Today I met with three of the new teachers at Croatan High to show them how to create a blog in WordPress. The goal was to use a blog as a Classroom Management Tool. We created pages for each subject and a subpage within each subject for homework, policies, and pacing guide.
The benefits include the ease of use and the beautiful templates, very professional looking. Also, no need to remember where or how to save information.
The drawbacks: once you navigate to another page or subpage, the only way to get back to the posts is through “Archives”. This is not very intuitive for the user. Also, we had difficulty changing the date of the posts.
Any thoughts? Comments and solutions are welcomed!
4 responses so far ↓
pattyoflynn // August 28, 2007 at 9:47 pm |
I really prefer Edublogs. It’s powered by WordPress but seems to have more features.
Dee // October 23, 2007 at 8:46 am |
Make use of categories to tag your posts. You can have your categories listed on your sidebar and users can search for posts by subject. You could also create a page where you keep a list of permalinks to posts in alphabetical order – like a table of contents. Keep a separate spreadsheet where you could add a new post title and sort it so you could see immediately where to insert the new title link.
Hope this was helpful!
Neglectfully // June 18, 2008 at 10:33 pm |
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Neglectfully.
Lea-Serfaklar // July 29, 2009 at 3:50 pm |
Sometimes it’s really that simple, isn’t it? I feel a little stupid for not thinking of this myself/earlier, though.