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6. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 License 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.

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8. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 License 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.

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11. Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 License What’s A Learning Gadget? A Learning Gadget is a gadget that is designed to result in learning for the person sitting and staring at the desktop. It might deliver short training clips, instructions, teasers to more information -- there are lots of options

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