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Photos from the Brooklyn Historical Society Visit

November 9th, 2009 No comments

Here are some photos taken during the visit that the City Tech class made to the Brooklyn Historical Society on November 3rd.  The trip was part of a new research project in which each student in the course chose an address in which Whitman lived briefly during his time in Brooklyn.  Students will perform historical research on the address using insurance maps, land conveyances, city directories, and other resources provided by the BHS.  Many thanks to the BHS and librarian Elizabeth Call for their assistance with this project.

Here are some recaps of the trip from students in the course:

Class Notes – October 13, 2009

October 13th, 2009 No comments

(thanks to Claire for taking these notes)

Posts this week were exemplary, in terms of interpretation, contextualization, conversation. Another thing people did well with this week was incorporating multimedia material, for example, photos, and citing them by linking back to the source.

In the future, remember to cite your sources. Use MLA format.

The theme for today is mapping, as a way of getting at Whitman’s New York. Readings for this week included Whitman’s journalistic works in the collection Walt Whitman’s New York. Next week we will look at Whitman’s Brooklyn through the lens of his biography.

Chuck comments that we have not focused on mapping for a few weeks… this is a lens we will using going forward.

The Material Culture project will count as the midterm. Think of it as if you are a museum curator presenting an object to the world. Eventually, you will create an entirely new blog for your museum exhibit. Rather than writing posts, you will write pages. In this way you are building a resource that is more like a website than a blog. Each of the pages will deal with a different aspect of your object, whether your object is Whitman’s opera dandy shirt, Grace Church, Bowery B’hoys, etc.

1. Create a new blog.
2. When you go in to edit your new blog, rather than creating a new post, create a new page. You may end up with 5 or 6 pages.
3. Password protect your pages when they are still in draft form.
4. Pages are handled differently in different themes. Sometimes they will show up in the sidebar and other times as tabs at the top.
5. You can go into widgets and change the settings so that the only thing that appears in the sidebar are the names of the pages. So there would be no list of blog posts, no list of categories.
6. You can also go in settings and change which of your pages is the home, or front, page.
7. Remember the tag – digitalmuseum

Claire’s presentation on Flickr and Flickr Maps
— New flickr group: Whitman’s New York
— everyone is now an admin on the WWNY group
— you can move your photos from your photo stream to the group
— then you can map them

— Adding photos to group map:
1. Upload image to flickr
2. Name it, tag it ww20
3. Send it to Whitman’s New York group
4. In your photostream, go to image and click “Add to your map”
5. Zoom in on map (can search for address) to find spot where you want to put image
6. Drag photo from bottom of interface directly onto map
7. It will show up on the group map within 5 minutes. To see it there, go to the Flickr group and click the “map” link at the top of the page.

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Mapping Whitman’s New York

October 13th, 2009 No comments

Mapping has been something of an undercurrent in our class so far:

  • When Claire Fontaine visited our class a few weeks ago, she spoke about the process of connecting flickr photographs to google maps (see her posts here and here for more info).
  • I’ve assigned you a “then and now” photography assignment in which you are to write a blog post that showcases a historical photo of a location mentioned by Whitman or important to his life and matches it with a photo that you’ve taken yourself of the same location. Ideally, we would then locate all of these photos on map and build together a collaborative map of Whitman’s New York.
  • Mapping sites/applications

    Hypercities

    Historic Earth iPhone App

    Google Maps

    Flickr Maps

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