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Building Learning Gadgets The Google sidebar offers you a chance to have little gadgets on your desktop that monitor the weather, the news, and even current news stories. But can these little widgets be used for learning purposes? We've been experimenting with designing, developing and deploying learning through Gadgets. Hear about what's involved in the behind-the-scenes programming, what it took to create our first gadget, and where we went wrong. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

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What’s A Gadget? Google has introduced the idea of having tiny little "gadgets" on your desktop. A few examples are shown below -- weather, traffic, news, videos -- you can get a wide variety of content and information delivered to your desktop. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

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Strings File <strings> <GADGET_NAME>Bite-Sized Learning</GADGET_NAME> <GADGET_DESCRIPTION>Bite-Sized Learning Gadget, by Dick Carlson</GADGET_DESCRIPTION> <GADGET_ABOUT_TEXT>Bite-Sized Learning © 2007 www. learninggadgets. com mailto: info@Learning. Gadgets. com</GADGET_ABOUT_TEXT> <ITEM_A>Previous tip</ITEM_A> <ITEM_B>Next tip</ITEM_B> <ITEM_C>Reload</ITEM_C> <BSL_DATA_LOCATION>http: //www. Learninggadgets. com/bsl/BSLData. xml</BSL_DATA _LOCATION> </strings> Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

XML File <? xml version="1. 0" encoding="windows-1251"? > <bsldata> <item da="02/16/2007" title="Learn To Go To x Foods" source="http: //www. wholefoods. com" text="You should really consider going to Whole Foods if you want to be healthy. "/> <item da="02/17/2007" title="Learn To Pick Out Sandals" source="http: //www. chacousa. com/ " text="It’s important that you have the little sticking up part firmly between your toes, and no sand on the bottom. "/> <item da="02/18/2007" title="How To Make A Sandwich" source="http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Sandwich " text="Take some bread, butter it. Then put the meat and cheese inside and see if that all fits. Cut it in half and then eat it. "/> </bsldata> Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

Manifest File <gadget minimum. Google. Desktop. Version="4. 2006. 505. 0"> <about> <name>&GADGET_NAME; </name> <description>&GADGET_DESCRIPTION; </description> <about. Text>&GADGET_ABOUT_TEXT; </about. Text> <small. Icon>plugin_small. gif</small. Icon> <icon>plugin_large. gif</icon> <version>1. 0. 0. 0</version> <author>Dick Carlson</author> <author. Website>http: //www. learninggadget. com</author. Website> <id>DC 8 D 8 DBF-022 E-492 F-88 B 6 -C 5 D 1 F 6 C 1 A 23 B</id> <copyright></copyright><author. Email></about> </gadget> Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

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Building Learning Gadgets The Google sidebar offers you a chance to have little gadgets on your desktop that monitor the weather, the news, and even current news stories. But can these little widgets be used for learning purposes? We've been experimenting with designing, developing and deploying learning through Gadgets. Hear about what's involved in the behind-the-scenes programming, what it took to create our first gadget, and where we went wrong. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

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