The King is Read!
Students are introduced to the practice of "Ekphrasis" to practice "reading" an image/photograph.
The King is Read!
💡 Concept
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🖥️ Activity
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👓 Examples
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🧱 Materials
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🪜 Steps
Individual v. multiple items
Mixtape allows you to view, crop, and generate manifests for one item, selected items, or the whole collection, (click to open and close)
- Under each item thumbnail are icons for Mirador (viewer), Cropping Tool, IIIF (manifest), and a check box. Use any of these for a single item
- To use multiple select items, check their boxes and click the desired function from the icons in the upper right corner
- To use the whole collection, leave the boxes unchecked and click any of the icons in the upper right corner
Viewing in Mirador
To load an item for viewing in deep zoom. (click to open and close)
- Click the M icon in the thumbnail box to load Mirador
- For comparative viewing, check the boxes for items you would like to see, and click the M icon in the upper right corner
- Click the +START HERE button in the upper left
- Then click the +ADD RESOURCE button on the lower right (the page may jump down a bit)
- Paste the manifest URI in the Resource location blank and click ADD. The item should load and display an item bar
- Click the item bar to load the item in the viewer
- Repeat for additional items
- Item windows can be dragged into different configurations using their header bar
- Zoom in and out, click through pages, and acclimate yourself to the many viewing settings, including thumbnail, single page, etc.
Cropping a IIIF image
To select a portion of an image (click to open and close)
- Select the Cropping icon
in an item thumbnail - Click thumbnail to load in the IIIF Cropping Tool viewer
- Zoom and view
- To crop a detail from the image, click the white pencil icon, and highlight the desired rectangle by clicking and dragging a rectangle from corner to corner
- A thumbnail of your selected detail will appear in a slider at the bottom of the Cropping Tool. You can repeat to collect multiple details.
- Click the Copy icon
on the left side of the thumbnail
Posting with an image
To add image details to a discussion post (click to open and close)
- Click Reply
- To enter your image details, simply paste into the text field
- Images can be manually resized by highlighting and dragging their corners
- Repeat for additional images
✉️ Share
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🤝 Collaborate
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