Today’s goals:
- Finish your Goal Poster (they will be printed and hung up next week)
- Begin learning WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems in the world
- Start planning your page on the class website
Key skills you’ll learn:
- Planning content for a webpage and WordPress basics: logging in, editing a page, and adding text, images, and links
Today’s featured web site:
- http://fabianburghardt.de/webolution/– See how web design has changed between 1991 and 2015 by checking out the evolution of NASA’s website.
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 these good models from previous students: Derek, Meagan, Kester, PJ.
- Now, begin thinking about what you would want to include on your page and make a list (pen and paper, your phone, 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.