shortcodes

Teach A Teacher ✏️

Teachers spend their days helping others learn, so what happens when it’s their turn to be the student? That’s the idea behind our Teach a Teacher project.

Driving Question 🏎️:

How can I enhance the storytelling present in my learning portfolio?

I can enhance my learning portfolio by:

Just like I am right now, I am using the toggle shortcode to enhance my blog with interactive elements like this. I feel that this enhances my blog as well by not having blocks of writing and instead having a nice looking header when clicked it expands on the point.
How you store info
Like This
Another Tab
How you store your information can be a really important and effective way to enhance your learning posts. Mainly because it is appealing to look at and it is also practical.
Right now I am using the tabs shortcode to show you an example of how to use it but imagine how you could use this in a real post! I would be able to talk about similar subjects but still adding different points.
This is another tab for my example of how cool this is.
  • This is another way I can enhance my learners portfolio because it relates to the two topics I have already talked about. (Press the arrow)
  • I talked about using new tools just like I am now with this slider that I have never used before.
  • And I also talked about how you should store information and I feel that this is a really good way to store information that isn’t a block of writing.

I wanted to talk about these points because one of my goals from my VMV last year, which I still want to continue working on, was to use my feedback and apply what I am currently learning to my future work. My teacher has encouraged me to take the new skills I have been developing and put them into practice in my projects. I have been doing this by using the new features I have learned, such as icons, tabs, and sliders, and adding them to my blog now.

Teaching My Teacher 👩‍🏫 

This project was all about teaching our teacher a feature that they can add to their blog. I decided to teach Mr. Harris how to use shortcodes, shortcodes are the way that I did the toggles and the tabs above. There are many different kinds of shortcodes that you are able to use, so I mainly focused on how to access them and what to do to update and add them into a post. 

We were told to write a pages document or make some sort of tutorial to show Mr. Harris and follow along with while I talk him through how to add the shortcodes as well. I chose to make a document that would include photos and videos along with a short and simple description. I would have to really dumb it down for the reader to understand and start all the way from turning on your iPad (okay maybe not that simple).

Reflection 🪞:

I feel after my conference that I had done pretty well, with completing everything I was supposed to do (which was pretty simple criteria). I also went first and so I had no idea what to expect, honestly I don’t think it was that difficult to teach him how to the shortcodes and I had my document along with me to help guide me along as well.

Overall I think that I did what was asked and maybe even more, I added what I taught to my own blog (up above) as well. I feel that I will add things like shortcodes to my learning portfolio posts in the future as they make them look better and are simple to use.  

Thanks for reading my blog! Stay posted for my next post! 👍