Teaching Case Study

Children and Youth in History

Children and Youth in History is a teaching resource on the global history of childhood. The site uses Omeka (version 1.1) to create an archive of primary and secondary sources. CYH staff created custom item types for 'Website Review', 'Case Study', and 'Teaching Module,' and created stand-alone pages for viewing those item types.

Theme

CYH developed a custom theme, creating a folder called 'cyh' in the themes directory, then adding custom styles to the style sheet. See the Getting Started with Themes and the Theme API for more advice.

Our seasonal themes—Autumn, Spring, Summer, and Winter—are variations on the design for CYH.

Plugins

Major Sections of the Site

Homepage

The homepage includes a custom background with several images related to the history of childhood. Using CSS, that background is positioned

Website Reviews

The Website Reviews page essentially provide a way to sort through items of a specific type—website review, case study, and teaching module. We've added a list of tags (regions) so the user can further narrow the list of items.

The page also includes a featured item, using the display_random_featured_item theme helper.

Primary Sources

Similar to Website Reviews, this page provides a way to sort through items by tag—in this case, regions. clicking on one of the tags takes you to the items/browse template, where items are narrowed by the tag you selected.

The page also includes a featured item, using the display_random_featured_item theme helper.

Case Studies and Teaching Modules

Because these were so few in number, the project lists each of these items by title. You can use the get_items theme helper to get items of a specific type, then display those on a page.