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===Your Assignment===
 
For each of the three Dry Falls locations, you will generate 4 WordPress blog posts related to that location and correlated to the location’s coordinates on Google Earth. These four blog posts will represent both the location and the team’s attempt to experience and express it as a “place”:
 
For each of the three Dry Falls locations, you will generate 4 WordPress blog posts related to that location and correlated to the location’s coordinates on Google Earth. These four blog posts will represent both the location and the team’s attempt to experience and express it as a “place”:
 
#A field notes post, that contains representative excerpts of text and drawings from all the team-members’ field journals.
 
#A field notes post, that contains representative excerpts of text and drawings from all the team-members’ field journals.
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#A collage essay post, which is a collaboratively written reflection on both the material and ineffable qualities of the location; and  
 
#A collage essay post, which is a collaboratively written reflection on both the material and ineffable qualities of the location; and  
 
Each set of 4 posts comprises an interdisciplinary narrative about a particular location.
 
Each set of 4 posts comprises an interdisciplinary narrative about a particular location.
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===Getting Started===
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*'''[[Getting Started with WordPress]]''' - What is WordPress and how is it being used at Evergreen?
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*Login to the Landscapes of Change Sandbox site
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====Driving in WordPress====
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*'''[[Dashboard Overview]]''' - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view
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===Writing and Managing your content===
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*'''[[Get Published - Pages and Posts|Adding new posts]]'''
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*[[Categories and Tags]] - create a taxonomy for your site's content
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====Adding Media====
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*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]''' - add an image to the body
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*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Working with image galleries]]
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====Embedding other media types ====
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*[[Soundcloud - WordPress|Embed audio files using SoundCloud]]
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*AwesomeFlickr - for embedding Flickr galleries
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* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zotpress/ ZotPress] to list your Zotero citations in your WordPress site
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==== Additional Resources ====
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*[http://learn.wordpress.com/get-acquainted/ Wordpress.com Getting Started Tutorials] - these tutorials are for working on wordpress.com but is nearly identical to using WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu<br>
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*[http://iplogin.lynda.com 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
  
  
 
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WordPress is a web publishing platform and is available at Evergreen at http://blogs.evergreen.edu

Your Assignment

For each of the three Dry Falls locations, you will generate 4 WordPress blog posts related to that location and correlated to the location’s coordinates on Google Earth. These four blog posts will represent both the location and the team’s attempt to experience and express it as a “place”:

  1. A field notes post, that contains representative excerpts of text and drawings from all the team-members’ field journals.
  2. A map post, containing at least one map of the location made by the team,
  3. A gallery post, containing 9-12 photographs (3 per team member) that together represent the location;
  4. A collage essay post, which is a collaboratively written reflection on both the material and ineffable qualities of the location; and

Each set of 4 posts comprises an interdisciplinary narrative about a particular location.


Getting Started


Driving in WordPress

  • Dashboard Overview - get comfortable navigating the Dashboard and moving between Admin and Public view


Writing and Managing your content

Adding Media


Embedding other media types


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
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