Assignment: Using Weebly, a free website creation tool, you are to create an online exhibit, just as if you were creating a digital exhibition for a museum, library, archive or historical society. You may use a different website tool for your exhibit project, such as one of those listed here. Just be sure to let your instructor know.
You might be wondering what exactly is an online exhibit? Museums, libraries, archives, associations all publish digital exhibits on the web these days, and these exhibits allow organizations to bring the public’s attention to important or interesting objects and stories from their collections. See for example, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire exhibit at the National Archives. Thus, an online exhibit is both informational yet also a public relations tool.
Exhibit requirements:
- background information about the exhibit’s topic (home page of the exhibit)
- an explanation of each of the exhibit’s items. The explanation should be a solid paragraph in length, maybe 100-150 words, but this could vary a bit. There should be at least TEN items in your exhibit.
- proper citation and information for each source
- proper grammar and English style usage
- overall nice design of the site (background, font, and colors)
- working hyperlinks
- a section of “references” listing the sources (with annotations) that you have consulted
- a section “for further reading” that provides links, books or article for more information
- a section “about me” which should explain the assignment and some short background information about you
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