Craig Grannell’s December 30th article for techradar.com, “The school that gives every student an iPad,” presents a compelling summary of the 1:1 iPad project at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland. On their school website, built with the open source software platform MediaWiki, they proudly proclaim: We are the first school in the world
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Wednesday in Oklahoma City at the “iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun” workshop, 7 year old Rachel taught participants about one of her favorite math applications for her iPod Touch, “Stickershop.” I recorded her presentation which was shared over Ustream.tv, as both a video recording and an audio recording. This is an approximately four minute
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I’m pleased to announce the launch of “Fuel for Educational Change Agents,” a new educational podcast channel available on audio.speedofcreativity.org. The official description of this new channel, which I’m publishing using free / open source Podcast Generator software, is: This audio podcast channel includes a variety of audio recordings by and recorded by Wesley Fryer,
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MobiTV is a application for smartphones which permits users, for a subscription fee, to watch live television including college football bowl games this week on ESPN. The app itself is free, however a subscription fee ($12.99 for 1 month minimum) must be paid to view content including ESPN Live. I was surprised I was NOT
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I shared this photo of Sarah teaching about the “Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD” iPad app today in our iOS workshop as my 365 photo project image of the day. It was SO fun to teach with my kids today– they did GREAT and really added to the workshop learning! All the links from our
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After a lot of searching for cameras and cables in our house, as well as wrangling with various configurations for screencasting and webcasting over Ustream.tv, I think I’m set for tomorrow’s workshop on “iPhone & iPad Apps for Fun & Productivity.” It’s challenging enough to come up with a reasonably good document camera solution to
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The December 24, 2010, NewsOK article, “Year in education defined by reform, budget cuts and virtual schools,” reveals a burgeoning online enrollment of K-12 students in northeast Oklahoma: One district — White Oak Public Schools in northeast Oklahoma — lost accreditation for a matter of minutes when the state Board of Education voted to strip
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Here is a wow statistic from the outstanding article, “APPLE V GOOGLE | More Intelligent Life.” By the end of 2011 smartphones will outsell ordinary phones, and by 2012 they will outsell PCs. Cloud computing may well replace the system whereby our photos, songs, documents and everything else lived on our own personal devices. This
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Many people today continue to misconstrue passive, observational activities for authentic learning. To be real and have an impact, educational activities should take place within a meaningful context, involve hands-on participation by everyone, and have a real purpose outside the lesson. It’s best if participants create some kind of product which tangibly represents their learning
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It’s Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas from our family to yours. May this holiday season find you with friends and family, making new memories together and sharing love, joy and peace with everyone you meet. Here are a few holiday videos from the past few years, which may add some cheer to your evening and day
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In preparation for next week’s face-to-face and online workshop on December 29th, “iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch)” I’ve created an accompanying handout which includes categorized lists of applications we’ll be sharing. I say “we” because my kids
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My daughters, Sarah and Rachel, recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu. Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course,
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The iPhone 4 camera includes an optional HDR capability, which (according to the English Wikipedia) is: …is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to
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The release of iOS 4.0 software introduced the option to create folders for categories of applications on Apple mobile devices. Instead of having nine screens of apps on my iPhone, I’m now able to have two screens primarily of app folders. This is my current home screen: Since the number of apps in a folder
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I love this ad for Google Chrome. Sounds a lot like “Moving at the Speed of Creativity,” doesn’t it?! Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
Fall 2010 was my fifth semester to teach preservice education students a required course in educational technology. In this post, I’m going to reflect on my lessons learned teaching students at the University of North Texas, in the College of Information, Department of Learning Technologies. If you’re interested in accessing my past course outlines, resources,
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As 2010 draws to a close, I’m reminded of how sorely inadequate our available Internet infrastructure / bandwidth capacity is in much if not most of the United States. Instead of fiber optic connections with mind blowing data capacities, many of our communities struggle to provide marginally “high speed DSL” for many homes. In some
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I nominated myself this evening for TEDxOKC, which is scheduled for April 8, 2010, in Oklahoma City. The nomination form requires three video links and a short paragraph. I used the following: Why All Learners Need Laptops NOW! View more webinars from Wesley Fryer. Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0) View more
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My positive experiences this semester using Podcast Generator (free / open source server software) to publish audio lecturecasts of my weekly classes at the University of North Texas have inspired me to create a new podcast channel. Currently, I’m publishing (usually) at least one new audio podcast episode per month on “Moving at the Speed
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If you’ve created a Facebook business page, you can grant “administrative rights” to the page for other individuals who you’ve friended on Facebook. After being granted admin rights, these individuals can help you manage your page. This is a three step process, after you are logged into Facebook and have clicked on your page. Step
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