Spring 2016: The Peopling of New York City A Macaulay Honors Seminar taught by Prof. Karen Williams at Brooklyn College

Spring 2016: The Peopling of New York City
Sample Post and Instructions for Posting Your Field Notes
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No field notes here, sorry, but here are the instructions for adding your field notes to the site. The process for adding your field notes to the eportfolio site is very similar to the process for posting your discussion posts.

  1. Log in to the course site > Dashboard > Posts > Add New
  2. Write your field notes in the post. If your post is very long, click the icon from the menu above to insert a “Read More” tag (see screenshot below). This will truncate your post and direct readers to another page where the entire post can be read:
  3. Categorize your post by clicking the “Field Notes” box.
  4. Tag your note with the location where you took your notes. For the sake of demonstration, I tagged this post “high line.”
  5. Posts are grouped into Categories and by Tags. Categories are very broad while tags can refer to a variety of different types of content. For example, this post is tagged “field notes,” “high line,” “itf post” and “alexis carrozza” but only categorized under “Field Notes.”  Here is the WP page explaining more about these categories.
  6. Once published, there are two ways to find your field notes: as a post that appears on the main page, and under the category “Field Notes” from the menu at the top of the homepage and then pick by location.
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If you insert a “Read More” tag, your published post will be truncated and a link labeled “Read More” will appear so that your entire post will be read on a separate page. Learn more about this function here.

Add a map to your post!

Click “Maps” on the menu bar at the left side of the screen, then input the address or click the map of the location where you took your field notes. A code is generated and then you copy and paste the code into the body of your post. Click here to learn more about creating a map.

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