one (half!) hour to a student newspaper via wordpress
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High schools can utilize the power of blogging platform WordPress to create a quick and simple news portal. Originally presented on March 18, 2011 at the MACUL Conference in Detroit, Mich.TRANSCRIPT
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Before We Start, Please...
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Open Your E-mail In a Browser Tab
Determine a Name for Your Website
Locate Content (Photos, Text)
I have content available if you do not.
Think About Content Organization
By Cody Eding – www.codyeding.com
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One (Half!) Hour to a
Student Newspaper via
March 18, 2011
Plan of Action
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Introduction to WordPress
Set up a WordPress.com Website
Post Content to WordPress
Beyond WordPress.com
Additional Free Software Useful for
Student Newspapers and Classrooms
About Me
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Senior, Grand Valley State University
2007 Hamilton High Graduate
Journalism Major
Award-winning Sports Writer
Information Systems Minor
WordPress
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“WordPress is an open source Content Management
System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing
application, powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many
features including a plug-in architecture and a
template system. Used by over 13% of the 1,000,000
biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS
in use today.”
From Wikipedia:
Why WordPress?
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Free and Open-Source
Flexible and Extendable
Strong Community Support
Little Learning Curve
WordPress at Work
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WordPress at Work cont.
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Getting Started
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http://codyeding.com/macul
Site in Development
Getting Started cont.
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www.wordpress.com (NOT .org)
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Getting Started cont.
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Welcome Home!
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Theme It!
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Theme It! cont.
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Search “Inuit Types”
Theme It! cont.
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Theme It! cont.
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Theme It! cont.
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Inuit Types WordPress Documentation
Posting a Story
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Posting a Story cont.
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Adding Images
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Adding Images cont.
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Congratulations!
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Rinse and repeat this process until
the desired effect is achieved!
Beyond WordPress.com
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WordPress.com offers limited
themes, add-ons and storage
Domain, User Registration
Self-hosted WordPress installation
allows for a lot more customization
Beyond WP.com cont.
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Beyond WP.com cont.
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Beyond WP.com cont.
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Additional Resources
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LibreOffice Productivity Suite
(http://www.libreoffice.org/)
Google Docs
(http://docs.google.com/)
Additional Resources cont.
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GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program
(http://www.gimp.org/)
Pixlr
(http://pixlr.com/)
Additional Resources cont.
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Scribus
(http://www.scribus.net)
Audacity
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Additional Resources cont.
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Jaycut
(http://jaycut.com/)
Credits
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Presentation created using
LibreOffice, Pixlr and GIMP running
on Ubuntu Linux
Typeset in Droid Sans (http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Droid+Sans)
WordPress logos (http://wordpress.org/about/logos/)
License
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
Please remix, adapt and use my work! All I ask is for credit.
Enjoy!
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Questions?
Follow me on Twitter (@edingc), or shoot me an e-mail! ([email protected])