Digital Media Usage Guide

AFAM 162b/HIST 187b
African American History: from Emancipation to the Present
Professor Jonathan Holloway

Directions for creating Groups and Presentations in Insight (HTML version)

1) Before creating a group, you need to find a set of images to put into the group. You can do this either by browsing through the Insight collection(s) or doing a search. To search, select "Search" on the left-hand side of the Insight screen.

2) Search--You can search by keywords or data fields. Once you have found a set of images, select the ones you wish to put into a group by single clicking on each image. A white outline will appear around your selected images.

3) Create Group--To create a group go to the "File" menu and choose "New Group." A new blank window should appear called "New Group 1." Drag your selected images from the right-hand window to the new group window by clicking on one of the selected images and dragging and dropping it into the new group window. All your selected images should appear in "New Group 1".

4) Save Group--To save your group go to the "File" menu and choose "Save Group." Name the group with your last name and the course number, i.e. Jones AFAM 162b.

Creating Presentations

Presentations are part of a saved Group. To made a presentation, you must first open an existing group.

1) Once a group is open, select "Create Presentation" from the "Group" menu in the Group Window.

2) Selecting "Create Presentation" transfers you to the Image Workspace and displays the Presenation Thumbnail Window with the thumbnail images from your group. If the images in your group are already in the order you want them for your presentation, select "Save and Close" in the lower right-hand corner of the Presentation Thumbnail Window.

You can also make the following changes to your presentation:

2) Order images--to change the image order, select the image you want to move (the selected image is outlined in white). Click and hold on the selected image and drag it to the preferred position, release the mouse.

3) Copying/removing/restoring images--to copy an image so it appears more than once in a presentation or to create a detail, select the image and click "Copy". To remove an image from the presentation, select the image you want to remove and click on "Cut." This removes the image from the presentation, but not from the group. To restore a "Cut" image to the presentation, select the image you want to restore and click "Restore."

4) Linking image (creating comparisons)--As the default, when an image is shown during a presentation, it appears in sequence order as a full image, and then disappears when the next image is shown. Linking images allows you to view the next image while keeping previously shown image(s) on the screen. To link images, select the first image you want to appear (it hsouel be highlighted in white). Then click "Link." The next image (the linked image) should be outlined in purple. To unlink images, select the original image (the image outlined in white). Click "Unlink" to unlink the last linked image.
Fuller description of Image Linking in Presentations (PDF)

5) Saving and Closing the Presentation--Click "Save" at the bottom of the Presentation Thumbnail Window. Insight will prompt you to name the presentation. It wil be saved as part of the image group. Click "Save and Close" to save and close the presentation. Clicking on the circle in the upper right hand corner of the Presentation Thumbnail Window also saves and closes the presentation.

6) Playing Presentations--In the Group Window, open the Group that contains the presentaiton you want to show. If a presentation exists for a group, a blue icon will appear in the upper right corner of the group title bar. Select the presentation you want to show (outlined in white). Open the Group Menu and select "Show Presentation" or double-click on the presentation. Insight will show the presentation in the Image Workspace. To start the presentation either click once on the blue icon in the upper right corner of the first image or press the forward arrow key on the keyboard. You can advance the images forward or in reverse by using the forward and backward and arrow keys on the keyboard.

 

 

PDF version of Creating Groups and Presentations in Insight