I’ve written about Omeka, the Center for History and New Media’s free digital exhibit and collections application. They now offer an Omeka “sandbox” so that you can try out the application for yourself. I’m glad to see this since I kept adding administrators to my Omeka project so that others could try it out.
When I beta-tested for Omeka, I relied on Jeff Hiles, instructional web designer at Wright State University, to help me with the initial set up of Omeka on a Dreamhost server account. (Our Center for Teaching and Learning staff have encouraged and provided generous and creative support for all my new media teaching experiments.) When it came to upgrading the application and adding plugins, however, I did it for myself. With only a few easily corrected false starts, I now have the newer version of the application as well as geolocation and other plugins up and working. Following the upgrade instructions, it was easy to carry forward the changes that I had made in earlier experiments.
