tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372492662011-07-28T06:52:13.314-07:009-12 and higher-ed perspectives of online learningKate Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112726549560107957noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37249266.post-27533115948027623512009-01-13T14:26:00.003-07:002009-01-13T14:30:56.529-07:00

So I need to lock down my firefox proxy settings so that students can't change them.I used the blog post from here and it works fine except that it doesn't work for FF3.http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings/Once I added the line into the firefox.js file as instructed here, it works like a charmhttp://lists.more.net/archives/technic/2005-April/008347.htmlThanks to Chris

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Warning! This is a rant...We ordered 34 new computers from Lenovo to replace the 34 Premios we started with 5 1/2 years ago. The amount of packing material that comes with new computers is unbelievable. In order to unpack ONE functional computer I received the following items:2 boxes (recyclable)2 large plastic bags that covered the mini tower and flat panel monitor2 pieces of Styrofoam for

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Our school is participating in a pilot project with the Wyo Dept. of Ed (WDE) in aligning all of our courses to SCED codes.taxonomy for assigning standard codes to secondary school courses in 22 major subject areas. It also includes a content description for each course, and instructions on how to use the taxonomy in coding courses (link)We should have our alignment completed by late January.

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Is it just our school or has Gateway gone out of business. We ordered over 250 machines from Gateway MPC (their gov/edu section) on July 1st and just canceled the order because we hadn't received them yet. WTF? We now have Lenovo's on the way.

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Class.com created a case study on our school. Click here

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I want to make a follow-up post to my previous post regarding the letter we sent to eCollege Now removed by request of eCollege.Our letter/my post was in NO WAY a slam or a complaint regarding the people that we work with at eCollege. All of the individuals are great and we have a good relationship with the people. The concerns we outlined are technology concerns. eCollege as a software

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My friend, Chris Rapp, from Colorado Online gave me a great idea: he says that after every conference he writes down three things he is actually going to DO when he gets back to the office. So often, we attend conferences chuck full of great ideas but then don't implement them because we get back home and start back into our daily grind.Begin a comprehensive list of functions that should be

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So I'm sitting in my hotel room updating a blog I haven't touched for 10 months at the urging of several of my colleagues that I saw again at VSS. I guess my somewhat blunt post about Pearson's purchase of eCollege is famous infamous in the small online high school world.I made three presentations this year which was really weird for me. On Sunday I presented as part of a panel on starting an

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I don't think this is going to affect how we run our school. We do NOT educate home-schooled children. All courses are taught by highly qualified, Wyoming licensed teachers. We only collect funding (ADM) for our full time students. We define full time students as those who are taking more than 60% of their courses from us.If I remember correctly, the school in Wisconsin at the center of this

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Today I'm moving from my desktop to my tabletPC. I've had the tablet for about four months now but had not yet made the full conversion. Just copying over my files is taking forever, then I have to re-do all the installations of the programs I need. THis is a bit of a headache, but a great thing to do the day before x-mas break when you don't want to do real work anyway.Powered by ScribeFire.

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Our annual e-rate madness has begun. The 470 is posted and certified, the RFPs are posted and on our district's website and bids are due January 10th. Oh what fun!

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Resources and Materials from 2007 VSSHere is a listing of the materials from the VSS 2007 conference that presenters made available.I particularly liked the presentations by:Glen MosesAllison PowellJohn WatsonSusan LowesCathy Cavanaugh

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Today, while I was waiting for a return phone call regarding my SIS system, I started to catch up on unread blog posts and del.icio.us bookmarks I hadn't looked at in a while. After meeting Glen Moses at VSS2007 a few weeks ago I've been reading his highly insightful and entertaining blog.In one post of his I stumbled on this video. Just something to get my mind a working...

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The author, John Washakie, works here in our school library. He is a very talented writer. I suggest everyone read these books published by Painted Pony by John and other local authors.Painted Pony, Inc. releases the fourth children's book in the Wind River Series FORT WASHAKIE, WY - Painted Pony, Inc., a Wind River Indian Reservation-based company, has published a new children's book, Yuse

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Women Lose Ground in IT, Computer Science : November 2007 : THE JournalI have seen similar reports in recent months and am wondering what we can do in our little school to help reverse this trend.

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This year was the first year I went to VSS and it was a very good conference. I recommend it to anyone involved with K12 online learning. This conference is hosted by NACOL and was held in Louisville, KY. The conference facilities were great except the hotel's internet connection was slow and spotty. All of the sessions I attended were very informative except one. But even during that

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ThinkGeek :: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 BabydollHa Ha--I"m ordering this right now!

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eSchool News online - $3M grant to aid online teacher educationYet another reason WGU rocks! I have nothing but positive things to say about WGU.

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We use Ghost a lot here on our campus. We aren't big enough to warrant the entire Symantec Ghost implementation, but we do use the multi-casting or ghost-casting capabilities all the time.This is the basic process that you follow for a typical implementation: Build a computer exactly the way you want it Using the boot wizard utility, create a set of network boot disks (floppies) that will work

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The Lazy Student's Guide to Campus Life : Robin Raskin : Yahoo! TechDoes it really matter? If the students are learning the material, what is the difference. This type of story drives me crazy. All it does is create some shock value for page rankings. It isn't even a written article, but really a list of caveats from different colleges grouped together.

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Online U Research: Popularity of Online Universities Rising:"Half of a group of prospective college students who said they would be interested in taking an online course in the next 12 months also said they would like to enroll in a completely online degree program, according to a recent survey conducted by the American InterContinental University Online."Paul McCloskey, "Online U Research:

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K12 Online Conference 2007: "Announcing K12 Online 2007 Presenters"Heads Up: here is the list of the presenters for the 2007 K12 Online Conference. I was a presenter last year and felt way out of my league. If this year's conference is anything like last year's, then it will be chuck full of great presentations. The conference is held over two weeks (Oct 15-19 and Oct 22-26) online. You can

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Download Impatica SoftwareI use this software to convert narrated PowerPoints into a small java and HTML file that can be uploaded into eCollege. I find this to be much cleaner that just uploading a straight PPt into eCollege. It is the only way I can get narration and screen transition timings into eCollege as well.They have specific directions on how to get the Impaticized PPt into different

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flickrCCI found this great website that searches flickr for photos with a creative commons license and lets you search by tag and gives you an easy way to attribute the photo.This is absolutely perfect for course designers (like me) who are always looking for interesting photos to put in their classes.I got this site from this blog post on EduBlog Insights

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WyomingSpringACT_ppt.pdf (application/pdf Object)The Wyoming Dept. of Education is now requiring that all HS juniors (11th grade) take either the ACT or Work Keys test. All testing sites have to be pre-approved by ACT We will have to go through the approval process in order to proctor and administer the test.So now all of our juniors have to take the Wyoming PAWS test, the MAP test (fall and

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rsi_Report_0706.pdf (application/pdf Object)This is a newly released report that documents the successes of the various RSI programs across the US. I worked for this program at FCSD #21 for three years and it was one the best things I have ever done.See page 35 for information specific to the Wind River RSI.

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I just graduated with a Master's of Art in Learning and Technology from Western Governor's University! I am so excited.

Kate Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112726549560107957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37249266.post-11613511346084347492007-06-19T10:36:00.000-07:002007-06-19T10:36:18.577-07:00

Wyoming e-academy of Virtual Education | Hathaway ScholarshipWeAVE offers over 30 courses that are eligible for the Hathaway Scholarship. This is a great opportunity for all Wyoming high school students who may not have access to higher level courses in their home high school.

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onlineteachguide.pdf (application/pdf Object)Here is another report that I found on NACOL. This one is written by the NEA.

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national_report.pdf (application/pdf Object)Here is another great resource from NACOL. If you haven't checked them out yet, you need to. These guys have a ton of useful information. Our school finally joined them, so now I have access to the forums.Happy reading.

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Highschool.com | Edutopia This is a great article, presentation, and video that does a really good job of explaining online education specifically in a K12 environment. While the technology is similar between K12 and higher ed, many of the issues, challenges, funding sources, and various requirements are drastically different between the two worlds.For someone new to online learning in K12,

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Hybrid Learning: Challenges for Teachers : May 2007 : THE Journal: "The main problem here is that the instructional design has not changed because the actual online methodology has not been understood. In professional development for teachers, more time should be spent on methodology training than on technology training. Usually, the reverse is true, and teachers can know how the technology works

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Missouri K-12 Virtual Instructional ProgramThis is an exciting development for eCollege, Virtual Sage, UMOHS, and Bocavox. We are currently trying to buy a SMS from Bocavox but the purchase has to go before our school board in June.As I've said in previous posts, I really like UMOHS and how they run their operation in partnership w/ Bocavox. This organization is very professional and really has

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Kaplan buys UMOHS - South Florida Business Journal:The K-12 Online world keeps getting smaller and smaller. Hopefully this is a good move for UMOHS and Virtual Sage. I met the UMOHS people at the recent CiTE conference and was really impressed with they way they run their school with something called a "vertical staffing model" I hope their new owner doesn't change the things that make UMOHS

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Pearson Acquires Harcourt, Wyo PAWS ProviderMy shock and awe must of blinded me yesterday because I missed the announcement that Pearson bought out Harcourt, the assessment company that if providing the state required PAWS test. Harcourt has done a terrible job of deploying the PAWS test. It is fraught with errors, delays, and over all sloppy implementation.

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They are absolutely enormous. They buy out competing products and put them under one roof, so there is no need for the products to get any better because they don't have much competition. This is what happened when Pearson bought out three competing SMS (student management systems): Chancery (MacSchool and WinSchool) SASI, and PowerSchool. These used to be three competing companies with a

Kate Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112726549560107957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37249266.post-86986855915777459792007-05-14T11:26:00.000-07:002007-05-14T11:26:57.955-07:00

eCollege: Investor Relations: Press ReleasesPearson is the equivalent to Wal-Mart in the educational technology business. I can't believe eCollege is selling out to these guys. It will only be a matter of months before eCollege is a pile of Pearson poo! More on this in a little bit.

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Gateway Computers: Education - Product Details for Gateway� M285-ESo this is what I'm ordering for all of our HS staff, along w/ a port replicator, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. These new tablets will completely replace the current desktops on staff desks. If we get our new building (I pray every night) we might put a few more in for student use. We'll see how it goes!

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Ten Myths About Virtual Schools.pdf (application/pdf Object)This is an excellent article for anyone who has to explain online learning or virtual schools very often. It is concise, accurate and easy to understand for a lay-person.

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Rick West � 2007 � AprilI just read the second portion of Rick's article and it is interesting to note that the conclusion is that whatever CMS an institution decides to implement that they commit to the implementation for the long term. Regardless of the features, effectiveness, stability, etc... it is a larger concern of having to reinvest all time and energy needed to implement a new CMS. In

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I just got back to my office after being at the CiTE conference in Denver. It is the user's conference for eCollege. While most of the presentations are geared towards higher ed, I did get two big things from the conference:Maestro--a student data management system designed specifically for online high schools. I got a demo of this system by their head programmer Beni and it is awesome.

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NCTET 10th Anniversary Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)It is so nice to see a positive report on e-rate. I have personally been defending e-rate since congressional scrutiny began a few years ago. Our district has received over $1 million in e-rate funding and we deserved every single penny. We now have a very nice Local Area Network with a fiber backbone and 100mbps to each client. We

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Patrolling Web 2.0 : March 2007 : THE JournalThis is something I fight constantly. I finally got MySpace IM blocked through a group policy in my active director, but it took me three weeks of searching online and asking colleagues how to combat it.I have real mixed emotions on how much we should limit kids on the Internet. We have a pretty strict filter (iPrism by St. Bernard) but it is always

Kate Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112726549560107957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37249266.post-19028698927609864422007-02-22T14:21:00.000-07:002007-02-22T14:47:28.671-07:00

I'm currently re-creating an online course that is taught by our local community college that we are going to use for dual-credit. It is a basic computing essentials course. They use WebCT and we use eCollege. There is no way to export the exams out of the WebCT course into eCollege, so I was re-typing them by hand. What a headache!! Then I got an email saying that this program might be able

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I think I've found a tool that will let our math teachers demostrate solving equations online using SmartTech's new product the Airliner. This thing lets us record movies of what we are writing using the stylus pen and records whatever is said into a microphone. I used Windows Media Encoder to make the file size smaller.Here is a link to a quick movie I created that demos what I had in mind.

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katejlogan's bookmarks on del.icio.usI'm a total convert to del.icio.us I don't even use my old bookmarks anymore. I need to go through and clean up the crap and then just totally convert to del.icio.usIt is awesome!!

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I have started my digital photography class. I have seven students and all but three units built. I think it is going really well. I have used this course as a guideline in building mine. Once I'm complete I'll send the teacher from Riverside a login into my class and see what he thinks.I've also created accounts for my students in Flickr and they are going to be posting all of their

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I am still dealing w/ PAWS data. What a time waster. The good news is that the testing is going well, with no technical difficulties from a user's standpoint.

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We are neck deep in PAWS (Proficiency Assessment for Wyoming Standards) testing right now and I spent four hours yesterday installing a kiosk browser so students can take only PART of the exam online. This doesn't include the 10-15 hours I've spent getting our student data accurate in the PAWS.I am all for technology integration, but this is technology for technology's sake. I could have

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While I was at work over Christmas break last week, I got caught up on a lot of my un-listened to Podcasts. One of which is EdTechTalk's podcast. I listened to Show #75 that presented the EduBlog Awards show. I will slowly start looking at these highlighted blogs.

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Well,I have completed my first shot at the portrait unit. I'm sure I'll change it many more times before this class goes live.It contains four sections:IntroductionResourcesAssignmentDiscussion Question

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I've started on creating my digital photography (dp) course. I've spent a lot of time searching for other online dp courses. I'm going to use three main resources, two existing online courses, and one online book called Grokking the GIMP This book is completely free and you can download a copy of it and use it on your own webserver. I have put it into my course.The two courses are:Digital

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I'm going to start creating a digital photography course for our HS. I'm going to borrow very heavily from Pnelson's website: http://rhs.riverdale.k12.or.us/~pnelson/gimp/ I'll make sure I add some things that are specific for our kids and landscape. I'll keep you posted on the progress I make over Christmas break. I'm working until the New Year, then I'm taking a week off. It should be nice

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With our new iPrism box, we are able to look at every single web page that a computer visits during a specified time range. A HS teacher asked me to look at a particular student's computer because he caught him watching videos several times today. So I started running report in the iPrism box and started going through the list of websites and low and behold, the kid was watching/listening to

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The deadline for reporting on 8th grade student and teacher technology proficiency is almost here. The feds are leaving it up to the states to determine what proficiency is and how it is measured and reported. In turn, the state is leaving it up to the individual district. This is how our district is going to measure proficience; with the IC3 test. We have licenses through a company

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Part of my job of being the technology director for WeAVE is making sure our Internet connection out of school is funtioning properly so our students can get the functionality they require. Working w/ Bruce Thoren of Copper Mountain Consulting, who has a contract w/ Wyo to manage the WEN, we have been able to limit all iTunes, WinMedia, Quicktime, Real, and Gnutella traffic to only 56K of our 3

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Well, I finally figured out how powerful del.icio.us really is. I maintain a website for the grant I run: www.wrrsi.org. We used to have a whole huge section on web resources that was a static list. It took me FOREVER to create and maintain. When we had our website re-done by Entheos (whom I highly recommend) I just never got around to updating the web resource page because I knew how time

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I was just reading this post on the blog titled, Remote Access, where the author talks about how nice it would be if we could reconfigure classrooms to look and operate more like studios. I think we do this to some degree w/ our HS lab. We have individual workstations for students that are their own to personalize. The teachers are located around the room at their own personal workstations.

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Since presenting for the K12 Online Conference I have been viewing the different presentations on Web 2.0. I'm the technology director for our online high school and I'm trying to decide which of these tools would be best to try to integrate into our school. Which tool (del.icio.us, RSS feeds, blogs, podcasts, wiki, etc...) will be the most effective verses the learning curve and time factor

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commentary from Derek on the same report I have been posting about: http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/the_end_of_education.html

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This is a quick summary of two solutions offered in an article in the newest Technology and Learning magazine I subscribe to, in regard to the report I linked to in the previous post. teach applied skills integrated with core academic subjects. (This screams "voc-ed" to me.)businesses have to partner with schools to produce students/workers with the necessary skills. I would add a third solution

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I read a summary of a new study called "Are They Really Ready to Work?" and I was not suprised by its findings. I'm concerned with the high school graduate findings. It says that employers think that graduates entering the workforce need basic knowledge, (mainly comprised or reading, writing, and speaking in proper English, but also problem-solving and math) and the application of those basic

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I have been thinking and working a lot lately with my colleagues on improving the class.com courses we buy for our online high school. We've come up with the following laundry list of things that need to be done: create an audio recording of all the content, unit by unit, that students can listen to as a podcast and post it in the course train teachers on how to create narrated powerpoints

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This website has free PP templates for download. It is great for when you are so sick of what comes pre-installed with PP. There are also great tips and tricks. A PowerPoint Blog: Textured 18: Free PowerPoint Template of the Day

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Virtual High School Meanderings: Who Or What Are At-Risk Students?I have been following this blog for a while and responded to MK's post on at-risk students.

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After a week of Internet problems, this better be the cause...The 5th Wave - Gallery

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I have been bombarded with computer problems this week. bad cable to the routerbottleneck to the Internet by our service providerscrewy IE problems that don't seem to have any rhyme or reasonDNS errors with our email servermissing data off of serversI can't tell if these problems are related or it is just a coincidence that they all happen at the same time.Thanks god for Veteran's day tomorrow.

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I just spent all morning working on three different problems at once. We have parent/teacher conferences tonight so I was checking out the report cards in our student data management system Web2School and found three HUGE problems. After a few phone calls and some changing of terms and other settings, all is well in the world of report cards.I had to change the login name of one of our students

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Well, after recieving divine inspiration from the K12 Online Conference this is my attempt at educational blogging. I really enjoyed conference. I was a presenter and quickly found out how little I know about Web 2.0 technologies. Just the amount of stuff I learned while creating and posting my presentation was pretty phenominal. I haven't even scratched the surface on the other

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