Posts in Category: Blogging

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Catalysts

On 2022-03-25 by hjdw5 With 0 Comments - Inspiration

After getting feedback from some critical friends about why they blog, I’m sifting through the essential learning required for creating, managing and curating a blog site as part of my preparation for the upcoming workshops. In order to do this, I’m revisiting bloggers’ sites that are both inspiration and catalyst, thus distracting from my primary purpose in preparing a workshop blog site.

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Where to begin

On 2022-03-08 by hjdw5 With 0 Comments - Blogging

First tasks you might explore with your new blog:

  • Go to APPEARANCE – change the template and make additional adjustments to the look and feel of your blog site
  • Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts”
  • Add pages, if you like.
  • Include hyperlinks in your posts (select text and click on the link icon in the post toolbar)
  • Embed images or set featured images and embed video in blog posts and pages (can be your own media or that found on the internet, but consider free or creative commons licensed works). To embed a YouTube video, simply paste the URL on its own line.
  • Under Dashboard/Appearance,
    • Select your preferred website theme and customize to your preferences (New title, new header image, etc.)
    • Customize menus & navigation
    • Use widgets to customize blog content and features
    • Do consider creating categories for each

Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, defer to using your own images or Creative Commons CC BY images and items.

Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging:

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Creating a blog to learn about blogging

On 2022-03-08 by hjdw5 With 0 Comments - Blogging

This blog site is a curation and collection of processes and considerations for educational blogging. This is a topic that has deep roots in education and continues to provide. As a result of an invitation to present to educators as a way of gaining understanding of using WordPress as an educational tool. This blog applies the metaphor of building blocks, not only because WordPress uses blocks, both in the classic editor and the new editor, but childhood interlocking blocks add meaningful connections to building a blog with blocks.

Thus, I’m creating a blog to show how to blog!