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Welcome to our Wordpress tutorial. This video is a short Wordpress tutorial on how you can make the most of your Wordpress website and Wordpress theme by adding images into your Wordpress posts and Wordpress pages. The beauty of Wordpress is that you once the initial theme is in place, you can modify it to your heart's content! So this is a short Wordpress Pages tutorial and a Wordpress post tutorial for beginners ideally or anyone that is interested in getting to know Wordpress.

This article is written by two retired professors who have experience starting their own homestead with alternative energy resources. They outline the basic understanding of how solar energy works and how to get started. They provide a very straightforward step-by-step process which addresses my research question regarding ways alternative energy can be simplified and manageable for anyone.

This article supports my research claim that alternative energy can be simplified and easy for anyone, especially in an urban setting. The article offers a simple, straightforward description of how solar eergy works, why it should be used, and how to implement its use.

Games are uniquely positioned to be a key driver of innovation in addressing many challenges facing our planet. Games can inspire action across gender, racial, economic, and cultural barriers. They are being used in areas ranging from early literacy to scientific discovery to sustainable living. However, the impact games sector is still in its infancy and there is both a great need and a great opportunity for innovation in the sector. We invite the world to engage with us in leveraging the power of digital games to address pressing economic, civic, cultural, educational, health, and environmental challenges facing the planet.

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

A concise "how to" from Howcast.

Abstract: This paper examines how teens understand privacy in highly public networked environments like Facebook and Twitter. We describe both teens' practices, their privacy strategies, and the structural conditions in which they are embedded, highlighting the ways in which privacy, as it plays out in everyday life, is related more to agency and the ability to control a social situation than particular properties of information. Finally, we discuss the implications of teens' practices and strategies, revealing the importance of social norms as a regulatory force. (This paper was presented at Oxford Internet Institute's "A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society" on September 22, 2011.) Number of Pages in PDF File: 29 Keywords: Facebook, privacy, youth, teens, social media, ethnography, cultural studies Accepted Paper Series

Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets, but interoperable between lots of edu tools. The tutorials page shows how to configure LTI tools in supported systems. There's also some handy extensions to LTI that you can learn more about on the extensions page. Tools with a gray label under their configuration xml support LTI extensions that won't work in all systems. Currently LTI extensions are only supported by Canvas.

One of my subtopics for my research project is food preservation. This resource details one of the easiest ways to preserve food, which is dehydration. This page shows how to specifically preserve food by solar dehydration.

This article provides a good resource for practical gardening advice specifically regarding how to save money by gardening certain vegetables. Author Peggy Deland explains which vegetables will produce more and will be the most cost effective for someone who wants to save money by gardening. This addresses my research question about the uncertain economy and being prepared by having a food supply.

This article provides a very simple method of food preservation that anyone can utilize, which is freezing. This addresses my research question regarding how to make food preservation manageable for anyone. Many people already freeze food so this method just utilizes an already familiar practice that can be applied to home-grown food as well.

This article gives different examples of EDM music. I can use this to show the diversity of the genere.

This article provides instruction for canning, a popular food preservation method. Specifically, it addresses bioling water canning as more economical and cost effective and simple, than a pressure canner. This addresses my research question regarding how to simplify food preservation so that anyone can apply this method, regardless of lifestyle or income.

This article offers several different methods of food production, specifically for herbs. It outlines each suggestion with steps and basic points. This article particularly addresses my research question regarding how to simplify food production and make it manageable for even an urban setting.

Perhaps too complicated, but this is a detailed guide for gadgets.

As a modern day homesteading, a person still needs to be skilled in many areas including welding. This article covers some basic information on welding.

Step by step article on builing a portable sorlar panel. This would be a good learning exercise before trying to build solar panels for a whole house.

Wind turbine kits for residential use. These will come in handy on those stormy days when the sun hasn't come out for a few days and the solar panels aren't providing enough power.

This article give a great example of how clone works. The article talks about Dr. Doris working with lifeless organs, she uses clone technique to bring a dead organ back to life

Recommended by Jim Burke, #engchat serves as a Twitter-wired community of progressive educators sharing ideas.

To follow up on last week, here's an example how creating a simple blog can connect great ideas.

This is a working draft of Chris Frieberg's WP3 site; take a look to see how he's progressed.