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	<description>Insights and Ramblings of Lori Walljasper

Technology podcasts to support Programming, Networking, Web Design, Game Development, and Educational Technology</description>
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		<title>Picasa 3.8 Release has &#8220;Face Movie&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Picasa 3 ReadMe
The New version of Google&#8217;s Picasa Photo Organizing/Editing software has just gotten better.&#160; The coolest new feature is &#8220;Face Movie.&#8221;&#160; Combining the face recognition feature, I selected the Album of all of the photos that my daughter was in.&#160; I then told Picasa to make a face movie.&#160; What a great slideshow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Crafting with Duct Tape:  A Duct Tape Clutch Purse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this project.&#160; It combines the old technique of making gum wrapper chains with the new colorful duct tapes now available.&#160; I am seeing a zebra and black combination (maybe I&#8217;ll throw a little red in there just for fun, too) in my future!
Colorful Chain-link Duct Tape Clutch&#160;: general crafts&#160;: Shop &#124; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=249</link>
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		<title>Transfer of Carbonite to a new Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I transferred my subscription from Carbonite to my new computer, it transferred fine, but it seemed to be stuck and not backing up my files.&#160; Yikes!&#160; I thought it might be a Windows 7 issue.&#160; Finally, I decided to reinstall the software, and it is now working perfectly.Re-install Carbonite
Want to give it a try?&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Click and Shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, I find it easier to let my &#8220;fingers do the walking&#8221; when shopping for school supplies.  Amazon has just made it easier.  For college students, check out:


It is also required by law now that our college list textbooks that are to be used in our courses so that students can &#8220;shop&#8221; around for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Learning Styles for the Ageless Learner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning Styles Backgrounder :: Ageless Learner
Do we change styles as we become more mature in our learning?&#160; Do we become more flexible in the way we learn, and can we adapt to the different modalities that are thrown at us?
I thought this site had a nice approach to pulling many learning theories together and applying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Learning Styles for the Ageless Learner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning Styles Backgrounder :: Ageless Learner
Do we change styles as we become more mature in our learning?&#160; Do we become more flexible in the way we learn, and can we adapt to the different modalities that are thrown at us?
I thought this site had a nice approach to pulling many learning theories together and applying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Publish to Facebook from Jing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this link to learn more about using Jing for screen capture videos that can be published directly to Facebook with the click of a button!
The Facebook Button &#8211; Jing Help Center

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		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=237</link>
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		<title>You Tube Tip from Paula Henry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question:   If I am watching a YouTube video and I want to share what is said 4 minutes and 21 seconds into the video, how do I get the video to start at the 4 minute and 21 second mark?
Answer: Copy and paste the YouTube video URL and add  the  following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Google 20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the AITP National Collegiate Conference, I attended a session on creating collaborative online communities for students.&#160; One idea was hiring student bloggers to introduce people to technologies and encourage careers for women and minority groups in the IT area.&#160; They showed a video (which I haven&#8217;t found yet, but I&#8217;m still looking) about women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=233</link>
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		<title>User Account Control Fixes SoftChalk License</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my Windows 7 machine, I had trouble installing my Softchalk software that I love to use for course design.&#160; I found this answer, and it worked like a charm!
SoftChalk FAQ &#8211; The five questions posted most recently:
Windows 7 is my operating system. I am having trouble entering my license information. What should I do?Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=231</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Picasa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picasa 3: Free download from Google
I have been using Google&#8217;s Picasa for quite some time, but I didn&#8217;t have the newest version (nor did I access Picasaweb) before I upgraded my computer system.&#160; This new version allows me to use face recognition so that it can find all the pictures with a certain person in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=229</link>
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		<title>Create and Share your own Knowlege Base with Knol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knol &#8211; a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your expertise.&#160; I ran across this when I was looking up something in Google Help.&#160; It sounds real interesting.&#160; Some of its uses might be:&#160; helpdesk repository, teaching repository, journal, writing a book, nuggets of knowledge&#8230;&#160; I plan on doing a little experimenting with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Songsmith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Research Songsmith
I am going to download this.&#160; I think the girls will love to use it.&#160; Okay, who am I kidding &#8212; I want to play with it, too!&#160; I think it will especially be fun for Christmas tunes we make up.&#160; I haven&#8217;t found out what it exports to &#8212; maybe it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=225</link>
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		<title>You Convert It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video &#38; Archives)
I was looking for something to convert an Access ACCDB file, and stumbled upon this link.&#160; Unfortunately, it did not work for my file; but this looked interesting enough to keep a link on it to try again in the future!


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		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=221</link>
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		<title>C++ Compiler Error C2360</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compiler Error C2360&#160; I was getting this error after I added another case to a switch statement. This link proved to be helpful in rearranging those silly {}&#8217;s.
&#160;I am currently running the 2010 Beta 2 version of Visual Studio.


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		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Attaching your Flickr Account to Email and Your Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flickr: Help: Photos &#8211; This link helps you add tags when you upload via email or phone to your special flickr email address.
Basically, whatever you type in the Subject line becomes the photo&#8217;s title.&#160; Whatever you type in the body of the message becomes the photo description.&#160; Then type tags:&#160; tag1, tag2, &#8220;really cool&#8221;, tag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Family-Friendly Christian Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I probably prefer a little more &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; games than I do any of the more &#8220;mature&#8221; games.&#160; I found this site with demo games and thought it looked interesting.&#160; I have downloaded the demos &#8212; they even have some beta pre-releases on the site, but I haven&#8217;t had a change to look at them.&#160; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Cisco Mind Share Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco Mind Share Game &#8211; The Cisco Learning Network
I downloaded the demo version of this game for three purposes:
1.&#160; To see if this would be helpful in studying for the CCNA exam.2.&#160; To evaluate it for the Game Design class.3.&#160; To see if I might want to buy it for $49.95.
As I first opened the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Entering WOW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been over a year since I first blogged about creating a game as enveloping as WOW.  Well, I finally made the plunge!  Recently, a student sent me a &#8220;Recruit a Friend&#8221; trial membership.  I am going to attempt to blog my adventures.
First, I had to create a character.  My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Rosy the Robot &#8211; the Roomba Robot, That is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a recommendation from three of my friends who have a Roomba that they are well worth the money and work great.  I finally broke down and bought one at our local Menards.  I got a basic model &#8212; no base unit and one &#34;wall.&#34;  I charged the unit overnight, and set it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Go Green with Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I have always been a &#8220;green gal.&#8221;  I believe in preserving the environment &#8212; I take a bag along on walks to pick up trash along the way, I recycle, I reuse&#8230;  Recently, I have been experimenting with making my own cleaning products.  I found a book (yes, at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=201</link>
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		<title>Get Unstuck!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Hourglass Solution is about getting out of your stuck state and learning that you do have the power to make choices.  One of those choices is attitude.  As I am &#8220;stuck&#8221; in an extreme version of the &#8220;Sandwich Generation,&#8221; I am finding it difficult to care for two small children and an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=198</link>
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		<title>Summer Reading &#8212; Lifelong Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do I use a library?
Well, I first locate the children&#8217;s section followed by the &#8220;NEW&#8221; non-fiction books.  Hopefully, they are in a close proximity of each other so that I can keep an eye on my children and browse the new books at the same time.
Although this is my method whenever I go to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=193</link>
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		<title>Using Groups Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Team Based Learning (TBL) in my face-to-face (F2F) classes this past semester.  The  course admin tab of our eCollege CMS (course management system) allows us to set up groups for our online classes.
I always assign groups in my classes.  I feel like this might be a little more difficult in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Lemonade???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After taking my mother to the doctor on the wrong day and having her walker break when it fell out of the van when I got her home, I was not looking for my day to go any better when I returned to the AT&#38;T Store to try to get my iPhone issues resolved.
With no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=184</link>
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