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February 2010: Update your blog, email, and forum settings

Check your email:

manage your contacts
deal with your spam
organize mail into folders
turn chat on/off
create or update a spreadsheet document

Login to (or create) your blog:

update your profile – email address
manage your comments
manage your links
update your tagline
manage your categories and tags
confirm your privacy settings
confirm your theme
manage your sidebar widgets
enable/disable a plugin or two

Login (or register) to STJ Forums:

update [...]

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dsader Wins 2008 WPMU Plugin Competition

Today, I won first place in the first WPMU Plugin competition for a plugin called “Toggle Admin Menus“. The plugin allows SiteAdmins to reshape the core user menu system for WordpressMU.
Here at STJ I needed the plugin to simplify the admin menus for students for a couple of reasons. First, some core menus had [...]

Tags: digital citizens, edublogs, education technology specialist, language arts curriculum, menu system, simplicity, student interaction, walled garden
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Focus Questions for LA 9, English 10, and English 20

After mulling over the possibilities of focus in my own mind, discussion in the STJ forums amongst students, and reflecting on literature choices from the first two weeks of class I’ve decide the following:
Language Arts 9 will focus on “The Human Condition – In Search of Self.” Early course discussions emphasized relationships (family and friends) [...]

Tags: focus questions, literature choices, personal happiness, social criticism, world perspectives
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Are your posts “readable”?

I’ve added a bit of mumbo jumbo to the edit-post form to show readability stats. The function shows word/sentence count and:
The Gunning-Fog index gives the number of years of education needed to understand the text. Short, plain sentences score better than long, complicated sentences. Based on words per sentence and “hard” words per [...]

Tags: english teacher, flesch kincaid, gunning fog index, linguistics, syllables
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Big changes in the Mac Lab

The new MacPro server is set up and ready to go and each new iMac is lit up and rolling. Still a couple install bugs I have to sort out: like naming each computer(minor error at startup as Leopard assigns its own name). They should get you to the net and back.
I’ve spent far more [...]

Tags: critical thinking, focus question, mac lab, random idea generator, reminders, rollout
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Welcome back

Welcome back

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Semester Begins: Overcoming Tech Obstacles

Welcome to new STJ bloggers. No doubt you are learning new skills very quickly, but take your time to figure it all out, depend on each other, and ask questions of your teacher.
Grade 9 bloggers overcame a snag in the STJ email server(again!). The server simply stopped sending email until our division techies fixed the [...]

Tags: anachronism, auto magic, Blogging Tips, correct ip, grade 9, incoming server, internet cable, Julius Caesar, niners, no doubt, outgoing server, registration confirmation, router server, rss aggregators, server farms, simultaneous connections, snag, stj, trace routes, user profiles
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