To be honest, I was not happy with the way in which my exhibits were set up. I originally planned to have three sub exhibits:

The Heroic Arnold

The Treacherous Arnold

American Treason Law, Allegiance and Virtue

 

Although I managed to update the original Heroic Arnold with the necessary historical information I felt there was an overload of information on one individual webpage. This original setup was not user-friendly and would easily tire out the reader-especially secondary students like Faith Cooper. Thus, I chose to separate the historical information in the Heroic Arnold section into more sub exhibits. 

This is the current exhibit setup:

The sub exhibits go in chronological order and detail certain stages of Arnold’s life. The stages are associated with Arnold’s involvement in the American Revolution. To make these sub exhibits pop, I decided to incorporate relevant artifacts and images associated with events discussed in historical narrative. I also provided embedded historical videos created by the American Battlefield Trust as a resource for further information on the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Valcour Island. The videos themselves are more student friendly and allow for me to differentiate and diversify the historical content for teachers and students. 

Relevant Images Examples:

 

 

Video Example:

 

Challenges:

• Making the site user friendly
• Revamping the original layout of the exhibits
• The YouTube Import Plug-In did not work so I had to rely on embedding YouTube Videos within the text blocks. Initially, I had issues with embedding the YouTube videos in the text because I hadn’t unchecked the box for “Enable HTML Filtering” fortunately I was able to gather tips from Omeka forums on how to fix these issues.

Next steps: I need to update and format my footnotes correctly. I need to finish writing the historical information related to Treason, Allegiance and Virtue as well as create my exhibit for Arnold and Nationalism.