Student Web Sites
Section D02
- Amy B.
- Carter T.
- Danielle G.
- Danielle T.
- Delia O.
- Emily B.
- Jake C.
- Jenna S.
- Justin L.
- Katie R.
- Kellie O.
- Kobi A.
- Libby M.
- Marisa K.
- Matt Z.
- Nicole N.
- Pat M.
- Rachel K.
- Rebecca Q.
- Rosie M.
- Samantha H.
- Steven B.
- Tylar W.
- Victoria K.
Section 2 video comments YouTube playlist. Please watch the intro video first and then one with your blog. The names in the titles correspond to the above list, so video #1 Amy to Delia contains comments on Amy, Carter, Danielle, Danielle, and Delia.
Section D03
- Abby P.
- Abbey P.
- Allie M.
- Anna S.
- Blaise K.
- Carly M.
- Carolan D.
- Cassandra M.
- Ciani W.
- Corey C.
- Dana M.
- Elizabeth K.
- Eric A.
- Hailey M.
- Jordan B.
- Johanna L.
- Kelly S.
- Lauren F.
- Millie P.
- Peter M.
- Samantha L.
- Sofia P.
- Tara L.
- Will J.
Section 3 video comments YouTube playlist. Please watch the intro video first and then one with your blog. The names in the titles correspond to the above list, so video #1 Abby to Cassandra contains comments on Abby, Abbey, Allie, Anna, Blaise, Carly, Carolan, and Cassandra.
Resources
Fall 2015 Bronstein Open Labs
During open lab times, Professor Famiglietti will be available to help with any technology-related question you have, ranging from WordPress to video editing. He’s a great resource, so please see him if you need extra help beyond what what we do in class and what we discuss during office hours. Just go to the first floor of Bronstein and Andy will be there.
- Monday and Wednesday: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
- Tuesday: 11:00am-12:30pm (free period)
Some Tuesdays are dedicated to Special Topics:
- September 8: Drone Demo
- September 15: Basic WordPress
- September 22: Intermediate WordPress
- September 29: 3d Printing and Scanning Intro
- October 6: Basic Photoshop
- October 20: Basic Audition
- October 27: Intro to the Command Line
Quick links
WordPress Tutorials
- Tutorial for getting WordPress installed on Reclaim Hosting
- WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
- Log in to WordPress
- WordPress posts vs. pages
- Creating a WordPress post
- Creating a WordPress page
- Tour of the Visual Editor (where you compose content) in WordPress
- Making links in posts or pages
- Creating a custom menu and adding categories to your menu bar
- Installing and customizing a WordPress theme
Blogging
- “7 ways to cultivate your daily blogging practice” by Paul Jarvis
- “12 Types of Blog Posts”
- “26 Ways to Bring Your Blog to Life” by James Parsons
- “5 weak words bloggers and copywriters should avoid (and what to use instead)” by Andrea Ayres-Deets
- “45 Creative, Clever, and Effective Blog Taglines”
- Nielsen’s research on how people read on the web: scanning, the F-pattern, and banner blindness
- SEO keyword research tool
Plug-ins
- Browser
- Ghostery (the web’s most popular privacy tool)
- Feedly mini toolkit for Chrome
- Print Friendly (Make any web page print friendly)
- Readability (Readability turns any web page into a clean view for reading now or later)
- AdBlock Plus (Blocks banners, pop-ups and video ads)
- WordPress
- Jetpack (website stats and much more) \<– ESSENTIAL!!!
- Turn on Jetpack Tiled Galleries (for displaying images)
- Simple Pull Quote (add a magazine-style pull quote for emphasis)
- WP Google Fonts (change the font on your website)
- WordPress SEO by Yoast (optimize your blog for search engines)
- WOW Slider (image slider)
- NextGEN Gallery (image gallery with slideshow option)
- WP Dashboard Notes (leave colored notes for yourself on your dashboard)
- Best Pinterest plugins
Images and design
- “8 things to consider when choosing a WordPress theme for your blog” by Amy Edwards
- “Tips for using images on your blog” by Amy Andrews
- WP Google Fonts Plugin
- “10 More Awesome Google WebFont Combinations to Try Today”
- HTML table generator
- Align images and text in a table
- PicMonkey (image editing)
- Canva (more advanced image editing)
- Make a collage with PicMonkey
- List of places to look for licensed images you can use on your blog
- “How Not to Steal People’s Content on the Web” by Corey Eridon
- Tweegram (a cool and simple app for iOS and Android that lets you lay text on top of Instagram-ish images/backgrounds)
- Twellow (a search directory for Twitter)
- WeFollow (find relevant Twitter accounts to follow)
- Query Feed (add a Twitter search to your RSS reader)
- Twitonomy (find powernodes in your community)
- Tweetdeck Twitter client
RSS feed readers/aggregators
- Feedly
- Bloglovin (“helps you follow the blogs you read by letting you know when they update”)
- RSS Owl
- WordPress.com Reader
- WordPress Support: Feeds
- Query Feed (add a Twitter search to your RSS reader)
Curation, archiving, and bookmarking
- Evernote (information curation and notetaking. hard to explain. interface makes it look more complex than it really is.)
- “Evernote: A Guide for Academics” (nice step-by-step setup for Evernote)
- “How to Use Evernote” by Brandon Widder
- Delicious (social bookmarking)
- Diigo (social bookmarking)
- Instapaper (app for iOS, \$3.99, or Android, \$2.99)
- Scoop.it (content curation)
Curbing inequity and aggression online
- “Dealing with Digital Cruelty” by Stephanie Rosenblum
- “Academic Bad Faith” by Adeline Koh