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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • A third grader reflects on Albert Einstein

    My son and I created a short, almost fourteen minute podcast this evening about Albert Einstein which we titled, “Einstein’s Contributions and Interesting Quirks.” We posted this to the Talking Science podcasting project. As of yet we have not received any additional submissions to this podcasting project– I haven’t spent a great deal of time…

  • Albert Einstein and the policing of Wikipedia

    Our 3rd grade son has been writing a book report on an biography he read about Albert Einstein for several weeks, and our combined research (it’s been a family effort) for his report has provided us all with some interesting insights into WikiPedia and the way in which this global information resource is “policed” by…

  • Updating goals

    I’ve made several edits and updates to my 43 things list. Hadn’t revisted those in quite awhile. Goal setting is definitely a VERY important life activity, and to the extent that using the 43 things site can encourage reflection as well as action on goals I think it’s a GREAT web 2.0 site and resource.…

  • Continuing quest for an inexpensive digital audio recorder

    On weekends when I can wander around stores like Best Buy, Circuit City, Target and even Wal-Mart, my main mission of late has been looking for an inexpensive digital audio recorder. Ideally (and I think this product WILL eventually be available at this price point) I want to find a device which: Records native mp3…

  • The joys of wood fires

    It’s COLD in central Oklahoma tonight! One of the things I have enjoyed the most since moving to Oklahoma has been wood fires in the evenings. This is a picture of the fire I lit tonight and posted to Flickr: We’ve actually had SEVEN snow days so far this year (and many school districts in…

  • Blog Blocks, Student Influence for Social Change, Edifying student bloggers

    Ah, the joys of school district content filters. Note the category / reason for this content filter block: Web Logs / Personal Pages. Unfortunately content filter policies like this which view all “blogs” as evil and inappropriate for anyone to access at school are quite common in the state of Oklahoma, from what I’ve seen.…

  • Encouraging student political interest and activism

    C-SPAN is sponsoring a documentary digital storytelling contest on its site, StudentCam. Unlike many other national digital storytelling contests, entrants do NOT have to be 18 to enter. According to the official rules, students must be in grades 6 – 12. Students select a political issue they care about and prepare a documentary video of…

  • The egalitarian nature of blogging

    Scott McLeod has done some interesting graphing of edublog technorati ratings (here and here) and elaborated on his work in his post, “Top edublogs?” Andy Carvin’s post from January 3rd, “Educational Blogging: Avoiding the Usual Suspects Syndrome” sparked a lot of related discussion regarding what he called the “all-star blogger” phenomenon. Some people have expressed…

  • Spam and phishing on MySpace

    More reasons for teaching Internet safety, network security, and critical-thinking smarts to young people as well as adults online: MySpace is not only a great place to download viruses for your Windows computer, it is also a popular destination for computer users wanting more spam and looking to become victims of innovative phishing schemes that…

  • Vista is out, but do educators care?

    Well, Windows Vista is now on the market, but my question is: Do any educators care? I don’t know of any midwest U.S. school districts planning to make the transition to Vista anytime soon. In an interview with CNN this morning, Bill Gates said: People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.…