This guide demonstrates how WordPress can be utilized to create interactive blogs and websites that enhance student engagement and training in content management. As a vital skill identified by our advisory committee, WordPress enables students to organize content effectively, manage media, and create dynamic online platforms. It covers the setup process, managing profiles, and best practices for educational blogging. Emphasizing ethical guidelines, this resource serves educators looking to integrate WordPress into their curricula for developing essential digital skills.
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WordPress forInteraction in Education A demonstration of WordPress to create a blog/website for increased student interaction, and for training students to operate this valuable content management system. Elio L. Arteaga, MFA Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology Miramar Campus
WordPress Identified by our advisory committee as a “must-have” skillfor graduates entering the industry. Content Management System—Create blogs and websites. Easy way to organize content and separate it from style. Write new posts and pages, and manage media. Cloud-based, hosted by WordPress.com (totally free, but limited themes,does not allow JavaScript or Google AdSense ads) or… Self-hosted, enables your own URL and custom plug-ins, but requiresa hosting service that provides PHP and MySQL, a file editor and an FTP client).
WordPress sitesused in education ElioArteaga, MFA – elioart.wordpress.com Ruth Ayres and Stacey Shubitz – twowritingteachers.wordpress.com Jaimie Gordon – fotoprofessor.wordpress.com Jacqui Murray – askatechteacher.wordpress.com Barbara Schroeder, Ed.D. – itcboisestate.wordpress.com Geoff Sheehy – ateacherswrites.wordpress.com All of the above-referenced blogs are the personal creations of the professor/teacher-authors. As such, they avoid the appearance of official school materials and even contain disclosure policies for transparency. A great site for building a disclosure policy statement specifically intended for use in blogs for education is disclosurepolicy.org.
Dos and Don’ts Do use blogs to share ideas about your subject matter or field of study. Don’t use identifying information; do protect confidentiality. Do disclose whether you are making money with your blog. Don’t use blogs to promote DeVry, nor to bash the competition.
Getting Started Set up a new account The front and back ends Editing your public profile Adjusting settings
Posts v. Pages Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order and contain news items, articles, etc.—timely info that can become stale. Posts are organized by date/time/category/tags/authors. Pages are static and freestanding. Can contain site info, contact info, FAQs, etc. Pages are organized by a parent/child relationship.
Writing Posts Adding new posts Typing and editing text Inserting special characters Adding links Adding images Adding categories Publishing/updating posts
In the sidebar, click Posts, and Add New. • The URL for this post becomes http://____.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/this-is-my-first-post. • Type your title and body-text content.
Add text links by selecting text in your post, and clicking Insert Link, the chain icon above the post body text. • Be sure to add a title for improving search engine optimization. • Open link in a new window if your link takes your visitors away from your site.
To add an image, look between the post title and the main body text of the post. You’ll see a group of icons next to Upload/Insert.They are images, video, audio, SWFs, polls and custom forms. Click Image. Click Select a File from your Computer.
Add details. Remember, alternate text is important for search engine optimization, as well as for visually-impaired individuals who use a text reader to audibly recite the alternate text of images on web pages. Click Insert into Post.
Click Pages to display your list of pages, hover over Contact Us, and click Quick Edit. • Next to template, choose “One column, no sidebar” to get rid of the sidebar on the static page. • Also, uncheck Allow Comments to remove the comments box from static pages. These two only make sense if they were in posts, not pages.
Click Update. • Go back inside the page editor, and uncheck Show sharing buttons… to remove them from this page. Likewise, they only make sense if they were in a post, not a page.
If you wish to make one of the static pages, rather than the posts page, the landing page (home page) of your site, first go back to the back-end. Make a new page called “Blog” and publish it. Don’t do anything else with it. • Go to Settings: Reading (remember this?) • Click Front Page Displays:A Static Page (Select Below). • Front Page: About • Posts Page: Blog.
Moderating Comments Comment moderation is necessary, otherwise spam will fill up your comment boxes. Earlier, in Discussion Settings, we indicated that comment authors must provide their name and email addresses, that they must register with WordPress and log in, and that the administrator must approve each comment before it becomes visible.
The yellow background on elioart’s comment indicates that it hasn’t been approved by the administrator yet. • Hover over the comment. The options are: • Approve • Reply • Quick Edit • Edit • History • Spam and • Trash Click Approve. Your visitors can now read this comment.
Modifying theSite’s Appearance Selecting a theme Adding widgets Customizing menus Adding polls Changing background and header images
Changing Themes CSS separates a site’s content from its appearance. It’s easy to change the appearance of your site by choosing various themes and changing other characteristics.
