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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • The future is unwritten

    I flew down to Houston today, and had an opportunity to listen in the airport, in the air, and a bit on the cab ride to my hotel to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ recent interview at the D5 conference. The interview and subsequent Q&A lasts 1.5 hours, and is available as a free download…

  • FORA.tv fixes ID3 tag issue

    Kudos to Nick Ryan of FORA.tv— he read my recent post “The joy of Juice Receiver and PodNova” and left a comment. In that post, I lamented the fact that (previously) FORA.tv did not include descriptive titles for podcasts to facilitate decisionmaking about which episodes to download when users are just viewing the web feed,…

  • That igloo is getting pretty fancy

    My 9 year old showed me his Club Penguin igloo this evening: Getting pretty fancy! 🙂 At last count I think he had 7 puffs, but he doesn’t always feed them regularly. He says he’s feeding just 3 of them because he wants 4 of them to run away, but that strategy hasn’t proven effective…

  • Yahoo! Teachers Summer workshops

    Derek Baird alerted me today via IM about the summer 2007 Yahoo! Teachers’ summer workshops. Currently they are scheduled to share sessions in Chicago, New York City, Manhattan (New York,) Austin, and San Diego. This is great news! Sessions are free and will be offered in July. The unfortunate “release” (to use a nice word)…

  • Insight into the new ISTE NETS

    As you may know, this summer many are eagerly anticipating the refresh of the ISTE NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) first published in 1998. Gary Stager recently interviewed Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, and published their discussion as a new article titled “Refreshing the ISTE Technology Standards” on the District Administration website. This update to…

  • School podcast publishing with LoudBlog

    Many thanks to Dean Shareski for sharing some good humor and thoughts here over the weekend. Now I’ll be challenged to periodically add to my new humor blog category! 🙂 I was in San Antonio presenting a couple of workshops on podcasting, and (as always) emerged from the workshop experience learning several new things– hopefully…

  • Our musical performer tonight is George Bush

    For my final guest I’d like to introduce George Bush singing a U2 song (What would the Tonight Show have been without a musical guest). The following is not intended to be a political statement but rather an example of a mashup. It is indeed a powerful example. With tools available to students today, this…

  • Introducing Peter Bell

    Thank you Gerry, always funny stuff. Even Stephen Downes has appreciated your humor. My next guest is a middle school teacher from Bengough, Saskatchewan. Peter has been exploring the use of social software in his classroom for the past year. I sat down with Peter and asked him a few questions about the changes in…

  • For my first guest….

    Okay, I’m going to stick with the talk show and Johnny Carson analogy I used in my first post. My first guest is a comedian from Canada. He’s a former educator and recently appeared on Last Comic Standing. Please welcome Mr. Gerry Dee: BTW Wes, I added a humor section. He’ll never have me back!

  • Herrrrrrrrrrrrre’s Dean!

    I used to love Johnny Carson. One of my favourite memories as a kid was staying up late and positioning myself so Mom and Dad couldn’t see me but as long as I didn’t laugh out loud, I could usually watch most of the show. I really liked Mondays because often Johnny would have guest…