CREST Student Resources

 

• Ethnography
  • Handouts
  • Maine Links
  • Other

 

• GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
  • Handouts
  • Software Downloads
  • Getting Attribute Data
  • Getting Spacial Data
  • Map Galleries
  • Other

 

• Web
  • Handouts
  • Software Downloads
  • Other

 

Ethnography

Handouts

Ethnography Handouts
(Including Project Steps, Interviewing Excercises, and Transcription Format)

Ethnography Forms & Templates
(Including Participant Consent Form, Tape Summary, and Interview Catalog)

Intro to iMovie & iDVD

Exporting your movie online or to CD

Video Tutorials

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Maine Links

Windows on Maine
A wide array of video, sound recordings, pictures, and text from several Maine Historical institutions.

Maine Memory Network
The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 180 organizations from across Maine. Search for or browse these items, explore online exhibits, or create your own collection of images from the database.

The Martin & Caraher Sardine Factory Oral History
Example of a good fisheries-related oral history project on The Martin & Caraher Sardine Factory in Maine.

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Other Ethnography Resources

American Folklife Center
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Folklife and Fieldwork, 2002. Contact AFC, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC, 20540. (202) 707-5510

Veterans History Project 2002
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project 2002. Through a youth partnership, middle school and high school students can participate in interviewing and recording war veterans. By following the project's guidelines, students and their teachers will learn oral history methods and systematic procedures. If they submit their fieldwork to the American Folklife Center or to another participating archive, their efforts will become part of a national endeavor to conserve important stories of a disappearing generation. All necessary information is available at this site.

History Matters
Center for History and New Media (George Mason University, Va. and American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York). The History Matters Web site: A gateway to web resources for American history teachers at the school and college levels. Filled with teaching tips, guides to analyzing primary source evidence, exercises for utilizing online collections from the Library of Congress and other public and private resources, discussions with major historians, syllabi, a reference desk for the use of electronic materials, and links to a variety of sites specializing in American history.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
This site has online guides, a link to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and a very user-friendly online handbook for student fieldwork projects, "Discovering Our Delta."

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GIS (Geograpic Information Systems)

Handouts

Downloading GPS Data

Creating and Editing Shapefiles

Creating a Shapefile from a Table

Downloading Data from ME GIS

Setting up a Geo-Treasure Hunt

Creating Hyperlinks in ArcMap

Video Tutorials

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Software Downloads

QGIS

ArcExplorer 

DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView

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Getting Attribute Data

Maine State Planning Office

Maine Economics and Demographics Program
Offers a wide variety of data, including census, economics, health, and more.

Raymond H. Fogler Library
At the University of Maine, offers historic census data for the state.

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Getting Spacial Data

Maine Office of GIS

Maine GIS Data Catalog
Has lots of GIS data for Maine available for download. Also updates on trainings, news for GIS use in Maine.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Offers economic development and landuse planning data and assistance to Eastern Maine businesses and municipalities.

U.S. National Atlas
Downloadable map layers for the entire U.S. in these categories: Agriculture, Environment, People, Biology, Geology, Transportation, Boundaries, History, Water, Climate, Map Reference.

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Map Galleries

ESRI Map Book Gallery K-12"
A collection of maps from the ESRI Map Books created by those in primary and secondary education.

Directions Magazine Map Gallery
A collection of maps produced using many different software packages and data sets.

David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionOver 13,000 maps available for viewing online.

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Other GIS Resources

GIS.com
General information about GIS & spatial data. A good, basic introduction to the technology.

Color Brewer
Cynthia Brewer’s online tool to help you choose color schemes for your maps.

Careers in GIS

GIS Jobs

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Web

Handouts

Basic HTML Coding

Advanced Web Curriculum CREST Summer Institutes 2007

Course Files

David Allen Workshops - CREST Summer Institutes 2008 (email to request file)

Getting your website online

Video Tutorials

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Software Downloads

MAMP
MAMP: One-click-solution for setting up your personal webserver for Mac's

WAMP
WAMP: Apache, PHP, MySQL on Windows - setting up your personal webserver

Notepad ++
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

Editra
Editra is a multi-platform (including Mac OS) text editor that supports over 60 programming languages. Editra is freely available under the terms of the wxWindows Licence.

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Other Web Resources

W3 Schools
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.

HTML 4 Kids

University of Texas at Austin: HTML

KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library

Investintech.com - Learning HTML

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