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		<title>Blogs@Baruch, now with BuddyPress!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently completed a significant upgrade to Blogs@Baruch, and I thought I&#8217;d blog my hacks and some of the thinking behind them for teh Google to index. The goal of the upgrade was to get BuddyPress up and running, which will create additional avenues for social publishing and networking around academic interests across the College. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/blogs-at-baruch-now-with-buddypress/</link>
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		<title>The Path to Blogs@Baruch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Ian Sane™ Jim Groom and Brian Lamb recently asked me and some of my fellow CUNYs to reflect on how we&#8217;ve &#8220;designed or conceptualized&#8221; the publishing platforms we oversee, with a focus on the role of networked collaboration in public higher education. The question is a big one, and it spurred me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/the-path-to-blogsbaruch/</link>
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		<title>Slouching Towards BuddyPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: waferboard I&#8217;m preparing to roll BuddyPress out on Blogs@Baruch later this month, and I&#8217;ve grown a little concerned about the implications of doing so. I thought I&#8217;d write up some of my concerns and see if the Internets has anything wise to say about them. Our goal in using BuddyPress is to try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/slouching-towards-buddypress/</link>
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		<title>What a Difference&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My little girl finished kindergarten today. Here she was on her first day: And here she is today: The difference in her face is striking to me; it&#8217;s like a year of school has swapped out her babyness and replaced it with, I don&#8217;t know&#8230; wisdom? Knowing? I mean, yes, she&#8217;s like 15% older than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/what-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>I Love David Simon, But&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Simon can&#8217;t seem to open his mouth without revealing what a prick he is, and how proud he is of his eminent prickitude. Let&#8217;s stipulate that he&#8217;s made brilliant television, and to a certain extent I agree with the words of Steve Brier: &#8220;I abide arrogance in people who have something to be arrogant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/i-love-david-simon-but/</link>
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		<title>Where the Control At?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Eustaquio Santimano Right up there with the complaints about the vuvuzelas at the 2010 World Cup has been tsuris about the Adidas &#8220;Jabulani&#8221; ball, which was made specifically for this event. Every four years goalies complain about the new World Cup match balls, which have consistently been made to fly faster and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/where-the-control-at/</link>
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		<title>Viva los Vuvuzelas*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a youth soccer player growing up in Lansing, Michigan we used to regularly play against Eaton Rapids, a farming town about 20 miles outside the urban center. These were always tough games, mostly because the boys from Eaton Rapids were big and strong. Their squads were like little versions of the German [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/viva-los-vuvuzelas/</link>
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		<title>1 Day to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a certified lefty historian, I am well aware of the damage wrought by nationalism, and in almost all areas of my life I abhor the elevation of the group over the common bonds of humanity. But not when it comes to soccer. The confluence of my own past with the sport, America&#8217;s historic mediocrity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/1-day-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>2 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I&#8217;ll get to begin enjoying my fourth World Cup since moving to New York City. When the World Cup was in the States in 1994, I attended two group stage games at the Pontiac Silverdome: USA v. Switzerland and Brazil v. Sweden. Nothing beats attending a game and absorbing the spectacle and celebration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/2-days-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>4 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to really, really hate England this week. I mean, this human aspect ratio buster features as a striker for that country? For real? Peter Crouch is a tool. More evidence: Holmes needs to bounce The Robot up from out his repertoire. He&#8217;s embarrassing himself and his girlfriend, and pissing Don Cornelius off. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/4-days-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>7 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only side to underachieve in major international competition anywhere near as much as the Dutch is Spain. Coming off their rousing victory in the 2008 European Championship, the Spaniards are considered one of the favorites in the 2010 World Cup. This is a team without a significant weakness, and draws heavily from FC Barcelona [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/7-days-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>8 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Netherlands are the greatest footballing nation never to hoist the World Cup.  They came close in 1974, when, led by the great Johan Cruyff, they got Beckenbaured by West Germany in the championship match. Their &#8220;Total Football&#8221; innovations brought the free-flowing style of Ajax to international football, and to great effect. Here&#8217;s snippets of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/8-days-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>Perfection and History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frame grab from Fox Sports of Armando Galarraga&#8217;s near perfect game. For me, last night&#8217;s near-perfect game by Armando Galarraga and the Detroit Tigers is as memorable for the events in its aftermath as it is for the blown call on Cleveland&#8217;s 27th out, which kept the game from the record books. The weight of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/perfection-and-history/</link>
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		<title>9 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to really dislike the Argentinian national soccer team. Maradona, despite all his talent, displayed an arrogance that was off-putting, especially when compared with the joyful exuberance of the Brazilian side I and just about every one else loved.  I also thought the team was prone to cynical, defensive football in 1990 and 1994. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/9-days-to-the-cup-2/</link>
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		<title>10 Days to the Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is every goal Brazil scored &#8212; and a few near misses &#8212; during their march to the 1970 World Cup title. This Brazil side is the consensus best national team that ever was, and the collection of goals below is nothing short of sublime. Enjoy! Via.]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/9-days-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<title>Lakers vs. (yawn) Celtics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lakers will meet the Celtics in the NBA Finals starting Thursday. I come at the Lakers-Celtics rivalry from a deeply personal place. Earvin Johnson grew up about a mile from where I was raised, and was slotted to go to the high school I attended until a bussing initiative sent him across town to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/lakers-vs-yawn-celtics/</link>
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		<title>Guerrillas in the Midst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the secret missions behind my work with Mikhail Gershovich in developing an open source publishing platform at Baruch College is to gradually integrate into the school&#8217;s general education curriculum the deep, critical examination of how digital tools are changing the way we think and live. This curricular purpose is not currently present on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/guerrillas-in-the-midst/</link>
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		<title>The Luck of Essien</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re less than two weeks away from the World Cup, and football fans &#8212; Ghanaians in particular (sorry, Mo) &#8212; are cringing from the news that Michael Essien won&#8217;t recover from a January knee injury in time to participate in the first Cup to take place in Africa. I&#8217;ll assume that this blog is read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/the-luck-of-essien/</link>
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		<title>The Scariest Story Ever; or, the Tyranny of Taxomony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was night time. I was in bed. I was awakened by a bump. I got out of bed. I looked under my bed. YIKES! I saw a monster. He growled at me. I growled bake. He got agry. I ran away he did to. I ran in my mom&#8217;s and dad&#8217;s room. The monster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/the-scariest-story-ever-or-the-tyranny-of-taxomony/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Write the Future&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 World Cup is less than three weeks away, and Nike has released a dramatic three-minute movie directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu that features some of the game&#8217;s best players: Drogba, Ronaldo, Rooney, Cannavaro, Ribery, Iniesta, Fabregas, Walcott, Evra, Pique, Ronaldinho, Donovan, Howard and Silva. Non-footballers Roger Federer, Kobe Bryant, and Homer Simpson also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/write-the-future/</link>
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		<title>ProfPacker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Spring conference season, and if your graduate school experience was anything like mine, nobody talked to you about how to pack for the semiannual excursions you&#8217;ll have to take to meet up with colleagues from other institutions. This blog post offers a checklist of the questions I ask myself as I prepare for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/profpacker/</link>
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		<title>The ArchAndroid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Janelle Monáe has released her first full-length album &#8212; The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) &#8212; and she&#8217;s a syncretic force to be reckoned with. She&#8217;s got all the flair and outness of Lady Gaga, but brings serious chops and conceptual courage to the table.  I&#8217;ve listened to the album once all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/the_archandroid/</link>
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		<title>Step into the Sensory Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wowzers. I think this would fit within Gardner Campbell&#8217;s definition of &#8220;media fluency.&#8221; ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo. h/t Greg Zinman (Greg, if you read this, give me a single preferred place to link to&#8230; you&#8217;re mad distributed yo!)]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/step-into-the-sensory-box/</link>
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		<title>Once Again Back it’s the Incredible…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the blog animal, ZOE, blogfessor number one.
For the second straight year, we&#8217;re awarding the Blogfessor of the Year Award to Zoe Sheehan Saldana, of Baruch&#8217;s Fine and Performing Arts Department. The award comes with priority support from the Schwartz Institute on all online publishing endeavors. Of course, Zoe already has that because she&#8217;s so awesome.

Zoe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2010/05/18/once-again-back-its-the-incredible/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;ve Got to Be A Real Fat Man&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime last month Jeff Swain asked on Twitter &#8220;what makes something funny?&#8221; I replied with one of the foundational statements of my world view, from Woody Allen&#8217;s Crimes and Misdemeanors: &#8220;If it bends, it&#8217;s funny. If it breaks, it&#8217;s not funny.&#8221; This exchange came to mind when I was listening to Elvis Mitchell&#8217;s interview with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/youve-got-to-be-a-real-fat-man/</link>
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		<title>Phil Jackson is a Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t think of another figure in American sport who has a persona based in such unreality as Phil Jackson. He&#8217;s nurtured an image of himself as some left-leaning progressive Zen guru all based on the fact that he looked like an Animal House-era Donald Sutherland when he played, dabbled in Buddhism, vegetarianism and drugs, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/phil-jackson-is-a-fraud/</link>
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		<title>City of Refuge and Treme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s sixth episode of Treme was written by Tom Piazza, extending David Simon&#8217;s habit of bringing local voices to bear on local stories, and also of hiring writers (like George Pelecanos) who&#8217;ve mastered the art of embedding in a story the deep and persistent internal conflicts that make us human. I&#8217;m taking an educated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/city-of-refuge-and-treme/</link>
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		<title>8:30 pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite times of day is 8:30 pm. That&#8217;s usually when I scoop up my 10 month-old son and we say good night to his didi and mommy and go upstairs to start our little ritual. First, we read a short book, like Peekaboo Puppy, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Goodnight Gorilla. Second, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/830-pm/</link>
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		<title>The Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: DieselDemon I changed it. I&#8217;ll probably change it again. I&#8217;m kind of jumping in here with half-formed plans, hoping the plunge will help me form them. I&#8217;ve had this space for a while as an aggregator and digital cv, and it was called, smartly, &#8220;Luke Waltzer: Educational Technologist &#124; Historian.&#8221; When I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/the-name/</link>
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		<title>No Red Cards, Yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wanted to coach soccer. I played competitively through college, and always was a better thinker of the game than athlete. I also love to teach. So when the opportunity to help out with my daughter&#8217;s kindergarten team came up, I jumped at the chance. We&#8217;re midway through the season, and I&#8217;m having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/no-red-cards-yet/</link>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t Quit You, Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;d like to think that I sound like Otis Rush when I agonize over quitting Facebook, truth is, I probably sound a lot more like Jack Twist. I find Facebook&#8217;s well-documented privacy shenanigans completely abhorrent, and, like Nancy Baym, I admire friends and acquaintances who have up and left. I&#8217;ve been trying to better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lukewaltzer.com/i-cant-quit-you-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Clay Shirky at the 2010 Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were very lucky to have Clay Shirky provide the morning keynote at our Tenth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction.
We were very unlucky in that we could not get the live stream to work.  But we&#8217;re happy to be able to bring Clay&#8217;s talk to you now:

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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2010/05/07/clay-shirky-at-the-2010-symposium/</link>
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		<title>Performing Diasporas: Identities in Motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several units at Baruch College, including the Schwartz Institute, are planning an initiative for the next two academic years: Performing Diasporas: Identities in Motion. The broad goal of the project is to raise the profile of the Baruch Performing Arts Center while more deeply integrating the performing arts into the curriculum and the life of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2010/04/09/performing-diasporas-identities-in-motion/</link>
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		<title>Our Course Blog Will Eat Your Brains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our goals in supporting Blogs@Baruch is to generate new models for online and hybrid instruction. We encourage the faculty we work with to confront the challenging question of what&#8217;s made pedagogically possible by using an online publishing platform.
The potential answers are vast. They include, but are not limited to, extending the classroom by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2010/03/12/our-course-blog-will-eat-your-brains/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Four, Extra-Curricular Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baruch College community has begun to see Blogs@Baruch not just as a blogging platform or substitute course management system, but also as powerful tool for meeting a wide range of self-publishing needs.
A variety of constituencies at the College have begun using the system for a range of internal and external communication. We have some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/17/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-four-extra-curricular-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Three, Course Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogs@Baruch was used in approximately two dozen courses this semester, in disciplines that included Fine and Performing Arts, English, Sociology/Anthropology, Journalism, Library Information Systems, Communication, History, and Management.

WPMu continues to provide a flexible platform for our faculty members to structure and explore online communication and composition in their courses. Course blogs this semester have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/16/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-three-course-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Two, FRO Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 1200 incoming first year students at Baruch participated in the first phase of our experimental integration of Blogs@Baruch into the Freshman Orientation Seminar. They wrote to blogs in approximately sixty individual sections, and their posts were syndicated on the FRO Motherblog.


As I noted a couple of months ago, we had severe constraints in launching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/15/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-two-fro-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part One, Triumph and Tribulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re winding down another eventful semester on Blogs@Baruch, and over the next few days I&#8217;d like to offer some reflections about where we&#8217;ve been and where we&#8217;re going. Our usership has tripled, and we&#8217;ve also expanded to serve a much broader range of constituencies at the college. This broadening and deepening has taught me much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/14/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-one-triumph-and-tribulation/</link>
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		<title>Just Launched: Lexington Universal Circuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It pleases me to note the launch on Blogs@Baruch of Lexington Universal Circuit: A Journal of Economics and Politics at Baruch College.

The LUC was founded by Michael Pinto-Fernandes and Sarwat Joarder, two Baruch undergrads who have worked tirelessly to get their journal off the ground, recruiting writers and editors from Baruch and other campuses. They&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/11/30/just-launched-lexington-universal-circuit/</link>
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		<title>Lessig at Educause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s keynote at last week&#8217;s Educause 2009: &#8220;It&#8217;s About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.&#8221;  This 60 minute presentation is well worth the time of anyone who&#8217;s interested how antiquated copyright laws are impacting ecologies of freedom, access, education, and science in the digital age.  After delineating how we got to where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/11/11/lessig-at-educause/</link>
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		<title>Studio H</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Vera Haller gave Tom and me a tour of the Baruch Journalism Department&#8217;s spanking new Studio H yesterday. We were blown away.  The room, made possible by a generous donation from the Harnisch Foundation (overseen by Baruch graduate William Harnisch, class of 1968, and his wife Ruth Ann) provides a space for our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/10/08/studio-h/</link>
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		<title>Freshbloggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester, we&#8217;re managing our largest lift on Blogs@Baruch yet.  In addition to an increasing variety of projects that I&#8217;ll blog about in the coming weeks, every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently is blogging.  That&#8217;s roughly 60 sections, populated by over 1200 students.
Yowser.
Each Seminar is directed by a Peer Mentor, a talented upper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/09/24/freshbloggers/</link>
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		<title>Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re dealing with contractors, and Roby feels our frustration.  Unfortunately, he often pulls too hard, and needs assistance to release his hair.

Here are some other pics from the last few weeks.  

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/08/empathy/</link>
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		<title>Update From Dushtuville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roby is three and a half weeks old now, and we&#8217;re absolutely loving our new family.  We&#8217;ve had some homeowners&#8217; drama, which will divert some of the money that was going to go into college funds for the kids into a remodeled bathroom.  We may install a desk in the bathroom, though, to enable efficient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/08/update-from-dushtuville/</link>
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		<title>Towards a Dak Nam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In childhood, many Bengalis take on two names that follow them through life. The bhalo nam, or &#8220;good name,&#8221; is the name that appears on legal documents.  The dak nam, or &#8220;nickname,&#8221; is used in more casual settings.
Roby&#8217;s sister, his mother, and his mother&#8217;s two sisters only have bhalo nams, perhaps because their names are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/towards-a-dak-nam/</link>
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		<title>Roby’s Big Screen Debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Share in the cuteness as Roby gets his hair done and burps for the camera while Didi looks on from the other room.
Warning: this may not be of interest to those unrelated or unimpressed by the simple feats of a 1 week-old. 
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/robys-big-screen-debut/</link>
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		<title>Beautifully Tired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the first time since Kaya was an infant that I had that odd combination of utter exhaustion and existential satisfaction that many parents know well.  The brain goes to interesting places when it&#8217;s part of a body that&#8217;s fast asleep yet is itself tuned into the frequency of a nearby child [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/beautifuly-tired/</link>
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		<title>Roby’s Born Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we welcomed Roby Saha Waltzer into our family.  He arrived at 8:07 pm, weighing in at a solid 7 lbs 12 oz, and stretching a full twenty inches.
The name &#8220;Roby&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;Row-bee&#8221;) is derived from the Bangla pronunciation of Ravi, which means &#8220;sun.&#8221;  We settled on it because of its compatibility with his didi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/robys-born-day/</link>
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		<title>Posterous: Online Publishing Made Eas(ier)y</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Francoeur, one of Baruch’s many awesome librarians, turned me on to Posterous yesterday.  This is a service that allows you to publish to the web via a simple email to post@posterous.com; your posts will compile in your own space on posterous.com or can be configured to push out to your blog, Facebook or Twitter feeds, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/06/19/posterous-online-publishing-made-easiery/</link>
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		<title>Oy…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paula&#8217;s now at the stage on her pregnancy calendar where it&#8217;s advising us about buying car seats and picking out outfits in which to bring the baby home.  Meaning, the baby is just fattening up at this point.  She&#8217;ll be full term in a week and a half.
Excuse me, I have to go put the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/oy/</link>
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		<title>Go Bulldogs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we attended a mixer for new families at the elementary school where Kaya will begin her march from kindergarten to the Supreme Court this September (though it still remains to be seen whether she&#8217;ll be there on the bench or as the subject of some sort of appeal).
She&#8217;s now at an age that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/go-bulldogs/</link>
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		<title>The 2009 CUNY IT Conference: Managing Complexity</title>
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 photo credit: tantek

I was excited to get the Call For Papers for the CUNY IT Conference, scheduled for December 4.  This year&#8217;s theme will be &#8220;Information Technology/Instructional Technology in CUNY: Managing Complexity,&#8221; and the presentations will ask:


What works? How has technology not just changed but improved our instructional and administrative practices? What tests have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/06/09/the-2009-cuny-it-conference-managing-complexity/</link>
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		<title>The World Through the Eyes of a Three/Four Year-Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years Kaya has gotten ahold of our digital camera on several occasions.  The photos below offer a glimpse into the world as seen by a precocious four year-old.  
At times her perspective is blurry, but she sure does get smiles&#8230;

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-four-year-old/</link>
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		<title>Because this Deserves its Own Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/because-this-deserves-its-own-post/</link>
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		<title>Kaya + Kavi + Philly + Laurie = Big Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought we&#8217;d kick off &#8220;dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org 2.0&#8243; with some photos from our trip to Philly this past weekend.
Hope you all like the new site&#8230; We promise, it&#8217;ll be a lot more active in the coming months&#8230; bear with us as we work out some kinks.

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/kaya-kavi-philly-laurie-big-fun/</link>
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		<title>Towards the Next Stage of EdTech at CUNY…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The tag cloud above was generated by participants at CUNY WordCampEd, which took place last week at the Macaulay Honors College (click to enlarge).  Mikhail and I co-organized the event with Joe Ugoretz of Macaulay and Matt Gold of New York City Tech, and we were astounded that we had to close registration a week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/29/towards-the-next-stage-of-edtech-at-cuny/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Jarvis’s Keynote from the 9th Annual Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Jeff Jarvis&#8217;s keynote address and Q&#38;A session at the Schwartz Institute&#8217;s 9th Annual Symposium. He explains the argument that lay behind What Would Google Do?, explores the changing role of audience in the Web 2.0 world, and suggests some core components of establishing one&#8217;s professional presence on the web.
Keynote
Q&#38;A


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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/26/jeff-jarviss-keynote-from-the-9th-annual-symposium/</link>
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		<title>David Birdsell’s Symposium Closing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In another of our series of videos from the 9th Annual Symposium, David Birdsell, Dean of Baruch&#8217;s School of Public Affairs, offers an incisive and cascading summation of the day&#8217;s conversation about &#8220;audience.&#8221;
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/18/david-birdsells-symposium-closing/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this final segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants look at the &#8220;Mother of the All Funk Chords,&#8221; a Youtube mashup by the Israeli musician Kutiman, they discuss the implications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/09/gardner-teaches-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this third segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants look at an advertisement from Kaplan University (featuring Uncle Phil) and explore the nature of authenticity and credibility in a Web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/08/gardner-teaches-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this second segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants explore the concept of speaker and audience in the Emily Dickinson poem &#8220;This is My Letter to the World,&#8221; unpack the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/07/gardner-teaches-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of posts presenting video from our 9th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction.
We&#8217;re going to start off with four videos (we&#8217;ll publish them over the next four days) from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop &#8220;Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World.&#8221;
What I love about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/06/gardner-teaches-part-i/</link>
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		<title>How I Use Twitter (but this is just me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure if it was @Oprah joining, #amazonfail, #pman (Moldova), or the tipping point on a meme, but the world is atwitter about Twitter.
I thought I&#8217;d share a few thoughts about how I use and perceive the service, which I joined about a year ago.
I&#8217;m not a Twitter evangelist; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s for everyone. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/04/20/how-i-use-twitter-but-this-is-just-me/</link>
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		<title>Think Before You Snark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a bit of an incident last week with a course that&#8217;s using Blogs@Baruch.  In this course, every student was to keep a blog, which was then republished in an aggregator blog so that every participant in the class could easily access and comment upon everything published by the other participants.
Last week the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/04/06/think-before-you-snark/</link>
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		<title>Wet Spaghetti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Harman Writer-in-Residence lecture at Baruch College on March 24, George Packer, who became well known through his reporting for the New Yorker on the invasion of Iraq, spoke of turning his focus to this country. We&#8217;re living through a period of remarkable change, he said &#8212; political change, economic change, cultural change &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/26/wet-spaghetti/</link>
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		<title>GE Will Augment Your Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just became aware of an unbelievably cool online interactive ad campaign by GE promoting its smart grid projects.  Check out the movie below, made through this site.
I don&#8217;t know enough to be able to comment intelligently on the extent to which GE is to be lauded or criticized for its smart energy initiatives. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/06/ge-will-augment-your-reality/</link>
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		<title>1000… 1001… 1002…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the way up to 1143, and counting.  That&#8217;s how many user accounts have been created over at Blogs@Baruch, and the numbers show how naturally Baruch College faculty, staff, and students have taken to academic blogging with WordpressMU since we launched the system in September.
The Ticker, the student newspaper at Baruch, just published Aaron Monteabaro&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/02/1000-1001-1002/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Owns You(r Original Content Produced On or Shared Through Their Tubes)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rest easy, Cacophoners; I just removed the &#8220;Share on Facebook&#8221; option from the &#8220;Share This&#8221; widget that appears beneath every post.
For those who don&#8217;t know, Facebook changed its Terms of Service last week, asserting a perpetual claim to use however it wishes certain content that you post on FB or that is shared on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/02/17/facebook-owns-your-original-content-produced-on-or-shared-through-their-tubes/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: Support for Oral Communication within the ESL Curriculum at Baruch College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post from Professor Elisabeth Garies, of Baruch College&#8217;s Department of Communication Studies. She can be reached at Elisabeth.Gareis@baruch.cuny.edu.
Oral communication instruction is traditionally somewhat neglected in the ESL curricula and services of colleges. Many programs focus on reading/writing proficiency and give only nominal, if any attention to listening/speaking skills. The imbalance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/02/02/guest-post-support-for-oral-communication-within-the-esl-curriculum-at-baruch-college/</link>
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		<title>What to Watch For: Super Bowl Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised when I got home last night to hear on my answering machine a message from Christine, the &#8220;Loyalty Team Manager&#8221; at Autoland, where my wife and I purchased a car two years ago.  Christine wanted to let us know that she and her staff were in a &#8220;Yes We Can State of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/30/what-to-watch-for-super-bowl-edition/</link>
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		<title>On the Horizon…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to note that Blogs@Baruch received a mention in the annual Horizon Report, a document produced by Educause, an international non-profit organization &#8220;whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.&#8221;  Every year the report is read by information and instructional technology professionals at universities and colleges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/22/on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<title>“Students today are…”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Branford Marsalis provocatively lays it down. Thoughts?
Via RateYourStudents.
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/08/students-today-are/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Habanera with the Muppets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wishing our readers a very happy holidays and a splendid new year!
Hat tip to Hillary Miller, via Facebook.
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/23/holiday-habenara-with-the-muppets/</link>
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		<title>In Which We Provide the Butt for Your Jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Gothamist, the flyer on the right was scattered around the campus of New York University last week.
The flyer announced NYU&#8217;s &#8220;In and Of the City Financial Aid Plan,&#8221; in which students who were unable to fork out 50k/year were told their families could save more than $43k annually if they instead attended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/08/in-which-we-provide-the-butt-for-your-jokes/</link>
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		<title>An Experiment in Digital Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently inspired, no surprise, by a post on Jim Groom&#8217;s Bavatuesdays: &#8220;A Childhood Without Proof.&#8221; This was about as close to schmaltz as the right Rev. Groom comes, and being a sap myself, I appreciated both the content and the tone.
Jim, the 6th of 7th children, was aware of only one photograph of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/02/an-experiment-in-digital-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Now You Too Can Be An Instructional Technologist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get to tell Jewish jokes because I&#8217;m Jewish.  I get to tell snob jokes because I&#8217;m a historian.  I also get to tell instructional technologist jokes because I&#8217;m the Project Manager for Digital Learning (aka, &#8220;Blog Guy&#8221;) at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute.
So, I&#8217;ll let out a little secret: here&#8217;s where we get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/01/now-you-too-can-be-an-instructional-technologist/</link>
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		<title>Thinking Behind a Redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently implemented a new design for the homepage for our installation of WordPress MultiUser&#8211; Blogs@Baruch.

I tried to accomplish a few things with this redesign.  Mostly, I wanted to update the look of the site&#8230; the previous version was a bit clunky, a bit 2003 1999, and I didn&#8217;t feel it was popping.  As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/13/thinking-behind-a-redesign/</link>
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		<title>Post Election Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all recover from the remarkable events of the past hours, days, and weeks, and begin to look forward at what a President Barack Hussein Obama might mean for the United States and the world, I find the appropriate tone elusive.  My faith in Obama as a leader is buoyed by the following: amidst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/05/post-election-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>reCAPTCHA: The Essence of a Distributed Knowledge Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all come across a CAPTCHA, a challenge response test that web sites give viewers who are trying to register for an account, leave a comment, or perform some other task that might be vulnerable to spammers or bots.  They are useful because they can differentiate human from machine (Completely Automated Turing Test to Tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/22/recaptcha-the-essence-of-a-distributed-knowledge-network/</link>
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		<title>Communication and the Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama is elected President on November 4th, it will be in large part because of the sophisticated way his campaign has communicated with the American public.
I was in Michigan this past weekend, and drove past the &#8220;North Oakland County Victory Office&#8221; of the McCain Campaign, just west of Pontiac, twenty miles north of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/06/communication-and-the-campaign/</link>
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		<title>But, professssssor!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dana McCourt, over at Edge of the American West, puts today&#8217;s campaign shenanigans into a context that any college teacher would understand:



to: john.mccain@maverickymaverick.gov
from: dmccourt@youhavegottobekiddingme.edu [Sent On Behalf Of American Public]
subject: extension?
Dear John,
While I sympathize with the demands of balancing both legislative and campaign issues, I cannot, in accord with historical policy, grant your request for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/24/but-professssssor/</link>
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		<title>The Baruch College Teaching Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to call your attention to a new blog we&#8217;re supporting here at Baruch College: The Baruch College Teaching Blog.
Several faculty have agreed to post to the blog regularly, and to lead an ongoing conversation about teaching at Baruch College.  Surprisingly, there are very few blogs like this, which provide the opportunity for members [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/22/baruch-college-teaching-blog/</link>
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		<title>Presidential Tweets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not really a big fan of the whole &#8220;John McCain is so old he can&#8217;t use a computer&#8221; line the Obama camp rolled out today.  I think there are stronger, more necessary and relevant attacks that Obama should launch.
That said, the activity level on the two candidates&#8217; Twitter pages does seem to back up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/12/presidential-tweets/</link>
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		<title>Triumphing Over Your “Little Hater”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite hip-hop vlogger Jay Smooth has eloquently described those nagging voices that reside inside the heads of people who do creative work as  &#8220;little haters.&#8221;

He even wrote a song about his:

When I’m writing, my &#8220;little hater&#8221; tells me I need to find a fifth or a sixth corroborating piece of evidence before I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/10/triumphing-over-your-little-hater/</link>
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		<title>Tsk tsk…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further proof as this election season revs up that there&#8217;s more than the future of humanity at stake this November.

Writing teachers everywhere: this is not change you can believe in.
(kudos to TPM)
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/08/29/tsk-tsk/</link>
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		<title>Status Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I&#8217;m on the Facebook.  I resisted for some time, but being able to play Scrabble (or, more accurately, &#8220;Scrabulous&#8221;) with friends ultimately got me.  I&#8217;ve developed a bond with the husband of a college friend of my sister-in-law, forged initially through comments on the baby blogosphere, but secured ultimately through online word games played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/07/24/status-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Is This Effective Communication?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ My feeling is that this would make a fine satirical cartoon inside the New Yorker.  But to give it the cover?  Not so sure about that.
Understandably, the Obamas ain&#8217;t pleased, finding it tasteless and degrading.  The fear is that this image, widely distributed, may give credence to the misinformation going around about the couple.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/07/14/is-this-effective-communication/</link>
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		<title>Welcome, Akenna!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are so happy to welcome Akenna William Nikundiwe to our extended family.Â  We already share our anniversary with one cousin; we&#8217;re glad to share it with another.
Here he is, with the other two Nikundiwe boys:

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/07/welcome-akenna/</link>
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		<title>Caught in a Lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promise, a big photo dump is forthcoming, but I had to get this story out while I remembered it.
Kaya has been venturing into new levels and style of argument recently, testing what she can get past her parents and what she can&#8217;t.Â  But, frankly, she&#8217;s not that good at it yet.Â  I&#8217;m sure by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/07/caught-in-a-lie/</link>
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		<title>Mommy and Daddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the Kavi-eye view that rules over at her cousin&#8217;s place, we thought we&#8217;d let Kaya fool around with the camera and offer up a blog post of her own.
About these pictures, Kaya said &#8220;I took em at Grandma&#8217;s house, and I like them.  The first one is a kind of medium face, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/06/mommy-and-daddy/</link>
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		<title>How to Tell A Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Peter O&#8217;Toole, on Fresh Air, telling Terry Gross about shooting the dangerous scene pictured above for  Lawrence of Arabia.

I love how O&#8217;Toole takes her question and turns it into a narrative, reveling in the details, painting a picture, and ending with a bang.  As is often the case, Gross asks a follow-up question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/27/how-to-tell-a-story/</link>
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		<title>Navigating the Messages at the Ballpark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I made my first trip to Comerica Park, the stadium where my beloved Detroit Tigers play their home games.  I say &#8220;play their home games&#8221; because to me, Tiger Stadium will always be their true home, even if in the future it&#8217;s left only partially standing. I grew up about an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/19/navigating-a-ballpark/</link>
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		<title>On Edupunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cacophony&#8217;s good friend Jim Groom (right) has recently coined a term that has the edublogosphere all atwitter: edupunk.  It probably runs counter to the meaning behind the word to note, impressed, that The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Wired Campus,&#8221; picked up Jim&#8217;s phrase.  Punks probably don&#8217;t care much what the Chronicle&#8217;s got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/06/on-edupunk/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day in Langhorne…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent Memorial Day in Langhorne, PA, grilling and chillin with the cousins and honored guests from Michigan and Brooklyn.Â  Here are some highlights:

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/memorial-day-in-langhorne/</link>
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		<title>Wicked Awesome…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, we trudged up 95 for our traditional May birthday celebration with the Nikundiwes.Â  There was much cake, some awkward kayaking, and a lot of talk about the coming addition to the family (the Niks, not us, but, we&#8217;re all family).
Here are some pics:
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/wicked-awesome/</link>
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		<title>We love to Party at the Y-M-C-A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great time celebrating Kaya&#8217;s birthday at the local Y yesterday.Â  Here are some highlights:
Guess who&#8217;s the line leader?

Meghan and Kaya

Megan, Kaya, and Meghan

Bella: &#8220;Who ARE these kids playing with Kaya?&#8221;

The Bean:


Craft time!

Daddy got three seconds with the Bday girl!

There were fights over this swing, and hurt feelings.

Yaz and Bella

Let them eat cake.

&#8220;Buckets&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/we-love-to-party-at-the-y-m-c-a/</link>
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		<title>Flogos: Logo Clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kaya was certain when riding in the car the other day that she saw a cloud shaped like an elephant.Â  Soon, she&#8217;ll see floating logos en-route to Giants Stadium, and come running from the backyard asking for new Nikes or to go to McDonald&#8217;s. But what she sees won&#8217;t be the product of her fertile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/flogos-logo-shaped-clouds/</link>
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		<title>Years…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Zero.

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/?p=188</link>
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		<title>A New Generation of “Native Tongues”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parenthood is undeniably a blessing.  Yet, if I were to speak honestly, I&#8217;d note that there are certain drawbacks, not the least of which is ceding control over the soundtrack to your life.  My sweet soon-to-be four year old doesn&#8217;t want to listen to many of my tunes.  I&#8217;m fortunate that her choices are usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/16/a-new-generation-of-native-tongues/</link>
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		<title>Blog Your Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do academic blogs reflect the disciplines of their authors?
I&#8217;ve become interested in this question while following our Anthropology/Sociology working group, and also through my own surfing.  A relatively new blog&#8211;The Edge of the American West&#8211;run by historians Eric Rauchway and Ari Kelman from U.C. Davis, has quickly become one of the better U.S. history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/03/blog-your-discipline/</link>
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