Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category
Aug
20
Setting up your blogsite for a new school year
August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
As we look forward to new classes and new challenges every September, we also need to give our school blogsites a shake up, or at very least, review what’s worked and what’s not, clean up the links in the sidebars, remove unwanted widgets etc. and, most importantly, sort out the class blogs. Options for class [...]
Jan
18
Instructional Videos for Class Bloggers
January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Jack Sloan from Chorlton Park has produced these excellent instructional videos that you can use to show or remind children in your class about particular skills required for blogging with WordPress. Feel free to embed them in your own school blog, or make your own. To make the videos Jack used Jing. This is a [...]
Oct
26
Installing Plugins on WordPress MU
October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Because WordPress is Open Source, and because there is a vast community of developers tweaking it for their own particular requirements, a vast library of plugins are available for you to install on your blog. A plugin is a small piece of code that adds functionality to your blog. Some are extremely simple, others are [...]
Sep
9
Transferring posts from one blog to another
September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
As a preface to a piece on setting up your school blogsite for the new year I’m putting up some instructions on transferring posts and comments from one blog to another. The instructions here are for WordPress, however, since practically every blog platform uses a standard .xml file for exporting its content, it really doesn’t [...]
Mar
1
Using Globally Recognised Avatars
March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Avatars are the small images that you often see alongside blog comments or on social networking sites. Sometimes they are a digital portrait, often they are cartoon representations. Children enjoy creating their own avatars and their use will encourage them to comment on their own school blogsite as well as others. They are also very [...]