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
  • Cropedia
• 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
  • Example
• Audio and SoundCloud: Example
• Videos and YouTube, BlipTV, etc.
  • YouTube embed in Wordpress
  • Vimeo embed in MediaWiki
• Google Maps
  • Embed in Wordpress

The Web and copyright

• Copyright
• Creative Commons
• Flickr Advanced Search
• Free Music Archive
• Archive.org & Wikimedia Commons

Questions

• Contact