Quick PSA
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Today’s goals: Begin learning WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems in the world AND start planning your page on the class website.
Key skills you’ll practice: planning content for a webpage, WordPress: logging in, editing a page, and adding text, images, and links
Check out work by previous students
You will be doing some of the same work! Click on the links below to check it all out.
1. Student pages on the class website
2. Online directory of published student pages
3. “Wall of Inspiration” graphic design challenge
4. Harvest of the Month media for the school website and Facebook/Twitter
5. Other graphics created for social media: Medford Farmers Market, summer reading, Facebook cover photo, 4th of July (just some examples)
All About WordPress
- Each table of two students will be assigned a question to investigate:
- What is WordPress?
- How many websites use WordPress?
- Can you find examples of major sites that use WordPress?
- What is a website content management system?
- What is the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
- Is WordPress free to use?
- What are WordPress themes?
Planning your page on the class website
- Every student will have his/her own page on our class website so you can learn how to use WordPress and create a digital portfolio for your work this year.
- Before you begin planning your page, check out what last year’s student pages looked like here.
- Now, begin thinking about what you would want to include on your page and make a list (pen and paper, or create a list on your computer in Notepad or with a desktop sticky note). Potential things to include (everything is optional; you choose what to include):
- Facts about your self, such as where you went to school before MHS, where you grew up, what languages you speak, sports you play, clubs you participate in, family members, pets, favorite foods, job, etc.
- Your interests and hobbies, how you like to spend your time when you’re not in school
- Random thoughts, quotes that inspire you, etc.
- Media: images and links for your page. Download and save images from your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Link to your YouTube page or a website or video that you like or that includes you. Link to your social media accounts. Other images: try https://unsplash.com/, https://www.pexels.com/, or go to Bing.com, do image search for something, then on the results page, under license, choose free to share and use. Download and save any images you want to post on your page later.
- If we have time, we’ll review how to log into the site and find your page to edit, and each student will create a user name and password to log into the site.