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		<title>Diagnostic Assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So because I travel in somewhat ornery education circles, the very title of this post probably meant I'm the only person who is reading it.
But I wanted to get a point across.  I've heard multiple people highlight that true "diagnostic assessment", as opposed to thinking about testing and data rather than thinking about students, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/08/19/diagnostic-assessment/</link>
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		<title>First Day of School is About Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First day of school tomorrow.  And it makes me think about what Godin says about fostering tribes.  Find people with passion, and provide them with vehicles to communicate.
In many ways, the first day of school consists of a good bit of marketing.  Now, not the kind of "investment" marketing that happens in traditional classrooms.  Where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/08/16/first-day-of-school-is-about-marketing/</link>
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		<title>DIY Tech in Your Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
img via edvc on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edvvc/1248693031/
I posted this as a comment on @mbteach's blog post today over at edutopia. I want to help others aggregate these resources.  I totally believe that it's unfair distribution of resources that keeps learners from the stuff they need, and one of our responsibilities is to go and and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/08/12/diy-tech-in-your-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Equitable student sourced mapping: Crowdmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess new things always feel this way, but I think crowdmap is going to transform how my students interact with their city and their new language this year.  Talk about utilizing cognitive surplus to do something worth sharing.  This came on the same day that I found out my students can follow my classroom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/08/11/equitable-student-sourced-mapping-crowdmap/</link>
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		<title>Support is a rhizome, not a root</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been blogging with the cooperative catalyst group (coopcatalyst.wordpress.com) recently. Really enjoying the conversations over there.  Check it out.
I posted this one over there too, but hoped a few more folks would have the chance to look at it over here.  Not sure how this whole blogging in two places thing works yet!
Also, @Larryferlazzo posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/07/30/support-is-a-rhizome-not-a-root/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Open Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent this out a few days ago, hoping people would find it useful.  Feel free to use, adapt, talk about, trash, whatever.  It'd be nice to get something like this together and send it en mass, with the collective power of all our PLN's behind us.  That would be pretty hard to ignore.  Please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/07/17/open-letter-to-open-networks/</link>
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		<title>Crowd Sourced Tech Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeemick/3393399278/in/
With all this talk about collaboration, I've wondered what if we had a chance to create our own school?  What would it look like?
I've been thinking through a learning vision with some friends at a new school. Here were my initial thoughts. I would love comments and suggestions. I haven't seen much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/07/15/crowd-sourced-tech-plan/</link>
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		<title>Can we bring Ed-Grad into the 20th century please?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Things are worse than they seem when you are frustrated
Things are worse than they seem when you are frustrated
Things are worse than they seem when you are frustrated
Things are worse than they seem when you are frustrated
Things are worse than they seem when you are frustrated
Yes.  I did type that sentence five times (no copy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/07/03/can-we-bring-ed-grad-into-the-20th-century-please/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re a Society, not an EdTech Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus this week.  I haven't read a book that has occupied my mind as much as this one has since reading Dan Pinker's Drive earlier this year.  I recommend the book for anyone interested in using the social web to connect learners globally.
I'll post more in coming days about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/07/01/were-a-society-not-an-edtech-community/</link>
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		<title>Fight the dollar and centaur with linux!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick graphic response to Mario's weapons of choice from Sunday's opening at ISTE.  I used free and open source graphic editing application The Gimp to create this image.  I was concerned that the "weapons" used to fight the obstacles edtech faces were all proprietary tools or closed knowledge.
We tell our students to collaborate with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elparquenuez.com/2010/06/30/fight-the-dollar-and-centaur-with-linux/</link>
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