Tag Archives: Wordpress

2012 in review

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 23,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading →

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Pinterest for design ideas

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

This guest post is by Richard Berman. Rick teaches courses in Urban Studies, and shared his use of Pinterest at the Lightning Round at our October symposium. Pinterest provides a simple way to collect, organize, annotate and share images from … Continue reading →

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Civil Rights Road Trip

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Earlier this month we met with Penn Ph.D. candidate Rachel Guberman to discuss how we could help with an upcoming project.  She and another teacher were taking several middle school students on an 8-day “Civil Rights Road Trip” through Louisiana, … Continue reading →

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Great resource: Learn.WordPress.com

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

While preparing for tomorrow’s WordPress Basics workshop, I’ve found myself spending a lot of time on the Learn.WordPress.com site. Using some handsome graphics and plenty of handy screenshots, this instructional site takes you from the very basics of setting up … Continue reading →

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PennWIC Blog Turns 1!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

April marks the one year anniversary of the PennWIC Blog and we’re very grateful to all our readers! We would like to thank Peter Decherney for suggesting we start a blog and Timothy Allen for helping us learn WordPress. We … Continue reading →

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Ross Kelley – Hoesley Reflection 2012

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

My name is Ross Kelley, and I was part of the 2011-2012 cohort of the Hoesley Digital Literacy Fellows program. I was excited to join the program so I could learn about the many valuable software tools I never thought … Continue reading →

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Windy Tam-Hoesley Reflection 2012

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

My name is Windy; I am a junior in the college majoring in Communications. I had no idea what I wanted to do post-graduation when I applied for the Hoesley Digital Literacy Program last year. I just knew that whatever … Continue reading →

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Chelsea Dommert – Hoesley Reflection 2012

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

My name is Chelsea Dommert and I was part of the Hoesley Digital Literacy Program during the 2011-2012 school year. I came to the program hoping to learn more about web design as well and Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel. … Continue reading →

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