PERIOD 2- FINISH HARVEST OF THE MONTH GRAPHICS AND BEGIN LEARNING WORDPRESS

 Today’s goals: Finish your Harvest of the Month graphic, begin learning about WordPress, and start planning your page on the class website

 Key skills you’ll practice: graphic/visual design, use of digital media creation tools, WordPress basics, and planning content for a webpage

Finishing up with Harvest of the Month graphics

1. Finish your graphic; if you need links to the stock image sites and/or the text to include in your graphic, click here to see the assignment from Monday. Let me know when you finish and please email your final product to agoldsberry@medford.k12.ma.us.
2. Check out what your classmates have created so far: school website and Facebook (also posted to Twitter) here and here.
3. Use the check list for success (below) to make sure your work is in the wildly successful category. Add what you’re missing or make some edits if necessary.

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: this infographic and this interactive image
  2. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Strong, obvious attempt to create an appealing visual theme
  5. Images chosen carefully to go along with visual theme and to be as visually appealing as possible
  6. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, and includes dates served, nutrition facts, and origin of the local produce.
  7. Text is easy to read
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  2. Images came from sources listed above
  3. Images somewhat appealing; evidence of some attempt made to create visual theme.
  4. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, but doesn’t include everything listed in the wildly successful model.
  5. Text is somewhat hard to read
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Incomplete graphic
  2. Little effort put into creating visual theme
  3. Images from sources other than those listed
  4. Minimal text that provides little information
  5. Text is hard to read

WordPress and Your Page on the Class Website

All About WordPress

• Each table of two students will be assigned a question to investigate:
1. What is WordPress?
2. How many websites use WordPress?
3. Can you find examples of major sites that use WordPress?
4. What is a website content management system?
5. What is the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
6. Is WordPress free to use?
7. 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 other students’ pages 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.