From the course: WordPress for Education

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Why WordPress?

Why WordPress?

- Why WordPress? Of all the tools available to us today, why might we want to choose WordPress for use in our classroom? From a teacher's perspective, you're probably asking yourself many different questions about this tool. Things like: "Will it align to my course learning objectives?" "Will it meet the needs of my students?" "Will it be a match for my own teaching philosophy?" "What new opportunities does this application open up for me and my classroom and my students?" And probably many other questions that you may have right now about WordPress. Perhaps we should back up just a little bit and understand what WordPress is. WordPress is an easy to use Open Source tool to help us share our thoughts and ideas with the world. It was designed as an Open Source Web Publishing Platform. And it's had two foundational concepts that have driven the development of this application from its inception. And the first is that of having a great user experience. Now this is really key because it…

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