Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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  • Sharing Learning from Miami Device 2015

    The last two days my wife and I attended and participated in the 2nd annual Miami Device Conference in Coconut Grove, Florida. Organized by gifted educator Felix Jacomino, Miami Device is one of the the premier learning events on our planet for educators. The next Miami Device conference will be November 9-10, 2017, so mark your calendar now…

  • Learning about Schoolwide WordPress Blogs with Andrea Hernandez

    This week at the 2015 Miami Device Conference I met Andrea Hernandez (@edtechworkshop), an educator at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville, Florida. Andrea is at forefront of using WordPress blogs as “Blogfolios” for all students at her school. Their Blogfolios project is in its 6th year! Her post “Blogfolios Framework” includes a wonderfully helpful infographic…

  • Managing WordPress Installations in CPANEL (Monday Sept 28th)

    If you are a WordPress user or interested in WordPress, come to the FREE OKC WordPress Users Group on Monday, September 28th at Oklahoma Christian University (OC) in Edmond. The meetup starts at 7 pm. I’ll be presenting on the topic, “Managing WordPress Installations in CPANEL.” Some of the topics I plan to address include: What…

  • Classroom Blogging Options (August 2015)

    Every classroom needs a moderated, online space where students can share their ideas with others and receive feedback. While blogging has “been around” and used in classrooms all over the world for more than ten years now, classroom blogs are still rare in many schools and communities. Like other kinds of technology, blogging platforms have…

  • KidBlog Update

    This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Reyher (@jenniferreyher), an instructional technology specialist in McAlester Public Schools, Oklahoma. Jennifer participated the 2015 STEMseeds PD Camp a couple weeks ago, and is a regular participant in PLAYDATE OKC and EdCampOKC events. KidBlog has been an amazing tool in my classroom. My students have become excited to…

  • Enlisting Student Moderators for Classroom Blog Posts

    What a beautiful sight this was today in our school library! A team of 4th and 5th grade student volunteers, who have been working as mentors in our enhanced eBook project, are now helping moderate both comments and student posts on the 22 classroom blogs we have at our school.    by  Wesley Fryer  I wish…

  • A Day of WordPress Website Updates

    I know it’s vacation time when I can spend almost an entire day on the couch updating WordPress websites. That may not sound like a fun way to spend break time from teaching at school, but it does to me! Here are some of the updates I made today to some of my websites, several of which were LONG overdue.    by  Nikolay…

  • Widget of Recent Student KidBlog Posts with Yahoo Pipes and RSS Dog

    This evening I used the free web service RSS Dog to add right sidebar widgets to a new page of “KidBlog Links” (classroom interactive writing websites) on our school website for Independence Elementary in Yukon, Oklahoma.    by  Wesley Fryer  Several months ago I used Yahoo Pipes (also free) to create an “aggregated feed river” of posts from…

  • Create Embeddable Twitter List with List.ly

    This evening I created a linked list of sponsors for EdCamp Broken Arrow (coming up this Saturday just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma) using List.ly. This was SO much faster and easier than “creating the list by hand” on the event WordPress site. That tedious process involved saving images of each sponsor logo locally, uploading each image…

  • Encouraging Pre-Service Educators to Share Work Publicly Online

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) In her recent review of my eBook, “Playing with Media, simple ideas for powerful sharing,” Barbara Brown wrote the following paragraph which inspired me to literally jump for joy. Barbara wrote: After reading the book and paying close attention to the ideas about media creation and media sharing, I decided to move…