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		<title>VoiceThread Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I mentioned VoiceThread before &#8211; the marvelous web site that lets you present a slide show and record comments, captions &#38; doodles. The other innovation of VoiceThread is you can invite others to comment as well, creating a visually guided dialog about&#8230; well, anything.
One of my favorites:
See also Kenya Escape, the incredibly powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Holiday Wish List&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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Sometimes, I want something because it just looks like so much fun&#8230;  Wacom clearly wants us to think that about their new graphics tablet, so they&#8217;ve put fun in the name: the Bamboo Fun, a spiffy little (or medium) USB graphics tablet that has a &#8220;pen and paper feel,&#8221; a patented &#8220;touch ring&#8221; (think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flocabulary &#8211; Learning to a hip hop beat&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flocabulary &#8220;&#8230;uses the educational power of hip-hop music to foster literacy and promote academic success in the classroom and beyond.&#8221;  In other words, get your kids to study by delivering content to a hip hop beat.  You can listen to tracks online or purchase books and CD&#8217;s.
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		<title>The Learning Toolbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assistive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Learning Toolbox, from James Madison University&#8217;s special education program, provides tools, strategies and resources to help students with learning difficulties become better learners.
When you arrive on the site, you can choose &#8220;I am a Student,&#8221; &#8220;I am a Teacher,&#8221; or &#8220;I am a Parent,&#8221; which takes you to an appropriate page for getting around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATMac &#8211; Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATMac is a blog that offers news, reviews and opinions on assistive technology for Mac OS X, by Ricky Buchanan who is himself an avid Mac and AT user.&#160; Organized by type of user, for example &#8220;text-to-speech users,&#8221; or &#8220;deaf users,&#8221; or &#8220;primary switch users,&#8221; and by audience (&#8221;content producers,&#8221; &#8220;developers,&#8221; &#8220;edcuators,&#8221; &#8220;users&#8221;), you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edison Student Animators Gets its Start!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just had our first of two weekend workshops for students interested in stop motion animation with Legos and other stuff.  I worked with 2 students (4th &#38; 5th grade) who helped lead the workshop, and another 5th grader who signed on for tech support.  With 14 other 4th and 5th graders as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to access audio books from RFBD</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/rfbd/2007/11/27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic

Recording for the Blind &#38; Dyslexic &#8211; For 60 years, RFB&#38;D, a national nonprofit, volunteer organization, has produced accessible educational materials                    for students with disabilities that make reading standard print difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Publishing Wiki</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/student-publishing-wiki/2007/11/20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I approach a new session of my after school publishing program, I decided to use a wiki to see if I could help make the process clearer to students and give them more opportunities to work independently. My Edison Student Publishers Wiki includes information about the program, and tips to help my 3rd-5th grade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sites for Kids to Publish Online</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/kidspublishonline/2007/11/17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a query from a teacher on behalf of her first grader who wants to &#8216;get into publishing,&#8217; here are some links to online sites that encourage or allow students to publish their work online:

Tips for children publishing on the Internet. &#124; NetAlert &#8211; From the Australian government, a helpful set of safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn a Foreign Language Online &#8211; for free!</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/mango_languages/2007/11/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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&#160;
Mango Languages &#8211; HomeMango beta is an online language learning system freely available to everyone. Learn at your own pace with a suite of features that make language learning more engaging and fun.
(tags: multilingual free cooltools tutorials language/foreignlang)

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