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Studio 6 Back to WordPress
Introduction to the Digital Liberal ArtsMDST 3703 / 7703
Fall 2010
Business
• Did everyone get a grade and quiz?– See the Gradebook and Drop Box tools in Collab
• Meetings– Still a couple left – will email you for a time
• Poll– See Resources in Collab
Review
• Thematic research collections– A new digital genre—neither books nor libraries– Collocated collections of thematically related
material– Incomplete (open-ended)– Good ones possess contextual mass
• Focus shifts from simple content delivery to activities (related to scholarly primitives)– “What can I do with it?” as important as “What’s in
it?”– Each site makes an improvement in this space
What are some examples of improvements, from VOS to
Rossetti and Blake?
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.“
-- Henry Ford
Overview
• Exercise from Tuesday• Working with images
Collections
Activities
The Stack of ScholarshipDiscovering Annotating Comparing Referring Sampling Illustrating Representing
Exercise
• Compare Rossetti and Blake archives in terms of the primitives and the stack of scholarship– What devices and techniques are used to support each
aspect of scholarship?– Are the sites functional as research portals?
• Break up into 4 groups / 15 minutes– Group A: Scholarly Primitives in Rossetti– Group B: Scholarly Primitives in Blake– Group C: Comparing for Comparison– Group D: Comparing for Contextual Mass
• Assign a scribe and a reporter– Scribe writes post and tags with 09-28 Exercise
Basic Method to integrating content into your site
• Create Posts for content lexia– Evidence (images)– Secondary Sources (Zotero)
• Use Pages for your synthetic content• Insert content (e.g. an image) into Posts• Add metadata using inline content, tags,
categories, and custom fields*• Enable widgets to display tags and categories (if
necessary)
WordPress Plugins
• I know some of you can’t see certain plugins– Zotero widget, My Page Order, Video tags– We know what is causing this but cannot fix it right
away• Some to enable– RB Internal Links– WP Footnotes– Custom Field List Widget– Embed Object– SlideShare Requires account– Wordpress Media Flickr Requires account– Apture Requires account
Adding images to posts and pages
• Form pairs and follow the SHANTI Knowledge Base tutorial– https
://wiki.shanti.virginia.edu/display/KB/SHANTI+Knowledge+Base
– Or get there from the SHANTI Portal (shanti.virginia.edu)
Using PowerPoint as an image editor
• Insert image• Enable editor• Set transparent color• Crop• Move and arrange• Save as a group • Save as an image
1. Select image2. Item appears
Cropping
Recoloring
Set transparent color
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