Indoors, the tablet could be employed to play educational games, update a student blog or record videos, such as a newscast.

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An article on how Quick overcame his challenges early in life appeared on the Lone Star student blog the first week of April.

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She wrote for the student blog, hung around online after class to get to know her professors, joined video-chat study groups after hours, and developed Facebook relationships with classmates.

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There she came across student-produced videos and blog entries, along with posts in a Facebook group for accepted students.

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So has Karl Haro von Mogel, a 27-year-old plant sciences graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, whose blog promotes the technology.

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Lat got kicked off the site after a law-student-beauty-queen-turned criminal complained that he used her Facebook photos in a blog post on Above the Law.

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