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At the University of Mary Washington, we have a lot of tools at our disposal that we can use in order to make our site. On our campus, we have a building called the Hurley Convergence Center. The HCC is dedicated to the use of digital technology and has many resources available to students.

One of the main digital tools Sophia and I are going to be using is obviously WordPress. We can embed our other tools to our site in order to make the most of the different digital technologies that we have available.

We have talked about using Timeline.js so that we can show how quickly the Accomack county case went. A timeline would be a fun, interactive experience for the user to better understand what actually happened. Reading a list of chronology could be boring so we hope that this makes our site a bit more exciting.

We also are going to use StoryMap in order to showcase all of the place where To Kill A Mockingbird has been challenged. We may not be able to find all of them but having a sense of place would be interesting.

In making our site, we are looking to make sure that it is aesthetically pleasing so we played around with different colors and themes in order to make people want to look at our content. Sophia has had the most experience with WordPress so she has taught me a lot about how to get it to cooperate.

In our interview with the research librarian, Sophia used her cell phone recorder. We have at least one other interview to do so we have to figure out whether that person wants to talk over the phone or email.

Although I don’t know much about it, I know that our school has a Digital Knowledge center. They provide tutoring for help on digital project and offer workshops on tools. For example, they have an upcoming workshop on Augmented Reality tools. I believe that Sophia knows people there so if we do need help it is readily available.

These are the tools that I know we have at our disposal. A lot of these are going to be useful. There may be more that I don’t even know we have so that will be fun to discover more.