IIIF for Educators

Create Your Own Storiiies

click to copy lesson html Students are introduced to the practice of "Ekphrasis" to practice "reading" an image/photograph.

Create Your Own Storiiies

👓 Example

🛠️ Tools

Storiiies editor (alpha)

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🪜 Steps

  1. Complete the form (shown in Tool).
  2. Insert IIIF manifest or info.json URL.
  3. Type in a provisional title of your Storiiie, which should somehow make reference to your research topic and the significance of the plant.
  4. Type in your names in the Author section.
  5. Type in your email address (to receive a confirmation of creating a Storiiies).
  6. Enter a brief description of this narrative.
  7. Click Edit story to bring up the image and begin viewing.
  8. Explore the image first, considering details that interest you, then complete your own story by zoom in to the detailed view you want others to see in the viewing screen on the right, and clicking the + button to add each caption. 
  9. Views and captions can be reordered by dragging them up or down.
  10. Preview your narrative to see how it is progressing.
  11. When you are finished adding captions, click Links (for sharing or embedding).

✉️ Share

Embedded link to your Storiiies narrative:

  1. When you are done with your narrative, click Links in the upper right corner.
  2. From the popup window, choose Copy this and paste the code below to embed in your own website, making sure to select and copy all the code in the window.
  3. Click on "Reply." In the text editor, switch on the HTML editor by clicking the </> symbol below the window (on the right), then paste in your code, and switch back to the regular WYSIWYG editor. ou should see your Storiiies narrative appear in the editing field.
  4. Click "Reply."

🤝 Collaborate

You can view and give a feedback to a posted Storiiies by clicking on "Reply" under each post.

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