The start of a new semester

On February 10, 2014, in POT Certificate 2013-2014, Wordpress Tips, by Laura Paciorek
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It is exciting starting a new semester of the POT certificate program.  If anyone has questions about the MiraCosta College installation of WordPress, please contact me any time!  You may also enjoy viewing the workshop that Lisa Lane and I did about WordPress this past Friday.  To view the workshop, please visit this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/playback?sid=2007002&psid=2014-02-07.1455.M.39303CAA992FAD1CF2E65C3811188A.vcr

I hope you have a lot of fun in the program this semester!

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POTcert 2013

On August 31, 2013, in POT Certificate 2013-2014, by Laura Paciorek
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My name is Laura Paciorek and this is where I will be blogging this year.  I have several categories off to the side of my blog.  I will house POTcert 2013-2014 related posts in that category, but I also sometimes blog about online teaching in general.  I may also post WordPress tips from time to time.

I will likely not be blogging weekly, since I am a facilitator for the certificate program.  However, I am your resource for MiraCosta College’s WordPress blogs.  If you have any questions or run into any difficulties with your MCC WordPress blog, please let me know.  I am happy to assist and knowing the issues helps me better help others.

I can’t wait to see what you all post this year.  It’s great meeting you all and here’s to a great POTcert 2013-2014 program!

Laura Paciorek
Lpaciorek@miracosta.edu

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Question on Embedding

On February 24, 2013, in Wordpress Tips, by Laura Paciorek
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Yesterday I received a question from someone about how to embed a YouTube video (and other things) into a MiraCosta College WordPress blog post. I responded to this individual and my instructions helped, so I thought I would also post the instructions here for all of you. To help illustrate what I did, I will insert an image of the HTML code. I captured the HTML embed code from the YouTube video and then inserted it into the post while in the “Text” mode for “Add Post.” Here is what the code looked like:

Screenshot of WordPress post html code including embed code for a YouTube video.

My hope is that seeing the embed code here is helpful. This is the text version of the code in the above image:

…videos impact students.  <br><br><iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DqUW02hUAoM” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe><br>CDWebTeach…

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As People Set Up Their Blogs – “Tags” Tutorial

On September 12, 2012, in Wordpress Tips, by Laura Paciorek
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Hi, everyone:

As people are setting up their blogs, I thought I would post another tutorial that may be helpful for some of you. It has been great reading all of your posts!

Reference: CDWebTeach (2012, September 9). Tags in WordPress [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/v5r2yeGJFaA

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Setting up a Blog – Categories

On September 7, 2012, in Wordpress Tips, by Laura Paciorek
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Categories can be a great way to help organize your blog posts so that others can find your posts quickly.  I worked on this over the summer at my MiraCosta College WordPress blog.  After categorizing posts, add the “Categories” widget to your menu so others can browse your posts.

Here is a short, closed-captioned tutorial about how I do this:


Reference: CDWebTeach (2012, September 5). Categories in WordPress [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/Ox33CabnK8c

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