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		<title>Education apart from Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading something today that talked about the misconceptions of learning. The number one thing was that learning is aware and purposeful. This is a very prominent distinction, and something that I think is at the heart of much of my own thinking about learning and education. The fact that it was the number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=591&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Symbiosis in Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When playing a night scene, bring daylight to it, and when playing an old man, bring a youthful feeling to it; when you play a demon, do it with gentleness. This beautiful description explains how to bring a deeply expressive richness to the skill of Acting. It incorporates the idea of Symbiosis, and important concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=585&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Dwelling Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a marvel in this day and age, and an example of pluralism of the time, that I can be faced with a decision about where on this globe to live. It&#8217;s a luxury, for sure, but that in itself doesn&#8217;t mean that it come without difficulty. As a parent, this is an important point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=579&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elemental Realms (art exhibit)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agora gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat related to the (now) four tragedies in Japan of the past year is one of my student&#8217;s upcoming art exhibit. Her artistic style has been very influenced by the events of the past year, I think her work is quite moving. She has explained to me in the past that her paintings used to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=574&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Health Care for Young Fukushima Victims #Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one year remembrance day of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster is approaching, and many stories involving the government continue to disappoint. Despite reports (rumors? since I can&#8217;t find any actual reports) of increasing levels of radiation in the Tokyo area, government is turning its back on health care for the youth. It&#8217;s a disturbing story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=565&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corrective Feedback for Language Learning in Conversation Flow #EFL #ESL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connectivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised the other day to read (in this article) that strategies for deliberate corrective feedback within conversation for language learning purposes are not well documented. The article focuses on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) contexts, which would explain part of the reason for a lack of practical advice in the area. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=559&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Massive and Diverse</title>
		<link>http://apointofcontact.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/massive-and-diverse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distance Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#change11]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At x28&#8242;s new blog a recent post about Massiveness and Diversity stirred some thought processes in me. I wouldn&#8217;t quite call this a response to Matthias&#8217; post, as he seems to be tackling the subject of Massiveness and Diversity with respect to how MOOCs have run up until now. My thoughts here are about what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=539&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abundance and Obligation</title>
		<link>http://apointofcontact.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/abundanceandobligation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distance Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[education ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have liked to learn more about Learning in Times of Abundance, but haven&#8217;t been able to keep up with that tyrannical weekly schedule of the Change11 MOOC. I was able to take in only a bit of information that week and plan to revisit the topic at the end of the month. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=532&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rhizomatic Validation</title>
		<link>http://apointofcontact.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/rhizomatic-validation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a surprising reference to the Rhizome last night in my Qualitative Research text. The author is describing someone&#8217;s Four Frames of Validation for research: The third, &#8220;rhizomatic&#8221; validation, pertains to the questioning proliferations, crossings, and overlaps without underlying structures or deeply rooted connections. The researcher also questions taxonomies, constructs, and interconnected networks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=527&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Character Specific Time</title>
		<link>http://apointofcontact.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/character-specific-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember it as if it were a meal ago. I love the literary technique of describing a period of time in a character specific way. Unique to each individual object, Time is the fingerprint of physical existence. A fitting measure can show inner qualities of whatever that period of time refers to. The speaker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apointofcontact.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9885639&amp;post=518&amp;subd=apointofcontact&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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