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Revision as of 16:29, 9 January 2013
Your Assignment
For all students your product for assessment will be a “letter” of the program “eAlphabet” that will include:
- ILC form
- weekly log of hours and activities
- weekly Bachelardian reverie
- poetry and video of your “poetry observed”
- Holdrege-based term paper including text, images, and poetry
Field Study Proposal: In-Program ILC
Post your completed Individual Learning Contract form here. This in-program ILC should describe the learning goals and activities that you want to accomplish during your February field study. Be specific and succinct regarding your answers to the following questions that are prompts for the construction of your ILC narrative: 1) What passion will you immerse yourself in for the month of February? 2) What do you hope to experience during this immersion? 3) What scholarly resources are available from others with more knowledge or experience regarding your passion and immersing yourself in it? Be specific: list authors, books, articles, reports, exhibits, films. Would creating an annotated bibliography of these resources help you achieve your learning objectives? 4) Is there a style of poetry or specific poet that/who might provide a model for your creation of poetry in relation to your immersion in a passion? Note: Your goal is to create a poetic version of what Edgar Doctorow calls good writing: “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” 5) Logistics: Where will you be? Transportation and living expenses? Access to the internet and a library?
Getting Started
Getting Started with WordPress - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
Example
- http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ebestiary/
- http://blogs.evergreen.edu/birds/
- http://blogs.evergreen.edu/museumormausoleum/student-journals/
- http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/
Driving in WordPress
- Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
- Change your profile info
Writing and Managing your content
You will be authoring several different categories of posts:
- Bachelard Reveries (
The Letter" post
- Title your post - start ALL of your posts with your unique letter
Creating the sections for your Letter
You can copy and paste the following sections template code:
note: you will need to replace the xx with your unique letter identifier
Field Study proposal excerpt
ABCs and 123s - weekly log and field notes
[catlist tags=xx-logs date=yes excerpt=yes excerpt_size=30]
Bachelardian Reverie
[catlist tags=xx-bachelard date=yes excerpt=yes excerpt_size=30]
Poetry
[catlist tags=xx-poetry excerpt=yes excerpt_size=30]
Poetry Observed
(embedded youtube or Vimeo video will go here)
Term Paper Abstract
Categories and Tags
Select the appropriate categories for each post you write
- bachelard (used for all Bacheldar Reverie posts)
- logs (used for weekly field study reports/logs
- field study proposal
- poetry (all poetry posts)
- poetry observed (add this category to you poetry post that includes your embedded poetry observed video)
- term paper
- term paper - fall
Adding Links
- While editing a post, highlight the text you want to be a link
- Click the "add link" button
- Paste the URL you want to link to and click "Add Link"
Tip: After your categories are created, try linking the classifications at the top of your species page to the category pages for each Order, Family and Genus.
Adding Media
File management: we will all be sharing a single media library. It is possible to overwrite somebody else's file if you choose the exact same file name, e.g. "bird.jpg". Make sure to use a unique file naming convention. Start your files with your species and it will be easy to find all files related to your species.
Example: n_wheatear_image1.jpg, n_wheatear_audio1.mp3
Images
- Insert an image - add an image to the body of a post
- Use the "Thumbnail" size for the first image next to the Introduction.
- Adding captions to cite your image sources
- Creative Commons images from WikiMedia Commons is a great place to start. Once you find an image you'd like to use click the "Use this file on the web" link. Copy the "Attribution" (HTML) text and paste into your image's caption.
- Using Photoshop to resize very large images: File > Save for Web and Devices
- Scanning from a Macintosh in the Computer Center
- Set your featured image for all posts. Featured images will appear on the category pages.
- Working with image galleries (optional)
Audio
- Add descriptive text
- then upload your audio file (must be mp3) and insert into post. See Exporting Audio for instructions on creating an mp3 using Audacity.
- Audio plugin will automatically detect file and insert a graphical player.
Working with GeoMashup Google Maps plugin (optional)
This part is not required but is really cool.
- Attach a google earth .kml file to the post using add media
- Use the following shortcode to embed the .kml file into your posts
[geo_mashup_map]
- Tips: if you need to update your KML file you need to delete the old kml from the Media Library and you may need to delete the old post and start all over again (use copy and paste to save your work and transfer into the new post.)
Citation Management
In the future, this project would benefit from using web-based group citation management via Zotero. Ideas on how this could work:
- Have faculty create a Zotero group, students would create individual Zotero accounts and then become members of the Zotero group. (Make sure the group name does not have any special characters or spaces - this seems to cause issues with WordPress integration)
- Students would add citations to group and use tags or collections to organize
- In the Birds of Evergreen WordPress site we would activate Zotero integration via the Zotpress plugin. Amy would handle the one-time setup of this.
- All posts would now have a sidebar in the editing window connecting to the Zotero group's citations.
- Bibliographies could be listed on a bird by bird basis by using Zotero collections or tags.
Additional Resources
- 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
