El Intervencionista

Library Parking Garage

palliende — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:50:08 +0000

Library Parking Garage, originally uploaded by jonathan_moreau.

Very cool picture from a Public Library parking garage in Kansas City. The photo was taken by Jonathan Moreau on March 11, 2007.

Avatar for the SF Paula School Library

palliende — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:37:36 +0000

Just playing around to see if I can create an avatar for the library. It seems I was succesfull

Medieval Helpdesk

palliende — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:38:48 +0000

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.

Frank McCourt died today

palliende — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:15:08 +0000

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.

Polar Bear at Cabelas, Post Falls, ID

palliende — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:24:36 +0000

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.

Testing with Word

palliende — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:15:30 +0000

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.

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

palliende — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:50:35 +0000

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?

La Política es como una acequia

palliende — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:36 +0000

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.

Turning the Pages Online

palliende — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:44:55 +0000

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

Google Wave

palliende — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:18:40 +0000

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.