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Added the Wikipedia gadget to our blog, Teaching Others About Technology (LT130).  In doing this process I found it was not as intimidating as I thought to work with this program.  I expected to have to search and find a link but the edit bar had several gadgets ready to automatically link to the page.  Excited to learn more about the process.  

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