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		<title>The day the server went down&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-day-the-server-went-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We expected the worst when we heard that the server room had been flooded at school. Thus all access to networked computers, the Internet, email and printing was impossible. What to do? It seemed at every turn, the tasks we planned to do were unachievable. There was no access for students to log in and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=74&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Revive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been neglected of late, while trying to encourage others to get on board with Web 2.0 tools &#8211; which is a bit illogical when you think about it (though the time has been dedicated to another teaching blog). It&#8217;s now time to revive it, as I am currently participating in an online conference, Transforming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=64&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking inside the box- SimplyBox</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/thinking-inside-the-box-simplybox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively new Web 2.0 tool is known as SimplyBox. It provides the facilities to collect snippets from web pages (like Window Vista snip tool), provide links back to these (like Delicious) and enable sharing of details, pictures and links with friends and colleagues (like One-Note, Flickr, Facebook, etc.). So it has many tools in one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=58&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Wordle</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-wordle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded once again about this magical tool when reading through some posts on Blogging Corner recently. One of these (from Tania) expanded my thoughts on this and so I have tried playing once again with it. Tania spoke on her web site, Brave New World, about:  Using Hitler’s speech delivered in Munich in April, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=49&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Why 2 of Web 2.0 &#8211; Will Richardson at Syba Signs Conference</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/the-why-2-of-web-20-will-richardson-at-syba-signs-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sydney yesterday, Will Richardson spoke at some length about the skills developed at an early age by individual creative students &#8211; in spite of their schooling. He gave the example of 14 year old, Andrew Winton, who has recently schooled Will’s children about using Scratch (a new programming language that makes it easy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=43&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demanding questions &#8211; ala Jamie McKenzie</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/demanding-questions-ala-jamie-mckenzie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many educators today, while recognising the technological skills of Generations X and Y, often decry what the Internet is doing to their research and analytical skills. In a recent article on the Questioning.org website, Embracing Complexity, Jamie Mckenzie points to the way in which we as a society also wish to find simple answers to complex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=40&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After attending a recent conference, which had a lot to say about web 2.0, I decided to investigate Twitter and find out what other web 2.0 tools I might employ as a TL. Twitter is an application which enables you to make quick and sometimes quirky links with a whole range of different people, worldwide, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=39&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A blog is not an online diary!</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/a-blog-is-not-an-online-diary/</link>
		<comments>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/a-blog-is-not-an-online-diary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quite often people describe a blog as an online diary, and while to some extent and in some instances this could be true, I think it can be a misguided answer. Think about what a diary has been to most people &#8211; a place to write their secret thoughts, an account of their love life maybe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=31&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obstacles to adopting Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/obstacles-to-adopting-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/obstacles-to-adopting-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 tool were big on the agenda of School Libraries Leading Learning, the conference of ASLA NSW, held at the King&#8217;s School last weekend. Several comments were made about the slow adoption of these wonderful tools, but unfortunately in many schools there are often obstacles. Here are just a few observations on possible hitches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=16&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamics of Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://laptopnotes.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/dynamics-of-web-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previous post was edited due to changes which occurred in using Learnerblogs (to a focus on Edublogs instead), and since that time further changes have occurred. It is now easier to add students to a blog, using the Gmail option, but directly within Edublogs. This is available on the Users/ Blog &#38; User Creator [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laptopnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1865745&amp;post=11&amp;subd=laptopnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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