3. Trip Blogs

Screenshot of blog fro school trip to Holland

Keep parents and friends up to date with your classes activity on school trips.

  • Blog your class or school trips.
  • Create a new blog especially for the trip or create a category on your class or school blog.
  • Post from your smart phone or tablet moblog style.
  • Keep in touch with parents.
  • Let parents keep in touch with pupils through comments, not time dependent phone calls.
  • Post images, video and audio.
  • Involve pupils in the production of the blog for ownership.
  • Create a resource to look back on or work from on at a later date.

Resources

Here are some resources on the help blog to get you started with a trip blog.

Mobile Blogging

Googlemaps – Jetpack shows how to add a Google map to your blog posts or pages using functionality from the Jetpack plugin.

General Resources:

Creating a blog
Adding Users, Setting Roles
Privacy Settings WP4
Themes wp4
Pages
Widgets wp4
Plugins wp4
Custom Header Image
Menus

Mobile Blogging

2 thoughts on “3. Trip Blogs”

  1. Any help with my trip blog? It looks great on a desktop, but chances are most parents will access it on their phone. The pictures are not resizing on the phone properly and therefore it is making it near impossible to read the text that is wrapped round these massive images.

    If it was a full wordpress I could probably adjust the img css, but not sure if i can do that in glow version.

    Exact link included below.

    1. I can see the problem on mobile. (the galleries and other pages look fine).

      Ive sent this via email too.

      I can think of a couple of solutions.
      If you are happy with CSS you should be able to add CSS to the site in the customizer. You might need to active the Jetpack plugin and the CSS module if you have not already.

      I am guessing something like:
      img.alignright {width:100%} wrapped in a media query would do the trick. You might have to target the page too.

      The other, more long winded solution would be to turn on the blocks editor and edit that page with the block editor (you can just make the block ed an option). Using the Media & Text block would do the trick as you can tick the stack on mobile option in the block settings.

      We have a wee bit of info on that block:
      https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/blocks/2023/08/11/media-text/

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