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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • WordPress discussion, anyone?

    I know it’s a bit late in the game (just 4 days off) but I added the following proposal to the session wiki for EduBloggerCon San Antonio this evening: WordPress as a Blogging Platform: Plug-Ins, Options, Pitfalls and Benefits Wordpress is an outstanding open source blogging engine. Let’s visit about our favorite plug-ins for WordPress,…

  • Are teachers in your building parallel players?

    In her June 21, 2007, article “Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession” for WorldChanging, Suzie Boss discussed how many teachers seem to be stuck in professional learning and interaction behaviors which resemble “parallel play” for young children. She wrote: Roland Barth, founding director of the Principals’ Center at Harvard University suggested in Educational Leadership last year…

  • Momentous evening of family co-learning with WordPress

    This afternoon and evening was quite momentous in terms of co-learning with my 10 year old son, Alexander. For many months, we have discussed together the possibility of him starting his own video podcast about creating different types of string figures. For the past two years, since we moved to Oklahoma, he has learned LOTS…

  • $100 million for a petaflop of performance

    Remember the ENIAC computer? (Well, I guess I’m not actually asking if you REMEMBER it– as in you SAW it in person– more if you read and learned about it in the past.) According to the current WikiPedia entry, it was unveiled in 1946 and cost approximately $500,000. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate…

  • The Power of a Well-Read Blog and the Adventures of Google Earth Girl

    Recently, on two separate occasions, my colleague and friend, Wesley Fryer asked if I would be willing to guest blog on Moving at the Speed of Creativity for the weekend. On both occasions I was planning to be at my cabin at Table Rock Lake. By design I do not have broadband Internet access and…

  • Amazed by international connections

    In my recent presentations and workshops for teachers and librarians titled, “A Summer Of Professional Learning Choices for Educators! Where Should I Start?” I have enjoyed introducing teachers to the Classroom 2.0 learning network. Visit Classroom 2.0 With over 8000 current members as of this writing, Classroom 2.0 is a fantastic place for teachers to…

  • Juarez violence trivialized by some media headlines

    The headline of today’s AP article, “Violence no worse than usual in Ciudad Juarez” trivializes a ridiculous and unacceptably violent situation in the border town across from El Paso, Texas. The second paragraph in the article reads: But violence did not appear to be worse than usual in Ciudad Juarez, home base of the powerful…

  • Drug violence in Mexico is bad: VERY bad

    I spent a year living in Mexico City during 1992-1993 studying and writing about a variety of security issues including the U.S. led “war on drugs.” My longest paper from that research era, “US Drug Control in the Americas: Time for a Change,” reviewed historical and contemporary efforts (as of 1993) to combat the scourge…

  • A growing global audience

    This evening I took some time to review the ClustrMaps for my blog over the course of the past month (April 2008.) ClustrMaps is a wonderful website which provides code people can insert onto their blog or other website to track (by IP address) the general locations of people who are accessing and viewing content…

  • Summer Professional Development Ideas

    I have posted the following entry to the TechLearning blog, but am cross-posting here in case there are still commenting problems there. In that event, please comment here! For educators living in the northern hemisphere, summer is approaching fast. Today I had an opportunity to visit with about fifteen elementary teachers in a rural Oklahoma…