Each student must create a contract detailing their project’s mission, milestones, tools, and labor division.
Mission statement (describe project)
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Describe the overall goal of your project and the intended audience
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Describe the basic structure of your site and intended features.
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Discuss how you will incorporate common elements for all of our sites, such as a Historical Background, Shared Timeline, and Map of events in local communities to tie into world/national timeline in the overarching site.
Tools you plan to use
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Everyone will be using WordPress, so that’s a given. But what theme, plugins, layout will you use?
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Will you be using a timeline tool on your site in addition to the shared timeline? If so, will you be using TimelineJS?
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Will you use a map? Google Maps? Something else?
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Other tools you’ll use for your site? What will you use to edit images? If you’re using audio/video segments, what tools will you use?
Milestones (when critical pieces are ready to present)
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Start with the due dates for the initial site (April 9) and the revised version (Apr. 30).
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Include when you will post the various pages and sets of pages, complete research at various archives, obtain images, gaining copyright permissions, etc.
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Set reasonable, realistic goals. Take into account that some things may take longer than others.
- Particularly big pieces should have intermediate deadlines (e.g., we will have completed half the timeline entries by March 12, the rest by March 19)
Division of labor
- Be specific about who is doing what.
- Note that both students have to work on both technology and research.
Examples from other courses:
Mary Ball Washington, Adventures in Digital History
Midwestern State: Galbraith and Hadwal, Century America
McDonald Territory, Divided Houses