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		<title>BYOC to the classroom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, BYOC does not mean bring your own cocktail although there are days… &#60;Smile&#62; what it does mean is to bring your own computer to the classroom. Now this is not a new topic to education but today I am going to give it a slightly different spin that just might cause a few folks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Open Source Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a day goes by that I do not hear something about Open Source software. This could have something to do with the side of education I work in and/or the current state of the economy. Now, before I dive into my rant, I do want to make it clear I am not against free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Two Giants Help Me&#8230; Thanks Microsoft &#38; Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last year I changed jobs and I now have a unique situation where I work with and for two separate districts.&#160; It sounds like fun and it is.&#160; However, it does create a few challenges. 
We all know email is a wonderful tool but managing two separate email systems with two separate calendars and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Testing Windows Live Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay way back when Office 2007 came out, they had a blog template built in.  However the first time I tried to use it, I was not able to connect it to my GoDaddy hosted WordPress blog. Bummer, yeah but I moved on and went back to writing in Word then used my old trusty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Porn on Twitter… Come on people!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been on Twitter for a few years now.  Admittedly I am not an avid Twitter user mostly because what I am eating is not that interesting.  But there are times I find it fascinating to see what other folks are up to.  However, from day one on Twitter, I have always been cautious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=157</link>
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		<title>I was in Purgatory…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, really, I was in Purgatory, Colorado, in a lovely 1 bedroom condominium which I thought would be far better than the Holiday Inn and it was less money.  Plus, Expedia said this place had free WIFI.  Life is good for this Road Warrior who chooses hotels based on free WIFI, a coffee maker and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Knowledge, paying it forward!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
I sat down at my computer this past week and attempted to load Moodle on my hosted web site.  Luckily, for me, the process is quite simple.  Click the link that reads, &#8220;Install&#8221;.   The short of the long story here is I was successful in installing Moodle but that is not the real reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=155</link>
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		<title>Boring to Bitchen in 60 Seconds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
One of my favorite things to teach people is what they can do with a product they own that they didn&#8217;t know about!  Think about it, do you ever read the instruction manual?  Of course you don&#8217;t.  That is why it is so much fun to see a person&#8217;s face light up when they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista… 23-days and I like Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up post to Upgrading to Windows Vista
Twenty-three days ago I put a new hard drive in my laptop and loaded a clean copy of Windows Vista Business Edition.  I still don&#8217;t see what people have been complaining about.  Yeah, it has a couple of things that are a bit different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Drop the Paper Weight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you looked at a student trying to carry their backpack home lately?  Some of our children are walking home with backpacks as large as they are, while others drag small-wheeled suitcases behind them.  Either way, children are dragging home hundreds dollars worth of textbooks to say nothing of the weight.Is there a technology out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Upgrading to Windows Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


This may be the first of several posts on my upgrade to Windows Vista.  If memory and the internet serve me correctly, Vista shipped in January of 2007 and for various reasons I have not upgraded my home or work machine. However, one thing is for certain, the endless complaining I have heard about Windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=137</link>
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		<title>The future of classroom video</title>
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Timing is everything… so I am told.  Nonetheless, I found myself in a discussion this week about televisions in the classroom.  While I long for the tinny sound of the 4-watt speaker and the chugging of the 16mm projector in the back of the room, today’s students, teachers and parents demand better video.  Not just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Productivity and School Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer
For those who know me the sarcasm of this post will bleed through, however, there is some truth and a valid reason to consider what you are about to read. 
A few weeks back, I posted What should Microsoft say to Open Office apps? This weekend I learned of PortableApps.com and all the portable applications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Application on a stick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All you have to do is lose your favorites once and you will fall for Del.icio.us on line bookmarks. Coupled with anytime and any computer access to your favorites and the ability to hookup with other like minded folks you have a killer application! So why am I so excited about this killer application today? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Darn that copyright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to look far to find a copyright frustrated teacher these days.  In fact, you are reading the words from one now. Yesterday, I discovered uStream.tv and I even went as far as using it to stream my podcast. Check out Adventures in Podcasting

Episode 104 on http://www.ustream.tv/shawnwheeler. In all honesty, this wasn’t without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>What should Microsoft say to Open Office apps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never made much of an effort to hide the fact that I am a Microsoft “Fan Boy” and I didn’t even cringe as I typed that statement. Let’s face it, anyone over 35 remembers the old days of computing when we had multiple operating systems running, what we then called, “productivity tools”.  These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Communication when we want it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently engaged in an email conversation with my friend Ladd, where I had shared with him a couple items I had recently written.  During our exchange, the topic of communication once again dominated our conversation.  (A topic which has dominated the majority of our conversations over the years.) What caught my attention this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Education for EdTech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to answer the following question.  “What do you consider to be the most acute problems in public school administration and supervision?” 
The past ten years school districts have seen a phenomenal proliferation of technology throughout our schools.  With the assistance of the Arizona Schools Facility Board, our schools have become equipped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Podcasting - Podcast 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Podcast 101 published Sunday February 24, 2008 describes some of the challenges and
processes I went through with bringing Podcasting and RSS to the Peoria Unified
School District.
In this episode…
PUSD Podcasting Updates (1:44)
PUSD RSS Updates (0:00)
RSS &#38; Podcasting Tools (7:00)
Other items worth mentioning.. (12:35)

PUSD Podcasting Updates (1:44)
Is Dr. Santarelli&#8217;s seeing the value in Podcasting?
What&#8217;s Hot in PUSD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>My Podcast Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I installed Podpress in my Wordpress blog.  Of course I had to test the plugin and what better file to use for a test than the introduction to my own Adventures in Podcasting podcast.
Who knows, maybe I will move Adventures in Podcasting to a news site or… I could start another podcast.  Stay tuned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=115</link>
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		<title>I am in my twenties!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All you have to do is take one look at me and the title of this post to say, “You wish!” but I am!  I am according to http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com.  Recently I learned about Mosquito Ringtones, when walking through the office near our data center, I heard an annoying high pitch noise.  Given the number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Podcasting… 100 Episodes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like it was 100 years ago but it was only 26 months, that I sat down at my computer to create the first episode of Adventures in Podcasting.  After posting the 100th episode last night, I thought about how far the concept of podcasting has come.  While the term podcasting has not become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>So you want to be a podcaster?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years, I have had a number of opportunities to talk to teachers about podcasting and how to get started.  In preparation for a recent podcasting workshop, I created a podcast and PowerPoint outlining several items for teachers new to podcasting to think about before they get started.  This podcast and PowerPoint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Old School –vs- New School</title>
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As I left a local University tonight on my way home, I glanced into a classroom where a teacher education class had just ended. 
In a technology rich web 2.0 world, I couldn’t help being shocked at the stark contract between the technology tools our young students use, the tools the University placed in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Social Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent quite a bit of time avoiding a few of the “Social Networks” However, I did give in a few weeks back and created a My Space account.  Not being sure what all this Social Networking is like, I put very minimal information on the page and provided a link back to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shawnwheeler.name/blog/?p=108</link>
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