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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Month: November 2006

  • Star Wars humor

    Oh my gosh. These are hilarious. If you are not a big Star Wars fan and didn’t grow up on the series, you might not think so… but I do! 🙂

  • Icebound!

    We’re icebound in northern Oklahoma City (Edmond where I live) with snow expected later today. Winter is falling! The local weather and news people live for days like this I think. It’s like we’ve had a hurricane and the news reporters are on the coastline reporting as it makes landfall, or there is a war…

  • IPTV, Less advertising, and new media

    The latest (December 2006) issue of Wired magazine has several excellent articles that relate to YouTube, IPTV, the rapidly changing landscape of paid advertising, and new media technology use in general– but especially by younger demographic folks. The three articles are part of a series titled “Web Video Grows Up,” and includes “The YouTube Effect,”…

  • Audacity quickstart guide

    I created a very simple, two page PDF “Quickstart Guide to Audacity” for my podcasting workshop last night. I continue to tweak the online curriculum for that workshop each time I teach it: It remains online (and free to anyone) at http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/podcasting. I love Audacity because it is free, cross-platform, simple to use, exports directly…

  • Skype later today/tonight?

    I’ll be teaching a workshop today about classroom collaborations using videoconferencing and other technologies, from 4-7 pm US Central time. If you are interested in “Skyping in” briefly to say hello (with or without video) please leave a comment here with your Skype address, and we’ll try and give you a call! 🙂 You can…

  • IM assists in a local hostage crisis

    Well, today was a bit scary for people living in Edmond, Oklahoma, where I live just north of Oklahoma City. A man off the street broke into a woman’s house, took her hostage, went to a bank and then Home Depot where the woman escaped by loudly yelling “Man with a gun!” He then proceeded…

  • A workshop first

    Tonight was a personal first: I taught a three hour workshop on podcasting to about twelve teachers in St Louis, Missouri from my house in Edmond, Oklahoma! I have taught this workshop on podcasting a fair number of times, and taught (and just “met” with others) via videoconferencing technologies a fair number of times too–…

  • Preferred communication

    I’ve moved along this continuum, but I don’t see these as mutually exclusive. I currently prefer f2f, telephone and im. I’d also add blogs to this list, and also include it on my preferred list! I agree with Jenny‘s comment, these are more parallel than linear.

  • Hawaii iChat pics

    Aaron Schmidt posted a few interesting (but perhaps not too photogenic) photos of me in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago at the Hawaii Library Association’s conference to his Flickr site. He caught me iChatting with my family! 🙂 I was actually making faces with my three year old in the following pic: I’m not…

  • Nominate a tech-savvy superintendent

    eSchoolNews is accepting nominations through December 1st for its 2007 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards. Consider nominating a deserving superintendent you know. This was my nomination: The leadership and vision of Jerry Vaughn continues to be pivotal as Floydada ISD has defined itself as one of the most innovative and successful small school districts in the United…