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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Correcting a citation

    This evening has been fun, my wife is doing some research on leprosy to develop more background knowledge for her nursery workers at church who will be teaching some lessons involving leprosy tomorrow, and I taught her how to use del.icio.us and Google Notebook to save and share good websites she finds, and make quick…

  • Request for Feedback: Safe Digital Social Networking draft

    I’ll be attending and presenting at the SITE conference in San Antonio the last week of March, but am planning to co-present via videoconference for the COSN conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 28th. The title of my COSN session is “Maintaining a Safe Environment for Digital Social Networking.” Since Lora Smith and I…

  • Digital Dialog: Join the conversation!

    We had the third session of a new parenting class my wife and I are teaching on Wednesday nights today, and things went really well. I just posted the recorded session as a podcast (it’s an hour long) and updated the wiki links for the resources we discussed. I listened to Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes…

  • Show notes from Mom

    I’ve added my most extensive list of show notes EVER for my last podcast interview with my mother, which focused on milblogging, cookery blogs, and the ways people remain lifetime learners and users of technology when they have motivating PURPOSES to use technology. Thanks for all the links, Mom! 🙂

  • Encouragement for prime movers and catalysts

    I used the analogy of developing new cognitive maps for the information and communication landscape of the 21st century in the conclusion of my spotlight presentation at MacWorld back in January. Like the European explorers of the 15th century, we’re moving into uncharted waters. I really like that analogy, because it communicates this idea of…

  • Creative Commons 3.0 licenses

    Creative Commons 3.0 licenses are now available (free of course) for any content you want to share virtually or via analog means, and have the right to share with an appropriate license. If you’re not already familiar with Creative Commons, check out their short comic strips “How it Works” and “A Spectrum of Rights.” The…

  • Tools to improve keyboarding skills

    The ability to type faster than you can write by hand is more important today than ever. I remember as an elementary teacher and later an elementary computer lab teacher / technology integration facilitator using the commercial program Type To Learn from Sunburst Technology, to help students learn better keyboarding skills. Now, however, more FREE…

  • Who is this person?

    A photo challenge from Alexander. Post guesses either here or on the Flickr page of the photo! 🙂

  • More research tools

    This evening my third grader asked to use a paper-based dictionary to look up words that start with the “tri-” prefix. I felt confident we could find an online resource that would at least match and likely exceed the utility of a paper-based dictionary (which is still in an unpacked box in our garage somewhere…

  • Every school needs a media design studio

    Does your school have a media production design studio? If not, why not? In the likely case your school does NOT have a media production studio, the reason for its absence may lie in the basic nature of educational institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since their inception in response to the industrial revolution,…