Experiment with easily customizable themes
Dig Humanities offers the most customizable themes abailable, showcasing the very best in design. Each theme is completely customizable though an administrative interface, just click and edit, no coding required! What’s more, bloggers can customise every sidebar using the WordPress Widget system, insert their own headers into our (through our simple in built cropping system and WordPress media library).
Simply embed videos, podcasts, images and a whole lot more
Embed videos, audio, podcasts and more
Ever site or blog comes with an easy to use administrative panel that lets you post information and pages of a site, no coding required! Just enter your text, pictures, images, audio, and/or video and click “Post”. It’s that easy.
Like podcasts? So do we! Each site comes with one-button podcast publishing, completely compatible with iTunes, iTunes U, Podcast.com and more. We also support video-podcasts, or Vcasts!
Import or Export with ease
Do you already have blogging sites up at places like Blogger, WordPress.com, TypePad or LiveJournal?
It’s not in the least bit difficult for you to import entire blogs or sites into Dig Humanities. There are simple step-by-step instructions for importing and exporting other sites. All you have to do is enter your login credentials for the other site, and Dig Humanities does the rest. You can also export back to those other services, or export to a file to keep your blog backed up on your personal computer.
Great support and community
Dig Humanities uses BuddyPress and other technologies to give you the best in collaborative, and interactive tools. Make friends and colleagues, create work groups (public or private) to to work collaboratively with ease. Connect with academics, professionals, and students from around the world. You wanted an easy way to work with others, and we heard you!
Support videos coming soon
We offer a lot of tools, some of them are more advanced than others. We know you’re busy, and help documents can be long and tedious. So we thought to ourselves “selves, why don’t we make some how-to videos?” We couldn’t think of a good reason not to.
Videos will be coming soon, and will be visible on a support page. If you have suggestions on what we should support, or want to request a video, post in the forums or send an email to Aaron at aaron@dighumanities.org – he’s so helpful that one.
These are not just blogs you know…
Dig Humanities is built on WordPress technology, and that means you get a lot more than just a blog. As well as being able to post, you can also create static pages (great for eportfolios!) manage comments in incredible detail, set static front pages, password protect individual posts and create powerful muti-tiered and complex websites… without ever needing to know one iota of html.
It’s not (just) the technology, it’s the pedagogy too
Because Dig Humanities is made by educators, for educators, we know about how you can effectively use blogs and the web in teaching and learning. We’re here to provide resources, discussion and suggestions for how you can use the interenet. Thinking of e-portfolios, collaborative classwork, online journals, discussion or problem-based learning? So are we!
