In thinking about how to present the story of Arline's life to the students, I began looking through some of her news clippings. What a treasure. I will have to save some it for this summer when I have more time, but for now I can at least scan the most glaring headlines-- "Girl in Power of … [Read more...]
Photo Scanning
Took a break from the letters and started scanning photos yesterday; it certainly goes quicker than 6 and 7 page letters. They are beautiful and so fun to see in a larger size.I came across some loose pages from a photo album and have been able to reconstruct some of the original photo displays. … [Read more...]
Scanning Continued
I figure that I need about 100 letters for the students to work with because I plan to require that each student complete at least 2 transcriptions. The U.S. Women's History teacher heard me talking about the project and wants to have her students work on it as well. Our total is about 50 students, … [Read more...]
Establishing a Transcription Protocol
In just a few weeks I will be at the mercy of 35 eager 17- and 18-year-old young women eager to read Arline's mail. I have decided that we need a very streamlined method for the madness for the project to succeed. The seniors should have the least difficulty, but some of the younger students may … [Read more...]
Square Bracket Workaround Doesn’t Work
Ugh, it just doesn't work to use alternate characters for square brackets. They look WEIRD. I think they will work in the transcriptions, and I will have to use curly brackets in the database fields if necessary. At least { and } look a little like [ and ]. … [Read more...]
More Scanning
I feel like a scanning machine. Thank goodness for Multi-TIFF format. It saves multiple pages in one file and it can be opened on the PC or Mac. Now I just have to find a program to convert images to JPG so I can have smaller files for presentations and printing. I have now scanned 55 letters! … [Read more...]
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