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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Year: 2007

  • Following blog conversations

    I discovered co.mments.com today thanks to Alex Ragone. The free web tool lets anyone track comments and dialog on posts located on different people’s blogs. This is really helpful to track conversations, since relatively few blogs now seem to provide an option to be notified via email when additional people comment on a post. Dean…

  • Online identities, anonymity, and consequences for digital behavior

    I was interested to learn yesterday’s print (as well as online) edition of the local paper in Lubbock, Texas, has a few articles about blogging and digital social networking which provide a slightly more balanced view of these tools than more typical, “MySpace and blogging are evil” sort of headlines. Both articles are written by…

  • Digital ethics and citizenship

    One of the more interesting and instructive stories relating to WikiPedia and web 2.0 from last year (early 2006) was the tale of U.S. Congressional staffers eventually caught “virtually vandalizing” the WikiPedia pages of Congressmen from opposing political parties. These actions resulted in a Wikipedia investigation and a WikiPedia publishing ban on certain US Congressional…

  • Blogging to order and control consciousness

    I am continuing to work my way through Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.” When I read the following sentences last night, I thought about blogging and the writing environment of the read/write web. The introductory sentence to the following paragraph on page 131 belies the fact that the text was written…

  • Podcast107: Be (Constructively) Digitally Disruptive in 2007

    In this first podcast for 2007, I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4)…

  • Open Source and Web Standards in 2007

    I’ve posted some thoughts on open source and web standards to the Infinite Thinking Machine blog in a new post titled, “Key technology trends for Educational Leaders in 2007.” Technorati Tags: education, linux, opensource, openoffice