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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Teaching in May: The best of days, the worst of days

    It is relatively easy to do some things poorly, including TEACHING and LEADING. For master teachers in the classroom who remain (despite the pressures of high-stakes testing and the accountability movement) creative artists of learning and student engagement, the month of May (in North America where I live) can be the best month of the…

  • Happy Mother’s Day!

    Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my wife and the mother of my children, my mother in law, and all the other moms out there! 🙂 With my mom and dad at MACE in March 2007. My beautiful wife on the beach in Holland, Michigan in April 2007. With Clara (my mother in law) in…

  • Cell phone jammers at school?

    The battles between the authoritarian forces in schools and the social, even anarchic forces in the seats of classrooms (moving at the speed of creativity in the minds of students) continue to rage. Cell phones remain contentious. How many schools will move beyond simply banning cell phones, to employing technologies which actually jam cell phone…

  • Video interviews from NCCE 2007

    Jeff Allen told me today about a great collection of interviews available online from the Northwest Council for Computer Education 2007 conference. These include interviews with Angus King, Will Richardson, Tony Vincent, Patrick Crispin, Chris Hagel, Brad Patrick, and Annette Lamb. Both the opening keynote by Angus King and closing keynote by Will Richardson (“A…

  • A creativity challenge for your students

    Hopefully your state assessments are over, and there is now time for more creativity in the classroom! Consider inviting your students to enter the Tech4Learning artistic postcard contest: Create a postcard from a place you would love to visit on your summer vacation and you could win an iPod or a pizza party! Deadline: Tuesday,…

  • Greensburg (Kansas) Tornado

    It is sobering to see aerial photographs of the damage a EF-5 tornado did along with 205 mph winds in about 20 minutes last week. The full path of this tornado (which was on the ground far longer than 20 minutes) was reportedly almost 2 miles wide and 22 miles long. Tragically, as of this…

  • MySpace photo prevents teacher certification, lawsuit follows

    MySpace related headlines for students and educational organizations continue, this time the headline concerns a 27 year old college student seeking teacher certification. The headline from May 6th reads, “Woman denied degree over photo, sues university.” According to the accompanying CNN video, the student was serving as a student teacher when her cooperating teacher saw…

  • SL in education learning opportunities

    Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes and Alice Barr actually met “live” in Second Life for their latest Seedlings Podcast! I found Bob’s comment that it perceptually felt different to be synchronously talking over Skype, but physically and visibly sitting in the same virtual location with Cheryl and Alice to be intriguing. We’ve heard people say “perception…

  • Tools for video capture

    I’m sharing another workshop on Internet safety and addressing cyberbullying in the Oklahoma City area tomorrow, and will be using several videos in my presentation. The primary tools I now use to capture offline copies of videos to use in presentations are: The YouTube Downloader website (enter the URL of a YouTube video, and then…

  • Re-creation

    One of the most thought provoking videos and professional development learning opportunities I’ve had in the past six months was watching and listening to Dr. Lawrence Lessig at Wizards of OS4 in September 2006 (via podcast) share his “Read/Write Culture” keynote address. These are a few notes I took awhile back about some of the…