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Podcast341: Discussing Fan Fiction, Harry Potter Stories, and InstaPaper for the iPod Touch

Published by in apple, books, literacy, mobile, podcasts, web 2.0 on March 21st, 2010

This podcast from the road features an interview with 12 year old Alexander, who discusses his extensive use of the website FanFiction to read imaginative book chapters written by other people around the world based on characters from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series. In the past year, Alexander has read approximately eight different books

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Platforms for idea sharing are essential (even family learning blogs)

Published by in blogs, literacy, web 2.0 on March 12th, 2010

Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one is it can eliminate student

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Imagineering iPad Educational Apps

Published by in apple, digitalstorytelling, literacy, mobile on March 10th, 2010

The folks at Penguin books have been doing some imagineering, inspired by the soon-to-be released iPad: The imminent launch of the iPad has galvanized our children’s publishing teams to think about how the work they publish can be reinvented for devices where touch and sound and movement can enhance stories and provide a rich engaging

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Advocating for state info lit standards

Published by in edtech, literacy, politics on March 9th, 2010

I wrote the following comment today in response to Jeremy Davis’ call for input in his post, “Need Preso Help.” He wrote: If you had 2 minutes to convince your State Board of Education that library and information literacy standards needed to be passed, what would you say? Please chime in with your own thoughts

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Writing Essays and Creating New Games: Things We Should Do on Netbooks

Published by in 1:1, creativity, literacy, open source, schoolreform on March 8th, 2010

Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in

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Book recommendations for teachers to be (pre-service teachers)

Published by in books, leadership, literacy, philosophy, politics on March 2nd, 2010

I good friend of mine and classmate from college is considering entering the teaching profession as a second career after he retires from the Air Force in a couple years. He asked me for my recommendations of books to read about teaching and being a teacher, and I thought I’d share my list here so

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Personalized Digital Newspapers

Published by in blogs, literacy, web 2.0 on February 23rd, 2010

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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K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts

Published by in distributed-learning, literacy, web 2.0, webcasts on February 22nd, 2010

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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Communicating In The Digital Age (SlideShare Slidecast)

Published by in distributed-learning, isafety, literacy, socialnetworking, web 2.0 on February 20th, 2010

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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Podcast339: Communicating in the Digital Age (Presentation for Pioneer Library System Librarians)

Published by in ethics, isafety, literacy, podcasts, socialnetworking, web 2.0 on February 20th, 2010

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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Tips to be a better blogger

Published by in blogs, literacy, web 2.0 on February 17th, 2010

This is the text of an email reply I sent to a graduate education student in Pennsylvania who asked for tips on educational blogging. 1. Write with hyperlinks and embed media when you can. 2. Read and comment on many other educational blogs. The ones I follow are listed on my blog under “resources.” 3.

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The Night Before Valentine’s Day

Published by in books, creativity, digitalstorytelling, literacy on February 16th, 2010

“The Night Before Valentine’s Day” is a four page book my six year old wrote today. She is REALLY into writing, and I want to encourage her as an author / illustrator as much as possible. After she shared this with us tonight, we snapped four pictures of the pages using my iPhone, uploaded those

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Planning outline for METC 2010 keynote

Published by in digitalstorytelling, literacy on February 13th, 2010

This was the rough draft / outline for my METC 2010, keynote, “Storychasing Literacy.” I had been thinking about this keynote for months, but this was the outline I sketched out the week prior when I was in Minnesota leading workshops for school administrators on behalf of CASTLE. This was my final copy. Storychasing Literacy

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Announcing The Digital Magic Tricks Workshop

Published by in literacy, web 2.0, workshops on February 11th, 2010

ContentsWHY EDUCATORS SHOULD ATTEND:OVERVIEW:Big digital concepts participants will experience: Participants will experience “quick victories for blended learning” using:Educators should attend who:THE DETAILS:SCHEDULE A PI4BL WORKSHOP TODAY:Digital Magic Tricks is a two day(+) learning experience based on the Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning Framework by Wesley Fryer and Karen Montgomery. To schedule a workshop or obtain more

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Storychasing Literacy Keynote on SlideShare (METC 2010)

Published by in digitalstorytelling, ethics, isafety, leadership, literacy, web 2.0 on February 10th, 2010

I recorded audio during my opening keynote (“Storychasing Literacy“) at the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) today, and synchronized that mp3 file this evening to my presentation slides on SlideShare. Storychasing Literacy (METC 2010) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer. SlideShare does permit users to add YouTube videos to slides, but videos cannot be added

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Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really Matters by David Jakes

Published by in leadership, literacy, web 2.0 on February 9th, 2010

These are my paltry notes from David Jakes’ METC 2010 presentation, “Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really Matters.” I arrived a few minutes after this presentation started…. and unfortunately for my learning here (but good for my daughter) I had to step out to supervise a hotel swim before we check out

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Presentation links for #metc_CSD today (METC 2010 in St Louis)

Published by in digitalstorytelling, leadership, literacy on February 9th, 2010

We’ve received some snow in St Louis, but the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) goes on! Yesterday pre-conference workshops were held, and today and tomorrow are the “regular days” of the conference. Here are links to the resources I’ll be sharing in my sessions today. Storychasing Literacy (a.k.a. “StoryChasing: Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses”) Prior

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Getting started video tutorials with WordPress

Published by in blogs, literacy on February 5th, 2010

I’ve set up three different websites with WordPress in the past year for local nonprofits, and I need to help the leaders of each organization begin using their sites to post updated information. I’m utilizing screencast tutorials from WordPress.tv in this post to create training materials for these individuals as they start using WordPress. I’m

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Offline, mobile-friendly webpages on an iPhone or iPod Touch

Published by in 1:1, apple, literacy, mobile, web 2.0 on January 24th, 2010

I am impressed with the ability of the iPhone / iPod Touch application Instapaper Free to create offline, mobile-friendly versions of any webpage. The following five minute screencast demonstrates how you can do this on an iPhone or iPod Touch. You’ll want to download the Instapaper Free application first and create a free Instapaper account.

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Implications of Radical Change to Cultural Access

Published by in books, intellectualproperty, leadership, literacy on January 7th, 2010

Larry Lessig is a thought leader and author I deeply respect. Thanks to Michelle Thorne’s post yesterday on the Creative Commons blog, I learned about Dr. Lessig’s presentation from November at EduCause which is available on blip.tv, “It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.” If you are remotely interested in copyright and intellectual

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