Another year podcasting at da Vinci Days Festival. Tom Hager is our keynote speaker this year. Levi and Brock (Linus Pauling Middle School students) joined me to learn more about Ava Helen and Linus Pauling through Tom’s biographical work. Oregon State is home to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers…drop by Valley Library and peruse this amazing collection or visit online. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling met in Education Hall room 201 and became soul mates for life. We talk about their chance meeting in the podcast.

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Courtesy of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Special Collections Oregon State University. Linus Pauling received two Nobel Prizes – one for chemistry and another for peace.

Steve Lawson from the Oregon State Linus Pauling Institute talks about the work of Linus Pauling.

Jake Tenpas is our podcaster with da Vinci Days Grammy-award winning band BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet.
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Bob Dylan, upon listening to BeauSoleil during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was asked “what do you think about BeauSoleil’s music?” Dylan replied “That’s my kind of music!”

Michael Doucet – Violin, Guitar, Accordion, Mandolin, Vocals
David Doucet – Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Breaux – Accordion
Billy Ware – Percussion
Tommy Alesi – Drums
Mitch Reed – Bass, Fiddle, Banjo, Electric Guitar

It was fun speaking with high school students at OSU’s Fall Press Day today. The topic was podcasting and Theresa Hogue & I presented the world of podcasting and work in the Grassroots Learning Project. I enjoyed the experience indeed.

I’m looking forward to Milton Chen’s (The George Lucas Educational Foundation) visit in Corvallis tomorrow and Friday. Check out his Edutopia Radio Show tomorrow afternoon at 3:00. Milton will be participating as educational futurist in our college Design Studio tomorrow morning which includes early planning for Renovation of Education Hall at OSU. Very cool. I’ve enjoyed visiting Milton on Skywalker Ranch and happy he can join us on campus and in Corvallis School District.

Check out the new Apple iPod with video. Wikipedia on vodcasting. Grassroots Learning Project started last spring vodcasting research presentations here….subscribe via RSS.

Welcome to my blog at Oregon State University. I’ll use this blog to share some experiences from my life as a Beaver Believer.

It was an interesting summer and enjoyed my visit to Apple campus in Cupertino and visiting with Scott Gatz at Yahoo! Steve Kim (OSU College of Business), Scott, and me explored many topics related to social media. Our Yahoo! campus photo is here and our podcast is located at the Grassroots Learning Project.