The document provides instructions for teachers on how to create and maintain a blog on WordPress to share classroom activities and information with students and families. It outlines the requirements needed, including a CAP email and password, and steps for registering the blog, publishing posts, uploading images and videos, customizing themes, and sharing static pages. It also explains how students and parents can access the blog and how the teacher can sign in and out of the dashboard.

1. 
Blogs workshop
Sofía Velázquez Ramírez Llaca

2. Introduction
 Why a blog?
 Content to publish
 Homework
 Websites
 Instructions
 Activities
 Photos
 Videos
 Classroom activities
 Chronological order
 Interaction with students and
families.
 What do I need to create my blog in
Wordpress?
 My CAP email
 Notepad to write down user,
password and URL.
 Practice!

3. Content
 Register your blog
 Access and sign out
 Dashboard
 Publish posts
 Tips for writing posts
 Upload images
 From file
 From URL
 Photo gallery
 YouTube videos
 Appearance – Themes
 Static Pages
 Slide Share

4. How do I start?
 Go to cap.edu.mx
 Click on BLOGS
 You will need to enter your employee number and
password (the one you use to access the “Portal”)
 Go to PRIMARIA
 Choose your grade and click on your name
 Register!

5. How will students and parents access my
blog?
 They’ll have to:
 go to cap.edu.mx
 Go to BLOGS CAP
 enter their student or family number and
password
 Your blog will be the only one available to
them

6. How will I enter and sign out?
 Go to your blog at cap.edu.mx – BLOGS
 Pick your blog from the list an click on it
 Meta – Login
 Sign out: At the upper right corner click on the your
name and click “Sign Out”

7. Dashboard / Escritorio

8. Settings - General
Do not
change
Choose a Title
and Description

9. Click to
publish
Publish posts

10. Publish posts
Click to
publish

11. Publish posts
Click to
publish

12. Publish posts
Click to
publish

13. You did it!
 Now, go to your blog to see your post
Click on the name of your blog (top
left corner) and you’ll find a link to
your blog.

14. Pay attention!!!
Your blog’s
name
User
Log out
Back to the
dashboard

15. Tips for writing posts
 Choose a short title that represents the content
 Use bold letters to highlight important words.
 Write short paragraphs
 Review your writing to check for spelling mistakes
and other errors
 Add images to illustrate your post
 Publish regularly

16. Click
Publish photos or images

17. Click
Publish images from URL

18. Create a photo gallery

19. Multimedia
 Wordpress stores every object that you have added
to your blog in it’s multimedia gallery.
 This way, you can use them in the future without
uploading them again.

20. YouTube videos
Or just copy
the YouTube
URL
Search for
videos using
the YouTube
plugin

21. Change your blog’s “look”

22. Add static Pages to your blog
 Pages
 Add new Page
It’s a good idea to write the DATE and a TITLE
when you add new information, so it’s easily
identifiable.

23. Pay attention to your
dashboard’s sidebar

24. Slide Share
 http://www.slideshare.net/
Slideshare is a website that offers users the ability to
upload and share PowerPoint presentations, Word
documents, OpenOffice, PDF…
If you need to share this type of files with your
students, create a SlideShare account and upload them
there. Then, you can copy the wordpress code and
embed it in your post.