Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Tag: 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…

  • Meet MacBookMaestro.com – A Free Digital Badge Powered Learning Site

    This past week I shared three workshops for teachers in Yukon Public Schools on “MacBook Basics” and intermediate Mac OS X skills. All 500+ K-12 teachers in the district received new MacBook Air laptops last year, but most didn’t have many opportunities to learn new tips and tricks in Mac OS X. To provide more…

  • Encouraging Pre-Service Educators to Share Work Publicly Online

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) In her recent review of my eBook, “Playing with Media, simple ideas for powerful sharing,” Barbara Brown wrote the following paragraph which inspired me to literally jump for joy. Barbara wrote: After reading the book and paying close attention to the ideas about media creation and media sharing, I decided to move…

  • Embed a MP3 Audio File in a WordPress.com Blog Post

    WordPress.com is a good, free blogging platform, but it can be trickier than Posterous to get rich media (like audio and video files) embedded in posts. Unlike Posterous, which lets users directly email audio and video files to a site where they are automatically converted to an “embedded form,” with WordPress.com you need to post…

  • Embedding Flash Audio on WordPress.com with an iPad

    WordPress.com is a free, flexible blogging service but has some drawbacks. One of those limitations is the inability to directly include EMBED code in posts. To “protect” authors and blog visitors from potentially malicious code sometimes disguised as legitimate embed code, by default WordPress.com “strips out” embed code from posts when authors save and publish…

  • iPad Blogging with Posterous

    The easiest way to blog on an iPad, which I have used to date, is to: – Type notes in Notes (free, comes on the iPad) – Email your notes to post@posterous.com That’s it! It is possible to configure your Posterous website to cross-post to other websites and locations, but that is not required. I…