1. Studio 6 Back to WordPress Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts MDST 3703 / 7703Fall 2010

2. 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

3. 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

4. What are some examples of improvements, from VOS to Rossetti and Blake?

5. "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.“ -- Henry Ford

7. Overview Exercise from Tuesday Working with images

8. The Stack of Scholarship Discovering Annotating Comparing Referring Sampling Illustrating Representing Activities Collections

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 2. Item appears 1. Select image

15. Cropping

16. Recoloring

17. Set transparent color