Documentation:WordPress Basics/Examples

Examples

UBC Examples

Currently, UBC is using weblogs:

• as personal logs/journals to keep track of work/learning activities
• as digital photo albums
• as potential e-portfolio tools
• as course web pages, encouraging discussion and collaboration
• as private management and communication tools for large campus groups, administrative teams, and communities of practice
• to easily update online newsletters
• to keep a collection of useful, searchable links
• as a social networking site

Visit some of these examples:

Student and Faculty Blogs at UBC-V:

• Faculty of Arts

Professional/Informational:

• Dean Giustini, Biomedical Librarian, UBC Biomedical Branch Library (http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/)
• Julian Dierkes, Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian Research (http://blogs.ubc.ca/jukupedia/)

Portfolio:

• Roselynn Verwoord, Evaluation and Research Coordinator, CTLT (http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec565rverwoor/)
• Joanne Fox, Instructor, Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/)

Student Directed Seminars:

• ASTU 400B: Books on Trial – Modernism, Aesthetics, and Obscenity (http://blogs.ubc.ca/booksontrial/)
• ASTU 400: United Nations & Diplomacy (http://blogs.ubc.ca/astu400e2010/)
• ASTU 400D: Perspectives on Peace: An Examination of Post-Conflict Societies (http://blogs.ubc.ca/sdspostconflict/)
• ASTU 400D: Science Fiction and the City (http://blogs.ubc.ca/sciencefictionandthecity/)

Courses:

• ETEC 522: Ventures in Learning Technologies (http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522sept11/)
• ENGL 112: Strategies for University Writing (http://blogs.ubc.ca/english112/)
• PHAR 330: Genomics and Personalized Medicine (http://blogs.ubc.ca/phar330/)
• PSYC 320: Psychology of Gender (http://blogs.ubc.ca/ubcpsycgender/)
• SCIE 300: Communicating Science (http://blogs.ubc.ca/communicatingscience2010W200/)

Sites:

• Learning Commons (http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/)
• This Changed My Practice (http://thischangedmypractice.com/)

Worldwide Examples of Wordpress sites

• Speakeasy - Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/)
• University of Mary Washington (http://www.umw.edu/)
• New York Times Blogs (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html)
• City University of New York Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/)