Today’s goals: Finish your pages on the class website, learn more about WordPress, and find out how the internet works

 Key skills you’ll practice: WordPress: logging in, editing a page, and adding text, images, and links

Finishing Your Page on the Class Website

• Logging in: Go to this link, username is first name, password is last name (capitalized) and 2016. Example: Goldsberry2016.

Find your page: from the Dashboard, click Pages in the left menu, then type your first name in the white search box on the top left and hit enter. When you find your name, point your mouse to it and then click Edit below your name. You should now see your page editor.

• When you’re done:
  1. Use the check list for success (below) to make sure you have what you need to be in the wildly successful category. Add what you’re missing and make some edits if necessary.
  2. Go to other students’ pages (names list here) and leave thoughtful comments and questions about what they have written. I’ve already kicked off the comments by adding a question to each student’s page. Check out my students’ pages from last year for examples of people asking each other questions and answering them in the comments section. Don’t forget to respond if someone leaves a question on your page!

 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: Andrew, Gina, Jamaal, Lincoln, Racquel
  2. Student includes 7-10 pieces of information
  3. Student includes at least 3 images
  4. Student includes 2 links or more (and the links work!)
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Student includes 4-6 pieces of information
  2. Student includes at least 2 images
  3. Student includes at least 1 link (and the link works)
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Student includes 1-3 pieces of information
  2. Student includes 0-1 images
  3. Student doesn’t add any links

More About WordPress

• Let’s look at the code that was generated as you built your page. While you were adding text, images, and links in the Visual Editor on your page, the code was being added, which you can see by clicking on the Text tab on the top right of your page editor.
• When you’re in your page editor, is there anything on your screen that you’re curious about?
• What are your WordPress questions?
• Let’s check out some other internal parts of the class website; many of these things are unique to WordPress.
• Quick two-question reflection: click here to respond

Before we learn HTML…

• Let’s watch this video
• Let’s look at this graphic about how to get your website online
• In your tables of 2, you will find answers to the following questions. Google is your friend, but you could also try to find some information on this site in the web section at the top of the page.
  1. What is the internet?
  2. What is an IP address and how does it relate to a domain name?
  3. What is a webpage? What is a website?
  4. What is a browser and can you provide examples of some?
  5. How do you create and register a domain name?
  6. What is a web host and why do you need one?
  7. What tool do you have to use to write HTML code?