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English 10-304 Tiki-Toki LabPart 1: Brainstorming and Finding Content for Your Tiki-Toki TimelineIn this lab you will create a timeline that contextualizes The Birchbark House, Little House on the Prairie, or both texts using primary sources from the Digital Public Library of America, the New York Public Library Digital Collections, and/or other open-access digital archival collections of your choosing. Please note: password-access primary source databases (such as American West and American Indian Histories and Cultures) will not work for this assignment. You will identify five digital archival items to include in your timeline. You will need URLs directly to the image itself—not to the webpage on which the image appears—in order to include the items in your timeline. Try right-clicking (or “control”-clicking) the image, then selecting “Open Image in a New Tab” or “Copy image URL” in order to get the URL you need. You may need to experiment a bit to get the URL you need. Your timeline will include:-Three “stories” (100-200 words each). Each “story,” or node, on your timeline will feature one archival image that you can relate to the context of Birchbark and/or Little House. Each “story” should include a brief description of the item and a discussion of its significance in terms of the literary text/s. Be specific in your discussion—zero in on a specific moment or passage in Birchbark and/or Little House to discuss in terms of the archival item, and include a quote. -A background archival image, an introductory archival image, and accompanying introductory text (100-200 words). Your background and introductory archival images should provide a unique look for your timeline that creatively and thematically frames the content of your timeline. In your introductory text, explain how the introductory archival item evokes or relates to a theme in Birchbark and/or Little House that you will explore in your timeline. Explain the scope and theme of your timeline, based on the archival images you’ve chosen to include.-Links for each image. All archival images in your timeline must be accompanied by a link (in the “credit” or “caption” fields, or in the text of your stories) to the item on the DPLA (or whatever open-access digital collection where the item lives). The goal is for the viewer of your timeline to easily access the item in the digital collection where you found it. Part 2: Starting Your Tiki-Toki TimelineTiki-Toki () is a free online platform that allows you to build digital timelines. Follow these steps to get started with Tiki-Toki.Visit . Click the “Sign Up Now” plete the user information fields. Do not enter anything in the “class code” field. Click the box to agree to terms and conditions. Click the button to “Sign up for free account.”Create a title for your timeline, and identify start and end dates that make sense for the timeframe of the content you plan to include. Include your introductory text in the “Introduction” field. Add your Intro image, Background image, and citation information for the images in the “credit” fields. All fields in Tiki-Toki can be edited and revised at any time, so don’t worry if you don’t know exactly what to include in each field. You can go back and refine as your timeline develops.Input the URLs for your selected Intro and Background images, and fill out the image credit field for each item, using the full citation information (if provided, as it is in the NYPL digital collections) or at least a link to the item in its digital collection. Click “Create new timeline.” With a background and intro image selected (including citation information), our sample timeline now looks like this:6) If you click on the Intro image, it will expand to a larger image like so:You’re now ready to create your first “story,” or node, on your timeline! Under “Stories” on the admin panel, click “CREATE NEW STORY.”Enter a title, start and end date for your “story” or node (for example, if you are featuring a map, photograph, or material object in the node, you might include the date when it was created; or if the item is undated, you might include the date of a contextual event or policy you’re discussing in terms of the literary text). Enter your text in the “Intro” field. Click “Save.”11) Click “Media” to add images, documents, sound files, video, or other media to your node. Click “ADD NEW MEDIA” to enter a URL for the media item, select its type (such as “Image”), and add a caption with the link to the item in its digital collection.You now have a “story” or node on your timeline. You can click on it to add and edit your intepretive text, media, and categories.For the purposes of this exercise, we will not create Categories. However, if you use Tiki-Toki for your final digital project, you can organize your “stories” or nodes into thematic categories. To create a category, click “Categories” on the admin panel, then click “CREATE NEW CATEGORY.” Provide a title for your new category and click “Save.”Now, when you add or edit a node, you can select a category for the node.As you can see in the tab at the top of the node, the node is now part of the “Pirates in Pop Culture” category.To see several sample Tiki-Toki timelines, visit . Good luck building your timeline!IMPORTANT FINAL STEP! Please e-mail your timeline to me at nunesc@southwestern.edu. ................
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