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		<title>Thanksgiving Message from Kaia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for those that don&#8217;t speak &#8216;infant&#8217; I have interpreted for you&#8230; You&#8217;re welcome.


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		<title>A New Direction for UX Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I  believe Fred Beecher has cut straight to the heart of why the iPhone has changed the way that mobile computing and touch interface will be designed in the future.
He mentions not only game theory, but learnability and the use of fun to help users become familiar with an interface.
While he disagrees with those that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Levels of Usability Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I may have wanted to blackball my colleague, Dana Chisnell out of personal poutiness due to her leaving the Bay Area (pooey); She just keeps on churning out amazing and useful books Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd Ed. and articles.
Today, she wrote this blog post about providing more than just basic usability in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR News iPhone app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those that love them some NPR, and need it on the go:

Here is the news story on NPR.org.
and the link to get it at iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews. Or search for &#8220;NPR News

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		<title>How to create your First iPhone Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This how-to guide walks you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a reality. The post presents various ideas, techniques, tips, and resources that may come in handy if you are planning on creating your first iPhone application.
I found this to be a wealth of information presented on Smashing Magazine website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create an Interactive Whiteboard for Under $100</title>
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You can turn each of your existing labs or classrooms with ceiling mounted projectors into interactive smartboards? And you can do it for around $55.
Wiimote:  $39.76   http://www.walmart.com
Penteractive casing:  $8.00  http://penteractive.us
Penteractive IR pen:  $9.00 http://penteractive.us 
Penteractive also sells the holder for the Wii remote too now.
Sunpak tripod:  $29.99  http://www.amazon.com
Wiimote Whiteboard software:  free  PC 
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
Wiimote Whiteboard software:  free Mac
http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard
Note for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspicious Fire Destroys Edgewood Drop In Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 22, a fire started around 4 o&#8217;clock in the morning and completely destroyed the drop in center located in San Bruno. The full story can be found on the ABC local website.
I worked for Edgewood Center for many years and know first hand what great services they provide for Bay Area Communities. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/07/28/suspicious-fire-destroys-edgewood-drop-in-center/</link>
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		<title>Medieval Helpdesk</title>
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They should have done usability tests on the manual. Hilarious!

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		<title>Suicides on Golden Gate Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While not exactly an uplifting topic, these are two of the most interesting looks at how people choose to end their lives on one of the most beautiful American Bridges.
This infographic from The Chronicle was made by Todd Trumbull was in a story in the SFGate. See the original here.

It is a great use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infographics as Art</title>
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Röyksopp &#8211; Remind me
Sweet use of infographics as a music video.
Description from the YouTube Rodadroll site: Directed by the French motion graphics studio H5. It features a day in the life of a woman working in the London&#8217;s Square Mile solely through infographics; this includes labeled close-ups of everyday objects, product lifecycles, schematic diagrams, charts, [...]]]></description>
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