WordPress-Teacher How To PD

I need to create a Teacher Website?

WordPress: A Simple Solution to a Classroom Website!

• Looking for a way for students to keep up with what is going on in your class?
• Want to stop answering the question “Did we have Homework?”
• Communicate with Parents about Classroom Schedules/Events/Assignments?
• It has an APP, it’s Free, and a great a way to keep documents or project details from year to year!

Options for Posting Information:

• Daily Classroom Happenings (Completed/Submitted/HW Items)
  • EX: https://apreed.wordpress.com/ (SHORTCUT-bit.ly/mrsreed)
• Weekly Events & Details (Band/Chorus/PE/AICE/Yearbook)
  • EX: https://chaffinp.wordpress.com/
• Class Details by Subject Area (If you teach more than one Prep)
  • EX: https://nesselrok.wordpress.com/

What can be Posted?

• Regular typed Agendas for the class
• Images of Examples/Notes/Memes/Books
  

  

  

  
  Links to other Reference SourcesCitationmachine.net
• • OWL Purdue
  • Web Registrations ALL CLASSES-Turnitin.com & Remind
• Videos-Youtube will Post directly (just copy & Paste) to the website so students can view the video from YOUR Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc

• Surveys (Google Forms)

• Calendars (Google Calendar)

• Student Blogging-Teacher Moderated Commentary (Online Socratic Seminar for ALL Class Periods/Between Different Teachers
• Individual Topic Pages that could be saved from year to year, just turn off and on the Publish Feature (Only Create it ONCE! EX: Elements of Matter Lab)
  

  

  
  Password Protected Items, want to have students write on a topic but not have access to the sources yet? Post Online & Password Protect (EX: FSA Writing)

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Track View Data & Manage your Pages from the simple Dashboard.

How to Get Started

1. Go wordpress.com
2. Click “Create your site”
3. Fill in Basic Site details
   • Name it
   • Note what it’s for
   • Categorize it
4. Choose how the Name is Displayed, anything at .wordpress.com will be FREE
5. Start Posting!

Additional Details

• All Classes can be customized to how detailed or how streamlined you want the page to look
• Also, it can post to Twitter so the Students can have reminders of your class pop up in their News Feed.
• Media can be uploaded from your phone in the WORDPRESS APP