Resources

In-Class Multimedia Festivals

• In-Class Audio Story Listening Festival (September 28, 2015)

Fall 2015 Bronstein Open Labs

During open lab times, Professor Famiglietti will be available to help with any technology-related question you have, ranging from WordPress to video editing. He’s a great resource, so please see him if you need extra help beyond what what we do in class and what we discuss during office hours. Just go to the first floor of Bronstein and Andy will be there.

• Monday and Wednesday: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
• Tuesday: 11:00am-12:30pm (free period)

Some Tuesdays are dedicated to Special Topics:

• September 8: Drone Demo
• September 15: Basic WordPress
• September 22: Intermediate WordPress
• September 29: 3d Printing and Scanning Intro
• October 6: Basic Photoshop
• October 20: Basic Audition
• October 27: Intro to the Command Line

Ideas and Inspiration

• Archive.org
• British Library Sound Archive
• Brain Pickings
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Flickr Commons
• Freesound.org
• Jamendo
• MusOpen
• Pecha Kucha
• Public Domain Sounds
• Radio Lab
• Re:Sound
• TED
• Third Coast Audio Festival
• This American Life
• Transom

more to be added

Audacity

• Audacity Team Tutorials
• Audacity: Complete Tutorial Guide for Beginners (excellent 16 minute video)
• A Full Introduction To Audacity (Part 1) (another excellent video, from downloading and installation to editing; skip to around 9:00 to get to the editing)
• How to Covert Voice Memo .m4a to .mp3 for use in Audacity

Quick links

• Digital Media Zone (DMZ) @ SJU
• Communication Studies program website

Curation, archiving, and bookmarking

• Evernote (information curation and notetaking. hard to explain. interface makes it look more complex than it really is.)
• “Evernote: A Guide for Academics” (nice step-by-step setup for Evernote)
• “How to Use Evernote” by Brandon Widder
• Delicious (social bookmarking)
• Diigo (social bookmarking)
• Instapaper (app for iOS, \$3.99, or Android, \$2.99)
• Scoop.it (content curation)

Curbing inequity and aggression online

• “Dealing with Digital Cruelty” by Stephanie Rosenblum
• “Academic Bad Faith” by Adeline Koh