IIIF for Educators

Mixtape

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

Mixtape

💡 Concept

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🖥️ Activity

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🛠️ Tools

🪜 Steps

Cropping a IIIF image
To select a portion of an image (click to open and close)
  1. Copy and paste a manifest URL into the Submit box
  2. Click any thumbnail to load in the IIIF Cropping Tool viewer
  3. Zoom and view
  4. 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
  5. 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, from various manifests
  6. Click the Copy icon on the left side of the thumbnail
  7. Alternatively: any highlighted thumbnail (pages or cropped details) will display its image URL in full or actual size in the window with the Copy button. HTML embed code with manifest link is also available by clicking the </> tab
Posting with an image
To add image details to a discussion post (click to open and close)
  1. click Reply
  2. to enter your image details, simply paste into the text field
  3. images can be manually resized by highlighting and dragging their corners
  4. repeat for additional images

✉️ Share

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🤝 Collaborate

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