So, my project is done. Well, it isn’t exactly done, but I feel that I completed what I set out to do. I added more items than I expected and did a lot less with the videos than I had planned. I was a little frustrated by using a content management system at first, because I spent a great deal of time trying to understand how some of the PHP functioned work and identifying divs. But when it came to inputting content, I was very glad to be using Omeka. The exhibit builder plugin was a real help.
Though I was concentrating mostly on the senses of sight and sound (my “content” that was produced before the course was on visual history), I was able to provide short video clips Micheal O’Malley on smell and taste. I also provided information and links on smell, taste and touch.
So I am finished since it is almost midnight, but I still have to work on the site. I promised the interviewees an email with a link. I am going to have to vastly improve the videos by then. They would have been much more elaborate, but I am such a lousy narrator that I just couldn’t do much. I will have to rope some voice talent in if I am going to finish this project. Is anyone interested?
