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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Links for today’s Pearl Harbor webcast / videoconference

    Links and instructions for today’s videoconference have been posted at the top of our Oklahoma World War II Stories project wiki: http://okwwii.wetpaint.com/ If people watching the webcast want to submit a question, they can do so electronically on: http://blog.newsok.com/projectwwii/?p=7 The direct link to view the webcast is: http://title3.sde.state.ok.us/technology/ussoklahoma/ussoklahoma.mov That link can be used to view…

  • A Phenomenal Day of Learning at Pearl Harbor and in Honolulu

    I do not think I’ve ever taken 247 pictures in a single day. Until today. I have enough videotape, audio recordings, and digital photos to probably work two to three days straight and still not fully document what we experienced today at Pearl Harbor and in Honolulu. Instead of working on that documentary process this…

  • Two new video podcasts from Ford Island, Hawaii

    I have posted two new video podcasts to our Oklahoma Digital Learning Team – 2007 Hawaii blog: ODLT Episode 2: Video from the location of our upcoming December 6th videoconference, and footage of the nearly complete memorial for the sailors of the USS Oklahoma ODLT Episode 3: Interviews with high school junior ROTC students from…

  • VoiceThread from Ford Island

    I have posted a new VoiceThread including narrated images taken today on December 3, 2007, on Ford Island in the center of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Visit our project blog on okwwii.wetpaint.com for information about how you can view as well as participate in our live videoconferences and webcasts this coming Thursday and Friday from Ford…

  • Maps and initial Hawaii photos

    I’ve posted a few photos from Honolulu this morning, some maps and links to our ODLP team blog in the post, “Initial Pictures from Honolulu and Maps.” Technorati Tags: odlp07, hawaii

  • Update on Hawaii webcasts and videoconferences

    I posted some updates regarding registrations for upcoming live events (shared via webcast and videoconference) from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 6 and 7, 2007.