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	Use Low-tech Methods for Better Results at Low Cost

janclip1300

10-18-2009 7:46 PM

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Article by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com
[written as a column for eLearn Magazine, www.elearnmag.org]

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