{"id":360,"date":"2012-08-01T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-08-01T21:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:36:29","slug":"wordle-and-local-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/01\/wordle-and-local-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordle and Local History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first exploration with Wordle. I uploaded Lincoln&#8217;s House Divided Speech, ca. 1857-1858. This tool\u00a0could be\u00a0very effective and details Lincoln&#8217;s main points of the speech. However, I am having difficulty increasing the size of the text. I was unable to directly embed the code from Wordle. Does anyone have any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/Lincolns_House_Divided_Speech1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-374\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/Lincolns_House_Divided_Speech1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wordle could be\u00a0 a valuable tool for my AP US History students. They could upload a primary source document from a DBQ, which would help them choose the salient outside information to include in their essay.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, I have found that university campuses offer a wide breadth of local history. For my AP Human\u00a0Geography course, I took my students to the University of Pennsylvania campus for a historical architecture tour that I developed. In addition, to discussing the buildings, a large number of historical figures were discussed as well. I can invision similar historical tours at universities around the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/penn-relays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-379\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/penn-relays-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/penn-relays-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/penn-relays.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first exploration with Wordle. I uploaded Lincoln&#8217;s House Divided Speech, ca. 1857-1858. This tool\u00a0could be\u00a0very effective and details Lincoln&#8217;s main points of the speech. However, I am having difficulty increasing the size of the text. I was unable to directly embed the code from Wordle. Does anyone have any suggestions? Wordle could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,11245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-word-clouds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}