Revision as of 16:38, 9 January 2013

Your Assignment

For all students your product for assessment will be a “letter” of the program “eAlphabet” that will include:

1. ILC form
2. weekly log of hours and activities
3. weekly Bachelardian reverie
4. poetry and video of your “poetry observed”
5. 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/

Login to the eAlphabet site

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

• Adding new posts

"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

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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

1. While editing a post, highlight the text you want to be a link
2. Click the "add link" button
3. 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 unique letter identifier and it will be easy to find all files related to your work.
Example: aa_image1.jpg, aa_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
• 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.

Audio

1. Add descriptive text
2. then upload your audio file (must be mp3) and insert into post. See Exporting Audio for instructions on creating an mp3 using Audacity.
3. Audio plugin will automatically detect file and insert a graphical player.

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