next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
Chat Room. I posted an announcement in the class blog this evening, inviting students to use the chat room. The idea is that I’d “sit” in the room from time to time, especially when the forum traffic is heavy, to give students an opportunity to drop in and chat. When they see an icon in front of my name, they’ll know I’m in. We tested it briefly tonight. A few students popped in to talk. While waiting, I opened a second Laulima window to participate in some of the asynchronous forums. This is when I learned that there’s an apparent glitch in the chat feature. For some reason, you can’t chat while a second Laulima window is open. If you try to do it, the names of all the participants don’t show up in the “Users in Chat” sidebar and some of the chat posts don’t appear. I didn’t realize this was happening until a student asked if I’d read her question. It didn’t appear on my chat screen. At that point I suspected the cause and quickly shut down the second Laulima login. The screen quickly filled up with dialogue that I hadn’t seen. This is a minor inconvenience, though, for a very useful tool. BTW, you can quickly and easily set up additional chat rooms to give students more chat options.
Adding Participants. This feature is for adding folks who are not officially registered in your class as students. Unfortunately, as is, the directions are inadequate. If you try to wing it with what’s there, you’ll keep getting error messages. I finally asked Craig Shiroma, my longtime friend and KCC’s IT guru who seems to be on the job 24-7-365, for help. Here are the steps: Click on “Site Info” and “Add Participants.” If the person has a hawaii.edu address, simply add the part before the @ symbol in the first box, e.g., “kimo” if the full address is kimo@hawaii.edu. Leave the second box blank. If the person has a non-hawaii.edu address, paste or type the full address, e.g., “kimo@gmail.com,” in the second box. Leave the first box blank. That’s it. Once the instructions are cleaned up, this feature will prove very useful.
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Jimmy – I’ve been following this excellent “discovery series” on Laulima. Regarding the chat/ 2nd instance of Laulima problem: does it make a difference if the 2nd instance of Laulima is managed by a second browser as opposed to a new window or tab within the currently open browser? I realize it would be more useful if I could test this myself… Just curious. Thanks for this thread! – Guy K.
Good question, Guy. I don’t know. I was using two instances of Firefox when the glitch surfaced. I also have IE on my computer so I could try that as the 2nd instance. My guess is that the browser may be irrelevant, that Laulima becomes “confused” when a user tries to multitask and it doesn’t “know” how to update the live (synchronous) session when a second session (asynchronous) is open at the same time. This would also mean, I guess, that you couldn’t be in two separate chat rooms simultaneously. This isn’t a big problem since it’s easy to work within the limitations. If you have a chance to test two separate browsers, let us know what happens. Thanks for the feedback, Guy. -Jimmy
Jimmy –
I tested chat, logged in as myself in both Safari and Firefox. Then I tested asynchronous / synchronous. Everything seemed to work OK, though I was just sending little test messages to and from myself. The danger, of course, is that if students are asking questions, we certainly want to ‘hear’ them!
- Guy
Thanks for testing it out, Guy. So different browsers will keep the activities discrete, sync/sync or sync/async. Good thinking, Guy. Actually makes sense that the browser’s having problems updating two active windows from the same site. With two separate browsers, the task is split and each processes only one. Still, I hope we’ll hear from others about this issue. -Jimmy