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==Project Details==
==Project Details==
The project will be put together by three groups that focus on the terms used in social media, digital writing, and the technical aspects of digital media. Each subpage of the three groups will define and provide examples of terms related to their respective concept.
The project will be put together by thirteen individual students who will focus on the terms used while building a WordPress.com blog. Each subpage will define and provide examples of terms related to their respective concept.
   
   
#Social Media (Group Leader: Nadine Epperson)
#Dashboard (Candice Barca): The home screen for activity on WordPress.com
##Social Media Don’ts (Nadine Epperson): Prohibited terms in social media.
#Posts (Melissa Grantham): Entries that combine to build a blog
##File Sharing Terms (Kasey Miller): Dropbox, Droplr, Cloud App
#Media (Shanna Dixon): Graphics, video, and other forms of media
##Online Presence Terminology (Haley Clarke): Gravitar, widget, Disqus, interactive, credibility
#Pages (Chrissonia McCall): Categorizing posts to create an organized blog
## Twitter Vocabulary (Chrissonia McCall): hashtag, follow, favorite, direct message (DM)
#Comments (Marian Brewer): User feedback etiquette and information
#Writing (Group Leader: Kristin Hanlin)
#Themes (Nadine Epperson): The aesthetic appeal of a blog
##Digital Writing Don’ts (Kristin Hanlin): Terms describing what not to do in digital writing.
#Widgets (Kristin Hanlin): Applications that aid WordPress.com users in providing content for users
##Credibility (Candice Barca): transparency, plagiarism, evidence
#Menus (Siobahn Fisher): Stackable organization for blog pages, categories, and posts
##Style (Tiory Clark): brevity, audience, medium
#Headers and Backgrounds (Kasey Miller): Key aspects of visual appeal for WordPress.com blogs
##Technique (Marian Brewer): Inverted Pyramid, precision, revision, cliché
#Users (Amy Rehner): Contributors who work together to present a blog on WordPress.com
#Technical Aspects (Group Leader: Shanna Dixon)
#Tools (Tiory Clark): Press this, posting by email, and other tools available on WordPress.com
##Technical Don’ts (Shanna Dixon): Terminology to avoid.
#Settings (Haley Clarke): The variety of settings users can change to tailor their WordPress.com blog to fit their needs
##Formatting (Amy Rehner): HTML, XHTML, Flash, streaming
#Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.Org (Andrew Clouse): Comparing and Contrasting WordPress.com and WordPress.org
##Graphics (Andrew Clouse): DPI, pixilation, resolution
##Structure (Siobahn Fisher): headlines, blurbs, lists
##Interactivity (Melissa Grantham): readability, scanability, linking


==Timeline==
==Timeline==
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