Title: Social Connection Strategies For The 21st Century Classroom
1Social Connection Strategies For The 21st Century
Classroom
- Keys, Locks, Deadbolts Social Bookmarking and
Networking
Howie DiBlasi Emerging Technologies Evangelist
Digital Journey howie_at_frontier.net www.toolsforth
eclassroom.com Presentation 2009
2 1. Explore the elements of Social
Networking, Bookmarking and Social Media and how
it integrates into your classroom.2. What it
is-how it works-and how to develop instructional
strategies.
3- What Can Social Networking Do For Me?
- What Can Social Bookmarking Do For Me?
- What is Social Media?
4There's something going on here that's hard to
explain.Bob Dylan Quote .. on a visit to
Israel in the early 1970s
5American teenagers today are utilizing the
interactive capabilities of the Internet as they
create and share their own media creations.
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8What Makes a Web 2.0 Application?
9What was Web 1.0 ?
10Web 2.0 What Is It Really?
- Web 2.0 is about connections
- The Web 2.0 revolution puts people first
- Web 2.0 is about allowing people to manipulate
data, not just retrieve data - Web 2.0 is about doing stuff on the Web that
can't done in any other medium - Students as content creators
11Rich User Experience
- Easy to use
- Build social networks
- Rich user interface
- Functions like a traditional application
- User created data and owns their own data
- Providing a service, not a product
- Encourage user contribution (reviews, comments)
- Make it easy to re-use and re-mix
- Customer self-service Community and sense of
ownership
12Professor Stephen Heppell talks about learning in
the 21st centuryhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?v-Y
Q45v_hceE
13Professor Stephen Heppell talks about learning in
the 21st century
14Why Social Networking?
- . Besides establishing important social
relationships, social networking members can
share their interests with other likeminded
members by joining groups and forums. Some
networking can also help members find a job or
establish business contacts.
15Why Social Networking?
- In addition to blogs and forums, members can
express themselves by designing their profile
page to reflect their personality. The most
popular extra features include music and video
sections. Members can read bios of their favorite
music artists from the artist's profile page as
well as listen to their favorite songs and watch
music videos. The video section can include
everything from membergenerated videos from
hundreds of subjects to TV clips and movie
trailers.
16What to Look for in Social Networking
- Profiles- The heart and soul are users personal
profiles. Its like their own Internet sanctuary,
a place where they can express their thoughts and
feelings, post photographs and show off their
network of friends. The most popular social
network websites put a strong emphasis on the
users profile, making it easy to use yet still
reflective of the users personality. Â - Security-Â The Internet can be a dangerous place
to post personal information. All social networks
should provide the ability to set profiles to
private in some way or another. Additionally they
should have the ability to report and block
users. - Networking Features A good social network goes
above and beyond just allowing users to post
profiles and update pictures. Additional features
should include music sections, video uploads,
groups and more. - Search- The object of a social network is to find
friends and expand relationships. Top social
networking websites allows members to search for
other members in a safe and easy to use
environment. Common search functions include
search by name, city, school and email address. - Help/Support- Most social network sites are
self-explanatory. However, in the off-chance a
user needs help there needs to be some way to
contact the webmaster or answers in an FAQs
section. - Legitimate Friend Focus- The growing trend for
social networks is to communicate and keep in
touch with people you already know. No one wants
to be inundated with unsolicited spam friend
requests. The best social network sites keep
profiles and search options private enough that
the only people that can find you are the ones
actually looking for users in their own school or
neighborhood networks. Even with a completely
public profile, users shouldnt be bothered with
more than a couple of unsolicited comments or
messages.
17What is Social Networking ?
18Twitter
19- Today, I thought I'd follow up by sharing the
sweet, funny, interesting results of a Twitter
experiment. It's - Conference in Las Vegas. The topic was Web 2.0,
with all of its free-speech, global-collaboration
ramifications. - So I flipped out of PowerPoint and typed this to
my Twitter followers "I need a cure for
hiccups... RIGHT NOW! Help?"
20I hit Enter. I told the audience that we would
start getting replies in 15 seconds, but it
didn't even take that long
- florian Put a cold spoon on your back \
- pvd Put your head between your knees and swallow
hard. - bethbellor Packets of sugar.
- michaeljoel drop a lit match in a glass of
water to extinguish it. take out match. drink
water. - rgalloway Have someone slowly softly count
backwards from 10-1 in Russian for you. Works
every time! - erlingmork Peanut butter on a spoon.
- squealingrat With a popsicle stick or something
clean, touch the little thing at the back of your
throat. This causes the muscles to change. - JuanluR eat a full spoon of crushed ice.
- tiffanyanderson Rub both of your ear lobes at
the same time. Hiccups will go away. - DyingSun That is an amazing example of the
power of Twitter! I wonder what was the crowd's
reaction to that. - Good questions, dear Twitterers. And now you have
the answers.
21How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the
ClassroomWritten by Marshall Kirkpatrick /
- Teachers are always trying to combat student
apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History
Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an
interesting way to do it using Twitter in the
classroom.
22Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize
comments, questions and feedback posted by
students to Twitter during class
- Rankin then projects a giant image of live Tweets
in the front of the class for discussion and
suggests that students refer back to the messages
later when studying
23It's also nice to hear a teacher talk about
technology and say, "it's going to be messy but
that doesn't mean bad." Welcome to the social
web, where that's a great attitude.
24VIDEO HERE http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6WPVW
DkF7U8
25Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas,
wanted to know how to reach more students and
involve more people in class discussions both in
and out of the classroom. She had heard of
Twitter... She collaborated with the UT Dallas,
Arts and Technology - Emerging Media and
Communications (EMAC) http//www.emac.utdallas.edu
faculty and as a Graduate student in EMAC I
assisted her in her experiment and documented it
for a digital video class with Professor Dean
Terry, _at_therefore, and a collaboration and
content creation course with Dan Langendor,
_at_dlangendorf.VIDEO HERE http//www.youtube.com
/watch?v6WPVWDkF7U8
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27- A social network service focuses on building
online communities of people who share interests
and/or activities, or who are interested in
exploring the interests and activities of others.
Most social network services are web based and
provide a variety of ways for users to interact,
such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
28Social Media Monitoring Tools 26 Free Online
Reputation Toolshttp//www.marketingpilgrim.com/2
007/08/26-free-tools-for-buzz-monitoring.htmlÂ
-
- Weve compiled a list of twenty six buzz
monitoring tools that are free of charge. Use
these tools to keep track of your company
reputation or even spy on your competition! Take
a look at Trackur.com if you need all-in-one
social media monitoring tools.
291. Your Industry
-
- you can track news that relates to your
industry. Moreover and Yahoo are just a couple of
resources that offer RSS feeds for aggregated
industry news.
302. Mainstream Media News
- Use Google News. Enter your company name, sort
the results by date published and then subscribe
to the RSS feed.
313. News Buzz
- What if you just want to know about the news that
becomes popular? Sites such as Digg and Reddit
will let you search for submitted stories that
match your company name. Subscribe to the
resulting RSS feed and youll know about any
story on Digg that mentions your companyor your
biggest rival.
324. Social Media News
- You can capitalize on positive buzz and put out
any reputation fires by tracking social media.
Technorati is one of the best options for
tracking social media sites. Custom RSS feeds let
you get quick updates on any blog that utters
your company name.
335. Blog Posts
- Chances are that it will get on Google Blog
Search. Even if the blog isnt in Google news, or
doesnt make the main Google index. Get alerts to
matching stories via email or RSS.
34- SOCIAL NETWORKING
- Ning - This is definitely one to watch.
http//toolsfortheclassroom.ning.com/ - Â
35http//www.ning.com/
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39- Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network
for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative
technologies in education.We especially hope
that those who are "beginners" will find this a
supportive community and a comfortable place to
start being part of the digital dialog.
40http//www.classroom20.com/
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42All Members (20,305)
- Classroom 2.0 - This is where most of my
networking beyond my regional area started for
me. I joined this Ning network early this year
and found that the sharing created richer
opportunities to find out what was happening in
our Read/Write Web. http//www.classroom20.com/
43Steve Hargadon steve_at_hargadon.com
www.stevehargadon.com
- Tomorrow, Tuesday night (March 24th), at 5pm
Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12midnight GMT, I'll be
hosting a panel discussion on "Open Source
Software in Education." We'll look at the current
state and the future potential for Open Source to
make a difference in educational environment. Log
in by either visiting the page above or directly
in Elluminate at https//sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp
?passwordM.C3F01072603D2A369829632EF6905D
44http//iconnectilearn.ning.com/
45- The focus of iConnect iLearn is to enhance the
relationships while sharing of resources and
expertise. - Goal of iConnect iLearn is to expand the
framework to continually collaborate, network,
learn, and share throughout the year. - iConnect - iLearn will build and expand the
structure for collaborative planning and delivery
of educational opportunities to meet the diverse
needs of the charters throughout the state. - iConnect - iLearn is to be participant-driven.
Participants are allowed to choose topics of
interest and take control of their own learning
and the connections being forged with other
participants.
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49This network is for educators who are interested
in educational podcasting and transforming
learning with technology!
- http//podstock.ning.com/video/the-revolutionary-w
ar-newscast
50All Members (603)
51http//podstock.ning.com/
52NEW 'Flat Classroom Projects' 2009-2010
- http//www.flatclassroomproject.org/NewProjects0
910 - I want to share with you our plans for flat
classroom projects and events over the next 12
months. I encourage teachers to consider when
they can embed a flat classroom experience into
their curriculum. Also share this with colleagues
within your schools. Flat classroom projects are
cross-curricular and aim for cultural diversity.
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55http//podstock.ning.com/video/the-revolutionary-w
ar-newscast
56Yack Pack
- Internet-based voice communication tool that
works a lot like voicemail for the Web. Users
define a "pack"--a group of individuals they want
to communicate with--and then record messages for
the group, an individual, or even a subset within
the group using a standard computer microphone.
When members of the pack log in, they can listen
and respond to the messages.
57Curriki
- a community of educators, learners and committed
education experts who are working together to
create quality materials that will benefit
teachers and students around the world. An online
environment with free distribution of world-class
educational materials http//www.curriki.org/xwik
i/bin/view/Main/ Lesson plans, teaching
activities, works
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59http//globalambassadorsinteract.ning.com/
- Hello INTERACT Ambassadors!I am excited to
begin our new online social network. Please use
this site for all of our communications. Your
ideas and imagination should make this site be
and do everything we all want it to. As soon as
this site is complete we will add new ambassadors
in India ,Canada and Mexico.Let's all get into
good habits. Be responsible, respectful and
mindful that many people will be reading and
looking at what you publish. Edit what you post
and think about what you are putting out there in
public! Choose your screen name wisely as it
directly reflects who you are and how you will be
representing yourself to your peers locally and
around the world.I want you all to know that I
am sincerely honored to be working with such a
passionate and talented group of young people. I
can't wait to see what we all do together!!Ms
Kennedy
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61http//globaleducation.ning.com/
62Global Ambassadors
63Video Clip herehttp//www.quantumshift.tv/v/120
2258478/
- Student leaders at Eastview Middle School in
White Plains, New York demonstrate the power of
communities in action both locally and globally.Â
Students use a host of technologies to
collaborate,communicate and become active global
citizens. The Global Run, now in it's third pilot
year, demonstrates the power of global
communities in action as they learn together
about global issues.
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65The Teachers Life Nation
66- Hi Howie,I'm a founder cum chairperson of a
school. I run this school for poor family
children. It lies in Bhaktapur Nepal, land of mt.
Everest.Shantideep Adarsh Vidhyasadan is one of
the English Medium Schools established in 1998
with 13 students in a backwarded countryside of
Bhaktapur district of Nepal. The name of the
village is Bageshwori (altitude approx. 1500
metre). It lies in the eastern part of Bhaktapur
district. It was established when the parents
were not so aware of their children's education.
We (school Management) had to struggle a lot to
achieve the sympathy of the parents / villagers.
They weren't convinced in the very beginning and
didn't send their children to this school
thinking that we can't run the school
continuously for the long run. As a founder
director, I tried my best to build up and uplift
the situation of the school. By the end of that
year, we were able to impress them showing the
out put of our teaching techniques and
methodologies. As a result the number of students
reached 78 in the beginning of the second year.
The number of students has been increasing
gradually. Now we have 137 students. But we can't
enroll all the new comers due to the
infrastructural and financial problems. We hope
we can fulfill the need and desire of our
parents/ villagers (target groups) if your
contribution on the infrastructural or/and
academic sectors can be entertained.Hope you
like to share your ideas for making school better
and facilitating school children. Hope u'll add a
brick in the process of bringing school age
children to school and check drop out.If you
like to chat with me and get more information u
can get my skype address govinda.prasad.panthyhop
e u like helping poor family children.
67Retailer Best Buy internal social network gives
employees voice and management insights
- Retailer Best Buy internal social network gives
employees voice and management insights -
- http//www.providentpartners.net/html/podcast/2008
0129_blue_shirt.mp3 - Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt were Best Buy
advertising guys in search of better information
about the customer experience. Their first stop
was the blue shirt sales associates on the floor
of Best Buy stores who interact with customers
everyday.
68Blue Shirt Nation
- Blue Shirt Nation is the online social network of
25,000 Best Buy employees that gather around the
cyber water cooler. Every time I visit Best Buy
HQ there are several new powerful
internet-enabled initiatives to build communities
and generate value. In the future Best Buy won't
just be an electronics retailer. It will be a
company that enables people to self-organize and
co-innovate value.
69 What is Facebook ?
- Facebook helps you connect and share with the
people in your life.
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72Comscore Facebook Hit 220 Million Worldwide
Uniques in DecemberJanuary 23rd ,2009 - Report
73Facebook
74- Most of Facebooks user growth, however, has been
in international markets - Facebook has 36
million monthly uniques, up from 23 million a
year ago. - Facebook added 75 million monthly uniques over
the last twelve month, but just 13 million of
those visitors are located in the U.S. MySpace
added 5 million U.S. uniques during that period -
at this rate it will take 4 years for Facebook
to catch up to MySpace in the U.S. market.
75- According to comScore, Facebook is the leading
social networking site based on monthly unique
visitors, having overtaken main competitor
MySpace in April 2008.70 ComScore reports that
Facebook attracted 132.1 million unique visitors
in June 2008, compared to MySpace, which
attracted 117.6 million.
76LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing
network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a
networking tool that helps you discover inside
connections to ...
- Over 35 million professionals use LinkedIn to
exchange information, ideas and opportunities
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78The Global Education Collaborative
- http//globaleducation.ning.com/
- This is a community for teachers and students
interested in global education. Contribute by
adding media, conversation, and collaborative
project ideas. Make sure you post an intro in the
forum!
79We hail from....
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81- A message to all members of The Global Education
Collaborative Our second meeting this weekend is
starting now for those in other time zones. (10
AM CST GMT-6) http//fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/11e392-16043
For a replay of yesterday's meeting, go to
http//fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/ef9e68-16042 . Next month,
we are going to focus our meetings on using video
conferencing and chat! Thanks, Lucy Visit The
Global Education Collaborative at
http//globaleducation.ning.com
82Social Bookmarking in the classroom?!
83List of social bookmarking sites
- http//www.kaboodle.com/
- http//www.reddit.com/
- http//www.mixx.com/
- http//www.propeller.com/
- http//www.fark.com/
- http//www.digg.com/
- http//buzz.yahoo.com/
- http//www.technorati.com/
- http//www.stumbleupon.com/
- http//del.icio.us/
8420 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites  Posted
03/01/2009Â Â eBizMBA
- 1 digg.comCompete Monthly Visitors
12,200,000 - 2 Yahoo! BuzzCompete Monthly Visitors
4,000,000 - 3 Technorati.comCompete Monthly Visitors
2,300,000 - 4 StumbleUpon.comCompete Monthly Visitors
978,000 - 5 del.icio.usCompete Monthly Visitors
325,000 - - 6 kaboodle.comCompete Monthly Visitors
3,400,000 - 7 reddit.comCompete Monthly Visitors
2,100,000 - 9 Propeller.comCompete Monthly Visitors
773,000 - 10 Fark.comCompete Monthly Visitors
1,300,000 - 11 newsvine.comCompete Monthly Visitors
768,000 -
85Social Bookmarking 101http//newtools.pbwiki.com/
SocialBookmarking101David S. Jakes, Community
High School District 99Downers Grove, ILÂ 60516
dave_at_jakesonline.org
- I use del.icio.us and furl.net extensively. The
most important use of these tools for me is that
I can build an online personal library related to
my interests, that I can call upon when I need
access to information. That information, because
it is located and organized into these two
onlines sites, follows me-wherever I have a
connection to the Web, I can connect to my
personal information resources. With the
proliferation in handheld devices, this access is
never more easy.
86What Social Bookmarking Does for Students
- When teachers have a collection of course sites
as part of a social bookmark group - Gives students a live link to select instead of
fumbling through typing a long URL into the
address bar. - Lets students choose from a variety of acceptable
links, making for productive research that still
allows for variability.
87Lesson Plans Ideashttp//wiki.classroom20.com/S
ocialBookmarksLessonPlans
- Social Bookmarks Lesson Plans
- Submitted by Sue R., aka "Bookwyrmish"Level
Intermediate or Middle School (depending on
student experience).ObjectivesStudents will
apply technology tools and peripherals to support
personal productivity, group collaboration, and
learning throughout the curriculum. Students
will select and use appropriate tools and
technology resources to accomplish a variety of
tasks and solve problemsMaterials Internet
access, a browser with del.icio.us plugin
installed, a group del.icio.us account and group
password, a research problem.
88Whats Next for Social Bookmarking?
- Social bookmarkingsharing lists of Web finds
online to be accessed from anywhere, by
anyonehas been a great tool for librarians to
gather, organize, and disseminate the best of the
Net. Though an improvement over storing such
files on a computer, bookmarks stored online are
still a digitized version of the classic print
index or directory. Like so many reference tools,
they are great for librarian use, but dont
always work so well for our patrons or students.
There is, however, a new breed of tools emerging
that can provide a better end-user experience.
89Webnoteshttps//www.webnotes.net/Register/BasicRe
gistration.aspx?inviteCodeslj
- http//www.webnotes.net/
- This tool feels like it was custom designed for
use by librarians with support for Web clipping
text, organizing clips into folders, and
publishing HTML or PDF reports of clips and
notes. The tool works best through a lightweight
toolbar that installs on either Firefox or
Internet Explorer browsers. For schools that
cannot download, an available bookmarklet
provides full functionality with no installation
required. The full toolbar adds additional tools
such as a sidebar explorer that lets you quickly
review saved annotations or place new research
into folders. Reports are generated from the
contents of one or more folders, so it would be
best to create a new folder for each new question
or project for easy publication. WebNotes is
designed for research, and as such focuses on
organizing text from sites. It does not offer
clipping of images at this time.
90For image clipping along with text, there are
other options such as the popular and powerful
Evernote or the newer Thumbtack from Microsoft.
Both of these sites are built around a page
layout onto which clips of text and/or images are
placed a feature that is certainly slick, but
also more confusing than the simple WebNotes
interface. Evernote and Thumbtack publish
collections of clips to a site, but only Evernote
has a printable format like WebNotes.
91 StumbleUpon http//www.stumbleupon.com/
- StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites
- Whether it's a web page, photo or video, our
personalized recommendation engine learns what
you like, and brings you more.
92Recommended Sites from 7,327,087 members
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95e-Pals Projects
- ePals The home for meaningful learning through
global collaboration - Safe and Protected E-mailSecure,
- Award Winning Blogging
- TechnologyConnections with other classrooms
- Collaborative Projects Language Practice
- Robust Tools and Learning Resources for Schools
and Districts
96Classroom Matchhttp//www.epals.com/about/tour/cl
assroommatch.tpl
97e-Pals Language and Learning Portal
98- You can find a classroom in several ways
- Find a classroom by searching on a topic or
interest. - Find a classroom using maps.
- See all the new classrooms that have joined
ePals. - There are many more options in our advanced
search - When you find a match, click the "Contact" link.
99E-mail from a teacher
- Howie,
- Thank you for keeping in touch. I have to share
one thing that I have done this week. Out of all
of the suggestions you shared last week I was
most intrigued with the ePals program. Â I
immediately registered and posted a profile. I
literally got goosebumps when I sent my first
international email-----which was to Greece. Over
the last few days I have heard back from schools
in Japan, Germany, and Colombia. Â I cannot even
begin to tell you how excited my students are
about this project! Thank you for telling me
about it. Â I will share more projects as we go.
Beth Still
100- Ning - As I wrote recently, I think this is
definitely one to watch. Launched too recently to
include right now. - http//toolsfortheclassroom.ning.com/
101Del.icio.us
- Del.icio.us - This social bookmarking engine
serves a very basic function (online
bookmarking), but it connects people to websites
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104Exploring Social Media Social Media Tools
105Definition
- Social media are works of user-created video,
audio, text or multimedia that are published and
shared in a social environment, such as a blog,
wiki or video hosting site.www.capilanou.ca/help/
active-cms/glossary.html
106Voice Thread
107http//voicethread.com/q.b45226.i236813
108- 2) Bloglines - This is my aggregator of choice
still, despite trying many others. While Google
Reader may be newer and shinier, its still
missing one feature that I deem to be important
in the world of Web 2.0, and thats the ability
to connect people together. With Bloglines, you
can see who else has subscribed to a blog you are
a fan of, and follow the trail along to see what
they read as well. I find it invaluable to be
able to see what people like Will Richardson and
Bernie Dodge are reading, which really sets
Bloglines apart.
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111Pageflakes http//www.pageflakes.com/
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116why animoto?
MyJugaad.in
117Memories On the Web
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120My Top 5 Social Media Tools
- http//paulstamatiou.com/2006/07/23/my-top-5-socia
l-media-tools - http//technology.blogniscient.com/
121http//megite.com/?sectiontechnology
122http//delicious.com/popular
123 124Top 5 Social Media Tools
- The meme is what are your top 5 social media
tools? Im assuming that this really refers to
any social software. - In order of importance/frequency of use
- Facebook
- Newsgator
- Wordpress
- Meebo
- Flickr
125- Bloglines - Aggregator of choice. Ability to
connect people together.Se what people like Will
Richardson and Bernie Dodge are reading, which
really sets Bloglines apart. http//www.bloglines
.com/ - Â
126Largest Social Bookmarking Sites March 2009
1 digg.com
2 Yahoo! Buzz
3 Technorati.com
- 1 digg.com
- 2 Yahoo! Buzz
- 3 Technorati.com
1274 StumbleUpon.com
5 del.icio.us
- 4 StumbleUpon.com
- 5 del.icio.us
128Top 100 Tools for Learning
129Social networking in the classroom?!
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