Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: WordPress

  • Change the Tagline of Your WordPress.com Website

    This weekend I’ve seen two different WordPress.com sites with the default tagline, “Just another WordPress.com weblog.” This is the default tagline which WordPress.com uses for every new site when it’s created. The tagline of your WordPress.com site is displayed by most WordPress themes in the header section of your blog. It’s like a byline. It’s…

  • Create Embeddable Twitter List with List.ly

    This evening I created a linked list of sponsors for EdCamp Broken Arrow (coming up this Saturday just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma) using List.ly. This was SO much faster and easier than “creating the list by hand” on the event WordPress site. That tedious process involved saving images of each sponsor logo locally, uploading each image…

  • Embed a Google DocList in a Google Site or WordPress Site

    Digital document sharing can be important and powerful. By sharing files with others “in the cloud,” either publicly or privately, documents can be accessed on multiple devices in any location where an Internet connection is available. At today’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, speakers announced Apple is joining the ranks of cloud-based file sharing…

  • Remove Disqus “Around the Web” Ad Images and Links from Your Blog

    It’s unfortunate it’s taken me so long to figure out I could do this, but this afternoon I FINALLY turned off the “around the web” images and links which have been appearing at the bottom of my blog posts for the past couple years since I started using the free Disqus commenting system for WordPress…

  • WordPressOKC Meetup Notes: 31 March 2014

    These are my notes from the March 31, 2014 WordPress OKC Meetup group. Since our church session generally meets the last Monday of the month (when the WordPress OKC meet up is held) I haven’t been able to attend for the last year and a half. Our session met last Tuesday because of scheduling conflicts,…

  • 4 Free WordPress Plugins to Reduce Comment Spam

    As eCommerce has continued to grow over the past decade, comment spam on blog websites has also increased dramatically. There are several reasons for this, but the primary one is financial: In an attempt to increase the “page rank” (Google search engine ranking) of different websites, unscrupulous people have employed comment spamming methods to try…

  • A Renaissance in Educational Podcasting

    For the past year, I’ve been LOVING what I perceive to be a renaissance in educational podcasting. Since 2002 or 2003 when I first heard David Warlick share an educational podcast, podcasting has been a huge part of my ongoing professional learning as a teacher. My current podcatcher app of choice on my iPhone, PocketCasts,…

  • Hacker Cases Highlight Need for Greater Personal Account and Information Security

    The more we rely on userIDs and passwords to verify our identity online, the more susceptible we are to attacks by people who, for different reasons, want to harm us or take control of our digital accounts. Several recent cases of hacked accounts highlight the need for greater personal account security and information security overall.…

  • Academic Publishing and Relevance

    Since finishing my PhD I’ve applied for five different tenure-track faculty positions. I’ve been invited to interview for just one of those. I may apply for another position sometime down the road, but I’m currently very happy teaching 4th & 5th graders as a STEM teacher, occasionally teaching teachers as an educational consultant/speaker, and regularly…

  • Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress

    The evening of December 18, 2013, I shared an online presentation for the “Digitizing Writing Wednesday Webinars Series” titled, “Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress.” The archived video from the Adobe Connect webinar is now available! My presentation slides are available on SlideShare. Miguel Guhlin collected a variety of show notes on…