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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Nightmare on campus

    This is a nightmare come true, today at Virginia Tech: A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows. The wikipedia article about the event currently reports at least 22 fatalities and 28 injuries. I had a conversation with someone recently on the issue of college campus…

  • Comments I had missed

    In reviewing my Akismet suspected spam messages this evening I caught several comments that were incorrectly held in my moderation queue– most notable among them were South African educator Kobus van Wyk’s comment to my post “Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge” about the processes of reconciliation in South Africa including the Khanya…

  • Rethinking WalMart Patronage

    I watched the 2005 documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” last night, and want to share some reflections on the movie from the perspectives of a digital storyteller, concerned citizen/consumer, and educator. The video highlights multiple problems/challenges which are not unique to WalMart but are perhaps amplified because of the corporation’s size and…

  • CrazyTalk4 and iClone

    Does anyone know if there are equivalent programs to CrazyTalk4 and iClone available for Macintosh? These are awesome software programs, and are used extensively by Enid Public Schools to create digital curriculum resources for teachers and students.

  • Beautiful sunrise this morning

    The sunrise over the Oklahoma plains this morning was breathtaking! I’ve been seeing the sun rise a lot this week, commuting to Enid from Edmond! 🙂 Tomorrow’s my last day of facilitator training in Enid with our 2nd group of teachers for the Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project. Boy is this ever a fun group! Mike…

  • First Skype 3.1 call

    I learned that Skype has an updated 3.1 version for Windows out now, and I like several of the interface and feature updates. The Mac version is still at version 2.6 Beta. For the first time I ran skype from Parallels via WindowsXP on my Macbook, and everything worked great. The new Skype 3.1 version…

  • Countries I’ve visited map

    I learned how to make the following “countries I’ve visited” map thanks to Damian Currier’s Flickr profile. create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands Very cool! This is free, and the website gives you HTML code to embed in any website. Tools like this can offer lots of possible geographic connection uses…

  • Jimmy Wales on WikiPedia

    Tomorrow in Enid I’ll be talking, sharing and teaching about wikis and WikiPedia, as well as Flickr. I know from some brief discussions today that at least a few of the teachers in attendance at our three-day workshop are very hostile to WikiPedia and the entire concept of wikis. This isn’t something new for me…

  • Google Educators’ Discussion Group and Academies

    I was glad to learn today that Google has setup a fairly new discussion group for educators. Previously they had used a Google group to share announcements, but this tool is an interactive discussion forum where people can post questions and answers. I joined tonight and the membership is 570+ and growing! I chimed in…

  • Free speech on MySpace

    Today’s USA Today article “Court: MySpace postings are free speech” reports on a case involving a February 2006 MySpace post by a student, described as “an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal.” The Indiana appeals court overruled the lower court’s ruling that the student author’s comments were obscene, supporting the student’s appeal in…