Category Archives: Student Learning Journals

List of WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts for Writing at Full Speed

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Problem with Safari

Unfortunately, Safari has a different behavior for cmd + 1, cmd + 2, etc. They open a website from your Favorites Bar. There is no default way to turn off this functionality, and even deleting all your favorites doesn’t work. Open source to the rescue. There’s a plugin you can add to Safari to change the default behavior to switching tabs. I haven’t tested to see if this will allow the Headings shortcuts to work or not, so if you use Safari & are willing to give this a shot, please let us know.

If you know of any WordPress keyboard shortcuts that we left out, please let us know in the comments.

via List of WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts for Writing – WordPress Hotkeys.

Intro and Guidelines for Student Web Logs (Blogs)

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Dear OTA Student:
Your personal Learning Journal is designed to help you create a record of your quality work (and your growth over a year) in the 8 OTA Core Learning Strands— Music, Science, Math, Seminar, English, Art, History, & Outdoor Ed.

The Categories available in the sidebar are set to match those 8 Strands and you should mark every post with one or more of those categories.

Why Create An Online Learning Journal?

  • Blogs are very powerful content-management systems: which means they allow you to create a beautiful, multimedia record of a year’s worth of work and retrieve it instantly when you need it (by just clicking on the category of posts you want to see or by using the SEARCH Box to find all posts with the word “music” or “football” etc.)— but only if you use the Categories!
  • Publishing your work on your Web Log ( = “Blog“) will often be the last step in earning a Passing Grade on a Project, or extra credit.
  • When you are ready to apply to high school (choice programs like IB or an art magnet, or a private school) your Blog will be a Portfolio of all your best work that might just help you get in.
  • You work hard to earn a passing grade on your OTA Projects, why throw them away? Now you can keep them, share them, go back and improve them as you learn more. If the work’s worth doing it’s worth keeping.

To Create Your Learning Journal You Will Have to Learn to:

  • Scan, convert, and upload Text and Images (working with .doc, .pages, .pdf, .txt, .jpb, .png, inspiration, etc. files). Note: before you can upload word or pages documents you must convert them to pdfs or images.
  • Create Slideshows and manage image databases.
  • Edit and convert movies and music or sound files (working with .mov, .wmv, .qt, .mp3 etc. files), and
  • Use the WordPress dashboard (content management system) to create, edit, categorize, and publish posts)

Things You Can Change On Your OTA Blog:

  • The Header–from pre-selected photos in second quarter (Q2). In Q3 you can customize it with your own photography or artwork.
  • The Picture of the Week–you add a new picture every week… from your own or classmate or teacher’s photos or scans or artwork.
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