A while back, I wrote a short article called "Don't Pass up Moodle Just because of school's email policy" wherein I described a process I have used in the past to generate usernames and passwords for use in batch uploading users. Part of that process involves a little formula magic in OpenOffice, MS Excel, or whatever spreadsheet you use. Anyway, here is an outline of what I do.

1. The first thing that you need is a list of your students' first and last names.

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I used [Freemind](http://freemind.sourceforge.net) to take notes on this session. I wanted to fully test it and found it was quite easy to use once you learn the most important keystrokes. Once you know those, it is really fast to add new nodes and branches, moving around with the arrow keys.

And so, here is the PNG version of my notes.

Here is the HTML output of that same map exported from Freemind as I took notes.

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OK.... So here I am sitting in my hotel room after listening to the first keynote speaker Andrew Zolli (the futurist) and then going to the Atlanta Aquarium. Someone told me it is one of the largest in the world. Whether that is true or not, I haven't had a chance to check, I currently don't have an internet connection to do so. I thought the aquarium was great and I was very impressed with the number of people there and the food available.

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