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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • 50 iPhone emails today

    For some reason my iPhone didn’t want to turn on today, so I had to figure out (by reading some simple directions, it wasn’t hard) how to reset it this evening. (Didn’t have time during the day to mess with it.) Surprise, surprise– 50 new emails! Yikes! My iPhone has started to change my life…

  • Tell a story with 5 photos for educators

    In the second day of our digital learning academy workshop in St Louis, Missouri, and Mustang, Oklahoma, teachers at each site did an activity we called “Tell a story with 5 photos.” Rather than join the existing Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)” we created and joined a new Flickr…

  • Recommended Macintosh applications

    I’m working with a few new Macintosh “switchers” the next few days, so I’ve updated my list of recommended Macintosh applications. These are all programs I either have on my MacBook now or have had in the recent past, and find/have found useful for various purposes. (These are applications in addition to the ones which…

  • Digital storytelling ideas from David and Dean

    Great fun this evening learning more about digital storytelling from Dean Shareski and David Jakes, via an Elluminate Live session! Thanks for the invite to participate, Dean! I posted some thoughts following our session as well as some of the GREAT referenced digital storytelling examples and tools on Dean’s blog (where I’m wrapping up a…

  • Virtual Speed Dating (Web 2.0 style) intro

    I’m looking forward to participating with 56 New York educators and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach tomorrow afternoon in the “Virtual Speed Dating (Web 2.0 style)” activity that is part of Sheryl’s workshop, “High Schools New Face: Connecting the 21st Century Teen.” I updated my intro page on her wiki this afternoon. Tomorrow I’m facilitating the first of…

  • Digital Twitter Olympics

    Here’s a new thought: As a conference presentation or an educator workshop activity, why don’t people start holding “Digital Twitter Olympics?” I’ve written up the basic ideas and guidelines on the following wiki: http://twitterolympics.pbwiki.com Please take a look and edit/change the guidelines you see there, and also comment here to share your thoughts. The password…

  • Disruptive technologies and learning

    I’ve published some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog today in a post titled, “Scissors and Cell Phones.” Of the outbound links I included in the post, the two I commend most highly to you are Karen Mongomery’s workshop curriculum “Using Mobile Phones to Learn” and the recent NPR story “Cell Phones a New Vehicle…

  • Deciding Ning “friends” to avoid

    I’m not spending a great deal of time on Ning these days, but I am aware that some great conversations are going on there related to learning and education. I like the accessibility of Ning and the fact that people who are not currently blogging can join conversations and contribute ideas without an intimidating number…

  • Looking for a new wrapper or an entirely new sandwich?

    As some schools actually implement radically different school schedules to empower learners to become self-directed and collaborative knowledge workers, here in Oklahoma some state education leaders are suggesting we need to add more time to the school schedule each day and more days to the calendar to better compete with workers in India and China.…

  • New tools and TIME

    I’m guest blogging over at Dean Shareski’s blog “Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech” this week, and just posted some thoughts I titled “Digital storytelling tools and TIME.”