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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<font size="2">This website is now an archive, with no new content being added. <br><br>The new <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 215, 0);">Educational Technology -- ICT in Education</span> website is now at <a title="The Educational Technology -- ICT in Education website" target="_blank" href="http://www.ictineducation.org">http://www.ictineducation.org</a>.<br><br></font><font size="2">Benefits of the new site include:</font><br><ul><li>New content added virtually every day.</li><li>Articles are much easier to find: locate them by alphabetical order, date published, month published, tags or search.</li><li>You can subscrbe to both the articles and comments if you wish.</li></ul>See you there!<br><br>';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">If this is your first time here, you may not know this: this website is no longer being updated. Feel free to look around, because there is tons of good stuff here, but for </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">new </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">articles you should go to our new website, which is:</span><br><br><a title="ICT in Education" target="_blank" href="http://www.ictineducation.org">http://www.ictineducation.org</a><br></span>';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<font size="4">For the lowdown on BETT 2010 please visit our <span style="font-weight: bold;">new </span>website, as this one is no longer being updated.<br><br>There are <a title="Articles about BETT" href="http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/tag/bett-2010">several articles about BETT</a> on the site, and there will be a special post-BETT edition of the <a title="Our Free Newsletter" href="http://www.ictineducation.org/newsletter/">Computers in Classrooms newsletter</a>.<br><br>Look out also for a brand new <span style="font-weight: bold;">free </span>ebook about Web 2.0!<br><br>Thank you.<br></font><div style="text-align: right;"><font size="4"><span style="font-style: italic;">Terry Freedman</span></font><br></div>';
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