High School Curriculum

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    ghsmediaarts · Member ·

    I’d like to construct a new site for our school’s 100th anniversary. But I’d like to use this opportunity to get our students involved and to develop high school curriculum to teach WordPress. (I’ve been teaching HTML & CSS for 20 years now.)

    Is there already HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM for WordPress? If not, is there some way I could get (knowledge) support to develop that curriculum?

    BTW: I built and continue to update our school’s legacy website with WordPress (galileoweb.org). Also, I’ve written curriculum for 3 different courses accepted by California’s UC A-G for both Art and Career-Tech Ed.

    thank you for any advice you can offer.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi @ghsmediaarts, I don’t know of any tutorials or curriculums specific to high schools, but we do have several tutorials available, and can likely help you find resources if you’ll tell us what kinds of sites the students will be creating.

    Do you know whether the students will be creating sites that are hosted here with us, or whether the school will be hosting local installations on their own computers or hosting providers? The directions you’ll want to take with the curriculum will vary based on which options you’re encouraging, though it would be well for the students to be familiar with both flavors of WordPress:
    https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  • Unknown's avatar
    ghsmediaarts · Member ·

    Thank you. I will look over the curriculum when I get a break from teaching classes.

    Although you address me by ghsmediaarts, that’s a site I never developed. I constructed galileoweb.org and still do updates. The galileo100 site will need to be built sooner so I won’t be able to have my students work on it.

    What I want my students to do:
    We have 6 different Career-Tech Pathway programs at our school. I’d like to set up a new site with wordpress (maybe galileopathways) and have 6 teams of students each construct a site for one of the pathways. (Digital Communication, Computer Science, Health Science, etc.) I have a budget to pay for an upgraded site, so we can have a choice of themes/designs.

    MY BIGGEST QUESTION: I know we can choose a theme/design for our pages. If we build 6 “sub-sites” under one account (galileopathways/computer, galileopathways/health, etc.), can each of those teams choose a different theme/design? Or do we all have to use the same theme?

    thanks again.

  • deancroyal · Staff ·

    You can create as many free sites under one account as you wish. So, for example, under a user account such as “galileopathways” you could create…

    Site 1: galileopathwayscomputer.wordpress.com

    Site 2: galileopathwayshealth.wordpress.com

    Site 3: galileopathwaysscience.wordpress.com

    Each of those would be a unique site and therefore be able to have their own theme.

    Would an approach like that work?

    I have two questions as well:

    1. Because these would be free sites on WordPress.com, would the free themes we make available work for your needs? https://wordpress.com/themes/free

    2. Are there any 3rd-party WordPress plugins you anticipate needing for these sites? Again, because these would be free sites, this will be important to know.

    Thanks!

  • Unknown's avatar
    ghsmediaarts · Member ·

    I have a budget to pay for a “premium” account. I’ve seen the difference in choices between the free sites and the paid accounts. I’d like to have the additional options and the plugins available.

    So if I set up an account for galileopathways and have it hosted by WordPress, does the entire site have to use the same theme/design? Or could I construct 6 different “sub-sites” using different themes/designs?

    I suspect the answer will be that I need to use one consistent theme/design.

    In a class where I want students to learn technical and design skills, having a free site would not work — there wouldn’t be enough design choices. So the question is, with a paid site, can I make it work for the students? It wouldn’t be possible for each team to select a different theme. But maybe students present different themes and the class gets to choose.

  • fstat · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I believe that the best option for you is to use the open-source WordPress software and install it locally on the computers that you’ll be using. This way your students will be able to add third-party themes and plugins. And most importantly they’ll be able to edit the WordPress files and learn more about how the software works.

    To be able to have that flexibility with WordPress.com you’ll have to purchase the Business plan for each one of your students’ sites.

    The WordPress community has created many workshops and lessons and I recommend checking them out here:

    Learn WordPress

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