class blog | Digital Writing 101

THE BASICS (1) After logging into the class blog, follow the link in the sidebar to the Dashboard. (2) Click on the Posts tab on the left sidebar, and then …

If you spot a problem with your blog post or simply want to add more material to it, you can easily open it again and edit it. FULL EDITING MODE …

RATIONALE Knowing how to properly share links on a web page is a basic digital literacy everyone should have, and it requires more than just pasting a URL the way …

You can share a file in a blog post, provided the file is of a type that’s allowed on your blog. See below for information on allowed file types, and …

Want to embed your own video? Start here: How to share a video you created with others (for instructions on uploading to YouTube or Vimeo) UNDERSTANDING VIDEO EMBEDDING One sign …

If you post a new entry to the class blog and then don’t see it where you would expect to see it, on the main page and/or under the appropriate …

If you have any trouble with the media content on the class web site or class blog, or if either site doesn’t look on your screen the way it looks …

USING HTML TO FORMAT TEXT You can use basic HTML markup to format text in the comment box for any blog entry on the class blog network. Click on the …

Note: I originally wrote these instructions for students in my WRTG 3020 classes, but most of the information below is relevant to students in any of my classes who would …

IMPORTANT: Before you post an image on the web, reduce its size to something appropriate for web viewing. That’s particularly important with photos you took with a digital camera, which …

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS To embed an audio file in a post or page on our class blogs, the audio file MUST be in mp3 format, meaning that the file …

For long blog posts as well as drafts and final versions of projects, put the content of the post behind a “read more” tag. That way the long content won’t …

VISUAL MODE TOOLBARS When you first open a post editing window, you’ll most likely only see one row of tools in the formatting toolbar, which will look like this if …

On the class blog for WRTG 3020, you can upload and attach files as long as they’re under 10mb and saved in one of the following formats, with the appropriate …

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