University of Southern California

History Lab Events

Scalar Workshop

Scalar Workshop

Monday, March 19, 2012
12:00-1:30pm @ History Lab (SOS 150)
Scalar is an authoring and publishing platform that's designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form scholarship online. The platform particularly facilitates work that engages visual materials. Scalar enables users to assemble media clips and images from multiple sources to juxtapose them with their own writing ina  variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.
HyperCities Workshop

HyperCities Workshop

Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00-1:30pm @ History Lab (SOS 150)
HyperCities is the free online open-source geohistorical visualization platform that enables collaboration and all types of interactive narration, interpretation, and online publication.  Developed by urban historians, HyperCities is ideally suited for combining historical cartography, unlimited text, and multimedia objects in place- and time-based investigations at every scale, in 2 or 3 dimensions. 
Zotero Workshop

Zotero Workshop

Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00-1:30pm @ History Lab (SOS 150)
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work--in the web browser itself. For more information and to download the Zotero add-on for Firefox, go to www.zotero.org.
Video Editing Workshop

Video Editing Workshop

Thursday, October 20th, 2011
2:00pm-3:30pm
USC's Gabe Peters-Lazaro introduces workshop participants to the basics of video editing in Final Cut Pro. The workshop will take place at the computer lab at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy (764 W. Adams Blvd).
DVD Ripping Workshop

DVD Ripping Workshop

Thursday, October 13th, 2011
2:00pm-3:30pm
USC's Michael Bodie introduces workshop participants to the basics of capturing video from DVDs for use in class, presentations, and scholarship. The workshop will take place at the computer lab at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy (764 W. Adams Blvd).