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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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Podcast105: Thinking Critically About Library and School Technologies
This podcast features a recorded discussion with Dr. Andrew Wertheimer and Jessamyn West at the conclusion of the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference. Our topic was the ways in which learners should, perhaps in the spirit of Neil Postman, continually think critically about new technologies touted as the next great trend for libraries and…
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Podcast102: Looking at Dead and Emerging Technologies
This podcast is a recording of a panel discussion on Dead and Emerging Technologies at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Participants in the panel included Aaron Schmidt, Jessamyn West, Wesley Fryer, Victor Edmonds, and Marshall Breeding. The panelists shared some brief ideas about first dead technologies and then emerging ones,…
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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…
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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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Podcast100: Meet the Filmmaker- Edgy Lee
Some futurists claim that no one will be reading in 50 years. Some say America is a Republic of Movies and that Americans now tell their stories in movies rather than in books. One of Hawaii’s filmmakers shared her ideas on this topic in this recorded podcast from the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on…