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Podcast386: Implementing 1:1 Classrooms in Grand View Schools, Oklahoma

Published by Wesley Fryer in 1:1, leadership, podcasts, schoolreform on December 22nd, 2011

This podcast is a a recording of Cheryl Beaman and Michelle Barnes’ presentation, “Implementing 1:1 Classrooms” at the 2011 Innovative Learning Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, on November 10th. This annual conference is hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma. Cheryl Beaman is the director of technology for Grandview Public Schools, and Michelle Barnes is

Podcast 386: Implementing 1:1 Classrooms in Grand View Schools, Oklahoma [ 47:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (642)

Tags: 1to1, grandview, laptop, learning, oklahoma, school

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2011 #k12online Conference Starts Monday

Published by Wesley Fryer in distributed-learning, opencontent, podcasting, web 2.0 on November 28th, 2011

The ‘regular week’ presentations of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference start tomorrow on Monday, November 28th, at 8 am EST! Please check our conference schedule the next two weeks for daily updates, Monday through Friday! 4 new presentations will be published daily, focusing on our theme, “Purposeful Play.” Professional development certificates for participation are available this

Tags: development, k12online, k12online11, learning, pd, professional

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Digital Citizenship Lesson from Gilbert Gottfried: The (former) Voice of the Aflac Duck

Published by Wesley Fryer in ethics, socialnetworking on March 24th, 2011

Chances are your students may not recognize the name Gilbert Gottfried, but they all recognize his voice. Until he posted controversial tweets this week, Gottfried was the official voice of the Aflac duck. photo © 2005 Olaf Gradin | more info (via: Wylio) See the posts, “Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Offensive Japan Tweets” and

Tags: Aflack, citizenship, edtech, education, Gilbert, Gottfried, learning, school, twitter

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iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun: The List!

Published by Wesley Fryer in apple, mobile, webcasts on December 23rd, 2010

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

Tags: app, apps, ios, ipad, iphone, ipod, ipodtouch, learn, learning, share, touch, ustream, workshop

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Sting on Risk and Challenge

Published by Wesley Fryer in creativity, leadership, schoolreform on November 29th, 2010

Enroute to the 2010 Christa Mcauliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, I read Anthony DeCurtis’ article “Rock n Roll Yogi” in the November 2010 issue of Delta Sky magazine. In the article, Anthony quotes Sting as saying: I don’t think that anything that doesn’t involve a risk is worth doing. There needs to be

Tags: creativity, growth, learning, sting

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Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool

Published by Wesley Fryer in blogs, digitalstorytelling, distributed-learning, podcasting, web 2.0 on October 22nd, 2010

These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS

Tags: blog, edtech, learning, podcast, technology, tool, vodcast, wiki

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Podcast345: Open Educational Resources (OER) – Iowa 1:1 Institute

Published by Wesley Fryer in 1:1, distributed-learning, open source, podcasts on April 15th, 2010

As more schools embrace 1:1 learning on a variety of platforms, the importance of digital curriculum will grow. Open Educational Resources (OER) are licensed under terms which permit other educators to both use and (in some cases) remix content to fit the standards, context, and needs of their classrooms. This podcast is a recording of

Podcast345: Open Educational Resources (OER) - Iowa 1:1 Institute [ 1:06:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2250)

Tags: #i11i, adapt, cc, commons, creative, curriculum, digital, distance, distributed, education, iowa, learning, objects, oer, remix, share

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Heartland eLearning Conference: PI4BL Workshop

Published by Wesley Fryer in web 2.0, workshops on March 8th, 2010

This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on

Tags: conference, education, heartlandconf10, learning, oklahoma, technology, uco

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K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts

Published by Wesley Fryer 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

Tags: edtech, edtechtalk, education, k12online, k12online09, k12online2010, learning, webcast

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Podcast336: Personal Updates and Voices of ACTEM – Talking with Richard Byrne, Bob Sprankle and Kern Kelley

Published by Wesley Fryer in podcasts, workshops on January 8th, 2010

It’s been awhile since my last podcast! No podfading here, however…. In this podcast I share a recap of several technology initiatives in which I’ve been involved in the past month, some thoughts about Larry Lessig’s EduCause presentation in November 2009, and a couple short interviews at the ACTEM conference in Maine with Richard Byrne,

Podcast336: Voices of ACTEM - Talking with Richard Byrne, Bob Sprankle and Kern Kelley [ 23:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2343)

Tags: actem, actem09, edtech, education, learning, marco, marcotorres, podcast, torres

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I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0

Published by Wesley Fryer in blogs, digitalstorytelling, leadership, schoolreform, socialnetworking, web 2.0 on January 6th, 2010

Kevin Honeycutt has published an updated YouTube version of his wonderful song, “I Need My Teachers To Learn.” Instead of using video for the b-roll footage, his friend Rae helped him use still images synchronized to the music. It’s just over three minutes long, take some time today and check it out: In many ways

Tags: change, digitalstorytelling, education, kevinhoneycutt, leadership, learning, video, youtube

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Learning from Angela, Kern and Konrad

Published by Wesley Fryer in apple, mobile, schoolreform, workshops on January 3rd, 2010

These are my notes from several K12Online09 presentation videos I watched this evening riding the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Fort Worth, Texas, back to Oklahoma City on my iPhone. This post was blogged on my netbook running Win7 using free Windows Live Writer software, downloadable from Microsoft as part of Windows Live Essentials. A

Tags: app, apps, edtech, iphone, ipod, itouch, itunes, k12online, k12online09, learning, passion, pd, technology

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K12Online09 on The Heartland Flyer

Published by Wesley Fryer in globalvoices, podcasting, web 2.0, workshops on January 1st, 2010

It is January 1, 2010, and I am riding on the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. I have been watching presentations from the 2009 K-12 Online Conference on my iPhone. Thanks to the available podcast channels in iTunes and the presentation transcoding functionality provided by the conference Blip.tv account,

Tags: edtech, k12online, k12online09, learning, technology, videoconference, videoconferencing

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Podcast322: Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning (Ingredients 1 – 5)

Published by Wesley Fryer in digitalstorytelling, distributed-learning, literacy, podcasts, web 2.0, workshops on July 8th, 2009

This podcast is a recording of a videoconference I shared with educators in Texas and Ohio on July 7, 2009, as part of the summer Tandberg Connections professional development program. The session description was: Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipes are helpful, but master cooks often modify those to meet

Podcast322: Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning (Ingredients 1 - 5) [ 1:27:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4465)

Tags: blended, development, education, ingredients, learning, powerful, professional, tandberg, teacher, teaching, videoconference

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Podcast317: Comparing Drop.io and Gabcast for Cell Phone Digital Recording

Published by Wesley Fryer in digitalstorytelling, mobile, podcasting, podcasts on May 17th, 2009

In this podcast from the road, I compare the available features, limitations, and relative benefits of using the web service drop.io compared to Gabcast for cell phone (or regular land line phone) digital recording. Gcast is another available option for phone-in recording, and I discuss it a bit as well. Both Gabcast and Gcast became

Podcast317: Comparing Drop.io and Gabcast for Cell Phone Digital Recording [ 51:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3488)

Tags: audio, cellphone, drop, dropio, education, gabcast, gcast, learning, mobile, mobilephone, phone, podcast, school

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Podcast312: Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0)

Published by Wesley Fryer in assessment, creativity, digitalstorytelling, leadership, literacy, podcasts, web 2.0 on April 19th, 2009

This podcast is a recording of my opening keynote session at the 2009 eTechOhio conference, held in Columbus, Ohio, on February 2, 2009. This is the audio-only mp3 version, a video podcast version is available on the eTechOhio09 portal in iTunesU Ohio. Check the podcast shownotes for a direct link to iTunes. The official conference

Podcast312: Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0) [ 1:02:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3898)

Tags: education, etechohio, etechohio09, future, learning, technology

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Podcast274: StoryChasers Brainstorm #3 from 21 August 2008

Published by Wesley Fryer in digitalstorytelling, pbl, podcasting, podcasts, web 2.0, webcasts on August 23rd, 2008

This podcast is a recording from our third online brainstorming session for the StoryChasers project on August 21, 2008. I was joined by Cheryl Lykowski, a 5th grade teacher from Michigan as well as James Sigler, a 3rd grade teacher from Missouri. We will convene a fourth brainstorming session (and hopefully our last one before

Podcast274: StoryChasers Brainstorm #3 from 21 August 2008 [ 1:17:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2440)

Tags: brainstorm, brainstorming, digitalstorytelling, education, learning, pbl, project, storychasers, techology, videoconferencing

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Podcast210: Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning (Workshop Part 1)

Published by Wesley Fryer in podcasts, web 2.0 on December 20th, 2007

This podcast is a recording of the initial hour (with group working times edited out) of a workshop I led for approximately 125 educators at Education Service Center 10 in Richardson, Texas, on December 17, 2007. The description of this workshop was: Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipies are helpful,

Podcast210: Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning (Workshop Part 1) [ 53:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4561)

Tags: cooking, education, ingredients, learning, meettherobinsons, professionaldevelopment, school, teacher, web2

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Podcast209: A 10 year old discusses Travian, an online simulation war game

Published by Wesley Fryer in economics, games, history, podcasts, socialnetworking on December 16th, 2007

This podcast is a 40 minute interview with Alexander, a 10 year old fourth grader who has been playing the online simulation war game Travian for the past month. In addition to being fun and highly engaging, Travian requires players to quantitatively manage multiple resources (wheat, clay, iron, and wood,) negotiate alliances, effectively deal with

Podcast209: A 10 year old discusses Travian, an online simulation war game [ 40:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7441)

Tags: games, interview, learning, online, podcast, simulation, travian

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