Month: November 2006
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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,”…
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Reflections on Ewan’s keynote on Professional development
Well, I am currently riding the red-eye flight from Honolulu to Dallas, and have slept a good bit of the time. I now find myself awake, however, and looking at the clocks it appears it is 5:34 am US Central time, and 1:34 am Hawaii time. We’ve been in the air almost five hours, and…
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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…
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Please evaluate K12Online06!
There’s still time– If you have viewed any (even one or just part of one) of the presentations for the 2006 K-12 Online Conference, please take a few minutes and complete the post-conference online evaluation form. The deadline for submitting the survey is Sunday November 12, 2006. As of this posting, we’ve had just 59…
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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…
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New spamfighting method
I have no idea why, but in the last 2 days my blog has been besieged by a ton of comment spams that I suspect are from a robot program– the name of each comment spam message poster has been “Hi There.” I have been looking at a bunch of Captcha plug-ins for WordPress, as…
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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…
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Internet from the car
My 6 year old has repeatedly asked how to spell some of her favorite websites when using a laptop in the back of our car on family trips, and been disappointed to learn we can’t YET access the Internet from our car. Her perception of the Internet’s pervasive ubiquity is interesting and understandable, I suppose.…
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Open Source Tech for Library Intranets
Building an Academic Library with Open Source Technologies Sunyeen Pai, Wing Leung University of Hawai`i at Manoa Presentation at HLA06 (I AM RECORDING THIS PRESENTATION AND WILL SUBSEQUENTLY POST IT AS A PODCAST HERE) Abstract: In 2006, the Univ of HI at Manoa Library used the Plone portal/content management system to implement an intranet. Thsi…