Wordpress

= Communication Tool: = Group Members:Josh And Spencer


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Brief introduction of the tool
WordPress is a blogging tool that has widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML codes. WordPress is completely customizable and has a variety of uses.


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WordPress allows a teacher to communicate information easily to his or her students. It can be used to post class information, assignments, schedules, or any other online resources that a teacher might find helpful to students. It is very customizable as to what the teacher wants to use it for with a multitude of themes and widgets. It is basically a great tool for teacher to student communication by being a lot more than just a simple blog site.

WordPress does not really have any disadvantages as far as a teaching tool. Maybe the only disadvantage would be that there is not an interactive grade book like the one found on Oncourse. In high school students are often briefed about their grades so this really is not much of an issue. Another limitation may be that students would have to check the blog consistantly. This could become a problem for freshman and sophmores. While this may not seem like it is the actual technologies fault, there could be some sort of alerts from the blog sent to students when changes have been made.
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Application of the tool in your subject area
Think of one example of integrating the tool in teaching your subject area. What will the teacher be doing? What will students be doing?

A teacher could use wordpress to introduce a website that the class might need to use for a specific project or assignment. Using a Wordpress blog, the teacher could make a section specifically for that assignment, writing in instuctions for what to do and a link to the website needed as a resource. The teacher could even post an announcment on the homepage notifying students to do the assignment and when it was officially due. Students would check the blog, see that their is an assignment to do, and simply complete it. All of the necessary information would be there, provided by the teacher.

Find a tutorial on YouTube
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===//List of key features showed in the YouTube video://=== How to set up a WordPress blog. Changing templates. Adding categories. Protecting a post with a password. Adding a blogroll.

Useful Resources
If your classmates want to learn more about your topic, where should they go? Please recommend at least three websites and provide a brief description on each one.

wordpress.org/about is a great place to begin.

[]the wikipedia page has a lot of background information about what wordpress is and exactly what it can do. []this site talks a bit about how Wordpress can be used in some educational forms