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		<title>My NATS Creative Writing Club blog has started.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have started my NATS Creative Writing Club blog. It can be viewed at; http://natscwclub.wordpress.com/ There is not much on it yet but I have some minutes and a program until the end of the year. I have discussed the blog with my members who are mostly computer literate. The idea was greeted with cautious enthusiasm. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=19&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/my-nats-creative-writing-club-blog-has-started/</link>
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		<title>My multimedia problem and a plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My multimedia problem is that I have recently started my own Creative Writing Group at National Air Traffic Services (NATS). The aim of the group is to encourage, enthuse, motivate and improve the skills of those of us interested in creative writing.
I have been in other creative writing groups but some are stale and uninspiring, other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=18&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/my-multimedia-problem-and-a-plan/</link>
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		<title>The Second Life of UK Academics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a fascinating article at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/kirriemuir/ . OK confession time first. I am an ex teacher who regularly plays on World of Warcraft (WoW) which is a multimedia roll playing game (mmrpg) with monsters and sword fighting and treasure and quests and&#8230; So one might conclude I am slightly biased about an article about an mmrpg.
The article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=17&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-second-life-of-uk-academics/</link>
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		<title>Should all learning professionals be blogging?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting article at http://www.downes.ca/post/38555 that discusses the pros and cons of learning professionals writing a blog.
Although the author, Stephen Downes doesn&#8217;t define what he means by &#8216;learning professional&#8217; it is clear from the article that he is not restricting the use to those in the education profession; he means anybody in any profession [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=16&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/should-all-learning-professionals-be-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Why teach with ICT &amp; multimedia resources in the classroom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This question is posed on the UK government website; http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/WhyUseICTs/WhyteachwithICT.htm As an ex Physics teacher I was always fascinated and troubled by this question during my teaching career.
This brief report gives 5 reasons and so here I will comment on the reasons based on my own experience.
Reason 1 &#8216;Because the future is here.&#8217; The justification states that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=15&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/why-teach-with-ict-multimedia-resources-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Story is Dead&#8221; or is it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This interesting blog found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/05/the_story_is_dead.html is a review of a book called &#8220;Can we trust the Media&#8221; by Professor Adrian Monck of London&#8217;s City University. The blog is part of a blog by BBC editors on the BBC website. It is by Kevin Marsh, a respected editor at the BBC College of Journalism. He has worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=14&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-story-is-dead-or-is-it/</link>
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		<title>Am I allowed to think&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I allowed to think in my mind that I am a god? Are writers gods? We create worlds and characters and we destroy them, in the same way the ancient Greek civilization believed that everything they did was controlled by the gods. Sometimes my characters have a mind of their own and despite my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=13&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/am-i-allowed-to-think/</link>
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		<title>Review of a letters page in Nature about a debate on access to scientific literature online.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the article hopefully publishing_online.pdf  Why not read it first?
The first letter discusses some research the writer did concerning the availability of research articles online and the number of citations the articles received. The writer discovered (no surprise here) that the number of times articles are cited is directly proportional (straight line gradient graph for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=11&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/review-of-a-letters-page-in-nature-about-a-debate-on-access-to-scientific-literature-online/</link>
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		<title>My secret life at night&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At night when the house is dark and cold what do you do? This is what I do.
I have written a novel about a girl and dragons and the sword Excalibur and Merlin as a boy. At the moment I am editing it so I can try to get it published &#8211; at last Harry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=8&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/my-secret-life-at-night/</link>
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		<title>Bowling Alone: America&#8217;s Declining Social Capital: a comment by WriterChris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, apologies to Ken. I accessed this through his blog. Still it will be interesting to compare my attempt with his professional review.
Bob Putnamm doesn&#8217;t state his argument at the beginning and so I found it confusing to read at the start despite the title. However he does go on and present some good empirical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writerchris.wordpress.com&blog=2864854&post=7&subd=writerchris&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://writerchris.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/bowling-alone-americas-declining-social-capital-a-comment-by-writerchris/</link>
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