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Blogging: A Hands-On session for Learning VIU’s WordPress Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Learning Technologies Application Developer Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning Vancouver Island University
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Blogging: A Hands-On session for Learning VIU’s WordPress
Prepared by: Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in LearningVancouver Island University
Blogging defined
• Blog is short for “Web log”, an online, chronological collection of personal commentary, media and links
• Blogs are easy to create, read and comment on from anywhere with an Internet connection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwUHXoi8lM
• 19 percent of websites on the internet are powered by Wordpress
• Based on open-source technologies (PHP and MYSQL)
• Active and vibrant developer community • Plugin and theme marketplace • Ability to run networks of blogs
Why use the VIU Wordpress blogging network?
– Hosted on campus – Compliant with FIPPA – Unified login – Under the viu.ca
domain – Secure and backed up
regularly by IT
Why not use the VIU Wordpress blogging network?
– You require a special URL
– You want to administer plugins and themes
Options: wordpress.com, blogger.com, your own server
The Wordpress network
http://wordpress.viu.ca/
http://wordpress.viu.ca/Chemistry
http://wordpress.viu.ca/MGMT210
http://wordpress.viu.ca/SarahsBlog
• One code base to maintain• Simplify backups• Unified login
http://studentblogs.viu.ca/http://wordpress.viu.ca/
• Personal blogs and websites• Project or research blogs • Reflective spaces inviting feedback via
comments• Public ePortfolios to showcase student work• Blogs can be used to ‘tie the web together’• Develop media/technical literacies
How to use the VIU Wordpress blogging network
Blogger's Code of Conduct
1. Take responsibility for your own words and for the comments you allow on our blog
2. Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person
3. Connect privately before responding publicly4. If you believe someone is unfairly attacking
another, take action5. Do not allow anonymous comments6. Ignore the trollshttp://radar.oreilly.com/2007/04/draft-bloggers-code-of-conduct.html
Post versus Page• Posts are entries listed in
reverse chronological order on the blog home page by default.
• Pages are static and are not
listed by date. Pages are often listed at the top of the blog in a menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
Post are automatically organized by date but can be furthermore assigned to categories and tags.
Pages do not use categories and tags but
can be organized in a hierarchy.
http://wordpress.viu.ca/barclayl/
Older posts
Links to other sites
PagesNew posts appear here
Site search
Title of the blog
Recent posts
Recent comments
Category of this post
Pages on the site
Web view Author view (logged in)
Wordpress Dashboard
Create a new post
Summary of blog activity
Recent comments
Themes
Use images to bring your posts to life
Work found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sower.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Wordpress documentation on wiki
https://mediawiki.viu.ca/wiki/Wordpress_Help
https://wordpress.viu.ca/wp-login.php
The site name becomes part of your URL and
must be lowercase with no spaces.
The site title is displayed by default at the top of
your blog and may contain spaces. Allow
discoverability in Google
Blog showcase
• Les• http://wordpress.viu.ca/barclayl/ • http://wordpress.viu.ca/ap5mondays/
• Eugene• http://wordpress.viu.ca/viuasc/ • http://wordpress.viu.ca/limi/
• Stephen• http://wordpress.viu.ca/guppy/
• Rachel• http://wordpress.viu.ca/mollr/
• CIEL• http://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/
References
• EDUCAUSE 7 things you should know about Blogs
• http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7006.pdf
• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching
• http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/foggo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/
Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Learning Technologies Application DeveloperCentre for Innovation and Excellence in [email protected]
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