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   <title>Keeping Your Kitchen in Order</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I know you don&#8217;t want to admit it, but we all know that you love Kitchen Nightmares as much as I do. I actually enjoy cooking shows of all sorts and like applying their lessons to my somewhat limited selection of Kansas delicacies, which are generally limited to cuts of select beef in different shapes. [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 22, 2012.  
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   <title>Web Analytics, Anyone?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[As Abbott &#38; Costello demonstrate in this classic video, if you don&#8217;t ask the right question, you can end up going around in circles without ever answering the pertinent questions. As anyone who has worked with web analytics knows, there is a dizzying amount of information available to measure user behavior on your web site. [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 22, 2012.  
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   <title>What Social Online Experience Do Students Expect from Your School?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Technology has enabled students and colleges to accomplish a lot online. Gone are the days of waiting in line to register for classes or even sitting in a classroom! More colleges are moving courses, orientations and administrative tasks online. Sounds great and efficient, right? Yes, but if you've read our new eBook, you know that [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>It Doesn't Matter What YOU Think</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I once got in an extremely heated debate with several people who were passionately opposed to one idea: Flash mobs. They argued their point for a good half hour, raising their voices, climbing up on chairs, accusing me of catering to the lowest common denominator. You would have thought I kicked a puppy. What they [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Why MOOCS Should Be In Your Marketing Plan</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[As reported on the Daily Texan, student debt hit $914 billion during this year&#8217;s second quarter. Unemployment stood at 8.3 percent during the summer season. With increasing student debt numbers and the struggling job market, a college education seems to be an exponential monetary burden that weighs little in the competitive, idle job market. As [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Build your social strategy in Social Media Marketing Boot Camp. Get $50 off with code GURU50</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=3866</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Sometimes we come across offers that we think would be really interesting/valuable to the community that we want to pass along. The following is a guest post from Mediabistro promoting their Social Media Marketing Boot Camp where .eduGuru readers can also get a $50 discount if you choose to sign up. How are you building [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>84% of Schools Report Traditional Marketing Methods Alone Are Not Enough</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[To anyone who has been reading this blog for any amount of time the headline here isn't anything new. We might have felt this way for years, but a new report by CUnet finally gives us the data we have been looking for to support our gut feeling. This report has some very revealing numbers, [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>OPENBLOCKPresentationCLOSEBLOCK Understanding Your Marketing Funnel</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=3864</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Last week I spoke on a panel at the University Aviation Association annual conference. As part of this panel each presenter was asked to put together a short presentation on a subject. I focused mine on Understanding Marketing Funnels. Our regular readers have seen me write on this subject a lot because one of the [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>OPENBLOCKPresentationCLOSEBLOCK Inbound School Marketing: Is Your Website Helping the Bottom Line?</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=3862</link>
   <description><![CDATA[I had a couple of people ask about the slides from my presentation at HighEdWeb &#8217;12 yesterday so I&#8217;m happy to get these up here. The guys at Converge Consulting were awesome enough to livestream the presentation and you can view it here. (Sorry the first few minutes were cut off) Presentation Description: The rules [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Retain Students with Social Media and... Viral Emails?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Are you looking for ways to start recruiting students for your school through social media? Attracting applicants to your college through emails and social media is bound to become an important part of your strategy if you expect to grow your enrollment in the coming years. Students are taking a more active part in the [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>How to Stay Secure: Tips and Tricks for Password Security</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[There are times when the prestissimo advancing tech world seems to be a scared little kitten against the flagella of hackers, crackers and the like, with their unforgiving onslaught penetrating every sphere within the realm. In such turbulent conditions, what are the measures, if any, that a user may take in order to stay safe? [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>A Special Thanks From Three the HEWEB Way</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s that time folks. HighEdWeb 2012 is now upon us, and thanks to the generous donations of many of you, we were able to help send three lucky folks there who would not have been able to go otherwise. We wanted to take a moment and publicly thank everyone that made this possible. If [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Online Lead Generation For Distance Education Universities</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=3858</link>
   <description><![CDATA[In marketing, lead generation is the online interest and inquiries of a service or product made by prospective customers. For universities and online colleges, lead generation is potential students&#8217; interest or inquiry in obtaining an education. The goal of lead generation for a business is to create sales leads and revenue, and educational institutions can [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Survey Results: What Are the Most Useful Features of Your Website?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The famous XKCD "University Website" comic has made the rounds of higher education web professionals for quite some time, even spurring this amusing .eduGuru post suggesting schools redesign their websites based on the calendar. We thought we'd revisit the comic in the light of a recent survey we conducted. Hundreds of students from Cornell University, [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=13" class="stealth">.eduGuru</a>, November 8, 2012.  
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   <title>General Astronomy 101 Discussion Board_Off topic discusions_Some cool ideas?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;how about a solar panel?&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=644" class="stealth">D2L Discussion</a>, September 25, 2012.  
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   <title>General Astronomy 101 Discussion Board_Astronomy 101 _New post</title>
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   <title>Solar Energy_Solar Energy_My Input</title>
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   <title>Discuss grades_Grade Discussion_New grade item out of 10</title>
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   <title>Forum 3_Forum 3 Topic 1_Hello</title>
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   <title>Here is an item</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[This is the description of the item <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=643" class="stealth">D2L Test</a>, September 14, 2012.  
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   <title>Design and Innovation with Ruk-bug</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[3 Sheep are proud to announce that Ruk-bug, the most innovative name in children's pushchairs, has chosen us as their digital partner.
Ruk-bug's ground breaking Migration pushchair launches at the Harrogate Nursery Fair 25-27 March 2012. Migration has a ground breaking anti-tip design, has a one-handed folding mechanism, can fit into the boot of a small car and it can be carried as a back pack.
Using [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>The Year of the Digital Games</title>
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With the London 2012 Olympic Games starting imminently, we can expect to see sporting history being made and we also stand on the edge new digital milestones too.
Social Media will be at the forefront this summer's sporting events. A casual search for international sports stars on Twitter gives us, the general public, unfettered and unique insight into their preparations, accommodation and reactions. [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>FTN – Now in the App Store!</title>
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3 Sheep are pleased to announce the release of FTN &#8211; the navigation app for iPhone. FTN stands for &#8216;Follow the Needle&#8217;, an app that enables you to flag your location and find your way back to it later using an in-app compass. Save and share locations via social media and download useful location 'packs'. Watch: How FTN Works 		
    [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Find My Tent Festival List</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The latest update for 3 Sheep's iPhone festival app, Find My Tent is now available. Find My Tent Festival App now contains a list of this year's major festivals in addition to its exiting great features: Store your tent location
Take images and record audio and text descriptions to help describe your tent location.
Store multiple festival site locations and venues
Share stored locations via social media 
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Click here to [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>TR&amp;DE – Apps for Business</title>
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3 Sheep presentation by Founder and Chief Shepherd, Stuart Smith on how apps can be used in Business to Business at Targeting Research and Development for Export event held at Grant Thorton Offices at the Liver Building Liverpool.
Download a PDF of the presentation.
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   <title>No 'New' is Good 'News'</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The 3 Sheep gang recently went on a geek pilgrimage to the Gadget Show Live 2012 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. With the exception of kamikaze RC helicopters (immense fun), at first glance we were a tad underwhelmed, with very little tickling our collective ovine fancy. In blackjack terms the mood seemed to be  stick when we were looking for twist. Digging a little [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Find My Tent Festival App</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[In eager anticipation of the festival season, 3 Sheep are pleased to announce a major new upgrade to Find My Tent, their iPhone app that uses GPS technology to 'remember' where your tent and other key festival locations are.
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Watch how Find My Tent Works Flag your current location
Find my Tent allows you to use your iPhone&#8217;s GPS technology to store your current location and find your [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>3 Sheep Signatures for WordPress</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[3 Sheep is proud to announce 3 Sheep Signatures, a FREE and easy to use WordPress plugin for including signatures in posts and pages. The plugin allows you create and maintain a number of individual signatures that can be added into posts and pages using short codes.
Frequent blogging and the regular addition of new content to your website are essential tools in the process of [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Response to Cluster not Bluster</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mulling Malcolm Evans wake-up call to the Digital industries of the United Kingdom&#8217;s North West over the pass few days. His Cluster not Bluster blog post at Corporate Finance North West lays into some of the prevalent practices of the Digital Sector, not just in the NW but worldwide.
The main themes I pick out from Malcolm&#8217;s piece are: The need for &#8220;deep knowledge&#8221; in [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Digital Festival Companion</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Buoyed by the improving weather, the impressive achievements of athletes at the Olympics and the prospect of seeing one or two bands on reunion tours, excitement levels are about to reach fever pitch as we approach the pinnacle of the festival season.
Whether you are off to one of the uber festivals like Leeds/Reading, V Festival and Burning Man or, like some of the 3 Sheep [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=15" class="stealth">3 Sheep » Blog</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>After the Beyond the Textbook Forum</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Photo by Joyce Valenza, who came in spite of her broken knee I had originally intended to append yesterday&#8217;s blog post with more information about, and from the forum.  But I think that I have a little more to say than I left room for yesterday. First of all, I left the Discovery Communication Headquarters [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Beyondthetextbook Forum</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[At this moment, I&#8217;m sitting in my hotel room in Silver Spring, Maryland, and continuing to think #beyondthetextbook. I will likely continue to grow this particular blog entry as the next two days progress at the Discovery Communications Headquarters, just a couple of blocks away. Blog and Print Articles about &#8220;the other side of textbooks&#8221; [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>The Nextbook Must Be...</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[&#160; (cc) janthepea For a science fiction look at textbooks, read about The Young Lady&#8217;s Illustrated Primer in The Diamond Age and Ender&#8217;s desk in Ender&#8217;s Game. If you have other suggestions, please comment. &#160; A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Tom Whitby, wrote a blog article, We Don&#8217;t Need No Stink&#8217;n Textbooks. I [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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         <pubDate>Sat, 8 Sep 2012 12:23:11 -0400</pubDate>
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   <title>About Creativity from Jonah Lehrer</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Jonah Lehrer We hurried back from Cullowhee Thursday so that I could see Jonah Lehrer talk about his new book, Imagine, at the Quail Ridge Bookstore in Raleigh.  We&#8217;d been in Cullowhee for events leading up to the installation of Western Carolina University&#8217;s new chancellor, Dr. David Belcher.  Brenda and I both graduated from WCU [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Learning Analytics and the Hands of Evil</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s Afraid of the Power (cc) Flickr Photo by Emersunn I just learned about &#8220;learning analytics&#8221; from Audry Waters, a blogger/journalist whom I am reading with increasing regularity. Reporting on the recent Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference in Vancouver, Waters shared a phrase that was used often at the conference, &#8220;data exhaust.&#8221; The first time [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>David's "Great Moments in EdTech History"</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Dean Shareski wrote a blog post (Great Moments in EdTech History), where he said, I wanted to look back at my personal journey into educational technology and share a few instances of "aha moments" that I think many can relate to. I so agreed with the items on his list – [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Who Wouldn't Want Students to Learn Critical Thinking Skills?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I mentioned this on some social networks the other day, but thought I&#8217;d post it here as well. I recently got a call from an automated polling service, which promised me a trip for two to the Bahamas if I would complete the short political survey. I pressed the number for &#8220;yes,&#8221; more out of [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Becoming Future-Ready</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Future-Ready Students for the 21st Century&#8221; It&#8217;s the title of the goals document for the North Carolina State Board of Education and it begins with, &#8220;..every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st Century.&#8221;  I&#8217;d love to ask that appointed [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Education Blogger Survey</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[I learned, via Hack Education, about a survey from the Institute of Educational Technology (The Open University). Announced by Alice Bell in her blog, the study is based on work they did last year exploring brain bloggers (early data). Go here to get and complete the survey, and do it now – because today&#8217;s the [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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   <title>Should the Tools Drive the Learning?</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[(cc) photo by MrPessimist I spent Wednesday morning at the &#8220;Every Teacher Every Learner&#8221; conference in College Park Georgia. The event was organized by Woodward Academy and mostly for private school teachers from the area. I talked about contemporary literacy (learning-literacy) and about new pedagogies. In reviewing and commenting on the backchannel transcript this morning, [...] <a  href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=14" class="stealth">2¢ Worth</a>, September 8, 2012.  
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