Dear Oregon Educators,

Martin Medeiros to speak on Intellectual Property Rights and Podcasting

We are excited to let you know that Martin Medeiros of Swider Medeiros Haver LLP will be giving a talk at the Box Populi "install-fest" on "Clearing Online Intellectual Property Rights for Universities, Lecturers, Consultants, Media Producers and Web 2.0 Companies." Mr. Medeiros will be speaking at 1 pm. His discussion will be webcast and posted after the event.

Box Populi is hosting an "install-fest" to learn about their Podcast in a Box project on May 5th, 2007 in Portland, OR. Come learn about this open source project. Take any recycled computer and convert it into a simple, automated podcasting device. Operate it with a USB thumbdrive: plug in the key to start, remove it to stop and automatically publish to your listeners' iPods. There are no licensing costs to use the software and the event is free. Learn more...

OVSD Update-January, 2007

Current Work Completed

1. There are 28 high school courses in the portal for use by all 198 Districts. These courses are available in the OVSD Moodle LMS and as ZIP downloads.

• Morning Session
• Paul Nelson Moodle Training
• Tom Layton

• From 10:00am -12:00pm there is an overview and training for the OVSD Portal and an opportunity to help shape the OVSD development road map.
• From 1:30pm-4:30 pm there will be training for the OVSD Learning Management System, Course tools and pod casting server.

These sessions will provide educators with the opportunity to understand how the OVSD resources can assist the education Enterprise.