STJLabs

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About

Members of the St. Johnsbury Academy community constantly strive to make effective use of educational technology.

Faculty and staff from all corners of the campus are working on many different projects.

Project updates will be posted to STJLabs.com.

The technology integration efforts are being led by the Academic Technology Team whose mission is:

“We will play in the world of academic technology. We will produce and record real-world results that we will share with the St. Johnsbury Academy community and beyond.”

The ATT members are:

Jeff Burroughs Mathematics Assistant Headmaster for Academics Email Academy Profile Page Jeff’s Blog Posts	Kim Darling Art Email Academy Profile Page Kim’s Blog Posts
Sandra Mings-Lamar Language Email Academy Profile Page Sandra’s Blog Posts	Kendra Paupst Language Email Academy Profile Page Kendra’s Blog Posts
Karen Pontti Special Services Email Academy Profile Page Karen’s Blog Posts	John Sayarath Science Email Academy Profile Page John’s Blog Posts
Denise Scavitto Social Studies Email Academy Profile Page Denise’s Blog Posts	Josh Seamon Mathematics Director of Academic Technology Integration Email Academy Profile Page Josh’s Blog Posts

The STJLabs.com blog is run with WordPress and the following plugins:

Akismet

» Created by Automattic

Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

All in One SEO Pack

» Created by Michael Torbert

Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist

Allow PHP in posts and pages

» Created by Hit Reach

Allow PHP in posts and pages allows you to add php functionality to Wordpress Posts and Pages whilst still retaining HTML tags

Author Complete Post List

» Created by José Lopes

Displays the complete post list (all posts) of one Author including his participations as co-author.

Favicon Manager

» Created by Digital Ramble

Adds your favicon to your headers and/or rss feeds.

Google Analytics

» Created by Denis de Bernardy

Adds Google analytics to your blog, with various advanced tracking features enabled.

Hotfix

» Created by Mark Jaquith

Provides “hotfixes” for selected WordPress bugs, so you don’t have to wait for the next WordPress core release. Keep the plugin updated!

Jetpack by WordPress.com

» Created by Automattic

Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

List Plugins

» Created by SedLex

Create a list of the active plugins in a page (when the shortcode [list_plugins] is found).

The list may contain:

the name of the plugin,
the version,
the screenshots (up to 3 images),
a link to download the zip file of the current version.

Plugin developped from the orginal plugin WP-PluginsUsed.

This plugin is under GPL licence.

Post Levels

» Created by Filipe Fortes

Show private posts if user’s level is greater than or equal to the post level.

Posts by Author

» Created by Dagon Design

At the bottom of every post, links are shown for that author’s last X posts. See options page for config.

Role Manager

» Created by Thomas Schneider

Role Management for WordPress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x and 2.3.x..

Search Tags

» Created by Jesse Heap

Ensure wordpress TAGS are searched. Adapted from UTW

Simple Tagging

» Created by Amaury BALMER

Simple Tagging is another tagging plugin for Wordpress: smarter, better, faster :-)

Smarter Archives

» Created by rob1n

A unique way of displaying month links by year. Based on original code by Justin Blanton, but much enhanced. Licensed under the APL 2.0.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

» Created by Keith Dsouza

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.