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		<title>Defining Literacy Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading through my education-related feeds, I came to an interesting post on &#8220;The English Blog&#8221; written by Jeffery Hill.  He teaches overseas and blogs about learning, writing, and speaking English. I do not deal as often with learners of English as a second language, but his post brought up an interesting point.  His quote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=542&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design Speaks Directly to the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Stublefield This post is part of an ongoing series of collaborative conversations. See that initial post for a table of contents of all articles in the series. As Ryan observed, design is more than making something look pretty. It is the first line of assault against your senses, charging in to make room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=537&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing a Path to Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve J. Moore “This is part of a conversational series shared between multiple writers. As each new article is written, they will be displayed on the sites of all participating authors.” Today, you hear a lot about the importance of branding, in the online world. Whether you&#8217;re selling T-shirts for your band, writing Op-Eds for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=517&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Watched the Watchmen.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve J. Moore Starting where Alan Moore left off in his epilogue, I  began writing what became this post directly after coming home from the theater. I am glad that I saw the film on a beautiful Sunday afternoon because my leaving the theater provided a very natural sense of closure to the story, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=490&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Purpose, Power, and Presence of Design</title>
		<link>http://thespigot.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-purpose-power-and-presence-of-design-by-ryan-burrell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Burrell “This is part of a conversational series shared between multiple writers. As each new article is written, they will be displayed on the sites of all participating authors.” To say that “design” is all around us would be a supreme understatement. It impacts the very nature of our perceptions, and does so most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=472&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Burrell The idea that anything written and presented on the Web is of a static nature and lacking malleability is a false one.  Likewise, the idea that articles or topics presented in format for consumption over the Internet are closed to observer modification and addition is also false.  The Web allows for an extremely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=474&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All I Ever Wanted</title>
		<link>http://thespigot.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/all-i-ever-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly Clarkson has some pipes. Let me start by saying that. Her new album is out March 10, 2009 Her voice absolutely blows my mind every time she jumps into the upper register; it just gives me goosebumps. I can&#8217;t say that I watched American Idol Season 1, but the past few seasons I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=461&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Constant Conference: Building a PLN with Twitter, Blogs, and Plurk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to mix amongst my personal and education blogs too much, but I&#8217;m really overdue for a post on here and I&#8217;ve been thinking about this topic for a while. Rather than re-rewriting my ideas about this subject, I think it&#8217;s okay (considering my only slightly overlapping audiences) to re-post. &#8220;Repost&#8221;, by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=448&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost in the Machine: Dialogue on the Influence of the Internet, Part 4</title>
		<link>http://thespigot.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/the-ghost-in-the-machine-dialogue-on-the-influence-of-the-internet-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by kylebaxter on February 9, 2009 I know you’ve waited on the edge of your seat, biting your nails, kicking yourself in the lower back, and slamming your head on a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Volume Ca-De) in anticipation of this post!  It’s finally here!  Many thanks to Steve J. Moore for getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=440&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost in the Machine: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://thespigot.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-ghost-in-the-machine-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ryan Burrell This post is part of an ongoing collaborative conversation.  You can view Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. This discussion has so far covered some mathematic theory, and a histoy of life before the web.  Now, let’s examine the future in pursuit of our original line of inquiry: Does the Internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespigot.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4354636&amp;post=436&amp;subd=thespigot&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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