Tag: Wordpress
Best of: Premium and Free WordPress Themes
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A new feature we're unveiling at the Geek Guidebook is the 'Best Of' series. In it we will be showcasing some of the best people, companies, and ideas in the geek world. First on our list is something very dear to our...
Resume 2.0: The New Way To Get Your Dream Job
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You can find a job online, do a job online, so why should your resume be limited to the virtual equivalent of pen and paper? There's a new game in town that some of the best companies and career centers are advocating...
Blogs As A Higher Ed Recruiting Tool: A How-To Guide For Schools
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It may seem like everyone and their mother has a blog these days. Unfortunately, higher ed administrators seem to behind the times in this department. Only a select few schools are actively encouraging staff, faculty,...
How Social Media Can Revolutionize College Admissions
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How It Used To Work Rewind about 7-8 years and imagine you are applying to colleges for the first time. The process took months and included standardized tests on paper, handwritten applications, handwritten letters o...
How Teachers Can Make A Free Website That Doesn't Suck
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Teachers, administrators, countrymen! There is big news afoot from Google today that will allow anyone to create a beautiful, easy-to-use, and (most importantly) free website. If you're using or know of Google's 'Blog...
WordPress 3.0: What's New And What's Next
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If you're a blogger, designer, or tech-savvy teacher, you've likely heard of Wordpress. (If you haven't, now is the time to learn more about it!) In case you haven't logged into your Wordpress dashboard today, you may...
How To Blog By Calling Your Website
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It’s happened to all of us. The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing you know you’re doing tequila shots with the bartender and the girl from Brazil and yo...
Why Facebook Just Became The Best Place For New Bloggers
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When teachers, parents, or students want to blog, they typically have to sign up for a service on Tumblr, Wordpress, or another content publishing service. This is usually a fairly easy process but once you start writ...
Is Mobile Blogging Here To Stay?
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Do you blog? I'm not talking about tweeting or facebooking, I'm talking about writing articles that include rich media as well as plenty of text. If you use Wordpress and typically post blog articles by using a desktop or laptop... you're apparently not hip. That's because Wordpress has just announced that more than one million people are currently using their mobile app to blog. (This includes iPhone, Android, Nokia and other Wordpress apps.)
20 Dropouts Who Are Changing The World
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Read up on any new millionaire or billionaire and it seems they have the same story: come up with a good idea, drop out of school to develop it, cash in. It seems that innovators all have had to drop out of college (or high school) in order to have the time to make their dreams a reality.
Why is that? Isn't school supposed to be a nurturing atmosphere that allows for innovative people to flourish?
10 Cheap Premium Kick-Ass WordPress Themes
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You may have noticed Edudemic just got a fresh coat of proverbial paint a couple days ago. While it's usually not a good idea to switch up a site's design too frequently, some updates are usually a good idea. The g...
The Cheat Sheet For How Your Blog Works
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If you've ever used Wordpress, you've probably activated and tweaked more than a few themes in your day. Those themes don't magically appear out of thin air. They're built by developers who create dozens of coded page...
Blogger To Get Major Redesign [Preview]
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I know many of the people in my PLN use Google's Blogger as it is an easy-to-use system for getting your thoughts online. While other sites like Posterous and Tumblr are making increasingly easy publication systems, ...
So Long Picasa and Blogger: Google Making Big Changes
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Google is taking the rollout of Google+ very seriously. Rather than see another Google Buzz fail, they're pulling out all the stops. Literally.
How To Do Everything On WordPress
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Rather than venture into the world of Wordpress alone, Edudemic is here. Below is a 'how to' guide written for real people. You don't need to know the lingo of Wordpress before reading this. The only you thing you need to know is how to click a mouse.
20 Education Administrator Blogs You Should Start Following Right Now
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This is part of a series of ‘Best of 2011‘ posts where we share some of the best education-related materials of the past year. Be sure to check back on a regular basis as we’ve got some pretty exciting stuff coming so...

