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	<title>Imagining Venice</title>
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	<description>The Semiotics of La Serenissima</description>
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		<title>Imagined Venice vs Real Venice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before going to Venice, I read a lot of things that people had said about the city.  Many accounts differed, some extolling Venice&#8217;s for its virtues, others denouncing it for its faults.  I really didn&#8217;t know what to expect. I was hoping that the place of beauty that I saw in the paintings would not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/06/02/imagined-venice-vs-real-venice/</link>
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		<title>Cemetery Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During our class we talked about Venice being a symbol for death and dying. So to explore this idea more we went to the Cemetery Island just outside of Venice. Here we were able to explore, make art, and sort of take in the idea of death and dying. I found this island to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/23/cemetery-island/</link>
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		<title>Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The group went to the Rialto bridge for the first time! It is a beautiful bridge, and many stairs. If you eve come to Venice you will have to see this bridge. It is on the grand canal, so you can&#8217;t miss it.]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/23/day-2/</link>
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		<title>Imagining Venice Student Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first week of on-site student art from the Imagining Venice travel course has now been uploaded to the web album. Take a look&#8230;. Student Art Imagining Venice 2011]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/22/imagining-venice-student-art-2/</link>
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		<title>Early Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This group of students has amazed me with their dedication to painting while on our trip. No time more so than the 6 a.m. trek to Piazza san Marco to catch the sunrise view of San Giorgio Maggiore. I have proof of their diligence that I am showing here. Everyone is getting much better at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/22/early-light/</link>
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		<title>Torcello &amp; Frari</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we took a very long day trip to the islands, starting at Murano and then going to Burano and Torcello. Many of the students chose to pay the 5 euro to see a glassblowing demonstration on Murano, as well as do the usual shopping and the not-so-usual, but expected, &#8220;making of art.&#8221; We ate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/22/torcello-frari/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to show you this window of sweets. These were the most beautiful on the route from our palazzo to the Rialto. Torrone is a nougat confection that is not too sweet. I had to buy the pistachio.]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/20/beautiful-windows/</link>
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		<title>iPad blog attempt from Venice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry&#8217;s Venice May 19 Other than my goal of getting to Venice with students and no longer just &#8220;imagining venice&#8221;, I can check off &#8220;sitting at Florian&#8217;s on Piazza San Marco in the evening.&#8221; Dr. Dru and I wandered around the Piazza and the Molo looking for places to stabilize the camera for night shots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/20/897/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Arrived!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Venice and have settled down in our fabulous palazzo; it&#8217;s about 11:30 p.m. and all the students are settling in, taking showers, and getting ready to get up bright and early to visit Saint Mark&#8217;s square tomorrow morning. &#160; In this first photo, all the students (except MaryBeth, who left with Prof. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/05/16/weve-arrived/</link>
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		<title>Carnivale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are all decked out for a night of revelry. Unfortunately, class met on Ash Wednesday instead of Shrove Tuesday. Revelry was reduced to taking the midterm. Oh well, maybe the professors will plan their schedule with Mardi Gras in mind when they next offer Imagining Venice.]]></description>
		<link>http://imaginingvenice.com/2011/03/11/carnivale/</link>
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