Tech Talk Conference

I had the priviledge to escort our senior students friday to the Tech Talk Conference held at Windward Community College. It was a mini fare that shared the lastest technology tips & tools with the community. I found the information very interesting and felt it was great exposure to our 'opio (youth), especially because they are so tech savvy and we live in the digital era.

Some workshops topics they attended were Blogging, Tech in Gardening, Agriculture, Educational Teaching, Networking, Music with Garageband, and more. In the Exhibition area, information consist of Local Tech Businesses, College information, Career Information, Tech Prizes and more. I believe this information can be of great benefit to them and myself. I even got a chance to attend an IT Coordinator workshop that exposed me to great tech programs that can assist our educational operations and goals at HLC. Look forward to the next tech opportunity.

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HLC Fall 2008 Camp

This fall season HLC staff and student body camped for a week, 4 days and 2 nights. Tuesday, Day 1 was not an overnighter. We had a camp prep day filled with activities and work. Wednesday we traveled to Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) for cultural experiences and activities then we went to the camp site at Kualoa Park where we stayed overnight till Friday. Camp was filled with a lot of fun and interesting learning activities.

Here is the links to some videos of our time at camp. Hope you enjoy it.

Finally finish the VIDEO

This is the video from our Ulumua Celebration. I want to thank our Junior Technicians for taking all the footage and our Documentation Team for organizing the Video Production. The video is about 18 minutes long and I hope you enjoy it.

Ulumua Mahalo Celebration

On wednesday, sept 24 2008 HLC held a Mahalo Celebration for Oahu's newest double haul canoe named Ulumua. She is a beautiful 12 paddler canoe that was made in collaboration of multiple organizations working together to reach the one goal of sharing hawaii's culture, skills and knowledge of building an awesome canoe. HLC 'ohana and staff wanted to thank everyone that took part in Ulumua's building success and very grateful for being granted to be the caretakers for the time being. Ulumua is an impressive sight to see and HLC is very proud to care for her and share her with Hawaii's 'opio (youth).

It was a wonderful ceremony. Mahalo to everyone for helping us share this special day.

Jr Tech After School Class

Today, jr techs worked on their project foundry portfolio pages. It is private web pages they design on Project Foundry that showcase their education accomplishments. They are required to make 2 pages. Their Home Page and their Jr Tech Program Page. I encourage them to be creative, appropriate, and to focus on their education information. So far, about half of them are taking it serious and working diligently on their web pages. The other half just want to learn the skill and leave class. Those students choose not to be creative. It's unfortunate because I am planning to have them share with other students so more of them can use the portolio part of Project Foundry.

Jr Techs also got trained on basic media equipment usage. They will need to use the still digital camera and the camcorder video camera throughout the school, especially during our upcoming camp in October. Therefore, I needed to train them on the equipment. Half of the class took Video Production classes before so they had the skills, the other half had to learn today.