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		<title>Mind Mapping a Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach several technical courses online and I&#8217;ve been thinking about ways to get my students more involved in a group. However, being online, that&#8217;s hard, so I&#8217;m trying the idea of collaborative mind mapping with my students in Antenna Modeling. I&#8217;m trying two sites where free accounts are available. On Mindmeister (http://www.mindmeister.com) and Bubble.us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes &#038; Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of good ways to take notes when you&#8217;re trying to learn something. Often, a way I find useful is to take them right in the book I&#8217;m reading. 
I have conversations with my books. I put comments, highlights, mind maps, and whatever in my books. For example, I was working on some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Learn - Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning is a big topic and one that a lot of disagreement still exists over. Unfortunately, but the time there is general agreement, we&#8217;ll already be dead, so to get practical about it, we need to use what we know now as effectively as we can.
I wrote a piece called &#8216;Learning to Learn&#8216; that I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Tools - continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SECOND - Mindmapping - Mindmapping continues to be a major tool in my arsenal when it comes to initial work on topics or problems. I worked with several tools in the course of this project and don&#8217;t see a way to get rid of any of them.
My Journal - Mindmapping in my journal is essential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I finish up a major project updating some online training material, it&#8217;s time to reflect on the tools I&#8217;ve used and what they brought to the effort.
FIRST - Scrivener - This was my first major project where I used Scrivener to support the project from beginning to end. I played with it and used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling for Problem Solving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that turns off a lot of technical people about journaling is that nearly everything you can find about it focuses on topics that most techies just aren&#8217;t interested in, at least not in the soft way they&#8217;re treated. A lot of what&#8217;s written about journaling is introspective, examining your life or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Applications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Basics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several days I&#8217;ve done a number of things with my journal that have led me to say something about how important a journal can be to your writing and speaking &#8230; in fact to everything that you do. I&#8217;m going to use the next several posts to discuss my journal and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking to an Executive Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest times to make your ideas clear for any technical presenter is when you&#8217;re in front of an audience of executives. You probably have an audience composed mostly of people who came up through sales, marketing, or customer service. There&#8217;s probably also a finance geek as well. With luck, there will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you writing a Blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/10/are-you-writing-a-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terryd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are, then you should learn from the best. I was looking over a search today and found a blog entry at hackademia.net called &#8220;Good writing makes the difference&#8221; which pointed me a Computerworld article by John Brandon on &#8220;The top 10 best-written blogs&#8220;. I&#8217;m looking at each blog to learn how to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you need a writing sample?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some employers have been asking for writing samples, and not just employers looking for writers. They want to know if you can communicate. You see it sometimes in job postings for technical jobs, particularly for team leaders and project managers.
A recent article I ran across How to Send Employers A Solid Writing Sample talks about [...]]]></description>
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