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" (
Did I say that Laulima is fabulous? For a treasure chest of tools (or “gadgets”) to add to your worksite, click on “Site Info” in the left sidebar. In the menubar that runs across the top of the screen, click on “Edit Tools” — and be prepared to let your jaw drop. The tools that are already on your site have a check mark. To add any of the others, add a check mark. After you’ve checked to your heart’s content, click on “continue” at the bottom, and you’re on your way. (To remove any of the tools, use the same process to uncheck items.) Here’s a list of the tools:
Home – Description of the project, recent announcements, discussion, and chat items.
Announcements - For posting current, time-critical information.
Assignments – For posting, submitting and grading assignment(s) online.
Blogger – For a collaborative worksite blog
Chat Room – For real-time conversations in written form.
Discussion – For conversations in written form.
Discussion and Private Messages – Jforum-Discussion Tool, Foothill
Drop Box – For private file sharing between instructor and student.
Email Archive – For viewing email sent to the site.
Evaluation System – Tool for running site evaluations.
Forums – Display forums and topics of a particular site
Gradebook – For storing and computing assessment grades from Tests & Quizzes or that are manually entered.
Link Tool – A tool to link to external applications.
Mailtool – Send mail to groups in your course.(Attachment-enabled)
Messages – Display messages to/from users of a particular site
Modules – Modules – Melete Lesson Builder for creating and organizing learning sequences.
News – For viewing content from online sources.
Podcasts – For managing individual podcast and podcast feed information.
Polls – For anonymous polls or voting
Post’Em – For uploading .csv formatted file to display feedback (e.g., comments, grades) to site participants.
Presentation – For showing and viewing slideshows of image collections from Resources.
Resources – For posting documents, URLs to other websites, etc.
Roster – For viewing the site participants list.
Schedule – For posting and viewing deadlines, events, etc.
Site Info – For showing worksite information and site participants.
Site Stats – For showing site statistics by user, event, or resource.
Syllabus – For posting a summary outline and/or requirements for a site.
Tasks, Tests and Surveys – For authoring, publishing, delivering and grading assessments.
Tests & Quizzes – For creating and taking online tests and quizzes.
Web Content – For accessing content from http:// within the site.
Web Content – For accessing an external website within the site.
Wiki – For collaborative editing of pages and content
Quick comments: The “Blogger” in the list is not the same as Google’s Blogger. For my purposes, I’m asking my students to use the latter. I’ll have to explore the different tools, but based on an initial scan, there doesn’t seem to be a tool for inserting videos (e.g., from YouTube) and audio. With so much useful, timely, and dynamic videos available, hopefully these tools will soon be available. I realize that we can add links to these videos from within Laulima, but there’s nothing like being able to play them right there in your Laulima post.
Added 7.8.08: OK, “Web Content” is a way to view YouTube or any other video on your Laulima site. Add it as a tool, click on it, click on “options,” and add the URL and a title. It appears as a menu choice in the left sidebar. When a user clicks on it, the video plays in the Laulima opening page, replacing the left and right panels, leaving the left sidebar intact. Clicking on “Home” takes her/him back to the default panels. Not the most elegant solution. It’d be great if we could play videos in individual announcements or posts, too.
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