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Anna: An Animated Historical Short Narrative Scripts: What are the contours and elements? Pro-Slavery Anti-Slavery Abolitionist Geospatial History: In your working groups, review the following two examples of geospatial digital history. Slave Streets, Free Streets,” Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore, https://earlybaltimore.org/ssfs and Anne Sarah Rubin, “Slave Streets, Free Streets: Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore,” Current Research … [Read more…]

Omeka allows scholars to enhance their digital exhibits using an iFrame. An iFrame is an HTML code that you can insert into your Omeka’s source code via the system’s admin dashboard. It’s useful when you want to embed interactive content that’s hosted somewhere else like a video on YouTube, an interactive map using StoryMapJS, or interactive timeline like … [Read more…]

Navigation The Navigation section in Appearance lets you manage your Omeka’s public navigation by ordering, editing, and adding navigation links, and by selecting a homepage. Access Navigation settings by clicking Appearance in the top navigation menu in the admin dashboard and then going to the Navigation tab in that section. Omeka includes links to Browse … [Read more…]

All, I have decided to make some adjustments so we spend a little more time workshopping in class. How this is going to work is that I will review some elements of the Omeka Exhibit, as well as finish our Timeline Lecture. During this week, we will take time to work simultaneously on our Skills … [Read more…]

Dear Reader: (The hypothesis/claim/assertion/research question) I want to convince you that…/I want to recast my topic from X to demonstrate Y…/I want to provide a more nuanced interpretation of…/I want to show the significance of…/I want to examine X evidence to…/I want to reassess my topic based on… (The summary of evidence/sources/logic) The main reasons … [Read more…]

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