Creating a Blog Discussion Board

July 20, 2009 7:50 am -- I'm looking forward to a good research day today. The material about the Cataldo mission continues to develop my understanding of the significance of the Catholic missionaries. I also want to look a bit into the history of the Metaline falls area in the extreme NE corner of WA. I'm backpacking up there next weekend and it was first settled in the decade prior to statehood. Also, I want to take a little time analyzing how Bill made his Cataldo pics available online. That should keep me going for the time being. - Phil


July 14, 2009: 10:20 am -- I'm impressed with the quality of blog posts in the last few days. I've read through the blogs to stay abreast of the discussion and I'm posting comments and working on my own sample timeline entry, following my theme of "explorations of the fur trappers." (Phil)

July 11, 2009: 3:35 am -- I ended up getting a new digital camera (a Nikon) and a computer the other night (an HP, sorry Dr. Youngs!!) and am currently using it to research places to visit on the way home from our Portland trip. I also need to brag a bit -- I figured out how to set up a wireless router all by myself and it even WORKS!! But, I digress... I'll set up a FlickR account and work out some way to archive the pictures that I take so that they're available for use. I'll also do a couple of blogs. Anything specific you'd like me to focus on? Any suggestions on places to stop?

July 8, 2009: 10:59 pm -- I discovered how to add the evernote paste option onto toolbars. The link to the page that describes how to do this is here. Basically, you just drag and drop the bright green icon in the middle section of the page that says "Clip to Evernote" onto your internet toolbar. Once you've done that, you can highlight sections of text on webpages and click "Clip to Evernote" or, if you'd rather clip the entire page, leave it all un-highlighted, click "Clip to Evernote,"and in the dialogue box, check "clip whole page." More information to come... Still working on Wordpress - it's a lot like blogger, but just different enough to be slightly confusing...


July 8, 2009: 2:11 Last night in Frontier Washington East we focused on timelines, and Bill entered a list of four criteria for a good timeline entry or "nomination." We need to work on that in our own examples. None I have seen so far include all four. Some have good essays, some have a good Timeline image (Curtis and Marla), but none follow the "rules." Perhaps what we need is basic entries, following the rules, with links to the longer essays and/or images.
-- The two sources should often include scholarly articles. Mention America: History and Life.


July 2, 2009: 3:25 Candice and I are wrapping up our joint exploration of Bee Docs. We have created a demo timeline of early Spokane. We noted that the Demo is quite limited. Further research will be needed.

July 2, 2009: 2:52 -- 1) Do a report time template. (time range, activity, achievement); 2) explore timeline software, especially Bee Docs; 3) score some more images

July 2, 2009: 2:47 -- I think we are making progress. I have to leave very soon, and I want to make certain that we all know what we'll be doing next. Hey, how about putting that information here? Bill

July 2, 2009 -- 2:38 Hey, that's a fantastic idea! Candice and Phil

July 2, 2009 -- Hey guys, let's try this. We have one blog on which we put daily chatty observations. Bill