I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. – Socrates
One blogger chosen by “the internet” will win $10,000 US scholarship … for keeping a blog.
As the ratio of high school student blogs I read to the number of college student blogs I read approaches infinity, I think it a good time we troll a few of the best college bloggers in the US.
All STJ [...]
Try the following suggestions to increase your daily intake of news feeds.
Surf the latest headlines from all over the world. Results are based on google search rankings, the larger the font –> the more hits in google, I recall. Headlines link to an array of news organizations.
Aggregate a few headlines from, say, cbc.ca/rss in your [...]
CBC RSS feeds. Browse the many RSS feed categories. Select at least one to be added to your blog’s sidebar.
Copy(right-click or control-click) a feed url from CBC RSS feeds.
Go to Dashboard–>Presentation–>Sidebar Widgets–>Add RSS widgets.
Drag RSS widget to your sidebar.
Paste the url into the RSS widget.
Save and view site.
Write a page(not a post). Title it Sitemap.
You’ll find the code here that you’ll need to paste into your page.
Enter Sitemap as the Page Slug.
Disable Comments and Pings.
Publish.
Go to Dashboard–>Options–>DDSitemapGen.
Enter the same Slug, update.
Add the link to the sitemap via your theme’s menu or sidebar or add a Pages widget.
CTS InfoPro Module Outlines
Word Processing
Graphic Tools
HyperMedia Tools
Information Highway 2
Gallery2 integration works, mostly. Well the sidebar and full page embedding works, more to come. Activate WPG2 by pointing it to http://stjschool.org/gallery2/ and it should autodetect the rest. Then place the STJ Galley widget in your sidebar.
Subscribe2 allows you to email, automagically, site updates(a new post for example) to your subscribers. A new Subscribe link [...]
Or rather, Audio in Posts.
They’re not iTunesey podcasts, yet, but they’re simple enough.
Your mp3 file must be less than 2MB and uploaded to your blog in the normal way.
Go find the menu in Dashboard–>Options–>Audio Player.
Read the check boxes, the third check box will automagically change your mp3 links in your posts to embedded flash players. [...]
Click the images.
Before iBox
After iBox
Want to know how?
Start a thread in the forum, “How to iBox?”. When three STJ bloggers post, let me know and I’ll join in with the secret.
Find a “copyright-free” etext online at, say, Project Gutenberg or here or here
Start a new blog.
Parse your etext into manageable chunks and insert into your blog.
Add graphics and organizers. Edit theme. Voila.
Look at Castle of Otranto and The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France as examples.
Search for works by the following at Gutenberg:
Austen, [...]
The following smilies have an extra space after the first character so you can see them here in text form. Remove the space and the smiley appears in published posts.
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