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WordPress for Weans
A Ramble
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Community, Connections & Openness
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Where am I coming from:
• Primary School Teacher - Glasgow
• Staff Development Officer, ICT - North Lanarkshire
• Seconded to Glow - Scotland “Product Owner”
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Where I am coming from
Community, Connections & Openness
HyperCardPlanet HyperCard
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A wee bit of History
Community, Connections & Openness
~2004 Blogging & Podcasting
ScotEduBlogs
TeachMeet Serendipity
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My Best Blogging Story
2005
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~ 2007 Glow SharePoint 2002!
Community, Connections & OpennessClunky
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2010 WordPress 2.9.2 added to Glow
easy
Community, Connections & Openness
permission
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2010 - 2014 WordPress 2.9.2
e-portfoliosclunky, 108 clicks
But once people started using WordPress…
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New Glow
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2014 Migration
2015 WordPress 4
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Working for the Government
Fortunately/Unfortunately
Technical ArchitectsDevelopers
Procurement Project Manager
Business Analysts
More TLAs than you can shake a stick atGovernance
Data Protection
Child Protection
AgileWaterfall Test Team
SecurityProduct Owner (me!)
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Working for the Government
Technical Architects
Developers
Procurement
Project ManagerBusiness Analyst
GovernanceData Protection
Child Protection
Test Team
Security
Product Owner (me!)
Blogs Team
Meetings, meetings, meetings…
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So what do you do with >140,000 WP 2.9.2 blogs?
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Stick to WordPress
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Get Smart People
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Take it Slowly
• Stick to WP 2.9.2 for migration
• Upgrade to WP 4
• Test & Test & Test
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• The teacher who reported the problem
• The Testers contracted to the Scottish Government
• The RM Help Desk who are the first point of contact for Glow fault
• The Developers from Automattic working for Glow
• WordPress developers who have nothing to do with and likely no knowledge of Glow
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Community, Connections & Openness
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Curriculum for Excellence
• a successful learner
• a confident individual
• a responsible citizen
• and an effective contributor.
encapsulated in the four capacities - to enable each child or young person to be
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we think that blogging is a good idea because it allows us to share our ideas with
others, so they can be inspired by our ideas too.
Also, it allows us to reflect on, talk about and share our
learning with the world. Blogging helps us
become better writers because it is not just
our teacher Mrs Hunter that gets to write on it, we write
posts too
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hundreds of new blogs/week
Head Teachers
10 year olds blogging about cakes
Classes
School Websites
Resources for pupilsHello World
blogging to parents & community
What are they good for? Absolutely Everything
Youngsters
class blogscollaborations
wee schools
big schools
Scratching the surface
projects
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e-Portfolios
Simplify: 108 clicks ➡ 2 clicks, 2 fields & a popup 60 themes ➡ 1 plugin auto activated
& Beautify
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Syndication
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Blogging Bootcamp
University of Dundee
EduShare
~100 Blogs
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Next
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Questions?