Wordpress



WordPress is a very useful and ingenious idea created for people all over the web to publish things in their lives. WordPress is an online blog community. It has many personal, academic, business, and commercial uses and has endless opportunities. You can post anything from the life through your baby's first year to your company's website. WordPress is extremely versatile in that you can use it for whatever your needs may be, for example our class EDP 279. We have used WordPress many times to post our assignments, and I think that I can speak for the entire class in saying that it has made this class much easier to manage and understand. By using WordPress we have been able to help each other with assignments and ask questions about the assignments if we become confused. The professors can communicate back and forth between the students on snags that we come to on the assignments. Being able to ask questions in the same place that you are posting your assignment makes it much easier to go back and forth between questions and working on your assignment. Also as other students in the class post their assignments, you can go look at their work and it can be a good example of what is expected from the professor. Being that everyone can see your work on our WordPress site, I think that keeps students from blatantly copying off of other students, so it helps keep everyone honest about their work. WordPress can also be made private so that only certain people, with the link, can access the page.

There are many uses for WordPress as a transition from the classroom to the student's computer. WordPress allows a person to set up their own blog, or for a teacher, they can set up an entire class' blog. Some of the sections included on WordPress are comments, posts, media, links, pages and many more. The person in charge of the blog can make drafts and edit them numerous times before making a published post. Even after the post is published, it may still be edited. The user can even choose the theme, time zone, and privacy of their WordPress blog. The comments section allows other users to interact with the blog's owner to provide feedback, or even alternative information/viewpoints.

For the classroom setting, a teacher can set up a blog that allows the students to interact with one another and the teacher. This is extremely helpful, in that it allows students to ask questions, receive answers quickly and the it can be accessed outside of the regular classroom time. One of the benefits of using WordPress in the classroom would be the ability to take it outside of the classroom. WordPress creates an online community for a classroom to build up on ideas and work outside of the classroom as well. A student can post and publish their work on WordPress and receive feedback and ask questions in the same area. WordPress is a multidimensional classroom tool that should be taken advantage of at the college level and even lower levels. WordPress acts as a bridge from the regular classroom to the student's world. WordPress allows for interaction between the student, their work, and the classroom so that they can work while interacting with peers, the teacher, and other information sources.

Link to get started on WordPress: [|WordPress Blog]