Keynote Speaker

The Power of All of Us

Keynote Address: Frank Odasz, Lone Eagle Consulting

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As communication technologies become smaller and more powerful, and as their costs continue to drop, we can now connect everyone, everywhere in meaningful collaborations.

For the first time in human history, each of us can learn and teach anything we wish—on-line. We become consumers and producers, anywhere, anytime, and the implications for educational reform are profound.

What technologies and training methods will best empower those who are most in need? The answers continue to change, but working together we can keep up to the same “instant of progress.” If we share what we know, we all can have access to all our knowledge. We are limited only by our imaginations, but we need will as well as vision.

Frank Odasz is a well-known American pioneer in on-line learning and a consultant on community eCommerce. In this MADLaT keynote, he will describe our dramatic opportunities for creating, gathering, and sharing new knowledge.

Frank Odasz is President and CEO of Lone Eagle Consulting (lone-eagles.com). Frank has spent 20 years and traveled over a million miles championing online learning and community networking. Although new to our MADLaT audience, he is no stranger to Canadian innovations. He recently consulted with leaders in the Canadian Access Program and presented a “Train the Trainers” workshop for network directors in British Columbia.

Frank is best known as the founder of Big Sky Telegraph, an educational and community network (1988-1998). Under his leadership, BST was cited for excellence in four reports by the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

After serving twelve years as Assistant Professor of Computer Education at Western Montana College in Dillon, Montana, Frank became an independent instructional entrepreneur. He currently teaches online courses for Alaska Pacific University and Seattle Pacific University and a non-credit e-Commerce course for Idaho State University.

Already a decade ago, Frank was cited by Microtimes Magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the microcomputer industry, and his work was featured in Howard Rheingold’s benchmark book The Virtual Community.

A pioneer on the electronic frontier, Frank continues to be a visionary leader, demonstrating how information technologies support self-directed learning and empower all citizens. This includes “Montana Choice,” a five-year telework demonstration project for the U.S. Department of Labor.