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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Oklahoma centennial photos, videos, and reflections

    Last Friday was the official centennial day in Oklahoma, commemorating 100 years of statehood. It was a work day for me, but the rest of my family was able to enjoy the parade and other celebrations in Guthrie, which was the first state capitol in Oklahoma. An entire website was created (guthriecentennial.com) to facilitate and…

  • Create a skype button – responsibly

    I had a nice chat over Skype with Paul Schwan today, who is a fifth grade teacher in Fort Myers, Florida. This was only the third or fourth time I’ve had someone “skype me out of the blue” from my personal contact page, which lists my skype status (online/available or not) as well as a…

  • Residential wifi proliferates

    Clearly parts of the world are changing dramatically with respect to high speed Internet access. Our family is spending the Thanksgiving holidays with my parents in Kansas. Several years ago, there was only one other wireless network “visible” from my parents’ house. Last time I was here a few months ago, I seem to recall…

  • Stager and Richardson Keynote

    Thanks to Brian Smith’s Flickr photos (and links he provided in the photo descriptions) I found the link today to the Ustream video of Will Richardson and Gary Stager’s closing keynote yesterday at the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education conference. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach gave me a heads-up earlier this week over…

  • Abandoning Plaxo

    After spending literally HOURS over the past several months trying to get Plaxo synchronization to work between my address book contacts and calendar items stored in 3 places (Outlook on Office 2003 on WinXP, My Yahoo email and calendar, and my Mac OS 10.5 address book and calendar) I’ve thrown up my hands in frustration…

  • YouTube and electoral politics

    I created a personal blog site over at my.barackobama.com this evening and posted some thoughts titled, “The personal value of YouTube in politics.” I’m not only intrigued by the role social media is playing in 21st century U.S. politics, I’m also interested in being involved. YouTube rocks. I also like the things I hear Senator…

  • Discussing the Megan Meier MySpace / Suicide Tragedy

    I inadvertently turned off commenting on my post today, “Facing the realities of bullying in our schools and communities.” Thanks to a post by Cathy Nelson responding to those ideas and my WordPress dashboard, this was brought to my attention and I’ve fixed the problem. You should now be able to comment on that post!…

  • Facing the realities of bullying in our schools and communities

    This morning’s Today show featured the story of a Missouri teen who committed suicide (in October 2006) after a “MySpace romance” fell apart, which turned out to be a hoax created by the parents of one of her classmates. Ironically, the parents were neighbors living close by the teen. (See “Parents of MySpace hoax victim…

  • Thinking Coffee 2.0

    Vicki Allen created a clever VoiceThread with Houston-area teachers last week on the theme “Coffee 2.0.” (She borrowed the idea from Karen Montgomery.) Are you ever intimidated by the six-part Starbucks coffee orders some people give you? I am. My wife’s preferred order (“grande skinny decaf latte with two sweet and lows”) is really tame…

  • Changing expectations of learning

    I listened to the second part of David Warlick’s interview with Holly Jobe as a podcast this morning driving into work. What an inspiring and thought provoking message! Here are a few key takeaways: Our focus as educators and learners should be helping students become LITERATE and actual practitioners, not simply pretenders, of the content…