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		<title>Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! I hope that you all enjoyed restful and happy Thanksgiving holidays.
I wanted to share the 2009 List of the Top 100 Tools for Learning. This list, compiled by the Center for Learning &#38; Performance Technologies, describes the top technology teaching tools of the year. You can learn more about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/30/top-100-tools-for-learning-2009/</link>
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		<title>Facebook ideas for instructors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Monday to all! Can you believe that it is Thanksgiving week?! I hope that you all enjoy a happy, restful, and turkey-filled Thanksgiving!  
Instructors ask me fairly often how they can use Facebook, or if they should use Facebook, or why shouldn&#8217;t they use Facebook, or&#8230;you get the idea.
I want to share a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/23/facebook-ideas-for-instructors/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing: what is it and why should we care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not heard, cloud computing (CC) is an emerging topic in geek circles everywhere. You will probably start seeing commercials referencing it soon, as a variety of companies try to provide us with the next generation of business solutions. So what is cloud computing? Well, “the cloud” refers to the internet and “computing” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/16/cloud-computing-what-is-it-and-why-should-we-care/</link>
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		<title>Presenting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few days this past week preparing for two presentations I am giving next week. I am giving one presentation to a group of students on Monday, where we will discuss presentation skills. My other presentation next week is to the Board of Trustees at Texas Wesleyan. Believe it or not, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/14/presenting/</link>
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		<title>Reel-in Your Online Stragglers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Arturo Ozuna, Instructional Designer
Arturo here with a  tip for all you online instructors. As busy as we all are, it is important to remember how busy our students are as well. In my case, I worked two and sometimes three jobs throughout my college years. It was very easy for me to forget school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/12/reel-in-your-online-stragglers/</link>
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		<title>Do something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the Christmas trees are on display, radio stations are starting to pipe the Christmas tunes&#8230;the holiday season, whether we want it or not, is arriving. I am always a little irked when the decorations go up in October but, by mid-November, I am ready to start feeling a little jolly. So, consider me jolly.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/11/do-something/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m coming clean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s admission time&#8230;I&#8217;ll start&#8230;
1. I am really really bad at keeping this blog current. I forget about it, I forget to update it&#8230;and, honestly, I don&#8217;t even know if anyone is looking at it. You may ask, &#8220;why do you keep the blog?&#8221; Great question. Here&#8217;s why: we (the CETL) don&#8217;t always do a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/im-coming-clean/</link>
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		<title>The Tipping Point Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Meghan Foster, Instructional Technologist
Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s &#8220;The Tipping Point&#8221; attempts to explain why certain sociological events are subject to dramatic and often unexpected changes. He opens with several examples (teen smoking, crime, &#38; Hush Puppies sales) where these phenomena do not follow a slow and steady decrease or increase as common definable predictors could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/10/02/the-tipping-point-review/</link>
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		<title>Hacking it and other ideas&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Tuesday to all!
I wanted to post a quick blog entry about a few new instructional resources I found. I hope that one or some of these resources will have value to you as well. Feel free to reply to this post with questions about these resources or with any of your own resources to share.
First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/09/29/hacking-it-and-other-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Coffee cup insights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following question was posed on a Starbucks coffee cup:

At first, I wondered&#8230;what if young people saw themselves in that way? The thing is&#8230;this generation of students often DOES see itself in this way. Research indicates that young people are more engaged politically and socially than previous generations. 
We mistake young people&#8217;s variable voting rates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningobsessed.edublogs.org/2009/08/26/coffee-cup-insights/</link>
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