guide Current tv’s guide to shooting digital video, particularly for pod-casting

VIDEO EDITING

iMovie

http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/index.html Apple’s Tutorial, with video

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/
imovie/1create.html iSchool tutorial

http://www.csun.edu/~webteach/iMovie.htm webteach one-page tutorial

MovieMaker

video tutorials for moviemaker (all windows computers come with moviemaker)
http://www.virtualartroom.com/dv_windows_moviemaker.htmThe Virtual Artroom–useful site covering all the basics

http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~dwc/external%20sites
/imovie%20workshop/video/index.html A brief “how to” site made by a former Miami instructor

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/
default.mspx Windows/Microsoft site with “how to” information

HTML

Web Design/Standards/Accessiblity

  • Web Style Guide, 2nd. Edition http://www.webstyleguide.com/ (Note: This text is a bit out-of-date in its discussion of tables rather than CSS, but its discussion of basic design principles, particularly in Chapter 4 are excellent.)
  • Designing With Web Standards by Jeffery Zeldman (2nd Edition)
    http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/
    This gives an overview plus some on principles of designing sites with web standards. It is written for all levels of knowledge and is quite informative.
  • Guidelines for Writing for the Web according to Jakob Nielsen (note: these are a bit over-simplified, but still useful) http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

Color Wheels / Color Design

Site Validator

CSS

Dreamweaver Books

Go to the Library web site, click on Indexes/Databases, choose Safari Tech Books, search for Dreamweaver, use these two books:
Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual (McFarland)
Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Mac: The Quickstart Guide (Negrino & Smith)

Downloading FreeTrial Version of Dreamweaver

Go to http://www.adobe.com , click on Downloads->trail downloads. Click on Dreamweaver icon, choose "Try" Create an Adobe Account (use an email address that you use for such accounts, one that you don't mind getting a bunch of adobe junk mail in). Then log in and download the trail version of Dreamweaver. Choose your correct operating system. If you don't know how to determine your operating system, ask someone or call IT Help Desk at 529-7900 and they can help you.

Digital Images

Adding Captioning/Subtitles to Videos