Setting Up a WordPress Account

Just about to run this workshop. Given it a quick update, as once again, screenshots have changed:

This morning’s second session:

These worksheets are available under a Creative Commons Licence, in that you can use/distribute the material freely , but Digital Fingerprint must be attributed, whether used as is/adapted.

• An overview of Social Media Tools (June 2011)
• Setting up a Twitter account (June 2011)
• Setting up a Facebook account (June 2011)
• Setting up a Facebook Like page (June 2011)
• Setting up a YouTube account (June 2011)
• Setting up a WordPress account (June 2011)

All are downloadable PDFs, and will be accessible from the Resources page.

A workshop session offered at the University of Winchester, to build upon “An Introduction to Blogging with WordPress“.

If you go to the page depicted above, you can find out all about the latest project that I’m involved in, and I’ve built this site over the past couple of days! My brief is to prepare online/offline materials for ‘The Big Read 2011‘, but also to look for ways to engage people further in taking up the opportunities presented not only for reading the Bible, but opportunities online… Love the fresh & simple logo produced by @sharecreative, and we have some ideas for further uses of that logo… keep your ears peeled!

Ever since I took on the role of “Blended Learning Fellow”, I have wanted to create a blog space, which provides a time line of developments in technology, and which is accessible to University of Winchester staff, advising them of what is going on in the e-learning world, providing them with access to useful resources and materials from training sessions. I started with “Blogger” as I thought it might be simpler to get people to engage, but as I am now teaching people how to use WordPress (and I’m more familiar with it), I have moved it to http://wblb.wordpress.com/.

WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
It’s tempting to move it to WordPress.org, for more functionality, but part of trying to encourage people to use the blogging software is to demonstrate what can be done for free…. so for now at least… As .com appears to be stripping out all my embedding code however, it’s a bit of a pain (I’ve just enclosed screenshots and links instead!)

Vision?
The intention is that others within the University, who are part of the Blended Learning Community of Practice, will be allocated access to WordPress and upload materials. A lot of material remains on the Learning Network (our VLE), and a Wiki will be created there for people to talk more freely about the successes and failures of projects, whilst the material that’s considered “publicly acceptable” will be on the public blog. Let’s see what happens…

A session that I’d prepared for this morning. No one around, but the Prezi offers people a chance to have a go on their own and then ask for more help!

By the end of 23rd August, there should be a further blog post available on blogging strategically.

Here is the Prezi which I am just finishing at #MediaLit.

Further to this posting, I have downloaded a few more Genesis WordPress Child themes, still playing… not TOO long before a nice shiny site though!