Next Monday is Labor Day; we won’t have class on Monday, 9/2. Our class period on Wednesday, 9/4, (EB 133, 3.30p-4.45p) will serve as a voluntary workshop for any student or group needing assistance/guidance on the activities outlined here.
Definitions
Last week we discussed definitions of some foundational words for the class. Here are my definitions for those words, built from our discussions and my need to be as concrete as possible with our terminology. Please use these definitions in your work for the next two weeks (and suggest ways in which we might need to alter the definitions:
Joining our DICE WordPress site
In class this week, I will walk everyone through joining as an editor to our class publishing site: https://www.dice.peterorabaugh.org/blog/. In order to join that site:
- Navigate to this URL, register with your KSU email address and create a username for yourself.
- Open your email, and use the email sent to you by WordPress to open the link and create a password for yourself. The email may get sent to your spam folder. It’s subject line will be: “[Digital Community Engagement] Login Details”.
- Make sure after creating your password and logging in, you can see our WordPress dashboard, which will look like this:
- Whenever you want to login to the site again, go to: https://www.dice.peterorabaugh.org/blog/wp-login.php
Activity 1: Building your first post
Create a new post in WordPress. If you’ve never worked in WordPress before, it might be useful to educate yourself on the difference between posts and pages (this source might be helpful).
- Take your text from the #introduction channel in Discord (completed during the first week of class), paste it into a post;
- Divide it up into three different paragraph blocks;
- Insert images between each of the paragraph blocks in a way that assists your reader to understand more about you;
- The images that you use should follow my ethical image guidelines outlined in this post.
- Modify the images by adding words onto the image (the easiest tool for this is Canva);
- In the caption of the image or in a note at the bottom of the post, build a citation for the image that names the original author, the title of the image, and hyperlinks to the Creative Commons or Unsplash page that proves the image has a free use license;
- Title the post “Practice: Your First Name” (ex., Practice: Pete);
- Save a draft of the post; do not publish it.
Activity 2: Collaborative community analysis
See my separate post outlining Activity 2.
Remember:
Next Monday is the Labor Day holiday; no classes Monday, 9/2.
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