Each year on Discover's Day there is held an "electronic voyage" around the world. Global Learn Day recently completed its 10th voyage lead by "captain" John Hibbs of the Ben Franklin Institute.
The link above includes one of the closing sessions of GLD 10 when PEACESAT/Guam manager Bruce Best was linked by single-sideband radio into the audio stream.
His blog listing is:
http://www.ben300.com/TENPLAN/?p=64John Southworth, Distance Learning - Enrichment Programming
Curriculum Research & Development Group, UH Manoa College of Education
(l-r, Patrick Spargur, Dolly Samson)
Patrick Spargur from Firefly Interactive talks about Open Source Marketing and how companies have succeeded in building products based on customer feedback and open communications.
To listen just click on the POD icon. To subscribe cut and paste the FEED link into your favorite podcatching software or search for Hawaii Telecommunications on iTunes. Time = 35:44/16M MP3
Phone company will offer new TV service
The triple play is in the works. Hawaiian Telcom will be offering video services with their new IPTV offering. You can read more in today's (2/22/06) Honolulu Advertiser
article.
Use of iPods in Education
With the move by Duke University to give free iPods to all incoming Freshmen[1] in 2004, and Apple's recent introduction of "iTunes U" [2] where several Universities such as Stanford (which has been piloting the program since last fall [3]) are offering substantive content for free perusal, combined with the new Video iPods, and both a professor at Nebraska [4] as well as at least one professor at HPU are offering downloadable MP3 versions of their lectures. Increasingly it's seeming that the PodCast/iPod audio/video channel is gaining more and more credibility in the domain of both public domain and chargeable services. It looks like this has more potential that the classical usage of this channel for entertainment.
Mick
[1] July 2004 articles on Duke University giving incoming Freshmen free Ipods:
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/005724.html
[2] Myway articles on Apple store's offering of University Lectures.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060129/D8FE2VHO2.html
[3] Stanford's link to itunes music store based lectures at Stanford:
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
[4] And Duke's refocus on only certain disciplines:
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/008483.html
[5] Nebraska Professor Uses Ipods for Lectures
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060207/D8FK045O1.html
(l-r, Wes Grainger, Pat Bustamante)
The first HTCA luncheon for 2006 featured Wes Grainger from Nortel Networks. He talks about the next generation networks and the role Nortel will play in the core of the telecommunications network.
To listen just click on the POD icon. To subscribe cut and paste the FEED link into your favorite podcatching software or search for Hawaii Telecommunications on iTunes. Time = 50:06/23M MP3
Hawaiian Tel stems land line loss
This article just ran in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/22/business/story01.htmlBig challenges ahead!
Mobi PCS
There is a new entrant into the crowded telecommunications arena. Mobi PCS will be rolling out their wireless service in Hawaii. Read the complete article in the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/11/business/story01.html
