cujournalism

ABOUT

cupaul — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:42:40 +0000

STUDENTS: As a student at Coventry University you will be expected to set up and manage your own blog. To help start you off and provide helpful resources, you will find all you need to get started on this ready made template. Along the top of the page will be links to other pages ONCE YOU HAVE FAMILIARIZED YOURSELF WITH THIS TEMPLATE PLEASE REPLACE THIS ABOUT PAGE CONTENT WITH A BIOGRAPHY, OR SIMPLY DELETE THE PAGE HOME - Your HOME page is where your 'posts' will appear in a time-line. Most of your blogging will be done with this page ABOUT - You are currently on the ABOUT page, once you are familiar with how your blog works you can change the text in this page to tell your audience about yourself, or simply delete the page HOW TO - The HOW TO page features a quick guide to get you started blogging, from creating pages to posting images and text CU LINKS - The CU page links to Coventry University pages and resources that you will need to use as a student. LINKS - The LINKS page has a selection of websites that your tutor has recommended for you. This page can be added to as you find new links to share

HOW TO

cupaul — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:05:10 +0000

STUDENTS: ONCE YOU HAVE SUCCESFULY UPLOADED YOUR XML FILE AND ARE FAMILIAR WITH CHANGING THEMES AND GENERATING POSTS YOU SHOULD DELETE THIS PAGE FROM YOUR BLOG There are plenty of resources on the Wordpress support pages that will go into much more detail than the following but it should give you a good starting point. Also worth looking at is this overview video on Youtube by NuuVidea NOTE: This brief tutorial requires that you have already set up and activated your Wordpress website. For more details on how to set up a Wordpress website, see the setup guide. If you can view this text you will have already uploaded the XML file and so can ignore the first few steps of this how-to

STEP 1 - IMPORTING THE XML FILE

From your blog dashboard, head to TOOLS > IMPORT Select Wordpress from the list of blogs Locate the XML file that you wish to upload and click upload file and import Tick the Import Attachments box and click Submit Shortly after clicking Submit, you will recieve an email confirming the upload, you can check the upload has worked by clicking on the blog link in the email

STEP 2 - CHOOSING A THEME FOR YOUR BLOG

A blog's 'theme' i essentialy a skin and controls the look of the website. Different themes have different options and appearances so find out which one works best for you. Click on Appearance > Themes You will be presented with a gallery of themes to choose from Once you have found a suitable Theme, you can activate it or preview and then activate

STEP 3 - USING PAGES

Pages can be added and removed easily on your blog and are designed to seperate your traditional blog timeline from other information. Pages cannot be 'posted' to and are best thought of as 'static' pages To manage your pages click on Pages on the left hand side of your dashboard, you will be presented with a list of your pages. From here you can add, remove and edit pages Clicking on one of your pages will open up an editing page where you can insert a title, text, images and so on. Once you have finished simply click on Publish/Update and the page will be saved

STEP 4 - CREATING POSTS

The main feature of your blog is to regularly post items to your followers and peers. The way to do this is through posts which will appear in a time-line on your blog, with the most recent displaying at the top. To manage posts and create new ones, click on Posts In the post management screen you can add, remove and edit posts, just as you can in the Pages screen To add a new Post click on Add new The post editing screen will load and just like the pages tool you can add your title, text and any other images you require before clicking publish for your post to go live

CU LINKS

cupaul — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:05:49 +0000

STUDENTS: Below are links to several CU websites that will feature information on your course, staff and University services. YOU CAN DELETE THIS PAGE WHEN YOU NO LONGER NEED THESE LINKS Coventry University Portal - The CU Portal features links to Moodle, Webmail, Solar and more Coventry University MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION - The Media and Communication page features information on courses as well as important contact information for staff members Itunes U - Art and design - The Media and Communication iTunes U featuring podcasts from lectures, seminars and other sources Media Loan Shop - Once you have had an induction to the loan shop you will be able to book out equipment from this website

LINKS

cupaul — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:06:06 +0000

STUDENTS: This page features all the links your tutor has recommended as reading/viewing for the course. feel free to add to these with links you find helpful or inspirational PLEASE DELETE THIS NOTE AFTER READING TIMETABLES You can download your latest term timetables here. THE JOURNALISM TEAM Rachel Matthews Dr Fred Mudhai Dr John Lister John Mair Marcos Young Andrew Noakes Shelly Stevenson Paul Marsden ALL COURSE LINKS Coventry East Asian Film Society Journalism Links http://coventryjournalism.wordpress.com http://covjournos.wordpress.com http://podcasting.services.coventry.ac.uk/podcasting/ http://www.bbctraining.com/pdfs/newsstyleguide.pdf www.journalism.co.uk http://www.irn.co.uk/ http://edition.cnn.com/

http://uk.reuters.com/ http://web.orange.co.uk/p/news/home http://cutoday.wordpress.com/

WHAT'S THIS FOR?

cupaul — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:04:14 +0000

The aim of PPD (134MC) is to get you to think about and reflect critically upon your first year at university. So, you will need to reflect on your progress and the decisions and choices that you make on the way and how these might affect your wider career, professional and personal aims and objectives. During the year, you will collect evidence and record your experiences both at and outside university. This will be recorded on an individual blog with links to evidence of things that you have created and evidence of moments, people and places that have inspired you. You will make the blog your own. You may put ANYTHING you like in it. From this blog, a Final Folio will be created. This will be assessed and will allow you to consider the following 3 factors.

1. How what you are including will help you in your future career plans.

2. How what you are including shows your ability to work with others, create, use resources, organise your time and network.

3. How you have used theory to understand your own and others’ practice.

Think of the blog’s purpose as being to record your development as a person and as someone who will enter the job market after the degree. It is here that you get credit for your wider involvement in groups, interest, paid work, learning to use software tools etc.

ABOUT THIS TEMPLATE

cupaul — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:39:01 +0000

As a student at Coventry University you will be expected to set up and manage your own blog. To help start you off and provide helpful resources, you will find all you need to get started on this ready made template. Along the top of the page will be links to other pages. These include; HOME - Your HOME page is where your ‘posts’ will appear in a time-line. Most of your blogging will be done with this page ABOUT - You are currently on the ABOUT page, once you are familiar with how your blog works you can change the text in this page to tell your audience about yourself, or simply delete the page HOW TO - The HOW TO page features a quick guide to get you started blogging, from creating pages to posting images and text CU - The CU page links to Coventry University pages and resources that you will need to use as a student, these include the Library website and the Media Loan Shop page LINKS - The LINKS page has a selection of useful websites for help with your WordPress blog as well as other University links

HOW TO LOAD YOUR XML FILE

cupaul — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:36:05 +0000

Download this PDF file for a step by step guide to loading your XML file HOWTOLOADXML

DESTROY AFTER READING

cupaul — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:02:19 +0000

STUDENTS: ONCE YOU HAVE READ THIS FIRST POST, PLEASE DELETE IT SO THAT YOU CAN START WRITING YOUR OWN POSTS WELCOME If you are seeing this post you have succesfuly registered a Wordpress blog and have uploaded the XML file to start your blog. Now head to the HOW-TO page for information on changing the appearance of your blog, and starting to make posts and pages Make sure you delete this post after reading

PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

cupaul — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:03:09 +0000

This blog should be updated regularly to demonstrate your personal development as a Journalist. Items related to your Personal Professional Development (134MC) module should be uploaded on this site. For more information see the "What's This For?" page, which can be accessed from the toolbar.

WELCOME JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDENTS!

cupaul — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:22:05 +0000

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