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Revision as of 15:18, 18 October 2012

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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
  • Change your profile info

Writing and Managing your content

  • Adding new posts
  • Categories and Tags - Create a category for your team and use this category for every post your team publishes
  • Select the post type category for each post as well (map, gallery, field notes, collage essay)
  • Use post tags and tag each post with a location name. Use the same location tag for each sets of posts at the same location.

Adding Media

Working with Geo-mashup

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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