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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Sounds of My World – My new sound blog

    Inspired by the Posterous-powered blog, “Life Sounds Like This,” by Australian Chinese-language educator Jess McCulloch, I’ve created a new blog: “Sounds of My World.” I’m using WordPress on a subdomain (sounds.speedofcreativity.org) of my main blog, and the free Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin. I love the idea of having a “sound blog” for sharing ambient recordings…

  • Mirroring a Cohort WordPress Blog with Posterous

    For our “Digital Storytelling” cohort at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai this week, Sheldon Bradshaw and I wanted to create an interactive space for participants to share rich media. The easiest way to do this is via a free Posterous blog, configured for ANYONE to post to the blog using a shared email address.…

  • A Case Study: How NOT to Set Up a WordPress Site

    I spent four or five hours today helping a local non-profit group in Oklahoma City get access restored to their WordPress website. The site was hacked by a group apparently from Turkey. They were not able to login to the administrative “dashboard” of their WordPress site. Instead of a login screen, the following message in…

  • OKC WordPress User’s Group Meeting Notes: August 2011

    These are my notes from the August 29, 2011, OKC WordPress meetup. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The div (thediv.org) is a nonprofit foundation created by iThemes to help train a local workforce in Edmond, OKlahoma for web development – this space is available for meet ups in tech – want to…

  • Other People’s Photos Showing Up in my TwitPic Photo Stream

    Please shed some light on this TwitPic mystery if you can. A month or so ago, my mom (who subscribes to my TwitPic account feed in her news reader) told me some strange photos were showing up in my stream. I tried to replicate what she was seeing and couldn’t. The strange photos were not…

  • Great customer service experience with 21classes.com

    Last fall when I taught “Computers in the Classroom” for pre-service education students at the University of North Texas, I used a blog on the site 21classes.com. (untcic.21classes.com) Since the free version of 21classes just permits teachers to have 10 student accounts (and I had 25 students) I opted at the time to pay $9…

  • Sharing YouTube Activity Digital Breadcrumbs

    I learned today it’s possible to share “digital breadcrumbs” from your activities on YouTube to various social media sites including Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader. I don’t want to fill my Twitter and Facebook channels with this minutiae, but it seems like a good thing to share on my Google Reader account. I already share…

  • Avoid Controversial Related YouTube Videos When You Embed on a Blog #gct

    I’ve been helping leaders in my son’s Boy Scout Troop transition the troop’s website over to WordPress as a content management system for many months. A few weeks back we made the “big transition” at last from the old site (which remains archived) to the new one, and my son interviewed one of the adult…

  • Brainstorming PlayingWithMedia.com with Popplet

    This evening I used the free iPad app “Popplet Lite” to brainstorm the outline of a book, “Playing With Media: An Invitation to Create, Learn and Share.” Here are the results! The in-app resolution is a lot better than the exported JPG versions, even at a larger resolution. Hopefully a PDF export will be more…

  • Configure Autoposting to a WordPress Blog from Emails via Posterous

    If you manage (or want to manage) a shared or “team” blog, there are several different ways to solicit posts from different people. For self-hosted WordPress blogs, the free plug-in TDO Mini Forms allows designers to create customized forms on sites for contributions. This is nice since it allows specific content to be solicited, and…