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		<title>Think About This!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, and material. Enjoy&#8230;


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		<link>http://edbuzz.org/djohnson/2010/03/think-about-this/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 at CCSAC 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from presenting at the California Charter Schools Conference in Sacramento. With so many topics and such diverse backgrounds it was quite enlightening. The interest in Web 2.0 technologies was intense. It seems to be one of the hottest topics and everyone is scrambling to learn how it can improve education.
As with any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/djohnson/2010/03/web-2-0-at-ccsac-2010/</link>
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		<title>New Moodle4iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Moodle app presents exciting opportunities for online learning!

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		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/03/new-moodle4iphone/</link>
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		<title>Dude!</title>
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I wish I had this when I was in school!
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		<link>http://edbuzz.org/Admin/2010/03/dude-5/</link>
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		<title>Shmoop: Learning Guides and Teacher Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shmoop is an online resource that provides learning guides and academic resources to help teachers make learning relevant. Shmoop provides free learning guides in seven subjects: literature, poetry, bestsellers, US History, civics, biography, and music. The learning guides are written by experts and contain analysis, interesting insight, questions, and multimedia for each topic. Check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/02/shmoop-learning-guides-and-teacher-resrouces/</link>
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		<title>New Social Networking Site Helps Teachers Create and Share Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week I finally had a chance to mess around with the curriculum sharing platform BetterLesson, and I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts.
The new social networking site is designed to help teachers create, organize and share lesson plans. Unlike traditional curriculum sharing websites, BetterLesson incorporates a unique curriculum organizing and filing system that enables [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/02/new-social-networking-site-helps-teachers-create-and-share-lessons/</link>
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		<title>ISTE&#8217;S Top Ten Edtech Priorities for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) recently released the organization&#8217;s top ten Edtech priorities for 2010. The overarching priority, so to speak, is a definite commitment to improving student achievement through the effective use of technology. According to ISTE, technology must be the &#8220;backbone of school improvement.&#8221;

With a growing expectation that both the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/02/istes-top-ten-edtech-priorities-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>A Few of My Favorite TEDTalks for Educators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TED is a nonprofit firm designed with the purpose of sharing  &#8220;ideas worth spreading.&#8221; Each year TED hosts important conferences that include world renowned speakers from different academic areas&#8211; science, math, business, education, etc. Through their program TEDTalks, the nonprofit provides viewers with free access to hundreds of these presentations online. Most of the &#8220;talks&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/02/afterthoughts-a-few-of-my-favorite-ted-talks-for-educators/</link>
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		<title>Should Schools Block Social Networking Sites?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites&#8211; YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.&#8211; is simply to restrict access on campus.  In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it&#8217;s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/02/should-schools-block-social-networking-sites/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to compete with more open social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook&#8217;s management made an important and very controversial decision in December to change the privacy settings for the popular social networking site. In a recent piece in ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez makes a few helpful recommendations users should take to protect their privacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2010/01/protecting-your-privacy-on-facebook/</link>
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