Sidebar widgets are awesome! They allow you to display dynamic (it changes) and static (does not change) content on the sides and bottom of your website. You can see a sample of how we use it at the tech help site.

Widg...

As an intermediate Wordpress user, you likely have a strong understanding of the power of visuals as part of your Wordpress site. You might also understand that you can upload all different types of files to your site as...

To do lists have been around since the dawn of man. Recently archeologists discovered drawings in caves that appear to be a list of to dos by early man. It had photos of a man need to hunt, bring back kill, clean kill, f...

Today's world allows us to have ubiquitous access to our email, digital storage, to do lists, project management and workflow systems. However, we have to ensure that our personal digital assistants (iPhone, iPad, Android...

A bit of a Wordpress web geek already? Do you have a respectable understanding of how to create post, add pictures add documents, and the difference between a page and a post? If so, this would be a great course for you...

Wikipedia defines a project management system as something that "has a capacity to help plan, organize, and manage resource pools and develop resource estimates. "

Ok, that is a confusing definition. I see a project mana...

Wow, look how far you have come! Great work. You are well on the way to be a productivity super star. People will be rushing to you on a daily basis asking you how you became so efficient happy and successful.

Well th...

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Taking control of your inbox is the first step in controlling your digital lifestyle. The Concordia email server sends and receives over 10,000 (yes that number is correct) emails per day! This does include students, but...

WordPress is one of the best website development platforms on the planet. At the end of this course, you will agree with that statement. Well I hope so.

WordPress is the platform of choice at Concordia. It is used to r...

Hyperlinks are what make the web work and what makes the web so successful. Only be easily linking to the content created by yourself and others, can we truly share and communicate in a new and powerful way.

Creating a h...

One of the first things you will want to do on your WordPress site is explore and change you theme. The theme dictates how your page will look, where the images go, what color your text is, the size of your fonts, the ty...

Once you start producing content, you are going to find yourself needing to go back and make some changes from time to time. These changes might include privacy settings, category changes, photo changes, text changes, co...

Using categories and tags is SO IMPORTANT. However, it is usually NEGLECTED by adults and students. By using categories

Sorry this is not about the tag you see at second base

and tags you can bring organization and st...

Setting up your setting is not a very exciting part of WordPress, but it will answer many of your questions about how to make small changes to your site. For example, this includes the tag line at the top of your website....

Welcome to the WordPress dashboard. This is where it all starts and where you will begin your WordPress journey.

The video resource below will better explain the dashboard, but there is a ton of information that can be ...

It all starts with your first post! How exciting! At the end of this lesson you are going to have a place on the interwebs that has your "stuff" on it.

Think of how famous you will soon be!

Once you get your first post...

While text is a great way to communicate, images are what make the web popular and will draw people to look at your page. The eye will nearly always go to an image first before it goes to text. This is likely because bac...

Making your first EdTech Community Post

Logging in to the EdTech community site

Learn how to login to this site

'A personal learning network (PLN) is something you likely already have. It is your group of friends, colleagues, family, etc. that you turn to for advice and learning. Thanks to the Web 2.0, we can now expand that PLN...

Blogging is an online method for communicating to a wider audience on issues that you care about. Blogging started out as a way for people to drone on and on about their life experiences, but has evolved into a more dive...

A wiki is simply a website that is easily edited by many, many people. Think of it as a giant note taking or information dumping ground. The nifty aspect to a wiki is that it is easily shared and allows multimedia cont...

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. There is really no reason you should know what it stands for though.

While it may not be important to know what RSS means, it is useful to understand how it works. RSS allows y...

WordPress is a wonderful open source blogging/website platform. It is FREE and comes in two different flavors: wordpress.org and wordpress.com

Hat tip to http://www.wpbeginner.com/ for creating this video

We have way too much email nowadays. Let's create some systems to handle it and deal with it!

Online document collaboration is one of the greatest "most excellent" things to come along in the Web 2.0 world. Because browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari) can run programs i on their own, online document collaboration is po...

Twitter, Delicious, WordPress, Wikis, blogging, RSS; these terms may sound familiar, but are you using them to enhance your classroom and learning opportunities as a professional? If the answer to that question is no, mayb...

The primary advantage of Web 2.0 technologies, and perhaps the reason for its popularity, is that it allows for easy collaboration. This is a fundamental shift from the past when there were barriers to collaboration. F...

Today's students have never known a time without the Internet. The have only lived in a connected world. As they become older they will likely become even more wired and connected to each other.

Seemingly, with some exc...

Twitter is a fantastic way to find new ideas and resources that can help you as an educator or in your personal life.

Often when people take a look at or hear about Twitter, their response is "I don't get it." Or "Why wou...

Modern day humanoids find themselves overwhelmed with the sheer volume of input and digital communication that flows in each day. Email, instant messages, and the Internet have made access to information (and you) far too ...

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