LFS:Workshops/ePortfolios
Blogs
Setting up a blog
- Personal websites before blogs
- Simple websites [1]
- Websites with reverse chronological entries [2]
- Designed for ease-of-use
- Comments [3] [4]
- Software: Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Twitter
WordPress
- Wordpress at UBC
- UBC Blogs FAQ
- Pages & posts
- Adjusting the front page
- Personalizing your blog
- Privacy settings
- Collaborating & Roles
- Managing comments & privacy
Wikis
What's a wiki?
- "Wikis in Plain English"
- Editable
- Collaborative
- Simple to use and lightweight
Why wiki?
- Building up shared knowledge
- i.e. Wikipedia
- An archive to preserve institutional knowledge
- Wikis in action: Heavy Metal Ümlaut
Drawbacks
- Better tools for collaboration
- Reliability of information
- Vandalism and spam
Getting started
- How to format in MediaWiki
- MediaWiki User's Guide
- The UBC Wiki Sandbox
- How could you use this?
Integrating media
- Photos and Flickr
- Audio and SoundCloud: Example
- Videos and YouTube, BlipTV, etc.
- Google Maps
The Web and copyright
- Copyright
- Creative Commons
- Flickr Advanced Search
- Free Music Archive
- Archive.org & Wikimedia Commons