Old English Word Journal

1. Dictionary of Old English
2. Dictionary of Old English Corpus
3. Video Tutorial:  Basic DOE Searches
4. Video Tutorial:  Basic DOE Corpus Searches
5. Miriam Posner, Up and Running with Omeka.net and Creating an Omeka Exhibit
6. Omeka.net:  How to configure your site, add items, and create exhibits

On the Dictionary of Old English website:

1. Choose a headword from the DOE with which to work 
2. Read through the entire entry recording the following: 

• How many times does the word occur in the Old English corpus? 
• What is its grammatical information? 
• How is it defined? 
• In which texts does the word appears? 
• Does it appear in certain types of texts more than others? 
• Is the word used in modern English? If so, how? Use the OED.
• What other words are etymologically or semantically associated with it? Create a word family of at least 10 items.
• Can you come up with a mnemonic for remembering the definition? 
• Are there any words with which it could be easily confused? 
• Find an image of an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, structure, artifact, etc. associated with your word.

On the course Omeka page:

1. Under the "Items" tab, click "Add an Item" 
2. Type your headword into the title box 
3. Click "Item Type Metadata" and select "Old English Word Journal Entry" from the drop down menu 
4. Use the information you gathered from the Dictionary of Old English to fill out the information requested about your word