A new open online course will be initiated on June 1st by Christina Hendricks from UBC. Here’s the blog that will serve as a central hub for the course: https://blogs.ubc.ca/teachwordpress/
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Building a WordPress Site
Creating and building a WordPress site is pretty simple these days. You no longer need a computer science degree, your own dedicated server, or a ton of money to get a website up and going quickly. With this ease of creation many more people are diving in and learning how it all works. The University of British Columbia will be hosting an open online course “Teaching With WordPress” in June…
to talk about and experiment with, among other things:
- open education, open pedagogy and design
- WordPress as a highly customizable framework for teaching and learning
- examples of instructors and learners using WordPress sites in many different ways for multiple purposes
- plug ins, applications and approaches for creating, discussing, sharing and interacting with each other
While I’m not an official educator by profession, Rockylou Productions will be joining in to learn from and help others to build a functional and effective website using the WordPress foundation. Perfect timing as we are in the midst of remodeling the site. I’ll be using a “buildingWP” category to categorize all of the relevant posts in one place.
Supporting ‘open’
We’ve been renovating around here, so the facilities folks pulled all the front faces of the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. In a sense, the results that you see below are similar to what happens when you release your work under an open license. Previously, there was only a ‘public’ view of the counter […]
#WP4life
Placeholder post for the open online summer course about teaching with WordPress, led by Christina Hendricks and company. I’m hoping to use the WP platform to teach a course of my own at some point, so I’m looking forward to these discussions! Plus they had me at open pedagogy…
What is open education?
I wrote the following narrative for a teaching award application, and someone has requested that I post it openly as well, as it may be useful to others. I’m happy to do so! (Update July 18, 2015: unfortunately, I didn’t get the award, but you can see my entire application for it in this post). […]
What is open education?
I wrote the following narrative for a teaching award application, and someone has requested that I post it openly as well, as it may be useful to others. I’m happy to do so! (Update July 18, 2015: unfortunately, I didn’t get the award, but you can see my entire application for it in this post). […]
Learning Wrapper for Video
Learning wrappers take many forms (exam wrappers, homework wrappers, metacognitive wrappers). Their purpose is generally to provide learners with framework for reflection on their learning: what did they learn, what confusions surfaced and what do they need to explore further, change or seek clarification on as a result of what they learned? The use of […]
Learning Wrapper for Video
Learning Wrapper for Video
Learning wrappers take many forms (exam wrappers, homework wrappers, metacognitive wrappers). Their purpose is generally to provide learners with framework for reflection on their learning: what did they learn, what confusions surfaced and what do they need to explore further, change or seek clarification on as a result of what they learned? The use of […]
Learning Wrapper for Video
Learning wrappers take many forms (exam wrappers, homework wrappers, metacognitive wrappers). Their purpose is generally to provide learners with framework for reflection on their learning: what did they learn, what confusions surfaced and what do they need to explore further, change or seek clarification on as a result of what they learned? The use of […]