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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Great K12Online09 LAN Party September 26th

    Saturday we had a GREAT initial, synchronous event for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference, thanks to the hard work of our 2009 Live Events Committee and the great folks at EdTechTalk. My six year old daughter had her birthday party at the Oklahoma City Zoo early that afternoon, so I missed the first half of…

  • The Ethic of the Link, Hyperlinked Writing, and Mainstream Media Link Hangups

    One of my favorite themes to share with educators and administrators in my presentations about learning and technology involves hyperlinked writing. In my workshop about sharing student work online at the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong conference two weeks ago, I asked audience members to repeat the following phrase after me: Hyperlinked writing is…

  • Help needed with WordPress plugin theme file syntax

    This is a really geeky issue (which I thankfully don’t encounter much) and I’m hoping someone can readily assist. I’m configuring the “Simple Video Embedder” plugin for a new WordPress blog, and am running into trouble with the setup instructions which require modification of several WordPress theme files in the WordPress “loop.” The instructions indicate…

  • Using Blogs and CoverItLive to Discuss President Obama’s Speech

    This morning, since my 4th grade daughter’s teacher chose NOT to show President Obama’s speech to her class, I pulled Sarah out of school 30 minutes before the speech began and brought her home so we could watch it together on CSPAN, as well as interact with 5th grade students and teachers in Littleton, Colorado,…

  • OKC WordPress Aug09 Users Group Notes

    These are my notes from the Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting on August 31, 2009. This was my first meeting to attend of this group. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. David North – I like WordPress because I can finally say “yes” to friends and colleagues who say “I’d like to…

  • Welcome to back to school PD: Let’s start live blogging

    Here’s a relatively amazing back-to-school professional development story, experienced by teachers in Newport News, Virginia: Watch a movie AT the movie theater together, and live-blog it together using Twitter. According to Cathy Grimes’s article last Friday, “Teachers practice blogging at the movies:” Passage Middle School’s first gathering for faculty and staff happened in an unlikely…

  • Spam Twitter Followers Proliferating

    Well, this is unfortunate but perhaps predictable. Email and blog spammers are apparently bored and looking for more ways to generate worthless computer packet activity– and are now turning to Twitter to create spam accounts. (I know this didn’t just start happening last week, but I’ve really noticed an uptick in these accounts and followers…

  • Translate your WordPress blog into 40+ Languages

    As humans living on the third rock from our sun, we’re still divided by language differences. I’ve dabbled with online language translators like Babelfish (formerly by AltaVista, now by Yahoo) in the past, but I’m amazed how far this functionality has come in recent months. Richard Byrne reported on Thursday that Google Docs now offers…

  • Oklahoma Social Media Publishers: Throw Your Voice on October 3!

    This month I become a member of The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative, and as a result have met a number of new folks in OKC passionate about social media and digital technologies. (We’ve got a bunch already in our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community!) I’m enthused to pass along the announcement from Derrick Parkhurst that…

  • A mentor and new media luminary takes a blogging hiatus

    Thanks to a tweet from Will Richardson, I learned today that higher education blogging luminary Larry Lessig is officially ending his blogging activities on his personal blog, Lessig.org/blog. Dr. Lessig helped found Creative Commons and was one of the first higher education professors I encountered (probably through his then-published column in Wired magazine) and inspired…