Here are links to the sites we’ll be looking at in class today, so you have them for future reference!
Projects Referenced in “What Is Digital History?”
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska
Past “Conflict in America” Student Projects
(you can access all 5 student team projects here)
- The Keene Pumpkin Festival Conflict: Overcoming the 2014 Pumpkin Fest
- Frack That! The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing in Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Your blogs!
You should each have received an email from Leah earlier in the week with the information on how to access your blog for the course. Each of them has a similar URL structure: http://conflict/coplacdigital.org/[your last name here]. This will get you to your site. To log in, you can add “/wp-admin” to the end of the URL, or you can scroll until you see the “log in” option, usually near the bottom of the page. Type in your username and password, and you’re ready to start creating your first blog post!
Helpful Getting Started Resources
- First Steps with WordPress
- Posts
- Lots more helpful tutorials at COPLAC Digital’s WordPress Tutorials page