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Short Print Pieces workshop (Feb. 21)

Lynn Kilpatrick facilitated this workshop on short print forms. A short print piece is a way to turn student writing into an act of publishing. Consider inviting your students to take their short prose pieces and turn them into broadsides, pamphlets, postcards. InDesign is a program that allows the user to get high-quality, polished design for such pieces. The Publication Center has developed a few templates and can help you or your students to do it with a few easy steps.

Here’s a template for a pamphlet, and here’s one for a broadside. Here are a few tips for using InDesign. And you can always contact us for specific, one-to-one help.

(image credit: Kristian Bjornard, “Everything is about you,” on flickr)

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Working with Prezi and Screencast-o-Matic.

One of the February 2014 workshops focused on screen casting, with a special focus on using Prezi. We talked briefly about the differences between a slide-based presentation (PowerPoint or Keynote) and the canvas concept of Prezi. A thumbnail: slides want to be linear; Prezi wants to flow. Because Prezi zooms in and out, it can be an effective tool for layering images and ideas.

This short video shows some of the features of Prezi (voiceover to come):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtaZr81Bkk

This short handout explains the steps for making a screencast, using Screencast-o-Matic [docx][pdf].

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Writing with Audio: An Overview of Our Recent Workshop with Resources

In February, the SLCC Publication Center hosted a workshop on writing with audio. This screencast provides a quick 5-minute overview of the workshop, which took up the following questions: What is the rhetorical work of composing with audio, and how can we learn to “read” audio texts rhetorically?

The second half of the workshop focused on using Audacity, an open-source audio editing platform, to produce short soundscapes. Here, we’ve included a handout from the production phase of the workshop – [PDF] [DOCX]. We hope instructors and students find the handout helpful. Please feel free to use it in your courses or to guide your own self-directed work with Audacity.

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Call for Submissions: SLCC Student Publication Center Chapbook Contest

SLCC students and alumni are invited to submit poetry manuscripts to the SLCC Publication Center Chapbook Contest.  The deadline is Monday, November 26, 2012.  Submissions should be a collection of poems in any style. Manuscripts should be between 15 and 30 poems.

The prize is publication by the Publication Center; 25 copies (to the winning writer); and a $100 honorarium. Finalists may also choose to work with Publication Studies students to produce a limited run of ten (10) copies of their manuscripts.

Eligibility: any current student at SLCC may submit a manuscript. In addition, former students who are still undergraduates, and who attended SLCC during the 2011-2012 academic year are welcome to submit manuscripts. The manuscript must be the original work of the writer, and must not have been previously published as a collection. If individual poems have been published elsewhere, that is acceptable.

 The chapbook will be printed in a run of 250 copies; it will be circulated on campus and placed in local bookstores. The publication of the chapbook will be widely publicized at SLCC and beyond.

 The publication of the chapbook will culminate in a reading and publication party in the spring of 2013.

 This year’s judge is Joel Long. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.  His most recent book, Knowing Time by Light, was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010.   His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and are forthcoming in Quarterly West and The Pinch.  He has received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.  

 To submit:  e-mail manuscript to slccpubcenter(at)gmail.com in the following format:

  • Double-spaced and paginated
  • PDF format
  • Separate title page with the following information:  Name of writer; e-mail address; street address; phone number; title of manuscript and word count.
  • Besides the title page, the writer’s name must not appear on the manuscript.

If you have questions about the competition, please contact Lynn Kilpatrick at lynn.kilpatrick(at)slcc.edu. 

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2012-2013 Chapbook Contest

We are please to announce that Joel Long will be the judge for this year’s contest, which is for a poetry manuscript by an SLCC student.

Watch this space for the announcement, coming soon!

In the meantime, watch Joel read his poem, “The Fate of Animals.”

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What is publication? A talk by Matthew Stadler.

What is Publication? A talk by Matthew Stadler from Publication Studio on Vimeo.

Matthew Stadler, co-founder of Publication Studio, gave this talk as a keynote at Richard Hugo House’s writer’s conference, “Finding Your Audience in the 21st Century,” on May 22, 2010. This is a condensed version of the talk.

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Announcing: The Publication Boot Camp! (May 30/31)

Announcing: The Publication Boot Camp, sponsored by the SLCC Publication Center.

May 30-31, AD 226, Taylorsville-Redwood Campus.

Gain experience with 

  • ·      video editing software (such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, and quick-editing in YouTube)
  • ·      audio editing software (such as Audacity and Garage Band) and audio hosting platforms (such as SoundCloud and     Vocalo)
  • ·      Slideware platforms (SlideShare, Prezi) and screencasting platforms (Screenr)
  • ·      Photo editing software and photo-hosting platforms
  • ·      Layout software (InDesign, Publisher)
  • ·      Bookbinding and trimming equipment
  • ·      Graphic text software (Strip Generator, Comic Life, Xtranormal)

…and learn how to improve student engagement and success with more diverse and dynamic assignments. You can use this extended workshop for PDU credit if you get it pre-approved by your chair.

Outcomes:

1.      learn publication and multimedia options to enhance the assignments you give your students.
2.      Learn skills that will enhance your own teaching and professional life.

May 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (DAY 1, with LUNCH) 

  • ·      Digital storytelling/Video essay/Documentary: Learn to edit video footage and stills into short videos.
  • ·      Audio essays: learn to create multi-tracked sound productions.
  • ·      Slideware & screencasting: Learn to use widely available slideware programs, including freeware, to create a     variety of projects including screencasts.
  • ·      Photo projects: learn to use Photoshop (Paint/Picasa) for design work and photo essays.

May 31, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (DAY 2)

  • ·      Layout: learn to use InDesign (Publisher) to create  broadsides, pamphlets, and short books. Bonus: learn to      perfect-bind and trim a book.
  • ·      Graphic Texts: learn to create various kinds of graphic texts, applicable to a variety of assignments.

Learn how to showcase all this work in an ePortfolio setting (for both faculty and students).

Reserve your place in the Publication Bootcamp: e-mail slccpubcenter@gmail.com. Indicate your name, a phone number, and your department.

 

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New resources from the Publication Center

Check out the new page, “Publication Center: Library” (click on the sidebar), with resources and quickguides.

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Chapbook Competition, 2011-12: Creative Nonfiction/Essay!

 

 

 

 

Announcing this year’s chapbook competition! The genre is creative nonfiction or essay.

SLCC students are invited to submit nonfiction or essay manuscripts of 4,000-12,000 words by November 21.  Submissions can be one or more pieces of nonfiction or essays, within the word limit.

Prize: publication by the Publication Center; 25 copies (to the winning writer); and a $100 honorarium. Finalists may also choose to work with Publication Studies students to produce a limited run of ten (10) copies of their manuscripts.

Eligibility: any current student at SLCC may submit a manuscript. The work must be the original work of the writer, and must not have been previously published.

The chapbook will be printed in a run of 250 copies; it will be circulated on campus and placed in local bookstores. The publication of the chapbook will be widely publicized at SLCC and beyond.

To submit:  e-mail manuscript to slccpubcenter@gmail.com in the following format:

  • Double-spaced and paginated.
  • PDF format
  • Separate title page with the following information:  Name of writer; e-mail address; street address; phone number; title of manuscript and word count.
  • Besides the title page, the writer’s name must not appear on the manuscript.

If you have questions about the competition, please contact Lisa Bickmore at  lisa.bickmore@slcc.edu, or call at 801.957.4686.

Here’s a fancy flyer:  Chapbook 2011-12 flyer

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Fall 2011–a new slate of events.

Two events in the Publication Center this week!

On Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 2:30 p.m., a Chapbook Competition Info Meeting. All students who want to enter their creative nonfiction manuscripts should come to this meeting to find out the specs and deadlines and whatnot. Faculty who want to hear more about the project so they can get their students involved are welcome, too.

On Thursday, Sept. 29 at 2:30 p.m., attend our back-by-popular-demand Bookmaking Basics/Planning Bookmaking Projects workshop. As a bonus, you can bind your own blank book!

Hope to see you at one or both of these events, and please look at the Fall 2011 Publication Center Activities tab above for a full listing of fall events in the Publication Center!