- Add a new post
- Go to http://345group6.tollefson.cikeys.com/wp-admin and log in. Your first name (or nickname) is your user name. Your password is the first name of the author of our course textbook.
- Click + New
- Give it a title
- Add your text in the dialogue box. You can change text style (bold, italics, text color, etc) by selecting menu tools above. If you do not see two rows of tools, select the icon that looks like a box, called “Toolbox Toggle” and more tools will appear.
- You can also insert images in the dialogue box by:
- selecting the Media button and uploading pics;
- in your dialogue box select the Add Media button (located above the toolbar)
- You can send people to other websites by linking to them from within your dialogue box.
- Type the descriptor for that website. For example: Kaia’s website
- Highlight that descriptor
- Select the Insert/Edit Link tool. In that dialogue box, paste the website address and select “open link in a new window/tab” and then click “Add Link”
- The web description is now clickable, and linked to that web address: Kaia’s website
- After you write your post, categorize it. You and your small group will need to collaborate to come up with the category names for your posts. (See the bottom right corner of the screen — the box called “Categories” — where you can add a new category each time you need to do so. Then select from this list of created categories each time you contribute a new post.
- Click Publish.
- Voilá! You have posted.
- Read each other’s posts and respond to them via comments (click the speech bubble next to the post title), not via new posts.
- Visit other groups’ blogs throughout the semester. Look for opportunities to encourage and appreciate each other’s critical engagement with course readings and other learning activities.
Getting Started Packaging: GoBIG Project
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