There are often times when you’ll want to add an iframe element to your site. Many services offer cool widgets that come as iframes. Unfortunately iframes are also a bit dangerous, they are like windows into other websites which could be like windows into terrible alternate dimensions! For that reason WordPress is designed not to allow …
Category: Skill Share
Creating a Live Hangout Event
We have a Hangout culture in ALC land. At least once a week I get on a Google Hangout call and talk, coordinate, share, or co-work with my peers. It’s great fun and easy (especially when we’ve set up special hangout links that are always the same, but that’s for another tutorial). Sometimes, though, we …
Presenting Change Up at the Twin Oaks Communities Conference
Over Labor Day weekend, a small group of Agile Learning Facilitators attended the Twin Oaks Communities Conference in central Virginia to host a workshop titled Culture Hacking 101, covering the Agile Learning Center Change Up meetings and the Community Mastery Board. We wanted to share this ALC culture creation practice with people who work hard …
How to run a Network News Call
I held the first ever Network News Call September 11th at 11am ET. It was broadcast live using YouTube. This call will covers Network news and information for the ALC community. Check out a recap from the call. This post will go over how to run the Network News Call. The Setup Created an LIVE event through the …
Managing Versions and Displaying Images from Google Drive
I use Google Drive to save and share documents. With Google Drive one can upload big files and share them with people. Often times I’ll host files on Google Drive and create links to those files on web pages. If I need to update one of those files I don’t need to worry about running …
Send Copy of Form to Submitter using Gravity Forms
The ALC Network website provides every sub website with a powerful plugin called Gravity Forms. It allows users to create forms that appear on any page (or widget). ALCs use these forms to process enrollment, as contact forms, and to track student activities such as off-site learning. Today I’m going to show you how to …
Getting Started with Page Builder
The ALC Network relies heavily on a modified version of Theme Foundry’s Make theme. The front page of my site and the network home page both use the Page Builder “template”. This post will cover the basics of using the ALC General Theme (which is based on Make). You can learn more about the theme from Theme Foundry’s …
Adding Translations to existing pages with Polylang
As the ALC Network expands into communities with different languages it is becoming necessary to translate our content to serve those communities. To accomplish this I’ve installed the polylang plugin which gives any network site the ability to configure multiple languages to display pages in. Most of our network level pages are created using the Make …
Set the Week Board for ALC Oahu
This tool is used at the start of each week to determine the offerings, trips, or group activities that are available to the community. I redesigned the ALC Oahu Set the Week board using recycled wood and whiteboard paint. Click to learn more about Set the Week and see examples from around the network.
Motivations
I got the following questions from a teen I know: Ok so the question I had was basically How do you stay motivated doing all the website projects you do? And more then that How would I find something that worked for me? Motivation for me has a few different parts. There is the motivation to …