1. Go to Settings > Discussion.
   
2. In the “Comment Blacklist” section, enter the keywords you want to block, one word per line.
   

Note that any comment that contains any of the blocked words will automatically be blacklisted.

1. Go to the new Menu option in the Appearance subpanel:
   
2. Enter a name for your menu (this doesn’t show up anywhere), and click on Create.
   
3. Select menu items from existing Pages and/or Categories, and click on the Add to Menu button.
   
4. You can also add any URL as a menu item using the Custom Links panel.
5. The menu items you’ve added appear in your menu as drag-able objects. Simply click and drag to reorder your items. You can even create a drop-down menu by placing menu items under another item, indented.
   
6. Finally, in order to activate your menu, you need to select it in the Theme Locations panel and save.
   
7. My menu from this example (using the TwentyTen theme) looks like this:
   

Enjoy your new menu!

1. Reboot your computer and try again. Sometime connections between your workstation and the webserver become frozen, which is fixed with a simple reboot.
2. Toggle the Passive FTP setting: If it is checked, uncheck it and try connecting again. If it is not checked, try checking it or turning it on. For Dreamweaver users it is under Manage Sites > Remote Info.
3. VPN: For security reasons, you must be on the KS network in order to FTP. If you are on campus, don’t worry about this. If you are at home, you need to first connect to VPN in order to FTP. Click here to check your IP address, if it starts with a 10.x.x.x, you are on the KS network and should be able to connect.
4. Proxy: The latest Apple Security Update changed a proxy setting that causes problems for OSX users trying to FTP. To fix, go to System Preferences > Network > Advanced > Proxies, then uncheck the “Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)” checkbox. Click on OK, then Apply.
   

If these tips don’t help, check if you can reach the webserver itself. Try browsing to your website, if you cannot view your website in your browser, try viewing another website on the server like http://kapalama.ksbe.edu. If you can’t view any of these websites, you may have been blocked by the webserver’s IDS (Intrusion Detection System). Don’t feel bad, this is an unfortunate by-product of server security: a balancing act of trying to keep the bad guys out while allowing the good guys in. Contact the Help Desk and request to be removed from the blocklist.

Here are some options you can use to try and compress your video without losing too much quality. When exporting or saving your video:

• Set resolution to 400×300 or even smaller, 240×180 (the smaller the resolution the lower the quality)
• Choose mp3 as the audio compression
• Use mono versus stereo for audio settings
• Try mpeg4 or H.264 for video codec used in the exporting

You can also embed videos posted to other video sharing websites such as YouTube or Vimeo by following the instructions here.

How to embed Voicethread (and other flash) videos:
Note that this will not work for all flash video sites, it depends on how open the video site chooses to be.

1. Copy embed code from Voicethread, find URL to video within the embed code (highlighted text):

2. When writing new Post, click on Flash button (silver f, second from right) in toolbar:

3. Paste in URL from embed code:

4. Enter 400 for width, then 300 for height when prompted.

5. Publish your post and test.

6. Pau!

The good news is by default, comments are moderated, so they never make it to the blog’s public view (please do not change this setting). The blog admin simply has to delete the offending comments. We are currently using several anti-spam technologies which catch most of the comment spam, but some will still make it through. This is a normal part of blogging.

2. Paste in the YouTube video URL, then click OK:

3. Publish your post and enjoy!

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On the Add New Post page, above the area where you enter your post contents you’ll see the Add Media section:

Click on the star icon (last one), then browse to the file you want to upload, select it then click on Upload. Enter a caption or description if you want to (it’s optional), then click on the Insert into Post button on the bottom. If the Link URL field is blank, you’ll need to first click on the File URL button before clicking on Insert into Post.

A hyperlink to your document will be created in your post. Pau!

1. Visit the Blackboard login page at http://bb.ksbe.edu, and click on the Forgot Password link.
   
2. Enter your First Name, Last Name, and Username (or Email) and click on Submit.
   
3. If it finds your BB account, the system will email you a link that you can use to reset your password. If your account cannot be found, contact the Help Desk.

1. Launch the ColorSync Utility in Applications > Utilities, and click on Filters.
2. Click on the Plus sign button at the bottom left to add a new custom Filter, I called mine “Reduce Filesize Mid-Quality.”
3. Click on the little triangle to the right of the filter to add an effect, select Image Effects > Image Compression.
   
4. Choose JPEG as the Mode, and drag the slider to select the quality level you want. When I experimented with different levels, I found that the Min setting actually yields a pretty good quality, and results in the smallest filesize.
   
5. Now in Preview, open the PDF you would like to shrink, go to File > Save As and select PDF as the Format and change the Quartz Filter to the one created above, and click on Save.
   
6. Enjoy your new smaller PDF!

The file I tested with shrank from 12.2 MB to 1.7 MB, so the difference is substantial.

How to embed Vimeo (and other flash) videos:
Note that this will not work for all flash video sites, it depends on how open the video site chooses to be.

1. Copy embed code from Vimeo, find URL to video within the embed code:

2. When writing new Post, click on Flash button (silver f, second from right) in toolbar:

3. Paste in URL from embed code:

4. Enter 400 for width, then 300 for height when prompted.

5. Publish your post and test.

6. Pau!

1. First upload the swf file, then send to editor, then click on the “Code tab” to get the full URL to the swf file. The full URL will start with http://… and end with .swf – Copy the full URL you will need it in the next step.

2. Click on  the silver “F” icon on the Visual text editor when writing a post

3. Paste the full URL to the swf file into the pop-up dialog box:

4. Enter 400 for width, then 300 for height when prompted. You can play with these numbers to see what works best if you are unsure of the file size.

5. Publish your post and test.

Getting the correct embed  code for TeacherTube is a little tricky, and may not always work, remember, you can always simply link to their website.

1. Copy the Embeddable w/ Video Search code:

2. Paste into a text editor so you can modify the code, you should see this:

3. Look for the highlighted code above and replace with ‘?flashvars=’ without quotes, the code you end up with should look like the example below:

4. Now to embed the video, when writting a post, click on Flash button (silver f, second from right) in toolbar:

5. Paste in the embed code from step 3 above:

6. Enter 400 for width, then 300 for height when prompted.
7. Publish your post and test.
8. Pau!

Note: Sometimes the TeacherTube embed code will not work after you save more than once. In this case, simply paste the modified code again into your post and save.

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http://blogs.ksbe.edu/hms/2007/08/28/lunar-eclipse-last-night/trackback/

This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip. This was our trip.

These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week. These are the words of the week.

youngfolks.mp3

This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy. This element is very heavy.

Here are the words:

• asdlf
• asdf
• adsfa
• asdf
• asdf ā

song title

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Here are the results of last week’s quiz.

wpdk_writepost.mov

emerge.m4a

taylorcchrislibrary.mov