Year: 2007
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December 6th videoconference from Pearl Harbor
Our 47 minute videoconference on December 6, 2007, from Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is available in three different segments from OETA and NewsOK.com. This was a fantastic interactive videoconference, and was followed by an additional 45 minute question and answer videoconference with Oklahoma students. Dick Pryor of OETA hosted and facilitated conversations with…
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Broadband Boot Camp for Educators
I’m presenting a webinar today for COSN (The Consortium for School Networking) that starts in 15 minutes, at 12 pm US Central time. The title is “Broadband Boot Camp for Educators.” The webinar is open to anyone, and will be archived and available on the COSN website for the next 90 days. (Click here to…
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Ice storms and power outages
It’s been quite a shock to go from 75+ degree weather in Hawaii to sub-freezing temperatures and an ice storm in Oklahoma. According to an article on NewsOK.com this morning, “More than 400,000 utility customers are without power in Oklahoma right now.” Those customers include our family in southeastern Edmond. We lost power sometime in…
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Home at last!
It’s a relief to be home at last from Honolulu after a 25+ hour travel day. Our final flight leg from Memphis to Oklahoma City was cancelled due to ice storms, so we took a flight to Dallas and drove (I did actually) all the way back home in a rental car. Glad to be…
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Videos of yesterday’s USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication
Our ODLP (Oklahoma Digital Learning Project) team is still in Honolulu, but we are leaving in about an hour for the airport. I’ve spent several hours this morning and afternoon importing the video of the entire USS Oklahoma Memorial dedication yesterday at Pearl Harbor from the DV camera onto a hard drive. I’ll then be…
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When things go wrong, we learn and go on…
Well, our videoconference/webcast yesterday with Pearl Harbor World War II survivors and others involved with the new USS Oklahoma Memorial was a great success. There were some hiccups (like a webcast feed which didn’t work for the first 22 minutes) but the actual videoconference with students was WONDERFUL. It was moving, Powerful. A big success…
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Live on the web from Pearl Harbor: NOW
Our webcast of the dedication of the USS Oklahoma Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is LIVE on the web right now. The ceremony begins shortly at 12 pm (noon) Hawaii time, or 4 pm US Central (Oklahoma) time. The ceremony is expected to last 1.5 hours. We have 3 gigs of throughput on the pipe…
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Archive of Dec 6th videoconference from Pearl Harbor
The following is a message sent out to teachers who registered to participate in our videoconferences and webcasts from Pearl Harbor this week. Thanks for your interest in participating in our videoconferences and webcasts from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, this week. We have created a Google Group to facilitate the sharing of news and announcements related…
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Pearl Harbor Videoconferencing VoiceThread
I recorded a short VoiceThread this evening discussing the successful videoconference we had today from Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, featuring several survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Both of those survivors were also aboard the USS Oklahoma, which is being dedicated tomorrow on December 7th, just around the…
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Impressed with Verizon USB data modem
For some time, I have dreamed of having high speed Internet access from anywhere. I have seen other people use different types of high speed cellular data cards, but never had an opportunity to use one myself until this week. Last March, when I co-presented with several others at the SITE conference in San Antonio…