At the end of the year we send our digital portfolios home with our students on a CDRom. As we've previously constructed our digital portfolios using PowerPoint or FrontPage this hasn't been straight forward, this year we're blogging with WordPress so how do we do it?
Actually its pretty easy using wget and a bit of vbscript.
1. Download and rewrite links using wget
wget -E -H -K -K -r --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \ http://blogs.concordsch.vic.edu.au --html-extension --page requisites --domains=blogs.concordsch.vic.edu.au,lumil.concordsch.vic.edu.au,scratch.concordsch.vic.edu.au,scuttle.concordsch.vic.edu.au,loops.concordsch.vic.edu.au
Note: This is the first time I've used wget like this so there may be unnecessary switches included.
This spider the all of the blogs and download them for offline viewing, rewriting all of the links in the process. Links to media and other pages will also be downloaded from specified domains (blogs.concordsch.vic.edu.au, lumil.concordsch.vic.edu.au)
2. Use vbscript to set individual student folders for burning to CDRom
A simple vbscript (or other) can be used to create the file structure for burning the CDRoms, most likely we'll delete all other blogs leaving only the individual student's blog. We're also going to make a static index page which describes the blogging program and why we're doing it, mostly for the benefits of the parents. The index page will then link to the static version of the student's blog. So the script will also need to rewrite the static link to point to the correct blog.
3. Burn and distribute
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