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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)

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].

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.