PEAC/EDUC 072 Digital Final Project

Simon Elichko / selichk1

Why?

- Communicate with broader audiences

- Incorporate media

- Point to your work later on

- Real world channel of communication

What?

- Scalar is an open source project based in the University of Southern California

- Platform designed to let you create a full-fledged digital publication

What resources can you use?

• Media Reuse Guide   [ TriCo Research Guides ]
   

• FindPolicy

  • Find sources from development agencies + think tanks

  • Example search for Development Donors sites:
    Syrian refugees Arabic language education
     

• ProQuest Social Sciences 

  • Find scholarly research in education, political science, etc.

  • Example search: Syrian refugee* Lebanon

How do you use Scalar?

Register here. Email your username (full name) to selichk1@swarthmore.edu. Simon will add you to the Scalar book for this course.

Get comfortable:

1. Add a new page. Give it a title (e.g. "name's test page").
2. Add some text.
3. Change Page Visibility from Visible to Hidden.
   (Scroll down to the Properties tab.)
4. Save changes. (do this often!)

How do you use Scalar?

Next steps

Editing your test page

1. Open the editing view for your page (pencil icon)
2. Add an image, either from your computer or from online.
3. Save and view.
4. Change the layout (layout options; some layout ideas). Save.
5. Make small changes, see how they turn out. Look at the help documentation.

Connect multiple pages

1. Create a 2nd test page. Save.
2. Create a Path to link the two pages together.
       Note: Pages must be set to Visible in order for paths to appear.
       You can hide them again after testing it out.

• General guides
  • Understanding the Interface (annotated screenshots)

  • Scalar: An Introduction (University of Illinois Library)

  • Complete Scalar User’s Guide (Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, USC)
     

• Connecting pages

  • Paths (selecting a page or multiple pages as children of the currently open page)
    (how to create a path)

  • Visual Path (using the Visual Path layout)

• Creating and formatting pages

  • Some layout ideas

  • Cards (using the Card widget)

  • Footnotes (using Notes)
     
• Working with content:
  • Uploading / linking to media
  • Inserting media on a page (e.g. images)
  • Annotating media
  • Adding links to pages

Helpful Scalar Resources

Thank You!

Simon Elichko   /   selichk1

slides adapted from Nabil Kashyap

Feel free to make an appointment for help with research and Scalar