Author: WordPress at TWU

That First Day

Life

This is an example of a blog post. You can create blog posts by hovering over the ‘New’ item in the admin bar above.

Blog posts are usually less ‘formal’ than artifacts and you can use your blog to keep in touch with friends and family at home, or just share your thoughts and ideas with the web.

Try to include a ‘Featured Image’ (see the  Featured Image widget on the right side of the editor; you might have to scroll down) and make sure that you always include a photo credit line as a way of saying thank-you to the owner of the image. You can find lots of free, high-quality images at unsplash.com, pexels.com or Wikimedia Commons.

Also, make sure you use a category (also on the right side of the editor) to help you organize your site.

The sun was out, the campus busy with people going to and fro. I wonder what it looked like from above?

What am I thinking about on this first day as a TWU student? Will I remember what it was like in 4 years? in 10? Right now it’s fresh, but by writing about my experience via this blog, I can show others, and myself, my own growth.

So the first thing I might do is… write.

Featured Image: File:Aerial – April ’13-52 copy.jpg Wikimedia Commons image shared under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.

A Portfolio Reflection

Life

Use the blog feature of this portfolio to add any reflections that you want to share along side the portfolio artifacts you will add here. This could be considered the blog part of the site or a regular journal.

This post is a demo; and you can delete or change it’s status to Draft once you start writing your own posts.

Create a new entry by clicking New -> Post to compose a new entry (see WordPress documentation on adding a new post or click the Help tab in the top right of the dashboard).

As you write, you may want to create categories for your posts (by topic? semester? course? that is up to you) to better help organize them. You can add categories via the editor box to the write of the post editor or via the Dashboard under Posts -> Categories.

Consider too adding tags to your posts, this can help describe and organize them over time as well, if you tag regularly.

It helps the design of the post of you upload a Featured Image (see the area to the right of the editing region). This ideally is something that represents the topic of your post. Be sure to use either original images or ones that are openly licensed to reuse. Some places to find images you can use include:

When you use images that are not your own, consider sharing an attribution credit — see bottom of this page for one way to do this. See also Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution

You may too want to consider embedding media in your blog posts; WordPress makes this easy via it’s automatic media embed feature, just by putting the web address for a YouTube video, a tweet, a SoundCloud file, on a blank line in your editor.

For example, we can embed a video telling you how to do this by putting it’s web address in the editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0y9OvLIsh8

And this works as well for links from giphy.com

Happy Cbs Interview GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

Make your blog posts amazing.

Featured Image: Old Barn and lichen on fence post at Sky Meadows State Park flickr photo by vastateparksstaff shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license