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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Conversations with a flat world worker

    Well, I have not yet checked in to the NECC conference yet, but as was the case last week at EduComm, great conversations have already happened that have me thinking differently about several things. I had a chance last night to have dinner and visit at length with a good friend. Pavan worked with me…

  • Plaxo addresses sync issues with contacts

    For the past month or so I’ve been using the free online service Plaxo to sync my online Yahoo email contacts with my Mac OS X address book, and have been pleased with the results. Today Plaxo announced they are making the beta version of their software available to anyone, not just a small group…

  • New TechEdge article

    I’ve written a new article for the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association, titled “Join the Global Education Conversation.” This will be published in print in their fall issue. In the article I go into a bit more detail about read-only and read-write culture than I have in the conference keynotes I’ve…

  • Hello from Atlanta!

    Hello from Atlanta! I arrived safely this evening, and am looking forward to a great week of learning at NECC! Technorati Tags: necc07

  • Could the SYSTEM be to blame instead of teachers and principals?

    Wednesday’s AP article, “Thousands of failing schools face major overhaul,” reveals many of the challenges involved with school change and high stakes accountability. Instructional challenges and opportunities for students really are the key. As one principal quoted in the article notes: The instruction wasn’t happening,” [Denise] Hallett said, offering an explanation for poor test scores,…

  • Seattle Schools Embrace Moderated Read/Write Technologies

    At last, a VERY encouraging headline about digital social networking in schools! According to Thursday’s article “Seattle Public Schools builds social-learning site for its tech-savvy teens” the district has rolled out its own website for encouraging safe and appropriate read/write sharing by students in the school district. The site is called L3RN: Similar to the…

  • Hallmark of 21st Century Learning: Use of web video

    Do you need to use web video to teach and learn “well?” Certainly not. However, given the availability of high quality, free digital curriculum on the Internet, I think teachers and students alike would be silly to not take advantage of the learning opportunities these resources provide. Jeremy Behrens gave me a heads up this…

  • Administrators Who Blog, Read Blogs, and Podcast

    My latest “Tech Trends” article in the summer issue of Smart Technologies “Interactive Educator” magazine is available for free download. The article, “Top-Level Bloggers: Social technologies move into the office” starts on page 40. The entire summer 2007 issue is available as a PDF download. (5 MB) Whether or not your principal, assistant principal, superintendent…

  • Highlights from EduComm07 and Anaheim

    I’ve returned safely to Oklahoma from Anaheim, California and the EduComm07/InfoComm07 experience. Whenever I return from a conference, it is challenging to both publish podcast audio recordings from sessions and also digitize the notes I scribbled during the conference from time to time on pieces of paper, when my laptop was not open or available.…

  • Lessig turns from IP to politics and government corruption

    Wow. One of my favorite thinkers and writers about copyright and intellectual property issues, Dr. Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law school, has decided to change directions. Instead of focusing on those topics, he is going to focus (for the next decade) on our political process (in the United States) and specifically the corruption which…