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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • 100 new Internet users per minute?!

    The August 29, 2007, edition of the NPR Technology podcast included an episode on game addiction in China. Louisa Lim’s August 28th article “Gamers Find Gaps in China’s Anti-Addiction Efforts” was the same story, I think. One of the attention-grabbing statistics shared in the episode was that every minute, 100 new people in China are…

  • “Prince Caspian” and the Return to Narnia: Making the Journey to Literacy Through Fantasy

    These are my notes from a session titled: “Prince Caspian” and the Return to Narnia: Making the Journey to Literacy Through Fantasy by Randy Testa, Vice President of Education for Walden Media, LLC. Randy shared this presentation at the 2007 EncycloMedia presentation in Oklahoma City on 8/29/2007. Because of copyrights on media materials Randy is…

  • My podcast web feed is FIXED!

    Hallelujah. I am pleased to report after many hours of troubleshooting that, at last, my podcast feed is again functional after over a week of “brokenness.” In troubleshooting this problem, I am struck again by how all technology is “magic” at some level. Some people just have “more words” to describe what is happening, but…

  • Social networking and college roommates

    According to the ABC News article from August 15th, “Weeding Out Roommates on Facebook,” online social networking is being used by new college freshmen in the United States (along with some parents) to learn about assigned roommates before anyone actually sets foot into their new dorm room. As you might expect, in some cases parents…

  • Shanghai and “What is Learning 2.0”

    In a little over two weeks, I’ll be making a trek around the globe I can barely begin to imagine. Even now, having my airline ticket reservations and having my passport in process with the Chinese embassy for a visa application, the reality of this trip is just starting to “hit home.” This “delayed realization”…

  • Podcast enclosure mystery: Help!

    As you may be aware, my ISP upgraded the mySQL database hosting my main WordPress blog this past week. This led to a slowdown of blog performance, but things seem to have gotten a bit better. It’s been suggested that a complete reinstall of WordPress would likely be a good idea, and I was ready…

  • Wanted: K12 Online Conference Committee Volunteers!

    We are looking for volunteers to serve on five different committees assisting with the 2007 K-12 Online Conference this year. I am the convener liason for the Professional Development committee, charged to: …arrange opportunities for graduate credit and Continuing Education points that can be obtained globally. Please consider donating some of your time as a…

  • Thoughts on keyboarding and cursive

    I’ve published a new post on the TechLearning blog this morning titled, “The new cursive.” Technorati Tags: education, educationreform, school, school2, school20, schoolreform, schools, cursive, keyboarding

  • USHMM online at YouTube

    In October 2005, I had an opportunity to facilitate videoconference connections for Eva Hance, a Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, and Mark Geeslin, a soldier in the US Army’s 11th Armored Division and liberator of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Eva and Mark shared their final public presentations about their experiences in World War II at Texas…

  • A sobering experience

    Today as I drove home from Goodland, Kansas, back to Edmond, Oklahoma, I took a different route. Rather than take I-70 across Kansas to I-135 and I-35, at Hays I cut south on highway 183 so I could go through Greensburg, Kansas. As you may recall, on May 4th, a devastating category 5 tornado struck…