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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • IP, the Information Age and YouTube

    Today’s NPR segment, “On YouTube, Popularity Can Be a Curse” discussed intellectual property issues in our era of YouTube-posted videos and antiquated copyright laws. One of the main points was that as YouTube videos become “viral hits,” they often draw higher levels of scrutiny which can result in legal demands to take them offline– especially…

  • Podcast99: Teaching Beyond the Textbook

    This podcast is a skype recording from yesterday’s presentation (on November 10) at the 2006 Hawaii Library Association titled, “Creativity and Updating Mindware: Hardware and software are not holding us back!” During the session Jen Wagner (from southern California) and Graham Wegner (from Adelaide, South Australia) skyped in to share their ideas about teaching beyond…

  • Podcast98: Reflections from Hawaii on our Information Landscape

    (audio version) We live in an amazing age of global travel and communications, which explorers like Lewis & Clark probably never imagined could exist. The information landscape today is similar to an amazing buffet of food: Full of choices, fraught with challenges, and ripe with opportunities. Like the ocean, the Internet can be a dangerous…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • flickr and libraries

    Groups, community, sharing, connections, reseources, examples, fun, inspiration Presentation by Michael Porter from LCLS Western Service Center – author of Libraryman blog – http://libraryman.com/blog – Michael’s flickr homepage: http://flickr.com/photos/libraryman/ – had worked for the Gates foundation Michael didn’t want this preso shared as a podcast 🙁 That is too bad, because this was one of…

  • Screencasting at Your Library

    Screencasting @ your Library! – http://hla2006.pbwiki.com (I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL POST AS A PODCAST LATER) Becky Rathgeber, BYU Hawaii Linda Uchida, Hawaii Pacific University PPT for this presentation  Screencasting is being used in library instruction, for tutorials and quizzes Linda demonstrating accessing a password-protected portal, and the way things used to be…

  • Podcast98v: Reflections from Hawaii on our Information Landscape

    (Video version) We live in an amazing age of global travel and communications, which explorers like Lewis & Clark probably never imagined could exist. The information landscape today is similar to an amazing buffet of food: Full of choices, fraught with challenges, and ripe with opportunities. Like the ocean, the Internet can be a dangerous…

  • Web 2.0 digital pioneers

    Frieda Foxworth and Ron Bosch’s class website Global Horizons reveals that they and their 5th grade students are engaged in a variety of projects and classroom activities using web 2.0 tools. The site includes links to their class Blogmeister site which features student writing, their class activities blog (on EduBlogs), and their class blog maintained…

  • Video feedback

    I was able to upload this morning my airport-recorded video of feedback for Frieda Foxworth, Ron Bosch, and John Geanangel for their preso on “Cultivating Digital Educators” for K-12 Online 2006. I posted some textual feedback last night on my blog as well for this presentation. Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online06