Hi there!
Here's the latest in Discovery Education Network (DEN) webinars:
TONIGHT!
Monday, March 8 @ 7PM EST - Using Technology to Create New Knowledge with Hall Davidson
We will look at how understanding the creation of new knowledge is integral in preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 9 @ 1PM EST - How Math Can Solve Everyday Problems with Garth Sundem
Bestselling author Garth Sundem will show students how to use math to solve everyday problems in life, and they’ll learn a thing or two about the design and solving of algebraic equations at the same time. Your students will see that math can be fun—and funny, too! This fun webinar uses basic algebra and a healthy helping of humor to provide fail-safe solutions to just about anything. Students are encouraged to participate!
Wednesday, March 10 @ 7PM EST - Virtual Field Trips with Google Earth
Tuesday, March 16 @ 7PM EST - Failure to Communicate
Come ready to look at images, audio, video and PowerPoint in a whole new way!
Wednesday, March 17 @ 7PM EST - EdTechConnect with Scott Kinney
Tuesday, March 23 @ 7PM EST - Little Hands, Giant Reach with Steve Dembo
See how innovative classroom teachers are are using free technologies to improve communication, impact student learning, and above all... make learning exciting!
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
8 Events Coming up in the DEN
Some great online webinars coming up from Discovery Education. Check these out:
1. Shining Stars - TONIGHT! @ 7PM. Click here to register.
2. Multimedia Presentations using Non-linear PowerPoints- Wed., Jan 27th @ 7 PM Click here to register.
3. English Language Learners and Discovery Education streaming - Tue., Feb. 2 @ 7PM Click here to register.
4. Pump Up the Volume: 10 Ways to Engage Your Auditory Learners - Tues., Feb. 9 @ 7PM Click here to register.
5. Bend it, Break it, Bust it Loose - 10 Ways DE streaming Can Change the way you teach - Tues., Feb. 16th @ 7PM Click here to register.
6. Top Ten STEM Resources - Wed., Feb. 17 @ 7PM Click here to register.
7. Shining Stars - Tues., Feb. 23 @ 7PM Click here to register.
8. More than Just MultiMedia Posters, with Glogster - Wed., Feb. 24 @ 7PM Click here to register.
1. Shining Stars - TONIGHT! @ 7PM. Click here to register.
2. Multimedia Presentations using Non-linear PowerPoints- Wed., Jan 27th @ 7 PM Click here to register.
3. English Language Learners and Discovery Education streaming - Tue., Feb. 2 @ 7PM Click here to register.
4. Pump Up the Volume: 10 Ways to Engage Your Auditory Learners - Tues., Feb. 9 @ 7PM Click here to register.
5. Bend it, Break it, Bust it Loose - 10 Ways DE streaming Can Change the way you teach - Tues., Feb. 16th @ 7PM Click here to register.
6. Top Ten STEM Resources - Wed., Feb. 17 @ 7PM Click here to register.
7. Shining Stars - Tues., Feb. 23 @ 7PM Click here to register.
8. More than Just MultiMedia Posters, with Glogster - Wed., Feb. 24 @ 7PM Click here to register.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
DEN "Trick or Treat" Virtual Conference
DEN's Fall Virtual Conference takes place on October 24, from 9am - 4pm. I've been participating for two years now and really enjoy the information I receive. In total there are 7 one hour sessions full of information. I encourage you to try this FREE and easy way to grow your professional development network and learn about some FREE ideas to use in your classroom.
One of the ideas I've learned about from past DEN experiences is adding web 2.0 tools to DE Streaming, which I then came up with the idea of using these tools with Schoolfusion. I've also learned how to change closed captioning on DE Streaming videos and how to insert DE Streaming videos into Google Earth. The list could on. Okay...I know it's a Saturday, but take one hour and try one session. Here's a suggestion: Try the 11 a.m. session on "Thinking Outside the Slide". This sounds like a session on PowerPoint and I'm sure will include some tricks on how to better use PowerPoint. It's late enough that you can sleep in and early enough before your day really starts.
I'm intrigued by the session at 1 p.m. entitled "What on Earth is a Gloggle?" Sounds like it could be a mix of Glogster, Blogging, and Google Earth? What do you think it could be?
Click here to register, if you're interested.
And here's the whole schedule:
9 a.m. Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director with Justin Karkow
10 a.m. Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast?
11 a.m. Thinking Outside the Slide
12 p.m. Putting the Bling in Your Builders with Steve Dembo
1 p.m. What on Earth is a Gloggle?
2 p.m. Be Nice and Share: Publishing Your Media-Infused Projects for the World to See
3 p.m. Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director, encore presentation with Justin Karkow
Still not convinced? Click here.
One of the ideas I've learned about from past DEN experiences is adding web 2.0 tools to DE Streaming, which I then came up with the idea of using these tools with Schoolfusion. I've also learned how to change closed captioning on DE Streaming videos and how to insert DE Streaming videos into Google Earth. The list could on. Okay...I know it's a Saturday, but take one hour and try one session. Here's a suggestion: Try the 11 a.m. session on "Thinking Outside the Slide". This sounds like a session on PowerPoint and I'm sure will include some tricks on how to better use PowerPoint. It's late enough that you can sleep in and early enough before your day really starts.
I'm intrigued by the session at 1 p.m. entitled "What on Earth is a Gloggle?" Sounds like it could be a mix of Glogster, Blogging, and Google Earth? What do you think it could be?
Click here to register, if you're interested.
And here's the whole schedule:
9 a.m. Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director with Justin Karkow
10 a.m. Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast?
11 a.m. Thinking Outside the Slide
12 p.m. Putting the Bling in Your Builders with Steve Dembo
1 p.m. What on Earth is a Gloggle?
2 p.m. Be Nice and Share: Publishing Your Media-Infused Projects for the World to See
3 p.m. Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director, encore presentation with Justin Karkow
Still not convinced? Click here.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Classrooms Are Awesome!
Of course, they are! And the teachers who inspire students! Just announced yesterday, during the DEN Streamathon, if you are a DEN member, you can receive a free limited edition DEN sweatshirt hoodie during the Classrooms Are Awesome campaign!
To receive this wonderful gift, upload a 1-2 minute video, podcast, or other multimedia resource of how you use DE resources in your classroom to engage students. Videos, podcasts, etc. must be received by November 15th at 8pm. EST.
To receive this wonderful gift, upload a 1-2 minute video, podcast, or other multimedia resource of how you use DE resources in your classroom to engage students. Videos, podcasts, etc. must be received by November 15th at 8pm. EST.
A Day in the Life...
Sorry about the delay in my update today. It's not much of an update, unfortunately, as my allergies decided to rage again yesterday afternoon and evening and I didn't get to listen to the sessions as I'd intended.
The one session I really got to enjoy though was the Day in the Life of DE Streaming with Lance Rougeux, one of the DEN managers. His presentation was set up as if you were a student going through a day of school with DE Streaming in every class. We went from a mock setup of 7:30 in the morning down to about 2:30 in the afternoon. We started with Language Arts/English first and how to use DE Streaming with literature circles, guided reading groups, and writing prompts. More on this later.
Next we went to Math class and learned that DE Streaming also has some flash interactive games available. By using differentiation, teachers can have one group working on an activity and another group of students working at the interactive white board (iwb) with the flash activities. Lance also reminded us not to forget to use the curriculum standards when searching for resources, which is another good way to perform a search in DE Streaming.
Next we were off to Social Studies class. Lance showed us the Discovery Atlas in the teacher's center. This looks amazing, especially for Geography. Then we were shown how to take a DE Streaming video and add it to Google Earth. It's much easier than you would think. Streaming has a special new "share" button on the content pages of each video. Click on this button and copy the embed code. Then go into Google Earth, create a placemark and paste the embed code into the body of the placemark. Viola! When the students click on the placemark, they will see a link to the video.
In Science class, students would watch a video from Mythbusters and fill out a worksheet, making sure the busters followed the scientific method and steps in their experiments.
Finally, it was almost time to go, but not without homework! A new website from CDWG and Discovery Education will show teachers how to get over their fear technology. http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0 is especially for Technophobes, this website will be a guide to helping you integrate technology. So for homework, we need to try some of the strategies and report back. What do you think of this site?
I'll be bringing more later and the address with the archived sessions.
The one session I really got to enjoy though was the Day in the Life of DE Streaming with Lance Rougeux, one of the DEN managers. His presentation was set up as if you were a student going through a day of school with DE Streaming in every class. We went from a mock setup of 7:30 in the morning down to about 2:30 in the afternoon. We started with Language Arts/English first and how to use DE Streaming with literature circles, guided reading groups, and writing prompts. More on this later.
Next we went to Math class and learned that DE Streaming also has some flash interactive games available. By using differentiation, teachers can have one group working on an activity and another group of students working at the interactive white board (iwb) with the flash activities. Lance also reminded us not to forget to use the curriculum standards when searching for resources, which is another good way to perform a search in DE Streaming.
Next we were off to Social Studies class. Lance showed us the Discovery Atlas in the teacher's center. This looks amazing, especially for Geography. Then we were shown how to take a DE Streaming video and add it to Google Earth. It's much easier than you would think. Streaming has a special new "share" button on the content pages of each video. Click on this button and copy the embed code. Then go into Google Earth, create a placemark and paste the embed code into the body of the placemark. Viola! When the students click on the placemark, they will see a link to the video.
In Science class, students would watch a video from Mythbusters and fill out a worksheet, making sure the busters followed the scientific method and steps in their experiments.
Finally, it was almost time to go, but not without homework! A new website from CDWG and Discovery Education will show teachers how to get over their fear technology. http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0 is especially for Technophobes, this website will be a guide to helping you integrate technology. So for homework, we need to try some of the strategies and report back. What do you think of this site?
I'll be bringing more later and the address with the archived sessions.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
DEN Streamathon Tomorrow
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) will be hosting the 4th annual DEN Streamathon tomorrow, a 12 hour day of Discovery and DE Streaming goodies! And again, it's FREE! 
Most of the sessions from the day will be re-broadcast tomorrow evening after school hours for those of you who can't catch it during the day. Sessions will also be archived and available soon after.
Here are the sessions I think will ones not to miss:
A Day in the Life of DE Streaming at 5pm
Back to School Changes in DE Streaming at 6pm
and The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010 at 8 pm
Click here if you still need to register.
There will also be one hour sessions per subject area (Math, Literacy, Science, and Social Studies) on how you can use DE Streaming. I'll check back in tomorrow night after the DEN session on how everything went and the archive location.
Most of the sessions from the day will be re-broadcast tomorrow evening after school hours for those of you who can't catch it during the day. Sessions will also be archived and available soon after.
Here are the sessions I think will ones not to miss:
A Day in the Life of DE Streaming at 5pm
Back to School Changes in DE Streaming at 6pm
and The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010 at 8 pm
Click here if you still need to register.
There will also be one hour sessions per subject area (Math, Literacy, Science, and Social Studies) on how you can use DE Streaming. I'll check back in tomorrow night after the DEN session on how everything went and the archive location.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Oh What A Shirt!
I recently received a nice little package from the DEN! It was my "spring training" shirt from the promotion back in the Spring for uploading two resources to the educator resources on the DEN website. They sent it wrapped up as a baseball, which I thought was very inventive. However, it also was a little "wrinkled" after it had been stuffed to look like a baseball and I thought the outcome was hilarious, so I had to share:
Sunday, June 28, 2009
DEN Pre-NECC Extravaganza and 100th post?
So this is technically the 100th post to be on the blog, but that's with the automatic Diigo posts that happen everytime I find a new website to add to my bookmarks, so I'm not really counting this as my 100th post, but I thought it would still be nice to at least say I reached 100 posts in about a year and a half!
Yesterday, in preparation for my first National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), I attended the DEN Pre-NECC Extraganza at Discovery Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. Since I live close by, it was a no-brainer! What fun we had! We got to play "mock" school as we were students at Discovery School for the day. We had four periods, recess, and teams.
My first session was with Jen Dorman, where I learned about all thing "Ogs", as in Glogs, Blogs, and Vlogs. I've used Glogster before, but got to hear about more ways teachers are using it. Jen showed us several examples, and one on chromosomes and genes caught my attention. However, I did learn a great time saving tip: ADD IMAGES FROM THE WEB--You don't always have to download an image you like on the web and then re-upload into Glogster. You can use DE Streaming and search for pictures and choose a preview option (small, medium or large), which then opens the picture in another window in a web browser, with it's own URL! Copy the URL, go back to Glogster and paste it in the image from web box. The image goes right on your page.
Jen also shared a tip she used for class blogging, where she would assign a class scribe for each period and during the last three minutes of class, this person typed up what the class had done and posted it to the blog. What a great way for getting the students involved in communicating classwork! She also said the students would get very excited when they received comments from other teachers and the public! Jen was a high school teacher, so having the public comment would vary by school and grade level, but it was wonderful to hear how much the students wanted to keep learning because they were getting comments on their work. So instead of having students turn assignments in, have them publish it, and feedback from each other and the school community!
Vlogs are a great alternative to blogging. Jen also shared that some of her kids were downright scared to do writing assignments, but as soon as a camera was turned on, they'd start sharing like crazy! So in some cases, it might be easier to have kids articulating themselves in a "digital blog" instead of writing out the whole assignment.
The next session I did was, 50 Ways to Integrate DE Streaming, but it wasn't like the normal sessions on this, because there is a new updated version of DE streaming coming out very soon and we got to learn about the new features in this session with Jannita Demian. When you search for videos now, you will get results similar to how you did before, but now when you roll over a video you also get a pop up bubble (not window) with a 10 second video preview, with a description of the movie, teacher guides (this has great stuff) and in some cases a little box that says edit-which allows you to edit the movie. ANother change is the "Builders" have moved! They are no longer found in the Teacher Center as they've been upgraded to their own section. Look in the black box under the toolbar and you're find a link to them there. You can also check the "most popular" and "recently added" tabs for videos that fall into those categories. I also finally found the Discovery Atlas, which is in the Teacher Center. If you're a DEN member, you can check out these changes now.
There were some great ideas during this session: One teacher said she turns the volume off and has the kids narrate the video and uses this activity as a great assessment to see what they learned. Another idea was using PowerPoint and 6 or so pictures on a slide from a habitat/biome and connecting sounds from animals that would live in that type of environment and the kids have to identify what animal that is. When you click on the picture, you then get another slide with information about that animal. And all of this comes from DE Streaming!
My third session was on DE Streaming and Google Earth with Justin Karkow. I had gone to this same session at CRSTE with Jen Dorman and wasn't sure I was going to learn anything new, but I certainly did! I finally got Google Earth 5 to download on my computer and I was able to keep right up with Justin as he showed us the timeline and day and night features. The timeline allows you to look at a place through time and this icon, a clock, is found right under the toolbar. The day and night tool (there's probably an actual name for this) is right beside the clock and allows you to see the day and night views of a location. I liked Justin's math example as well. He would teach his students about measurement by taking a video from DE Streaming and embedding it into a placemark and then adding directions for what he wanted his students to do, and then the students would navigate to the placemark of a pyramid in Egypt and they would have to find the surface area of the pyramid. How fun does that sound?
The fourth session was our "assembly" time and I learned more about mediashare, which Star DEN members have access to. It seems like I need to check this out a bit more. I did use it briefly this spring when I was looking for video examples for a math film project I was doing with the 8th graders.
After "school" was over we celebrated the fourth birthday of the DEN. I had a great time yesterday and can't wait to see what awaits me this week at NECC!
Yesterday, in preparation for my first National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), I attended the DEN Pre-NECC Extraganza at Discovery Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. Since I live close by, it was a no-brainer! What fun we had! We got to play "mock" school as we were students at Discovery School for the day. We had four periods, recess, and teams.
My first session was with Jen Dorman, where I learned about all thing "Ogs", as in Glogs, Blogs, and Vlogs. I've used Glogster before, but got to hear about more ways teachers are using it. Jen showed us several examples, and one on chromosomes and genes caught my attention. However, I did learn a great time saving tip: ADD IMAGES FROM THE WEB--You don't always have to download an image you like on the web and then re-upload into Glogster. You can use DE Streaming and search for pictures and choose a preview option (small, medium or large), which then opens the picture in another window in a web browser, with it's own URL! Copy the URL, go back to Glogster and paste it in the image from web box. The image goes right on your page.
Jen also shared a tip she used for class blogging, where she would assign a class scribe for each period and during the last three minutes of class, this person typed up what the class had done and posted it to the blog. What a great way for getting the students involved in communicating classwork! She also said the students would get very excited when they received comments from other teachers and the public! Jen was a high school teacher, so having the public comment would vary by school and grade level, but it was wonderful to hear how much the students wanted to keep learning because they were getting comments on their work. So instead of having students turn assignments in, have them publish it, and feedback from each other and the school community!
Vlogs are a great alternative to blogging. Jen also shared that some of her kids were downright scared to do writing assignments, but as soon as a camera was turned on, they'd start sharing like crazy! So in some cases, it might be easier to have kids articulating themselves in a "digital blog" instead of writing out the whole assignment.
The next session I did was, 50 Ways to Integrate DE Streaming, but it wasn't like the normal sessions on this, because there is a new updated version of DE streaming coming out very soon and we got to learn about the new features in this session with Jannita Demian. When you search for videos now, you will get results similar to how you did before, but now when you roll over a video you also get a pop up bubble (not window) with a 10 second video preview, with a description of the movie, teacher guides (this has great stuff) and in some cases a little box that says edit-which allows you to edit the movie. ANother change is the "Builders" have moved! They are no longer found in the Teacher Center as they've been upgraded to their own section. Look in the black box under the toolbar and you're find a link to them there. You can also check the "most popular" and "recently added" tabs for videos that fall into those categories. I also finally found the Discovery Atlas, which is in the Teacher Center. If you're a DEN member, you can check out these changes now.
There were some great ideas during this session: One teacher said she turns the volume off and has the kids narrate the video and uses this activity as a great assessment to see what they learned. Another idea was using PowerPoint and 6 or so pictures on a slide from a habitat/biome and connecting sounds from animals that would live in that type of environment and the kids have to identify what animal that is. When you click on the picture, you then get another slide with information about that animal. And all of this comes from DE Streaming!
My third session was on DE Streaming and Google Earth with Justin Karkow. I had gone to this same session at CRSTE with Jen Dorman and wasn't sure I was going to learn anything new, but I certainly did! I finally got Google Earth 5 to download on my computer and I was able to keep right up with Justin as he showed us the timeline and day and night features. The timeline allows you to look at a place through time and this icon, a clock, is found right under the toolbar. The day and night tool (there's probably an actual name for this) is right beside the clock and allows you to see the day and night views of a location. I liked Justin's math example as well. He would teach his students about measurement by taking a video from DE Streaming and embedding it into a placemark and then adding directions for what he wanted his students to do, and then the students would navigate to the placemark of a pyramid in Egypt and they would have to find the surface area of the pyramid. How fun does that sound?
The fourth session was our "assembly" time and I learned more about mediashare, which Star DEN members have access to. It seems like I need to check this out a bit more. I did use it briefly this spring when I was looking for video examples for a math film project I was doing with the 8th graders.
After "school" was over we celebrated the fourth birthday of the DEN. I had a great time yesterday and can't wait to see what awaits me this week at NECC!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Great summer sessions with the DEN!
Get ready for a new school year with the DEN! The entire month of August is jam-packed with free webinars, on Digital Storytellling, Leadership, Science, and Web 2.0. Each week in the month of August, the Discovery Educator Network will be having online webinar classes on the above topics and getting teachers ready to start the new school year back in style and with some new tricks! Sessions will be 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. You can enroll today at: http://community.discoveryeducation.com/webinar. I am definitely checking out the sessions on "Discovery Education Media and imovie" during the first week and the "Virtual Field Trips with DE Media and Google Earth" during the last week. How exciting do these sound?
Here's a rundown of the schedule:
August 3, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Thinking Outside the Slide
August 4, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Digital Storytelling Made Easy with Discovery Education Content, Animoto and PhotoStory
August 5, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Director's Cut - Discovery Education Media and MovieMaker
August 6, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Discovery Education Media and iMovie
August 10, 2009 Leadership Week: The Information Society is HERE: Are our schools up to the task?
August 11, 2009 Leadership Week: Policies, Safety and Social Networking
August 12, 2009 Leadership Week: Web 2.0 for Administrators and Others: Schools, Tools, and the 21st Century
August 13, 2009 Leadership Week: Data Driven Decisions with Discovery Education Assessment
August 17, 2009 Science Week: Myth Busted - Easy Ways to Integrate Digital Media into Your Science Classroom
August 18, 2009 Science Week: Getting Your Hands Dirty with Discovery Education Science
August 19, 2009 Science Week: Differentiating Instruction with the Discovery Education Science Assessment Manager
August 20, 2009 Science Week: More and Muir Tech Tips for Going Green
August 24, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Get Your Glog On! The DE streaming Builders and Glogster
August 25, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: The Thread that Ties it All Together: Discovery Education Content and Voicethread
August 26, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Virtual Field Trips with Discovery Education Media and Google Earth
August 27, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Learning Through the Funnies: Mixing Discovery Education Content with Free Comic Tools
Which ones are you most interested in? Comment away in the comment section!
Here's a rundown of the schedule:
August 3, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Thinking Outside the Slide
August 4, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Digital Storytelling Made Easy with Discovery Education Content, Animoto and PhotoStory
August 5, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Director's Cut - Discovery Education Media and MovieMaker
August 6, 2009 Digital Storytelling Week: Discovery Education Media and iMovie
August 10, 2009 Leadership Week: The Information Society is HERE: Are our schools up to the task?
August 11, 2009 Leadership Week: Policies, Safety and Social Networking
August 12, 2009 Leadership Week: Web 2.0 for Administrators and Others: Schools, Tools, and the 21st Century
August 13, 2009 Leadership Week: Data Driven Decisions with Discovery Education Assessment
August 17, 2009 Science Week: Myth Busted - Easy Ways to Integrate Digital Media into Your Science Classroom
August 18, 2009 Science Week: Getting Your Hands Dirty with Discovery Education Science
August 19, 2009 Science Week: Differentiating Instruction with the Discovery Education Science Assessment Manager
August 20, 2009 Science Week: More and Muir Tech Tips for Going Green
August 24, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Get Your Glog On! The DE streaming Builders and Glogster
August 25, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: The Thread that Ties it All Together: Discovery Education Content and Voicethread
August 26, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Virtual Field Trips with Discovery Education Media and Google Earth
August 27, 2009 Web 2.0 Week: Learning Through the Funnies: Mixing Discovery Education Content with Free Comic Tools
Which ones are you most interested in? Comment away in the comment section!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
DEN Spring Training 2009
Have you uploaded your resources yet on the educator resources page? Hop to it-you've only got three days left! Any DEN member who uploads at least two resources by May 22nd, will received a limited edition DEN spring training t-shirt. I've uploaded mine! Look for my two PDS presentations on tool to use for next year, "What About Next Year" and "How to Create Webquests".
While searching the educator resources for what else has been put up I spotted this awesome video on the Pythagoream Theorem and how it can be used in baseball. I think I can also use this as an example video to show one of our 8th grade math classes, who will soon begin working on math videos before the end of the school year. Take a look at this:
While searching the educator resources for what else has been put up I spotted this awesome video on the Pythagoream Theorem and how it can be used in baseball. I think I can also use this as an example video to show one of our 8th grade math classes, who will soon begin working on math videos before the end of the school year. Take a look at this:
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