I have used Omeka before in some of my Art History and History classes and I have found it very useful. Some\u00a0ideas that could be beneficial to this class are the ability to create online exhibitions using items from collections. For my groups project in particular I think if we used Omeka to create an online exhibition of the Civil War dairies it could be very useful for visitors and researches. The archive of items with metadata would provide transcriptions and metadata for researchers. We could use a tool to make the diaries display although\u00a0the viewer was looking at a book.\u00a0We could include maps and timelines\u00a0of the battles that the solider was in. WordPress can also be used as a platform for online exhibitions with page building and including maps as well as timelines.<\/p>\n
When exploring the digital history websites I found that most of them were very easy to navigate which I think is very important for a history website.\u00a0The Valley of the Shadow<\/a>\u00a0website was particularly interesting to navigate because the creators made the site\u00a0map look like a museum building with multiple rooms for the different topics. Although I find that idea very creative it probably would not work for the civil war diaries project.\u00a0The\u00a0French Revolution<\/span><\/u><\/a> website seemed useful because of the ability to search and browse through the sources which could be useful for the diary project. However, the site would have been better if the list of images had a thumbnail and not just the title and if when you click on an image it would take you to the information on that work. The models on the\u00a0Virtual Paul\u2019s Cross Project<\/a>\u00a0website were very helpful for figuring out what the event looked like. Perhaps we could create models of the battle that the soldier was in for our project. Imaging the past <\/a>was very easy to navigate\u00a0with the large subject headings and\u00a0the brief summaries of the various parts of the site. But\u00a0I thought that all though the information was very useful it seemed a bit text heavy. The Molasses Flood<\/a>\u00a0website was very creative and the way the images came up when you click on a certain word was great. The only problem was when\u00a0I\u00a0brought up the images the screen seemed a little crowded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}