Agenda
- Housekeeping
- Discussion leaders
- WordPress lab
- Projects
Housekeeping
Reading posts (Flickr):
Typography assignment must reads:
Discussion Leaders
Reading questions (Flickr):
- Benjamin, ChrisA, Tasha
- Reminder: adding “why” does not an open ended question make!
- Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake rolls out Pinwheel
Who really owns your photos in social media? (Kathy for PBS MediaShift)
OpenPhoto Project (store your photos other than on FB or Picassa)
Inspiration
- Chased by the light (Amzn, iPad/iTunes)
- 365Project.org; my 365 project
- Photographers on Google+
WordPress Lab
- They’re not fonts! (AIGA) A font is a single instance of a typeface.
- Typekit (custom design – $30/year) [see slideshow]
- How to do inline CSS
- Create a new post (assignment category)
- Switch to HTML view! (screen capture)
- Copy & paste this text. Cannot edit blog post titles this way but we can edit paragraph text or sub-heads — your theme may or may not accept these inline changes.
- View sample
- Flickr : creative commons license [advanced search]
- Find an image (sample search)
- Download it to your computer
- Upload it to WP
- Link the image to the Flickr page
- Credit photographer in caption
- Write appropriate ALT tag
- Insert into the post
- Domain names (reminder: not GoDaddy!)
Projects
- If you haven’t posted an update this week, post a quick one before you leave class.
- If you have posted an update, get together with others who have for support and to pool questions for me
- I’ll answer questions as best I can – we can do one-on-ones after lab if needed
Digital Communication Technologies 
