Conclusion
There could be a feature where we can access individual posts easier instead of sifting through all the posts for that particular week. Also, there are many interesting plugins available for wordpress that are not being used. I guess because we are adults, we should be able to cope with what is being presented. Then again I should consider that it is not being used as a CMS in our situation. In order to improve the blogging experience, I found these tips rather interesting and practical http://www.pureblogging.com/2008/03/10/99-ways-to-improve-your-blog/.
Posted in: Week 07: Blogs
Deb Kim 7:53 am on October 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Everton,
Wow, 99 ways to improve blogging? This site is great. Thank you for the tips:) This will help improve my blogging for sure. I use WordPress for my teaching, but there are many features in Dashboard that I haven’t used or don’t know how to use. It’ll definitely give me some ideas of the ways to improve my class blogs. Thanks!
Deb
Everton Walker 8:06 am on October 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Deb,
No worries man. I have recently applied some of those tips and they really make blogging much easier. Every now and again I test new features and plugins but time is really not on my side to explore deeper.
Everton
Angela Novoa 7:09 pm on October 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Everton, thanks for sharing! I found interesting installing a “Top Commentators Plugin” (#23). Certainly this would promote students’ participation and motivation.
Cheers,
Angela.
hall 4:40 am on October 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Everton,
I found that link on “99 ways to improve your blog” to be very useful, thank you. Check out this link http://www.goodwebpractices.com/other/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html
khenry 4:02 pm on October 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Everton,
I agree that finding a better way to track/navigate posts would improve the experience. One way I would suggest is to create a new page for each week of activities on which posts could be collated for each topic according to that week/topic, even though I suspect that categorising posts is to achieve such tracking an organisation. It is really the user interface that I am most interested in. Depending on one’s needs one has to choose the features that suits them most and as such choose by characteristics of the tool being used. In addition to Conroy’s link I found this one useful in assisting with such choices http://edublogs.org/why-edublogs/#comparisons.
Kerry-Ann