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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Month: November 2006

  • Blog spam problems

    For some reason a bunch of blog spams started showing up as approved comments yesterday– I have temporarily required a login for commenting– and will hopefully be updating to the latest version of WordPress which I hope will help. From time to time (but rarely) some offensive comments have gotten through. This is quite an…

  • Screencasting at Your Library

    Screencasting @ your Library! – http://hla2006.pbwiki.com (I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL POST AS A PODCAST LATER) Becky Rathgeber, BYU Hawaii Linda Uchida, Hawaii Pacific University PPT for this presentation  Screencasting is being used in library instruction, for tutorials and quizzes Linda demonstrating accessing a password-protected portal, and the way things used to be…

  • Podcast98v: Reflections from Hawaii on our Information Landscape

    (Video version) We live in an amazing age of global travel and communications, which explorers like Lewis & Clark probably never imagined could exist. The information landscape today is similar to an amazing buffet of food: Full of choices, fraught with challenges, and ripe with opportunities. Like the ocean, the Internet can be a dangerous…

  • Web 2.0 digital pioneers

    Frieda Foxworth and Ron Bosch’s class website Global Horizons reveals that they and their 5th grade students are engaged in a variety of projects and classroom activities using web 2.0 tools. The site includes links to their class Blogmeister site which features student writing, their class activities blog (on EduBlogs), and their class blog maintained…

  • Video feedback

    I was able to upload this morning my airport-recorded video of feedback for Frieda Foxworth, Ron Bosch, and John Geanangel for their preso on “Cultivating Digital Educators” for K-12 Online 2006. I posted some textual feedback last night on my blog as well for this presentation. Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online06

  • Aloha from Hawa’ii

    Well, yesterday was a bit of an adventure, but I ended up successfully flying standby from Oklahoma to Honolulu (after missing my initial flight) for the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s conference. I got to the hotel in Honolulu last night at 2 am US Central time, so it was quite a long travel day, but…

  • Feedback on “Cultivating Digital Educators”

    Frieda Foxworth, Ron Bosch, and John Geanangel collaborated to present the session on “Cultivating Digital Educators” for K-12 Online 2006 in the Overcoming Obstacles strand. I was able to watch and reflect on their excellent presentation this afternoon as I flew from Dallas to Los Angeles enroute to a conference, and I really enjoyed their…

  • Elephants and YouTube

    I recorded a few thoughts to video last night about two of the “elephants in the room” in discussions concerning educational reform in the United States: poverty and what constitutes an “adequate” education. I posted the recorded video to YouTube this morning from the Dallas/Love Field airport. Interestingly, before I even posted this to my…

  • USB thumb drive security issues

    The price of USB thumb drives is continuing to come down, but just like any tool these can be abused as well as used in powerfully constructive ways. I was amazed recently to purchase a 2 GB USB drive for $30 on sale at an office products store. The recent events at Los Alamos with…

  • Reflecting on school 2.0

    Chris Lehmann and Marcie Hull created the ten minute video, “Planning the 21st Century School” for the 2006 K-12 Online Conference. I resonate with Chris’ observations that we need to restructure the school schedule and environment as a whole if we are going to effectively prepare students for the 21st century economy and workforce. It…