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Next Steps: Domain Names & Personal Websites!

by Nadia 0 Comments

After completing 5 orisha inspired photoshoots in collaborative effort with Barnard student make-up artists, Simone Folasayo Ig, Annya Serkovic, Imani Bishop, and Ornella Friggit, and photographers, Dina Asfaha, Anta Touray, Ornella Friggit, Yemisi Olorunwunmi, and Valerie Jaharis, I had more content than I could fit into my final digital project. As a result, I decided to put the digital tools I learned at the ICP to use to create my own personal website: www.nadianaomi.com. In this blog post, I will breakdown how I made my personal website if anyone is interested in next steps after our year long class Ntozake Shange & Digital Storytelling comes to a close.

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Domain Names

Michelle Loo helped me obtain a domain name through www.godaddy.com. GoDaddy is a site through which you can buy your own personal domain name.

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  1. Search for a name you would want to use for your personal website and see if it is available.
    • A variety of domain name options will appear with different domain registers ( .com .org. us. .net etc. ). When picking my domain name and register, Michelle suggested knowing what I wanted ahead of time and selecting it right away  because searched names get taken very quickly once they are searched and are resold for exorbitant prices. 
  2. Once you are happy with your domain name and register you can go ahead a purchase it.
    • I purchased nadianaomi.com for the price of $11.99 a year. If you know you will be using your site for regular personal/academic/career/vocational use the investment may be worth it considering that the domain may only cost $1 a month.
  3. Create a GoDaddy account and purchase your domain name.
    • When your purchase your domain name you will need to create a GoDaddy account. This will allow you to maintain your domain name and apply to personal sites you create.

Personal Websites

I used Wix.com  to create my personal site for FREE. You can create pages and add content pretty smoothly and format your content for desktop/laptop and cell phone viewing. Once you have created your site, you can go to your GoDaddy account to apply your purchased domain name  to your site.

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TIP: Posting to the Digital Shange Projects site

by Sarah Greene 0 Comments

General information

Log-in to the Digital Shange Projects page with the following url:
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/digitalshange/projects/wp-admin

Your username is the same as your UNI. If you have any trouble logging in, or if you lost your password, email me at sgreene@barnard.edu.

Remember to save your work because WordPress will not automatically save it for you. When working with an unpublished item, hit “Save Draft” often. When working with a published item, hit “Update” often. I would also recommend saving your work in another platform (e.g. Word, Google Docs) by copy/pasting.

TIP from Steven Fullwood: Fair Use

by Kim Hall 0 Comments

Our Schomburg partner has come through again with some advice on Fair Use in this very quick Power Point. This information is particularly important for those of you adding non-Schomburg content (like music) to your projects.


 

Also available in Courseworks and here for download
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zHpH0SbpsZL0W0qB5O38N3J8UOjp47mR4X-0LqKAmXs/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000

 

 

Works & Insights Shared by Professor Valdés

by Melissa 1 Comment

During our meeting with professor Valdés yesterday, we discussed a wide range of topics that have shaped our projects and interests. Everybody took something truly transformative away from our discussion and it will be exciting to see how the shared insights manifest in our projects.

It is also worth mentioning that professor Valdés is very generous with her time and she has offered her support to everybody in the class. She extends an invitation to students who are interested in further discussion or have additional questions to email her. There is something for everybody so do take advantage of this opportunity!

Below is the list of works professor Valdés has suggested to us for further perusing/research.

 

On the sacred feminine:

Maureen Murdock, The Heroine’s Journey

Vanessa Valdés, Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas 

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves

On Mothers and Daughters:

Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born

Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering

Tillie Olsen, Silences

Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

On Dance and Embodied Knowledge:

Yvonne Daniel, Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé

Yvonne Daniel, Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance

Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repetoire

On African contributions to latinidad:

George Reid Andrews, 1800-2000 (a new edition comes out this year, I believe, where he extends his study to 1600)

About Toni Morrison and her Works :

Carolyn C. Denard, ed., What Moves at the Margin, (includes articles, speeches, and other shorter-non-fiction pieces)

Andrea O’Reilly, Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (short work)

La Vinia Delois Jennings, Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa (to the question of diaspora)

On Technological Resources (LYNDA)

by Yemi 1 Comment

Dear 2018 Zakettes, Madiha & Sylvia mentioned Lynda.com as a digital resource. As it turns out, a previous Shange student had discovered Lynda and posted this as one of her digital tips–KFH

Despite how tough it seems, there is so much privilege, and sometimes beauty, that comes with being a student. A few weeks ago I discovered LYNDA a self-training, online resource that has thousands of video courses that teach software skills, design skills, and even business skills.

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Week 4: Odds and Ends (Update re comment check ins)

by Kim Hall 0 Comments

NYPL has a pilot project that aggregates various holdings across its institution. It used Ntozake's materials as an example!The student scheduled for this week had a medical emergency and was not able to publish this week’s “Reading Zake” post.  Do your update comments on this post. Please also check the syllabus to be prepared for next week’s discussion.

–SMALL GROUPS: I really need people to show up for the small group meetings, Tiana and I have finite time, we will not be able to keep re-scheduling and they are for your benefit. I also have a very tight calendar for the next two weeks, so making an individual appointment with me will not be possible.

On Variant Spellings

by Kim Hall 0 Comments

131230_LIFE_Whoa.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlargeWhen training students, teachers tend to stress standardization in spelling and grammar (remember all of those spelling tests?), but languages travel and some of its movements result in multiple valid spellings of the same world (think for example of differences between British & American English, i.e. “colour/color.”). Such differences are called “variant spellings.”

After Paulette Williams remade herself into Ntozake Shange, she evidently