Oct
19
Library Parking Garage
October 19, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Very cool picture from a Public Library parking garage in Kansas City. The photo was taken by Jonathan Moreau on March 11, 2007.
Jul
25
Avatar for the SF Paula School Library
July 25, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Just playing around to see if I can create an avatar for the library. It seems I was succesfull 
Jul
21
Medieval Helpdesk
July 21, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
A teacher in my school pointed me out this video a year ago. I really think is very much the same reaction that some people have in front of a laptop.
Jul
19
Frank McCourt died today
July 19, 2009 | Tagged Conference, Frank McCourt, OASL | Leave a Comment
IMG_9443, originally uploaded by McCann Alliende.
I saw Frank McCourt last year at the OASL/WLMA Conference in Portland, OR. He died today at the same age as my dad, and from the same thing (melanoma) as my father- in- law 22 years ago. Very sad. What a great character he was.
Jul
14
Polar Bear at Cabelas, Post Falls, ID
July 14, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
IMG_4145, originally uploaded by McCann Alliende.
Last 4th of July we went to Hayden Lake for a family reunion. We stopped at Cabelas in Post Falls, ID to see the Polar Bear my husband’s uncle “took” (what an euphemism!) almost 40 years ago in Alaska. On those days it was a trophy, today it would be a crime, but I guess not for Cabelas customers.
Anyway, I am testing how to post my Flickr photos on my edublog and this post is my guinea pig.
Jul
14
Testing with Word
July 14, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Just testing how to publish a post with Word. I had some problems at the beginning, but finally I figured out how to register my edublog.
Jul
7
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
July 7, 2009 | Tagged 40th anniversary, apollo, moon landing | Leave a Comment
Next July 20th will be the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
To celebrate that event, Florida Today partnered with Footnote.com to create a web site called Moon Landing Memories where you can browse newly digitized photographs, documents and video from that era.
They also encourage people to add their own photos and thoughts to the Web site, thus sharing our family’s personal memory of this event with the world.
I was seven years old. I remember that all my family gathered together in front of our black and white TV in the “rose room” as we called our family room. It was very late, at least for me, and I think I fell asleep waiting, until I heard one of my brothers (Matias) jumping and screaming with excitement and repeating Neil Armstrong’s words “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” This was in Santiago, Chile in our home at 4621 Victor Rae street.
Depending on your age, What were you/your parents/your grandparents doing that day?
Jun
23
La Política es como una acequia
June 23, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Hace pocos días hablé con mi padre por teléfono y me comentó sobre la política en Chile. Sus palabras me quedaron dando vueltas y decidí escribirlas para no olvidarme. Según él, la política es como una acequia sucia llena de muñecas rotas, pañales, cáscaras de plátanos y hasta guaguas muertas. Y de pronto, entre toda esta inmundicia, surge bajo la superficie una suerte de colador en donde el agua fluye no tan sucia, y espesa, un poco más clara y transparente. Personas no tan conocidas en el mundo mansillado de la política serían aquellas que surgen desde estas aguas subterráneas dándole al ambiente contaminado una atmósfera de frescor, aunque solo sea aparente.
Jun
19
Turning the Pages Online
June 19, 2009 | Tagged books | Leave a Comment
Thanks to today’s Scout Report I came across Turning the Pages Online, an initiative of the British Library and the US National Library of Medicine that virtually you can turn the pages of “rare and beautiful” historical books in the biomedical sciences.
The site contains six important texts, including Vesalius’ seminal work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Conrad’s Historiae Animalium.
Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica 
Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium
May
29
Google Wave
May 29, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
I just watched the Google Wave demo and really got impressed with the seamless of its communication abilities. Cannot wait to start the wave and teach students to use it for collaborative projects.
Netvibes
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