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	<title>Dr Alan Howard</title>
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		<title>don mclean is back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don McLean is back in the UK in April, with appearances on BBC TV The One Show, Weekend Wogan, Loose Ends on radio 4 and Simon Mayo&#8217;s Drivetime show on radio 2, amongst many others. He has concerts across Europe in April/May including the Albert Hall on May 7th. His new album, Addicted to Black, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2010/03/09/don-mclean-is-back/</link>
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		<title>Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[at last some decent snow and temps of -8.2 C in Brinkworth:

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		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2010/01/07/snow/</link>
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		<title>&#039;Exploding US National Debt&#039;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Market Oracle, the influential Financial Markets Analysis &#38; Forecasting online publication, has integrated an analysis of US recent economic history with the song &#8220;American Pie&#8221; , citing my book extensively.
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		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/10/21/exploding-us-national-debt/</link>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for visiting my personal home page and web blog. I am a senior lecturer at the University of Reading, undertaking research in modelling aquatic systems, primarily the movement and growth of toxic cyanobacteria. For the past three years I have been predominantly occupied as Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/09/08/welcome/</link>
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		<title>my bing map : real time geography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;my bing map 2.0&#8243; is a new Web 2.0 application that creates a live feed from sites like flickr, twitter and wikipedia based on the visitor&#8217;s chosen location. Unlike my previous interactive maps, this is based on Microsoft&#8217;s bing map api, which is likely to prove strong competition for google maps.
visit the new site here
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		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/08/14/my-bingmap-20/</link>
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		<title>killing me softly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[lori lieberman&#8217;s experience of seeing Don McLean in concert in LA in 1972 formed the basis of Roberta Flack and The Fugees&#8217; number 1 hit &#8220;Killing Me Softly With His Song&#8221;. However Lori recorded the song first and has now, in 2009, released a new recording of her great song on her new album, &#8220;Gun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/07/28/killing-me-softly/</link>
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		<title>Tom Watson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Watson&#8217;s failure to get down in three from the centre of the 18th fairway to win his 6th Open Golf Championship today at the age of 59 must rank as one of sport&#8217;s greatest tragedies. I remember his last Open victoryin 1983 when Peter Allis described Watson&#8217;s 2-iron approach to the centre of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/07/19/tom-watson/</link>
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		<title>Crete Field Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The field trip to Crete (June 16-23rd 2009) involved three staff (Dr Alan Howard, Richard Tegg, Ken Beard) and 28 students registered for the degree in Human and Physical Geography at the University of Reading.
We were based in the village of Chora Sfakion in the Sfakia region of south west Crete. Fieldwork was undertaken in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/06/26/crete-field-trip/</link>
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		<title>How blogging may help students deepen their learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you would like to find out about how and why weblogs (‘blogs’) might be used to enhance learning watch this interesting video: http://lindsayjordan.edublogs.org/2009/05/29/blogging-with-students-how-and-why/ or read Lindsay’s full paper at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddj42whm_48g4n924f6
I will soon be undertaking a field trip to Crete during which students will maintain a blog to enable individual and collaborative reflection on events and issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/05/29/how-blogging-may-help-students-deepen-their-learning/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm deaths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a little late for this year&#8217;s energy resources exam&#8230;
BBC NEWS &#124; World &#124; Asia-Pacific &#124; Wind farm &#8216;kills Taiwanese goats&#8217;.
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		<link>http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/05/21/wind-farm-kills-taiwanese-goats/</link>
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