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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.

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

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

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!

Thursday, March 3, 2-4 p.m. AD 226.

just like a print essay, a video essay is a way to explore an idea, but with sound and image adding dimension.

Resources:
Peter Thompson, “The Cinematic Essay: the Cine What?”
Claudia Gorbman, “Places and Play in Agnes Varda’s Cinecriture”
Jonathan Dawson, on “Letter to Jane”
Ze Frank (the video that gets cut off at the end is here)

Here’s another set of Resources and examples.

The SLCC Student Publication Center and the English Department announce the winner of the First Annual SLCC Chapbook Competition, Sabriel Harris, for her work God’s Country.

Dr. Steve Tuttle (Brigham Young University) judged the competition, and had this to say about Ms. Harris’s manuscript:

I was immediately hooked by the language and loved how the story moved away from its stable and familiar starting point.  The frustration and angst in the first pages quickly dissipates in favor of a much larger, almost existential set of questions.  Watching the narrator move away from her familiar (but uncomfortable) life and into the foreignness of Jerusalem is fascinating.  But what’s most fascinating is that she doesn’t focus on Jerusalem (this is no travelogue) but on her continued unease in the face of unanswerable questions about God and the body and everything she knows.  I was convinced by descriptions of place but more so by descriptions of feeling (“I need to feel what it is like to pray to an ancient God and have faith in an answer”).  The story is bursting with good lines like that.  The story makes use of wonderful imagery and a vivid sense of place.  Its focus on the sea and the body made me feel many miles removed from anything I know.

Elizabeth Allen’s manuscript Puncture Wounds was awarded 2nd place. Two honorable mentions were also awarded, for Jason McFarland’s How I Left My Heart in Chicago Next to the Decaying Corpse of Judy Garland and Sandra Rytting’s Linder Quest.

The SLCC Student Publication Center and the English Department deeply appreciates the work of all the writers who entered the competition. We received many excellent manuscripts, all of which we read with attention.

God’s Country will be published in a run of 250 copies, and will be available in mid-April. Please look for further information about events related to the publication.

February 25, 12:30-2 p.m. Digital Storytelling. Bring photographs (preferably in digital format) and a brief amount of text related to the photographs to plan a short video essay. Led by Lisa Bickmore

February 28, 2-3:30 p.m. Intro to InDesign. A repeat of the very successful workshop held in fall semester, this workshop will introduce you quickly to some basic elements of Adobe’s layout program InDesign and teach you some useful shortcuts. New this time: how to make a template. Led by Alisabeth McQueen.