Sound Design for Film - WordPress

What is WordPress.
How is blogs.evergreen.edu different from wordpress.com
Create a production journal. Examples:
- Tommy Thompson's Production Journal for High Strung
- Space for Rent - Ready Camera One
Create a portfolio
- Example: http://zacharyquarles.com/blog/
Take it with you after you graduate

write frequently, at least 2 times per week if not more. Write when impressions are fresh. If you are not near a computer keep a paper journal then type up your notes later.
interact what other students' journals. They are going through a similar experience, how are they approaching their journal and the academic challenges of the course?
Your site is public. You are publishing your ideas for the world to find and read if they are interested in what you have to say. If you don't want your mother or future employer to read it then maybe it doesn't belong here. If you refer to other students in the class Use First Names Only.
This site won't live forever, it will be deleted once you leave Evergreen but you can take the structure and text it with you.

Go to http://blogs.evergreen.edu to create your acount and blog. See Creating a new blog for detailed instructions.
the Dashboard is the "back end" to your site. Click Visit Site in your Admin Bar (at the top) to see what your visitors see
The left hand panel of your Dashboard is where you control your site. Expand each option in the left-hand column by clicking the triangle on the right
Change your site's title and subtitle in Settings > General
Privacy settings - control who can see your site or if search engines will index your siteSettings > Privacy
Note: it defaults to only blogs.evergreen users can see your site. You'll probably want to change this to allow everyone to see you're site once it's ready.

Creating posts
Using the rich text editor
Images, media and linking to files
Controlling commenting & publishing
- set your comment preferences for all new pages/posts Settings > Discussion
Pages versus Posts
Creating pages and your site's navigation
- working with sub-pages
Editing already existing pages and posts

Trying out new Themes Appearance > Themes
Customize your header or banner image
- some themes allow for you to add your own header image Appearance > Header Image (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images)

Important: Find a theme that meets your layout requirements.

Add functionality to your site's sidebar(s) Appearance > Widget

Links are useful for directing others to related sites. You might want to create a link to the program blog, for example.

Categories are useful for categorizing different types of posts. A category page for each is automatically created. Use the Category Widget to display in your sidebar.
Tags are more free-form and attempt to capture more specific information about a post.

You can write custom CSS to override the theme's CSS. Go Appearance > Custom CSS

You'll need to learn a bit about how your theme is structured. Some great tools for this are:

Plugins add functionality to your site. To use them use must first activate. Some useful plugins include:

GeoMashup Google Maps - add geographical locations to each post, embed google maps and create a global map of all your posts
SoundCloud Shortcode - embed an audio waveform player right into your post or page
AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries

Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu
Lynda.com (on-campus) WordPress 3 Essential Training - this is another training geared towards using Wordpress.com but if you skip the account setup portion most of the rest is relavent to blogs.evergreen.edu
Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)