Welcome, students, to Imagining the Global! Here are some steps to get started:
- First, make sure you are ready to participate on this digital scholarship (DS) multisite:
- As part of an affiliated DS or IG program, you’ve been registered on this site. Make sure to finalize your profile if you haven’t done so already.
- Some of you have your own site on this DS multisite (if your instructor asks you to get your own site and you haven’t yet, see here). Make sure you have done required site setup. You have the option of doing your IG-related posts on your own site, but if you do this you’ll also do a quick link post on the IG site for each (see below).
- If you are documenting an IG program-related related project on your site, make sure to establish a project landing page (see here for a basic or advanced option). You’ll supply your project title, your name (and any collaborators if applicable), and the URL of your project landing page to your instructor. (ENVS note: Students doing ENVS 499 independent study projects also complete a brief project record on the ENVS group site.)
- If you are planning to share a number of images you take as part of your project, please get yourself a Flickr account for your images. Here is some basic help on using images on the DS multisite.
- You are a part of Imagining the Global by virtue of an affiliated program at Lewis & Clark College or one of our NW5C partner schools. Here is a background on IG; feel free to ask your instructor for details on how it connects to your program.
- Please also peruse the three broad IG themes we are using to promote conversation and collaboration among participating programs.
- We’ll manually add you as a contributor or author to this site, depending on your instructor’s preference. Contributors can compose but not publish posts (you’ll click “Submit for Review” when done), which their instructors will approve to make public on the IG site. Authors can compose and publish their own posts.
- Here is some general help on posting on our DS multisite. When you post on this IG site, please remember the following:
- This is a public site; you are thus demonstrating your skills as a public digital scholar. Remember your audience! As noted above, your instructor will need to approve your posts before they go public.
- IG posts definitely include related categories, but don’t include related tags (or global tags for now); see here. For all your posts, make sure to click your program category (or a related subcategory; you don’t need to click both). Additionally, if your post is related to one or more of our IG themes, make sure to check them as well.
- If you have your own DS site and your primary posts are on your site, then you will do a quick link post on this IG site to point viewers to each substantive post on your site. Simply give your post the same title, then provide a 1-2 sentence summary of your substantive post, and include a clickable link to it (in a new tab/window). Make sure on this quick link post to check related IG program and theme categories!
- To share references connected with IG, we use the free Zotero app, which you should install (standalone version) on your computer. Please read here for basic info on Zotero, and make sure to use your official institutional email address when you register for Zotero so that we can readily add you to the private IG group library.
- Your instructor will provide additional details on readings and how to access them.
- You may be asked by your instructor to do some map-related assignments. Please make sure to install Google Earth and QGIS on your computer.
- Remember that we have help pages for both under the Mapping menu on the DS help site.
- One of the important things about this IG site is the virtual conversation you’ll be a part of via our IG themes. Make sure to read posts from other programs on themes of interest to you.
- Feel free to comment using the Leave a Reply feature at the bottom of most posts. You may get inspired, and compose a new post to summarize how your field-based experience is similar or different from those represented in other theme-related posts!