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  • HLA06 pics

    Dr Drew Honolulu has published a nice set of photos from the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference in November, that include a few candids of yours truly. 🙂 His comments on the above photo remind me of our conversation at the end of the conference about critically considering technologies, the information environment, and the roles…

  • Amazing sights and news on Oahu

    I have good news to report regarding connectivity and successful test calls today for our upcoming ODLP live videoconferences/webcasts from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, today– but before going into that news I’d like to share two rather amazing news items from the local paper in Honolulu. One of these I actually saw, the other I have…

  • Book cover copyright issues with VoiceThread stories

    This past week, a friend of mine shared the “Great Book Stories” project with a group of librarians and received some VERY strong pushback from a few of them over copyright issues. Several of the librarians were FIRMLY convinced that using a photograph of a copyrighted book cover in a student project posted on the…

  • Podcast107: Be (Constructively) Digitally Disruptive in 2007

    In this first podcast for 2007, I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4)…

  • Hawaii iChat pics

    Aaron Schmidt posted a few interesting (but perhaps not too photogenic) photos of me in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago at the Hawaii Library Association’s conference to his Flickr site. He caught me iChatting with my family! 🙂 I was actually making faces with my three year old in the following pic: I’m not…

  • Podcast101: Webcast, Podcast, Sakai and the Millennial student

    Dr. Victor Edmonds serves as director of Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley. This podcast is a recording of Dr. Edmond’s presentation at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Show notes for this podcast include: The Sakai Open Source Course Management System Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Webcasts…

  • Hawaii Photos

    I’ve posted about ninety photos from my trip to Hawaii last week to Flickr. After the conference finished up on Saturday, I spent Saturday night and most of Sunday with my cousin who took me to the Hawaiian North Shore on Oahu. I am not a current viewer and fan of the TV series “Lost,”…

  • Dead and emerging technologies

    Looking at Dead and Emerging Technologies A panel discussion at HLA 2006 Aaron Schmidt – floppy disks – extremely restrictively limited computers in libraries – CD-ROMS esp for databases: need to pay attention to remote access – static, boring websites – Frontpage – things that Aaron says is dead are still in use Jessamyn West…

  • Floydada iBook rollout video

    When I was going through the saved movie clips on my laptop in preparation for my session on digital storytelling here at HLA06, I came across this video news segment I recorded from Lubbock television on October 4, 2006. I uploaded the clip to YouTube– this is coverage of the rollout of iBook laptops to…

  • Reflections on librarians, web 2.0 and educational change

    What a great treat it has been to be here in Hawaii at the state librarian’s conference to present, listen, share and learn! I presented three times today, which was a bit exhausting, but it was also a lot of fun. I was able to take in several fantastic sessions given by others too. The…