This evening at our church’s annual congregational meeting, a leader of the mission committee stood up and talked about a recent trip he’d taken to Uganda. He commented that this time, he noticed more Muslim mosques in the towns they visited, and said this was evidence “the enemy is advancing.” I almost fell out of
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This afternoon my wife received the following photo in her iPhone email, of our daughter last week acting as “The Wicked Witch of the West” in her school’s shortened rendition of “The Wizard of Oz.” This was a great photo, and I wanted to share it with others via Facebook. I’m not sure if these
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Although I was a “fuzzy major” in college, I love science and particularly love learning about theoretical physics. This can likely be attributed to my outstanding physics teacher at Manhattan High School, Ron Curtain. Even though I fared rather poorly grade-wise in freshman physics at USAFA, I enjoyed reading books like “The Tao of Physics”
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Jesse Thomas designed and animated the 4 minute video “The State of The Internet” for his presentation at AIGA Baltimore in February 2010. The style is very similar to the “Did You Know” video series. The statistics which blew me away are the numbers for Facebook sharing, as well as botnet / zombie computer growth.
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Christian Long shared the website TweepML as his “geek of the week” in the February 11, 2010 Seedlings webcast / podcast. TweepML is: …is an extensible, open standard format that allows you to manage and share groups of Twitter users. Without saving your Twitter password or sending you Twitter messages / spam, TweepML lets you
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This afternoon and evening my daughter and her 4th grade classmates presented a shortened version of “The Wizard of Oz.” I joined the throngs of parents video-recording the afternoon performance, but opted to use Ustream Producer software (free) and my AT&T 3G wireless card to webcast and record the 42 minute performance. Previously, I have
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Silvia Tolisano is an amazing educator and teacher-leader. She shared her presentation for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference, “Around the World with Skype,” in both English and Spanish versions. This is one of the best practical video tutorials for using Skype instructionally with students I have ever seen. Sylvia’s “supporting documents” post for this presentation
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Analogies can help us understand new concepts. I’m fond of talking about “digital newspapers” rather than aggregators or feed readers when helping learners of any age understand how web tools like Google Reader and Netvibes can become valuable parts of our personal learning landscape. WHERE do you learn today? For me, I increasingly learn a
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These are my notes from our February 22nd OKC WordPress User’s Group meeting. About 14 of us are here tonight. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Chris Jean from iThemes.com is here again! jcriley.com – afhmarketing.com – mainly search engine marketing Tonight we are going to talk about several WordPress plug-ins First hearing
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The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and
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Last month fifth graders in the Sunday School class I teach at our church recorded both still images and video to create a “remix” of a music video by the group, “Go Fish.” To seek formal permission for this remixed version, I posted the video as a YouTube response to the original music video. I
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I presented over H.323 videoconference today to educators in Anchorage, Alaska, attending the ASTE (Alaska Society for Technology in Education) 2010 conference. My topic was using backchannels during videoconferences and in face-to-face classes with students. I shared my links and resources with participants via ShareTabs. I added this link to my main handouts / presentation
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Thanks to the generosity of family and friends, my daughter and I attended the Kansas State versus Colorado men’s basketball game last weekend in Manhattan, Kansas, and the Kansas State versus Oklahoma men’s basketball game in Norman, Oklahoma, today. I used the $3 iPhone application Pano to capture a panorama inside each fieldhouse. Each of
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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visited Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. This podcast features a seven minute interview with Ryan L’Esperance, an audio engineer who works and lives on the tour bus ten months of the year. According to the official website of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus:
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Podcast340: On board the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in Yukon, Oklahoma (interview with Ryan L’Esperance) [ 11:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3288)
This morning I’ve uploaded a mp3 audio recording of my presentation, Communicating In The Digital Age, to SlideShare, and synchronized it to my multimedia slides using the provided web-based interface. This was a breakout session at the annual professional development conference for the Pioneer Library Association in Oklahoma. Communicating In The Digital Age By Wesley
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If you haven’t seen the 30 second Intel advertisement, “Sponsors of Tomorrow,” check it out now. It’s an effective teaser video for the life work of Ajay Bhatt at Intel, where he currently serves as “Chief Client Platform Architect.” Ajay is the the co-inventor of USB. I referenced this in my presentation last Monday, “Communicating
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This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by Wesley Fryer with librarians and staff of the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma on February 15, 2010, in Moore. Our digital communications landscape today includes far more than email. By working in the “cloud” using collaborative environments like Google Docs and Google Reader, we flexibly
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Podcast339: Communicating in the Digital Age (Presentation for Pioneer Library System Librarians) [ 55:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3110)
I’m learning all kinds of things teaching two sections of “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma this semester. I think it is important to help people (including future educators) understand what a web browser is, and that alternative browsers are available in addition to Internet Explorer. Since many people have only used
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I’m looking forward to attending and presenting at the Heartland eLearning Conference, right here in Edmond, Oklahoma at the University of Central Oklahoma on March 8-9, 2010. I’ll be sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop on “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning,” as well as an updated version of my “Digital Storytelling On a Shoestring” breakout.
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If you’re not already tuned into Steve Hargadon via Conversations.net and his FutureofEducation.com Interview Series, you need to be. Last night Dan Pink discussed his new book, “Drive,” and today (5 pm CST) Clay Shirky (author of “Here Comes Everybody,” the most important book I read in 2009) will be on. (My apologies for my
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