by the Digital Literacy Centre

This workshop is brought to you by the Digital Literacy Centre. In the workshop you will be introduced to the concepts of blogging and the WordPress publishing platform.

July 24, 2009 – 10AM – 3PM

Morning Session – 10AM

Introductions

• • Who are you and why did you sign up for this workshop?
  • What experiences do you have reading/writing weblogs?

What is a weblog and why might you want to use one?

Activity – Creating a weblog on WordPress.com

An Overview of WordPress

• • Touring the interface
  • Customizing your weblog
  • What’s a post? What’s a page?
  • Creating content
  • Using categories and tags
  • Working the sidebars

Activity – Weblog Designs

Lunch – 1 hour

Afternoon Session – 1PM

Educational uses of Weblogs – Examples from K12 to post-secondary

• • Activity: How could you use a weblog in your own classrooms (as a student/as a teacher?)

The Care and feeding of Weblogs – importing content from other sites

Activity – Feeds

Wrap-up