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	<title>Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD &#187; Online Learning</title>
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	<description>Reflections from a Physician - Professor (ProfessorDoc) on Teaching in CyberSpace</description>
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		<title>Developing a Commenting Guide for Students on Day 29</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The challenge for today was to develop an age-appropriate student commenting guide. Since I deal with college and graduate students, trying to get things down to the level of an elementary school student wouldn&#8217;t enter the picture, unless I put on my parenting hat (I have one that will be in third grade in the [...]]]></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>Commenting in a Foreign Country Day 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 05:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me a bit of reflecting to figure out why this challenge&#8211;posting a message in a foreign language&#8211;was more challenging for me than most and why I ended up modifying the challenge.
Many of the people in my family of origin speak Finnish as a first language (my mother, aunt, uncles and many cousins), so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyzing Comments on the Ruminations Blog for Day 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The challenge for today courtesy Christy Tucker is to analyze the comments on your own blog, in particular looking at which posts generate conversations.
The idea of this challenges is that if you can determine which posts generated conversations, then you make be able to determine what made those past posts good conversation starters and incorporate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing Quality and Camaraderie / Day 15 Comment Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering to Give Praise
I don&#8217;t know why it is so difficult for some people to give praise. I know that praise within my medical education experience was very fleeting. I have found that giving praise isn&#8217;t *as lacking* in the education field; at least we remember to praise our students.
Since having children I have discovered [...]]]></description>
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