WordPress basics

Title of the unit: WordPress basics

Subject: Web Applications

Course /Level: 2nd year CFGM SMR

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Learning outcomes for content

Conceptual

• Definition of content management system for blogs
• Installation
• Basic configuration
• Control panel installation setup

Procedural

• Installing a content management system for blogs
• Creating blog articles

Attitudinal

• Demostrating interest in a design suitable for every situation

Learning outcomes for communication

Vocabulary

• Nouns: cloud, computing, storage, management, webpage, web server, HTML, post, comments, control panel, template, banner, topics, tags, section, sign up, sign in
• Verbs: click, open, enter, go to, complete, launch, drag, moderate

Structures

• Past simple (eg. I post an article...)
• Present continous (eg. While you're installing, be careful with ...)
• Conditional sentences (eg. If you allow comments in the post, then users can write down their opinions)

Language for interaction

• Imperative sentences (eg. Go to page ...)
• Future sentences (eg. In this lesson, you will learn how to ...)
• Conditional sentences (eg. If you allow comments in the post, then users can write down their opinions)
  

Learning outcomes for cognition

Cognitive skills

• To solve problems

Information processing skills

• To identify sources for documentation
• To analyse which information is suitable to solve a problema

Learning strategies

• Learning by doing

Learning outcomes for culture

• Searching information about an European city which is interesting for the student
• Posting an article including a tour for the chosen city
• Discussing other students posts 

Task

• To créate a personal blog with WordPress

Activities

Warm up activities

• Showing a snapshot of the main page of a blog and then students have to tell the name of each parts
• Showing a snapshot of the control panel of a blog and then students have to tell the name of each parts
• Brainstorming about the different uses of a blog

Main activities / Want to know / Reinforcement / Extensión

The next activities are previously shown by the teacher, then students do the activities by themselves:

• Creating virtual machines which students will work on this lesson
• Downloading installation files
• Following installation procedure (copy files + change permissions + first browser access)
• Following basic steps (admin user + create database + set up timezone)
• Explaining frontend & backend (sign in / sign out)
• Comparing WordPress installation with other CMBS
• Individual student activity
• Writing a tutorial on past activities

Organization and class distribution / timing

• 50 minutes each sesión
• 2 sessions per lesson
• 2 weeks for the unit

Resources

WordPress vocabulary
http://www.sproutee.com/wordpress-vocabulary-101/
Downloading installation files, installation procedure & basic steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3Hk6ahCmg
Explaining frontend & backend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWw5xLGYpwo
WordPress vs other CMS
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/29/wordpress-cms-crown-drupal-joomla/

Scaffolding for language content
http://rachaelbutts.com/wordpress-vocabulary-lesson/

WordPress front-end
http://LearningApps.org/display?v=pd8ni10on01

Link to the template

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrG7IrzDdzCa3NKYmkzZGVLYUE/edit?usp=sharing

Author:

Cristian Jorge Garcia Marcos