Archived OWL Videoconferences 2013
December 2013
Navigating Alaska's Health Insurance Options - December 10, 2013
Presenter: Crystal Bourland, Health Insurance Navigator
Description: Crystal Bourland, Health Insurance Navigator for United Way of Anchorage to conducts an informative talk to explore your options within new Affordable Care Act. This talk will covered Affordable Care Act Consumer Protections, New Health Insurance Marketplace, Financial Assistance and Enrollment Dates & Assistance.
Length: 57 minutes
Understanding the Affordable Health Care Act - December 3, 2013
Presenter: Bret S. Kolb, Director of the Alaska Division of Insurance
Description: Bret Kolb explains what you need to know about the Affordable Care Act. Learn how the exchanges will work in Alaska and how to sign up for them. Main presentation is followed by a question and answer session from participating libraries. Videoconference was hosted by the Anchorage Public Library.
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
November 2013
From My Village to Yours - November 9, 2013
Presenter: Tinashe Basa and Dennis Gaboury, Trustees Zimkids Orphan Trust
Description: Tinashe Basa, 25, was born in a village in rural Zimbabwe, in a traditional handmade hut with a thatched roof, no electricity or running water. Like most rural children, he grew up hauling water from the nearest well, almost a mile away, and watching his parents try to scratch a bit of corn out of the dusty fields in his drought-stricken nation. Like most young Zimbabweans, he lives with one foot in the traditions of his Shona people - with its great respect for Elders, belief that the clan is more important than the individual, visits to local healers instead of doctors, and marriages arranged through payments to a bride’s family – and the other in the modern Western world of airplanes, computers and social media. Now the director of Zimkids Orphan Trust, which cares for 200 AIDS orphans in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city. AIDS has left tens of thousands of African children without parents, and Zimkids provides a safety net – a family – of food and medical care, tutoring, sports, art, traditional dance and vocational training for a group of the neediest. Read about them at www.zimkids.com. Tinashe is visiting the United States for the first time and will be in Fairbanks to raise money for Zimkids. Come to your local library on November 9 at 11 am and meet Tinashe over a video conference. He will be giving a presentation about his life and work from the Noel Wien library in Fairbanks over the OWL Network. You’ll be amazed at the similarities between Tinashe’s village and yours. (Thanks to Kenai Community Library for description.)
The first few minutes of the video has some good tips for running question and answer sessions during a videoconference.
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Paying Off Debt - November 5, 2013
Presenter: Sarah Lewis, Alaska Cooperative Extension Service
Description: Sarah Lewis from the Cooperative Extension Service will give a presentation on ways to increase family and financial resilience through strategies for paying off debt; assessing "good" vs. "bad" debt, what to pay off first, managing credit card debt and planning a debt payoff schedule.
Length: 57 minutes
October 2013
Alaska Energy Smart Curriculum & KidWind Challenge - October 10, 2013
Presenter: Melody Cavanaugh-Moen
Description: Melody Cavanaugh-Moen will present information on the AK Energy Smart curriculum designed to foster an energy savvy and responsible Alaskan citizenry. They will also share information about the 2014 Alaska KidWind Design Challenge, a student-oriented wind turbine design contest.
Length: 37 minutes
September 2013
Alaska Military Youth Academy - September 19, 2013
Presenter: Tom Burton
Description: Tom Burton, Director of the Alaska Military Youth Academy will give a brief presentation on the job skills and vocational-technical education, academic curriculum and adventure training available to students at the Alaska Military Youth Academy.
Length: 18 minutes
Books Build Better Brains - September 16, 2013
Presenter: Dr. Dipesh Navasria
Description: Learn basic principles of early brain and childhood development, the connection to literacy skills and innovative approaches that use these concepts to help children flourish in the first thousand days. Talk given at the Anchorage Public Library.
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
August 2013
Health Insurance Marketplace Training - August 29, 2013
Presenter: Terry Cumpton
Description: Terry Cumpton of the CMS Seattle Regional Office walks librarians through the process of using the federal Health Insurance Marketplace.
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Internet Safety for Families - August 29, 2013
Presenter: Det. Shawn Phelps, Juneau Police Department
Description: Internet safety tips, including a discussion of risky behaviors and safety scenarios.
Supplementary material: Alaska Internet Circle of Safety; Internet Circle of Safety Resource links
Length: 28 minutes
Conducting Low Cost Website Usability Studies - August 22, 2013
Presenter: Jason Russell, Alaska State Library Intern
Description: Learn how to do quality studies of the usability of your website at low cost.
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
June 2013
Digital Discretion — June 18, 2013
Presenter: Freya Anderson and Katie Fearer, Alaska State Library
Description: Do you deal with confidential information at work?
Do you sometimes use your home computer to catch up on a work task?
Do you deal with sensitive matters with your smart phone or tablet?
These are growing issues in our modern, mobile, and often wireless society. Freya Anderson and Katie Fearer
of the Alaska State Library offer law, best practices and discussion on these issues.
Supplementary material: Digital Discretion Guide
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
May 2013
Producing Community Content for OWL - May 23, 2013
Presenter: Patty Brown and Reba Heaton of the Haines Public Library
Description: Discussion of the Haines Public Library efforts
toward building local programming for the Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) Video Conference Network.
Length: 53 minutes
Maintaining Your Fuel Oil Tank - May 2, 2013
Presenter: Sarah Moore, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Description: Sarah Moore of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation provides information on home fuel oil tanks.
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
March 2013
Seaweeds of Alaska - March 7, 2013
Presenter: Mandy Lindeberg of NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories
Description: Mandy Lindeberg of NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories discusses seaweed commonly found in Alaska and tours viewers around her "Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska."
Supplementary material available at http://www.seaweedsofalaska.com
Length: 58 minutes
Tuzzy Talk 2: What Happens When Crude Oil Gets into Water? - March 9, 2013
Presenter: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner, University of New Hampshire
Description: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner of the University of New Hampshire links up with libraries in Barrow Alaska
and elsewhere to explain the effects of crude oil on the environment. This is part two of two. Part one dealt with
the basic properties of Crude Oil.
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Tuzzy Talk 1: What is Crude Oil Anyway? - March 2, 2013
Presenter: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner, University of New Hampshire
Description: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner of the University of New Hampshire links up with libraries in Barrow Alaska and elsewhere to explain the basic properties of crude oil. Plain English with lots of charts and tables. This is part one of a two part series. Part two will examine the effects of crude oil on the environment.
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
February 2013
Life Woven with Song - February 28, 2013
Presenters: Alaska’s Writer Laureate Nora Dauenhauer, Past Poet Laureate Richard Dauenhauer & Others
Description: Bringing the region’s rich history, cultures and traditions alive through creative stories and literature.
Features readings and conversation with Tlingit Community Leaders. Sponsored by the Juneau Public Library, Alaska Online with
Libraries (OWL), the Institute for Museum & Library Sciences, Petersburg Public Library, and the Petersburg Indian Association.
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
eReaders Explained - February 28, 2013
Presenters: Freya Anderson, Daniel Cornwall, Katie Fearer and Jason Russell
Description: Alaska State Library program featuring an overview of where to get ebooks and brief
demonstrations of Google Nexus 7, iPad, Kindle and Nook. Supplemental material and ongoing Q&A available at
http://lam.alaska.gov/ebooks.
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Senator Begich Town Hall for Alaska Teens – February 27, 2013
Presenter: Senator Mark Begich
Description: Question and answer session between US Senator Mark Begich (Alaska) and teen students from Craig and Unalaska.
Length: 28 minutes
Getting Community Involvement in using the OWL VTC Network – February 20, 2013
Presenters: Patty Brown and Reba Heaton of the Haines Public Library
Description: Discussion of the efforts of the Haines Public Library efforts to build local programming
for the Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) Video Conference Network.
Length: 39 minutes
Marketing OWL in your community – February 20, 2013
Presenter: Seldovia Public Library board member Rosanna McInness
Description: Rosanna McInness shares tips and resources for marketing the Online With Libraries (OWL)
video conference network to Alaskan communities.
Length: 46 minutes
Music in the Stacks: The HI-DE-HOs – February 19, 2013
Presenter: The HI-DE-HOs
Description: 45 minute concert by the Haines Alaska based bluegrass band Hi-De-Hos. Recorded on February 19, 2013.
Length: 42 minutes
Do's and Don'ts of Video Conferencing – February 19, 2013
Presenter: Donna Rohwer, Video Conferencing Services Manager for University of Alaska OIT
Description: This video shows a group of librarians what NOT to do during a videoconference,
followed by a discussion of best practices.
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Viewing Cultural Landscape through Tlingit Placenames: An Example from Chilkoot Village Site – February 13, 2013
Presenter: Dr. Anastasia Wiley (SRS Corp, Haines, Alaska)
Description: Discussion of Tlingit place names at a February 21, 2013 event at the Haines Public Library.
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Recreational Boating Safety – February 8, 2013
Presenters: Mike Folkerts (US Coast Guard) and Deb Ylijoki (State of Alaska Boating Safety)
Description: Mike Folkerts, recreational boating specialist for the Coast Guard, will discuss
safety equipment boaters are required to carry on board. Make sure your vessel is properly equipped with
personal flotation devices, navigation lights and sound signals.
Length: 51 minutes