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Author Archives: Course Participant
How to Create a blog
A comprehensive, free blogging guide which focuses on more technical parts where people actually get stuck on.
Adding a contact form for WordPress
Many people don’t know how to add a simple and free contact box for their WordPress blog’s and websites. This guide explains it.
Link: http://startbloggingonline.com/contact-form-7-wordpress/
Rolin Moe
Affiliation: Seattle Pacific University
Twitter: @rmoejo
Blog URL:http://rolinmoe.org/blog
Other URL: http://edutechnicalities.com
Description: I am a longtime WordPress user heavily dependent on the lowest hanging fruit of the service but inspired by ownership of pedagogy and digital environment. It’s time to own this myself!
Self-Coding
Assignment URL: http://courses.olblogs.tru.ca/facdev/topic/post-5-self-coding-activity/
Similar to the ‘Showcase’ activity, students are first asked to create a hierarchy of categories and sub-categories in alignment with the phases of critical inquiry (triggering event, exploration, integration, and resolution).
Students then categorize their posts as one of the phases of CI, display them in a widget or on a page or post along with some reflections on the cognitive skills they used during the course.
This may be a good activity to do half-way through a course to allow students to make adjustments, if necessary.
Showcase
Assignment URL: http://courses.olblogs.tru.ca/facdev/topic/post-5-integration/
The goal of this assignment is to have students choose and share what they think is their best work.
Students review their posts from the course, tag their best work with ‘Showcase’ or ‘Best Work’ or something similar, then share their work by displaying it on a showcase page or widget.
HT to Alan Levine on this one.
Michael Paskevicius
Affiliation: Vancouver Island University
Twitter: @mpaskevi
Blog URL:http://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/
Other URL:
Description: I love working with WordPress! I currently support WordPress use by faculty and students at VIU and am hoping to learn and contribute to this community.
Managing RSS Feed using Feedburner
Video tutorial of how to use Feedburner to facilitate embedding RSS Feed from WP into your LMS (provides the HTML code)
How to Embed and RSS Feed from WP to LMS (Blackboard)
This vide is from the makers of Domain of One’s Own so they know what they are about. It demonstrates how to embed an RSS Feed from your WP to the institutional LMS (if like me you will still be using the LMS this is really important)
Turning Web-based Portfolios into PDFs
Blogbooker enables you to translate blog-based assignments and portfolio materials into a single PDF document. This can be useful in terms of institutional archiving and for external examiners.