Monetizing Your Wordpress Website PBL Project

Contributed By

California Educators Together

Originally developed by

Jeffery Newton (View Original)

Subjects

English-Language Arts The Arts Information Technology

License

CC BY-SA

Standards

California Common Core State Standards - English Language Arts

CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Career Technical Education Framework for California Public Schools

AME.PS.D.D4.8 Define and discuss intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, and piracy as they relate to art and multimedia assets in a game.
AME.PS.A.A2.6 Create an artistic product that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design.
ICT.PS.C.C7.5 Create an online project, Web-based business, and e-portfolio.

Monetizing Your Wordpress Website PBL Project

This project introduces students to monitize their Wordpress website/blog. Students will have the skills needed to identify proper content writing and images for their blogs. Students will be able to create ads and affiliate offers needed to monitize their blog. Students will also be able to identify paid traffic sources and how drive traffic to their websites. The assessment will consist of two parts. One part will be a writtencontent for their website where the students will analyze using the online resource MarketMuse.com. The second part the students will be given an Adsense budget of $100 (free Adsense coupon) and see how many visitors click-through to their website. Bonus points will be given to those that actually make money from their website. Relevant careers would will be in the Computer Science and Programming industry and as a self employed web developer. This unit is brought to you by Jeffery Newton (CTE) with support from the CTE Online curriculum leadership team and detailed coordination provided by the Course Team Lead Mina Greas.