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from Anne-Marie Scott @ education
The PressEd Twitter conference took place again yesterday, thanks once more to the tireless efforts of Pat Lockley and Natalie Lafferty. This year I flew solo and did the hard work myself. EGads! I had to make some gifs and everything and they were rubbish. … Continue reading Tweeting solo: #PressEdConf19
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I love this video from WordPress. Very similar in style to what I always imagined we could do for Micro.blog.
A hit of space to light out for the Territory at the end too.
The new WordPress editor is now official. It comes with a new editor Gutenberg. I’ve tested Gutenberg on and off for a while, mostly worrying about iOS in particular iPads. That has improved steadily.
My concern is pupils using Glow Blogs will find the new editor more complicated.
I am somewhat relived that pasting from Apple Notes on an iPad works fine in the blocks editor, paragraphs generating new blocks. Adding images above or below a particular block seems a little footery but nothing pupils will not handle 1.
Now WordPress 5 is out I need to think about my own use. I don’t usually write in the web editor, preferring to either cut and paste from a text editor or post via micro.blog or xml-rpc. TextMate has a lovely blogging bundle, and I use drafts and shortcuts on iOS.
I’ve installed WordPress 5 on a couple of other sites, and had a quick play. Posting from TextMate, via xml-rpc put the content in a classic block if Gutenberg is enabled.
I’ve also enabled the classic editor plugin on these sites and this one. The ability to toggle back and forward between editors seems like a good idea, but on the sites I’ve tried it has mostly failed 2. This would be a good way to introduce the editor to Glow Blogs users, start with the classic editor, add in the ability to toggle to Gutenberg. I do worry that having two editors will lead to folk having problems or getting confused. I am not looking forward to updating the Glow Blogs help. This is probably a bit in the future as we should wait and see how Gutenberg is going on multi-sites before upgrading.
My other personal worry is that at the moment the indieweb post_kinds plugin is not compatible with Gutenberg. This is compounded by the fact I can’t update that plugin on this site at the moment. I am presuming that things will get shaken out and improve over the next year or two.
My plan is now to upgrade this blog to WP 5 but use the classic editor, waiting to see how the indieweb plugins evolve. I’ll continue writing in TextMate, drafts and the like while I keep half an eye on developments.
I notice this is trailing the Gutenberg Editor by about 100000 instals. I am going to be taking things cautiously.
an informal outlet, blogs allow you to experiment with different writing styles and voices, enabling you to find a tone that is right for you.
Lorna Campbell, @LornaMCampbell
What is academic blogging and how can you use it to build your professional profile?.
There are many other good reasons that would apply inside and outside academia in this post/presentation.
Lorna is drinking her own blogwater with @cogdog‘s WordPress presentation splot too.
from Anne-Marie Scott @ education
We launched our new University Academic Blogging service a month ago, with a significant new piece - our Blogs.ed WordPress platform - and it's been a sheer delight to watch Blogs.ed grow. I've mentioned in a previous post that as well as being closely aligned … Continue reading A month of Blogs.ed
from Anne-Marie Scott @ education
There are about 8 blog posts queued up and needing written before things start to fade from my memory. I've even made a list in case I forget them. However, I can't quite stop myself from just quickly bashing this one out if only to … Continue reading A few loose WordPress LTI threads
Event #51: “Build a Community with WordPress and Social Media”, by Luna Carmona
Luna started by giving Mark Z of FB as a good model for communication. Someone to be trusted! I guess this indicated I was not the target audience;-)
I did enjoy the talk. Luna covered the way she had used social media to support building a community around Achieve More Scotland. This is a small but valuable organisation. In a couple of years they have greatly increased online engagement.
Takeaways:
There are lessons for online educational communities here.
There wasn’t much specific WordPress information I wonder if some IndieWeb tech could help?
from Anne-Marie Scott @ education
Continuing my foray into enquiry-based, self-regulated, mastery learning, I've been hacking away at some more SPLOT code. After my last efforts I felt like I now had enough knowledge to try customise the SPLOTBox theme to see how well it might fit my requirements for … Continue reading Apprentice SPLOT Maker
from Anne-Marie Scott @ education
https://twitter.com/UoE_LTW/status/1042790396752003075 We're a week out from launching a new blogging service - a project that has had a number of false starts and delays along the way - and I am so impressed with the work the team have done to get this there. There's … Continue reading Academic Blogging; or what we did this summer…