TPS 0113: Jewish American Theatre: Digital Projects

ArcGIS StoryMaps is a platform for embedding digital maps in an engaging visual essay. As an easy-to-use tool with features for embedding audio, video, and interactive scrolly-telling, it is also popular to use even without maps. See the Data Lab Guide to ESRI ArcGIS at Tufts to learn how to get access.

Walk-in assistance with mapping, located in Tisch Library. Use the “Skills Matrix” to identify the right helpers, people who list “StoryMaps.” If you are working on more advanced mapping, find someone with “ArcGIS Online” skills.

Guide by Andrea Olson at Stanford Libraries. This tutorial with ArcGIS StoryMaps covers good practices for design and themes, tips and tricks, map features, and a guide to various map features.

Guide for storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps

An ArcGIS StoryMaps guide to project management and storyboarding.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.

Sometimes you want to add a link in your text in TimelineJS. For that, you need HTML. W3 schools has documentation and tutorials for HTML essentials.

A guide created to support podcast creation at Tufts. The guide gives an overview of workflow, tools and resources.

Media equipment is available at the front desk of Tisch library. There are two ways Tufts ID holders can check out media equipment: at the front circulation desk located on the second level of Tisch library, no reservation required, or by making a request in Jumbosearch.

Audacity is a free audio recording and editing software compatible with both Windows and Mac.

As a Tufts student you have access to Adobe Creative Cloud at a discounted rate. Software included in the suite is available for free on computers in the Digital Design Studio. The Adobe Creative Cloud includes applications for video, audio, design, animation and website creation and editing.

Omeka.net is a platform for archiving and exhibits. A free version is available with limited plugin and theme options. The Wired! Lab at Duke University has detailed video tutorials of the Omeka Classic platform, which is the same as Omeka.net once you are working with your site. The tutorial also covers Dublin Core metadata which is an essential component of a digital archive.

Make simple websites for free. Custom themes are available on the web or make your own.

Create your own Wordpress through Tufts. You cannot install your own themes and plugins, but what is available should handle most website needs.

Oral histories of indigenous people around the Colorado River. uses ArcGIS StoryMaps.

In recognition of the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education, this ArcGIS StoryMap offers a short history of the NAACP and its role in desegregation.

This ArcGIS StoryMap tells the history of the Japanese-American imprisonment in WWII using archival documents, videos, photographs, and maps.

ArcGIS StoryMap connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

This sample timeline by KnightLabs demonstrates the range of possibilities with the tool.

This academic article uses TimelineJS to provide history and context for cat memes. View the timeline.

About the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, the longest-running Yiddish theatre company in the world.

"Originally created for Sound Portraits, the predecessor to StoryCorps, dedicated to telling stories that brought neglected American voices to a national audience." - from project page

"Topics covered in this episode include: what exactly is Yiddish? Abraham Goldfaden and the birth of the Yiddish Theater. How the Yiddish Theater came to America. Yiddish Theater around the world. The influence of the Yiddish Theater on Tin Pan Alley." - from project page

Located on the first floor of Tisch Library. The Data Lab offers walk-in support for GIS/mapping.

Located on the third floor of Tisch Library, the Digital Design Studio (DDS). This is where you'll find the recording room, large format printing, 3D printing, studio space, and media equipment.