Dave Lester's Finding America » Presentations http://blog.davelester.org American Studies, Digital Humanities, Public History, and all that's in between (or not) Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:10:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Back from National History Day http://blog.davelester.org/2008/06/18/back-from-national-history-day/ http://blog.davelester.org/2008/06/18/back-from-national-history-day/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:37:23 +0000 Dave Lester http://www.davelester.org/2008/06/18/back-from-national-history-day/ Continue reading →]]> Over the weekend I gave a brief technical presentation at National History Day about developing History websites to a group of high schoolers and their teachers. From now on, whenever I give a talk I’ll try to post my slides to slideshare so others can view and download it (after being inspired by Karin).  Here’s my first stab at it:

I covered the basics of using a WYSIWYG editor and templates to structure your site, and then explored a few ways to embed content into your pages. While preparing the slides, I stumbled upon a great website called CommunityWalk that offers a simple interface for creating embed-able Google Maps. It appends small advertisements to your markers but it’s still worth checking out.

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