Professor Jennifer McStotts’ Blog

As my Urban Planning students and I discussed last week, my policy on using photography or illustrations of any kind in assignments is that the work should either be your own or something you have a license to use. That’s why we covered Flickr and Creative Commons last week.
Well, a thought occurred to me during my own photography research earlier this week, which is that another batch of photographs you have a limited license to use is National Archive material. You can search the Library of Congress, and specifically the American Memory Collection, to find a lot of really fascinating images and material. Maps, photographs, many many things to explore. The entire HABS collection is there under Built in America (link in the bar on the right as well).
Take a look at the Reproduction Rights and necessary attribution information before you use it, but much of it is public domain (or close enough for a school paper).
Comment here if you have questions or other ideas for sources.

Tags: Photography

Sorry if anyone was looking for the AA 1906 and HSA 1935 reading before now - I thought I had put it up already. The PowerPoint for tomorrow is also up.
See you in class!

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You betcha.
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Have a good weekend.

Tags: Planning

One week from tomorrow!
This is a major figure in preservation economics - don’t miss it!

The Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, Department of Art History, School of the Arts, College of Charleston presents a Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Lecture

DONOVAN RYPKEMA
Principal, Place Economics
“Historic Preservation and Sustainable Development”

Thursday, January 31
7:00 PM
Simons Center for the Arts, Room 309
College of Charleston

Reception Following Lecture

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, call (843)953-3888

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Hello again.
For everyone, I’ve recently added a link (on WebCT under Tech Tips) to the common abbreviations that I use when editing / grading your papers electronically. I’ll add other marks as I begin to use them or if you have any suggestions.
In Urban Planning today, I talked about a variety of free online tools, all available through WebCT, but for your reference, they included:

• GoogleDocs - docs.google.com - where you can create or upload and edit word processing docs, spreadsheets, and presentations, and even save them in other formats. Use it to turn WP or OpenOffice files into MS Word or Adobe PDF.
• Flickr - www.flickr.com - “like YouTube for pictures”, Flickr allows you to upload your photos and does the compression and resizing for you. This is useful if your file is too large to upload to WebCT.
• Creative Commons - www.creativecommons.org - where you can search Flickr, Yahoo, Google, and other picture sites for licensed pictures available for your use in papers or theses, etc. You can also use it to protect your own work. there’s more about CC licenses here.
• Delicious - del.icio.us - an online bookmarking site. My links for classes are here.

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Just a note to my Pres Law students that there won’t be a PowerPoint for class tomorrow - Wednesday the 23rd.
Hope you enjoyed your day off yesterday!
Prof. McS

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