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Looking at blogging in education:
First: Congratulations! http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/ for WORD PRESS educational blogger Joyce Valenza, a librarian who keeps “Never Ending Search” 
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
http://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree/edition04/pdf/Blogging_to_Learn.pdf
 

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Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution,, a collection of essays edited by Bill  Henderson extols “the pencil’s unique virtues [as] both utilitarian and philosophical.” ”You can take it into the bathtub if you want to. . .the pencil is a spiritual instrument. Buddhist even. . . Mostly, the pencil represents a [...]

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The computer is extending human capacities to remember, to perceive, to think. It neither displaces these powers nor obviates our needs for them. Through technology, humanity augments itself, and humans are as responsible for their conduct with their powers augmented as they were without. As we extend our intellectual faculties with the computer, what human [...]

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