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		<title>ISTE Conference from the Comfort of Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ISTE Conference is coming up June 26-29, 2011. ISTE is the International Society for Technology in Education and their yearly conference is a great way to learn about new technology, tools, and ideas on how to use those things with kids to engage and help them learn. Many of the Ed Tech &#8220;Gurus&#8221; attend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy As Pie Videos Using Animoto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The edTech Ninja likes to take pictures of his class when doing fun activities. By the end of the year the Ninja has collected many pictures to share. He keeps them available online using Picasa Web Albums. Some years ago the Ninja wanted to step and give my students a CD with all of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2011/06/easy-as-pie-videos-using-animoto/</link>
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		<title>iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple once again wows gadget loving types (like the Ninja) everywhere with their new tablet &#8220;computer.&#8221; As with the iPhone, there has been much clamoring and hand wringing over the iPad. The Ninja preordered his iPad 3G 32 GB iPad and has spent a little over a month with it. The Tech Ninja certifies the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2010/06/ipad/</link>
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		<title>Publisher How-To Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Publisher is an easy to use application that comes with many versions of Microsoft Office for PC. Teachers can create nice looking newsletters in Publisher. Teachers can also have students creating documents in Publisher to support their learning. Below is a How-To Guide on how to use Publisher. The docuement also contains ideas on how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2009/02/publisher-how-to-guide/</link>
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		<title>Mail Merge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tech Ninja has many different weapons in his arsenal of educational goodness. A tool that the ninja frequently relies on is mail merge. Mail merge is the ability to take data (for example names and addresses) from a spreadsheet or database and insert them into some kind of printed document (a letter, catalog, etc.). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2009/01/mail-merge/</link>
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		<title>Creating Online Quizzes in Google Docs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Docs is a very cool online Office suite of apps. It includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentation software (like PowerPoint), and a online form creator. The form creator will allow you to create an online survey or even an online quiz for students to take. And that&#8217;s not all that Google Docs can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2008/12/creating-online-quizzes-in-google-docs/</link>
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		<title>Ask the Tech Ninja #2: PowerPoint to Notebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another frequently asked question is how to get PowerPoint files into SMART Notebook. The easy answer is to do a Smart Print Capture. First open your PowerPoint file and go to File and then choose Print. In the drop down menu tha allows you to choose which printer you want to use, select Smart Print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2008/12/ask-the-ninja-2-getting-powerpoint-into-notebook/</link>
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		<title>Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two websites that I like to use for storytelling/story writing are Kerpoof and Big Universe. The first, Kerpoof, will allow students to choose a scene and then add characters to the scene. You can add motions and effects to the characters making for a really cool little &#8220;movie making&#8221; lite experience. The other allows students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2008/11/storytelling/</link>
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		<title>American Presidental Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presidential Elections are coming up in the United States. Even among children there is high interest in this tradition that occurs every four years. This election will prove to be a historic one. For younger students, the way US Presidents are elected can be confusing. The Tech Ninja created this Notebook activity for his third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2008/10/american-presidental-elections/</link>
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		<title>Notebook SE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported earlier, Smart Technologies recently released a new piece of software called Notebook Student Edition (NSE). According to Smart, &#8220;It caters to nonlinear, higher order thinking and enables them to manage, sort and categorize their in-class and at-home assignments. With more mouse tools, the software is designed for use on a computing device and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edtechninja.com/2008/09/notebook-se/</link>
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