{"id":23,"date":"2015-01-02T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2015-06-01T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:34:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open online course on Teaching with WordPress, running June 1-26, 2015. Join us to talk about and experiment with, among other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open education, open pedagogy and design<\/li>\n<li>WordPress as a highly customizable framework for teaching and learning<\/li>\n<li>examples of instructors and learners using WordPress sites in many different ways for multiple purposes<\/li>\n<li>plug ins, applications and approaches for creating, discussing, sharing and interacting with each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throughout the course, you&#8217;ll be creating your own WordPress course site, so that by the end you&#8217;ll have a beginning structure to build on with your learners.<\/p>\n<h2>Latest Updates:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"loop-wrap\">\n\n\t<div id=\"post-1858\" class=\"post-1858 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements category-week-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/2015\/06\/22\/welcome-to-week-4\/\" title=\"Welcome to week 4!\">Welcome to week 4!<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<p>This is our last official week of Teaching with WordPress (though see the end of this post&#8211;we don&#8217;t think of the course as fully &#8220;ending&#8221;). It&#8217;s been a quick four weeks! Week 4 activities If you haven&#8217;t done so already, please take a look at the learning activities for weeks 3 and 4, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .hentry -->\n\t\t\n\t<div id=\"post-1848\" class=\"post-1848 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/2015\/06\/21\/week-3-summary\/\" title=\"Week 3: Summary\">Week 3: Summary<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<p>This week we all rolled up our sleeves and delved deeper into the WordPress platform, and at the same time looked more into cohesive course design with WordPress. One of the high points of the week was a Google Hangout, WordPress drop-in with UBC WordPress developer Richard Tape. Richard Tape answered our WordPress questions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .hentry -->\n\t\t\n\t<div id=\"post-1761\" class=\"post-1761 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/2015\/06\/15\/week-3-course-design-in-wordpress\/\" title=\"Week 3: Course Design in WordPress\">Week 3: Course Design in WordPress<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<p>We are coming to the end of Week 2 in Teaching in WordPress and looking foreword to another exciting week learning from the ever expanding #TWP15 community. Last week we dug a little deeper and started\u00a0\u00a0exploring some of the affordances of WordPress in teaching and learning. This week we will start putting it all together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .hentry -->\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n<h2>Join Us!<\/h2>\n<p>Teaching with WordPress is designed to be a &#8220;<a title=\"What Is Connectivism?\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/2015\/04\/07\/what-is-connectivism\/\" target=\"_blank\">connectivist<\/a>&#8221; open online course, in which the contributions of the participants are crucial to what each of us learns; we will connect with each other through blog posts, Twitter and discussions on this site.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\" wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Image from Pixabay\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/files\/2015\/01\/star-209371_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/star-golden-christmas-connection-209371\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div><br \/>\nMost importantly, we&#8217;ll learn from each other&#8217;s course design on their WordPress sites. It is our hope that at least some of the connections participants make with each other in the course will last beyond the course itself, that we can develop a kind of community of practice around teaching with WordPress (and\/or around open education &amp; open pedagogy, or anything else that comes up in the course).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the resources provided by course facilitators and course participants will remain on this site after the course is finished, so that they may be used by anyone who would like to learn more about teaching with WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open online course on Teaching with WordPress, running June 1-26, 2015. 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