Inspiration – Playing with Blocks
Coming back together or being here for the first time – what brings you to blogging?
If you were to approach your blogging ‘presence’ through the use of the building with blocks metaphor, what would describe your use for blogs?
ACTIVITY: In the chat, describe your blogging experience in terms of building and playing with blocks. How are your building skills developing? Add your thoughts to the chat.
You can use adaptations of the introductory activities listed on the Equity Unbound site – e.g Choose a Plant combined with What Kind of Animal Are You?
Page links as an annotated guide to items covered in the second workshop.
In today’s workshop we will explore additional ideas and blogging options when using WordPress either professionally or personally.
2 C’s shifting to 6C’s – these pages will explore the application of copyright and Creative Commons when blogging; examining connections to curriculum and digital literacies when blogging.
Creating a Conversation – examining the function and purpose of setting up comments; structures for engaging in commenting on a blog post; blogging events and communities.
Settings in WordPress – this page provides information about the general blog settings available for your site.
Plugins, Users, and Tools – provides some basic information about plugins available to enhance and support your WordPress site; add users to your WordPress site
Domain Or Not for Educators – examines the question of whether to set up your own domain as part of your blogging presence as a professional; looking at domains with “dot.CA” as an option and what that means for you
Links to some favourite resources – may be a place to return as you set out on your blogging journey
An invitation to continue to connect and become a blogging network – a password protected page to keep you connected with other blogging educators.