At last year’s WordCamp US, this talk by Brianna Privett really put some important things into clear focus for me.
Author: ProfessorJRE
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some spiffy breadboarding tips …
are in this summary, from the good friends at make: magazine.
This would be an excellent resource to share with the lab students.
This and other resources were used in their breadboarding workshops at Maker Faires.
One question that comes to mind as I am making this post is how to record all these cool things that I find, as I find them. My first inclination is to make a notebook, but that’s exactly NOT the tiny or digital native thing to do. This kind of electronic “notebook” is better, especially with trustworthy resources to link to, like make:
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Trying to remember how pages and posts relate.
So I remember learning that pages are kinda permanent, markers of sections and places to put timeless things. And posts are more time-dependent, at least in the standard sort of blog. But I think they relate in other ways too. Or maybe they’re just slightly different forms of the very same thing: a thought, an idea, crystallized up into something that can stand alone.
Here’s what wordpress.com has to say about it:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/But of course each post is also related to other things, too.
Which is why there are tags and categories and sections and such.
(which naturally leads to wondering about the difference between tags and categories …)Here’s a key bit: pages don’t have tags or categories, but posts can. And how the front menu displays things can be set up by Customize. I think this simplifies my thinking considerable. But now I need to understand tags and categories …