ELD conducts workshops for both faculty and students on digital storytelling. Through these workshops, ELD facilitates faculty integration of digital storytelling in their classroom and equips students with the skills to create their own digital stories. ELD has held multiple digital storytelling workshops for students and faculty so far.
How to create a digital story?
Protocol for creating a digital story
Review projects and resources on digital storytelling that inspired ELD
How to integrate digital storytelling in your classroom?
Volunteer opportunities
Are you interested in creating a digital story for ELD? Learn more about volunteering for ELD!
Detroit archival research
- Burton Historical Collection (Detroit Public Library) (directories, card catalogues, manuscript collection)
- Bentley Historical Library (U of M)
- Detroit City directories
- Detroit Public Library Digital Collections
- Michigan archival records (death, census, etc.)
- Wayne State libraries database
- HeritageQuest census records: Search “HeritageQuest“
- Historical Detroit Free Press newspaper articles: Search “Historical Detroit Free Press“
- Sanborn maps: Search “Digital Sanborn maps“
- Reuther Library archival records
- Virtual Motor City (not all collections are online)
- Related to cars and Detroit
- Historical Detroit video: Prelinger videos (useful Keywords: Detroit, Michigan, car culture, Ford, GM, World War II: Industrial)
- Benson Ford Research Center
- Exhibit: Automobile in American Life and Society
- Exhibit: Showroom of Automotive History
- GM Heritage Center (see “Collection” for car specs and histories and “Archive” for historical documents, brochures, images and video)
Research resources
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013. The Heart of the Matter, Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge, MA
- Boyer, D. (2011), “From Internet to iPhone: Providing mobile geographic access to Philadelphia’s historic photographs and other special collections”, Reference
Librarian, Vol. 52 No. 1, pp. 47-56 - Cocciolo, A. and Rabina, D. Does Place Affect User Engagement and Understanding? Mobile Learner Perceptions on the Streets of New York. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 98-120
- Dear, M. (2011), “Historical moments in the rise of the geohumanities” in Dear, M., Ketchum, J., Luria, S., Richardson, D. (Eds.), GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the
Edge of Place, Routledge, London, England, pp. 309-314 - Goudreau, Jenna, 2012. “The 10 Worst College Majors”, Forbes Magazine, October 11, forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors
- Hart Research Associates, 2013. It Takes More than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success. Online survey conducted on behalf of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, April 10. aacu.org/leap
- Kulish, N. (2010), “German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself,” The New York Times, p. A1, available at: nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/europe/11germany.html
- Layar (2012), “An overview of the platform”, available at: layar.com/documentation/browser/layar-platform-overview
- Levitz, Jennifer and Douglas Belkin. 2013. “Humanities fall from Favor”, Wall Street Journal, June 6, page A3.
- Saul, Scott. 2013. “The Humanities in Crisis? Not at Most Schools”, New York Times, July 3, published online: nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/the-humanities-in-crisis-not-at-most-schools.html
- Schuessler, Jennifer. 2013a. “Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm”, New York TImes, June 19, page C1
- Scheussler, Jennifer. 2013b. “Humanities Downturn? Study Points to Women”, New York Times, June 29, page C4. [nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/the-humanities-in-crisis-not-at-most-schools.html]
- Sibley, David. 2013. “A Crisis in the Humanities?” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10. chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2013/06/10/the-humanities-crisis [Note: a counterpoint to the recent “humanities crisis” claims in popular media]
- Shirky, C. (2008), “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure”, Speech at the Web
2.0 Expo, New York, September 2008, available at: youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI - Xie, H.I. (2008), “Users’ evaluation of digital libraries (DLs): Their uses, their criteria, and their assessment”, Information Processing and Management, Vol. 44 No. 3, pp.
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