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		<title>My parents, caught on Google Streetview</title>
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		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2010/02/11/my-parents-caught-on-google-streetview/</link>
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		<title>Max and Rochelle&#8217;s Day Out</title>
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Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Testing animoto with some pictures of the day me and Max when to Toronto Island.
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		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2010/02/10/max-and-rochelles-day-out/</link>
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		<title>Google Bingo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my job this year, I have taken on the task of delivering six emerging tech sessions for library staff between October and March, one a month. The purpose of these sessions nominally to introduce the staff to interesting applications or uses of applications on the web, and then talk about them. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2010/01/28/google-bingo/</link>
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		<title>Anticipation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[me: are you waiting with baited breath for the apple announcement tomorrow?
me: I swear they leaked those rumours to stir people up
Catspaw: actually, I suspect the media will have blown expectations out of proportions.
me: I&#8217;m expecting them to come out with a set of USB speakers or something
Catspaw: hehe
Catspaw: &#8220;But wait&#8230;there&#8217;s just ONE MORE THING&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2010/01/26/anticipation/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I did two sessions with library staff around Twitter. We&#8217;ve explored Twitter before, but it was two years ago, before the explosion of use. What I wanted to demonstrate was how people use Twitter in a conference setting. I find it so engaging to listen to something and process it through and with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/11/05/teaching-twitter/</link>
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		<title>How to Create a Useful Social Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time I took a written test, I found myself very frustrated. I was sitting by myself in a room, answering questions on a sheet of paper, cut off from the large network of people I have digitally gathered around me over the years. The questions were testing my knowledge, not how I could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/10/18/how-to-create-a-useful-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Laptops in the Classroom: A Dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is an email exchange about laptops in the classroomI had recently with a friend of mine who teaches undergraduates in a university setting.  I wanted to share it because I don&#8217;t know that we&#8217;re addressing these issues with faculty as effectively as we might; people like me, who work with collaborative applications and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/10/04/laptops-in-the-classroom-a-dialogue/</link>
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		<title>Getting rid of Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard an episode of Spark on the radio just now talking about a fellow at IBM who opted out of email (sort of). Instead of replying to the constant stream of email, he uses appropriate social networks instead. I&#8217;m envious of this, because I really dislike email generally. I dislike it because of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/09/20/getting-rid-of-email/</link>
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		<title>The Surprising Science of Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Pink, &#8220;The Surprising Science of Motivation&#8221;.

This talk is about business models, but I was thinking about it from an education perspective. Carrots and sticks don&#8217;t work; faced with creative labour, giving a higher reward for better/faster work fails to produce better/faster work. Grading, then, is the wrong direction if you want to teach someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/09/12/surprising-science-of-motivation/</link>
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		<title>Libraries and Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m all for social media, don&#8217;t get me wrong. Very much. I&#8217;m a big fan of and an advocate for things like Twitter and blogs and IM and all that. I follow social media I use social media, I recommend social media to others. However.
I don&#8217;t really understand the libraries and social media stuff. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mazar.ca/2009/08/29/libraries-and-social-media/</link>
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