March 24, 2008 at 12:58 pm (school)
Tags: hyperlinks, I am, pages, SAT/ACT
Hi all. I’m going to kill two birds with one stone here. Hopefully you noticed at the bottom of two earlier posts I added a couple of links embedded right in the text. Those are hyperlinks. And they are pretty easy to use. This will require a couple of tabs to do as well (thank goodness for tabs, I hate having millions of windows open!). First, find what you want to link into your entry. Copy the full address. For me the easiest way to do this is with the omnipotent right click. Go back to your entry. Highlight the words in which you want to embed to link. When you hightlight the words, the chainlink symbol will light up. Click on the chainlink button which brings up another pop up. In the pop up paste your link from the other page. You can also give this a title, but it isn’t really necessary. Add it and you’re done.
The other thing I wanted to tell you about was that you also have different pages at your disposal. When you bring up your Write New Post page, in dark blue you have the option to Write Page instead. These pages are linked in your sidebar on your site. Only the title will show, so it (the title) is important. They are built the same way as new posts and are really incidental to your main blog. I have two already. One is my “I am…” page, the other is “SAT/ACT” info.
Oh, yeah…have fun…
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March 24, 2008 at 12:37 pm (school)
Tags: Blogroll, Period Six
Hi all. So it seems one of the conversations today was about how to add other blogs to your site. Here’s the quick rundown. Again, if you haven’t done this yet, it will be easiest to keep my blog open in one tab and your own in another.
Here’s the basics…In your Dashboard, click on Blogroll (in light blue). You should then see Add Link (in dark blue(?)). That will bring up the Add Link page. Enter the person’s name, enter the full addy of the blog including “.wordpress.com” Press add link and you should be all set.
Here’s the advanced…On the right you can also categorize you additions (school, work, soccer, etc.). Below that you can add more specific relationship info. Below that you can upload an image as well.
After playing around with presentations, it looks like some of the different backgrounds don’t actually show the blogroll. It’s up to you whether you want to keep the background and not have a visible blogroll or sacrifice the background for the sake of a blogroll (your call, personally, I wouldn’t change your background).
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March 24, 2008 at 7:52 am (school)
Tags: categories, duck-billed platypi, Period Six, search, tags, YouTube
Hi all,
When you are creating posts there are two more things you should know about and use: categories and tags. To the right of the box in which you create your post there is a box to label each post with a category. Use this to separate your entries (for later search) by main topic. So far I only have one: school. It’s possible that later I will have others like running, wedding plans, duck-billed platypi… Again these are to classify what the entire post is mostly about.
Below the box in which you type is the line to give your posts tags. Tags are all the little things that show up within each post. Again, these make searching later easier. My tags for this post will probably be something like tags, categories, period six, search, etc. When listing your tags separate each with a comma. You’ve all used tags before, these are the labels you search by (think YouTube).
Here’s another fun link. This site creates radio stations based on you telling it what you like… it’s called Pandora
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March 20, 2008 at 7:52 pm (school)
Tags: dashboard, intro, options, presentation, settings
Hey all. A few things you have to do in your Dashboard options. It will probably be easiest to have this open in one tab and your dashboard in another. You can switch back and forth quickly by using ctrl+tab (backwards with ctrl+shift+tab).
First, presentation. Choose a theme. It looks like WordPress offers 5 pages of themes. Check ‘em out. Pick one.
Next under “General” (under options), set your title and tagline to what you want it to be. Also make sure the membership bubble is checked.
Under “Reading”, your front page should display your latest posts. You select how many posts appear in the front page. If you write many, short posts, you want more to appear. If you write less longer posts, you want less to appear (the page would be waaay too long).
Under “Privacy”, you want your blog to appear everywhere. I want you to be published. This will be out there for all the world to see 
.
It looks like you can leave the rest of the options alone for now. We’ll see how far we get…
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March 20, 2008 at 1:23 pm (school)
Tags: Blogroll, Hello, intro, links, Period Six, students
Hi all. Hey there Period Six! Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I’m starting this because I had the “bright” idea to have my kids create blogs. I figure if I’m going to guide them through, I better have a better handle on it myself.
One goal is to create more web-savvy students. Yes, I know this is the generation that was born with keyboards in their hands; yes, I know these are the kids that grew up using Word and PowerPoint. But I’ve still seen some shortcomings when it comes to getting around the web. The biggest being using the right terms to get results in a search engine. So part of this is to get my students into Google’s toys- Reader and Docs and Gmail. To get them exploring blogs and using the rss feeds.
The other goal is to get them to write, to publish in fact. To have students who write on topics they care about and have it public- not written in a vacuum for only a teacher to read.
Some of my posts will be directly to the students, some may be about my daily rants. I’ll soon link their blogs to mine and we’ll have out own North Country Blogroll. Have fun reading and writing everyone. Let us know what you think, but keep it pg-13.
Heres my first fun link…enjoy!
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