May

27

THATCamp Presentation Links

May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Digital toolbox included:
– UMWBlogs — [1]
– Omeka — [2]
– MIT’s Simile/Timeline — [3]
– del.icio.us — [4]
– YouTube — [5]
– Windows Movie Maker
The Projects:
– Historical Markers Project (HMP) — [6]
– James Farmer Project (JFP) — [7]
– James Monroe Papers Project (JMPP) — [8] and [9]
– Alumni Project (AP) — [10]
My own blog posts about the class: [...]

Feb

26

Omeka

February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

Each group needs to appoint a Omeka SuperAdmin who will take the lead on managing their Omeka site.  [Everyone will be able to access and add to their Omeka site, but I want one person responsible for setting up accounts for everyone else.] Those people should email me to set up a time to meet [...]

Feb

26

FTP and Omeka

February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As part of our discussion today, check out FireFTP.
Check out this vidcast from the creators of Omeka about its creation and a demonstration of using it.

Jan

30

Thursday’s Tools Discussion

January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Okay, based on the comments, posts and trackbacks, it sounds like people are most interested in spending more time on:

Omeka
mashups

Windows Movie Maker
iMovie

Something for Timelines

xtimeline
Exhibit/Timeline

Others

del.icio.us
blogs as publishing platforms

We won’t have time to get to all of these tomorrow, but we’ll see what we can get to.

Jan

26

Omeka Admin

January 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

You’ve all been changed to Admin status in the test Omeka account.  Those of you who are thinking about using Omeka with your group project can now try creating an exhibit, create a new collection, use different documents.  In other words, explore some of the options available.  [Check out the examples of other sites using [...]

Jan

23

Recent Blog Posts and Omeka Practice

January 23, 2008 | 3 Comments

You may have noticed that there is a new page listed at the top of the course blog.  “Recent Blog Posts” funnels most (soon to be all) posts from the people in this class onto a single page (using RSS of course).  Check it out to get a snapshot of what everyone is working on.
As [...]

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