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		<title>Blog Comment Strategy for Day 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In looking at the challenge activity for today, I suddenly realized that I don’t have a particular Blog Commenting Strategy.
Prior to the challenge, I would comment under the following situations. I comment when
I find something or a post that I am interested in
If I think that an article has been done well, to leave praise
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Other Ways to Comment for Day 26</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the challenge for today was to think about using multimedia and other ways to comment on blogs I decided to review and explore some ways of using multimedia in this blog and for blog commenting.
My Voki
The first multimedia application that came to mind for today&#8217;s activity was the use of the Voki.
The Voki is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Your Favorite Online Educational Resources? / Day 14 Ruminations becomes the Readers&#8217; Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Challenge for today, Day 14,  is to turn the Ruminations Blog over to my readers, so I am opening the blog up to readers and fellow educators for comments on the following question:
What are your favorite online educational resources?
What I am looking for are the resources that you routinely share with colleagues that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 / Day 13 Write a Post Using Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The challenge for today was to write a blog post using a comment that someone had left on the Ruminations blog.
Michele Martin left this comment on my Ruminations Blog Audit / Day 10: Audit Comments on Your Own Blog
I agree with Sue that it might be about not knowing that they can comment or how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons *Not* to Become a Doctor / Day 8 Comment on a Blog Outside Your Niche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last semester I had one of my college students ask me if I was &#8220;the physician who gave up medicine to raise her children.&#8221; At first I thought this was an interesting rumor going around about me, spread by the students and then realized in many aspects it is true.
True my *clinical* medical career has [...]]]></description>
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