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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Add blog post to Google Reader shared items without subscribing?

    I am using Google Reader more frequently both on my laptop and iPhone to read RSS feeds, but I still find some aspects of Google Reader awkward. For example, when I find a post I’d like to share (I have the code for my shared Google Reader items in the lower right sidebar of my…

  • Differing views on EduBlog awards and competition

    I’ve continued my thinking about the 2007 EduBlog Awards over on the TechLearning blog in the post, “Questioning competition and self-promotion.” Technorati Tags: edublog, awards, education, school, competition

  • 2007 EduBlog Awards nomination

    Thanks to the person(s) who nominated my blog for the 2007 EduBlog Awards in the category “Best individual edublog.” If you find my blog helpful and interesting on a somewhat regular basis I’d appreciate your vote! 🙂 Over 500 different blogs were nominated for the awards this year, so it is a honor to just…

  • 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…

  • My blog’s slow response times and POWWEB mySQL issues

    If you’ve experienced slow response times from my blog (“Moving at the Speed of Creativity”) in the past year I want to apologize, and also shed a bit of light on the source of these problems. My current website host, POWWEB, has been having speed and connection issues with mySQL applications like WordPress (which I’m…

  • Planning for Human Rights Day Participation: Dec 10th

    We generally “observe” holidays in U.S. public schools, but we don’t often “participate” in them. Sure we have class parties and sometimes have different school-wide celebrations, but do those activities really constitute “participation” or “commemoration?” In the case of Veteran’s Day this week, some schools did invite veterans to come and speak at special events.…

  • Deciding who to follow on Twitter

    Social networking is fun as well as interesting to watch, study, and participate in. (I know, I’m ending a sentence with a preposition, but I’m hoping you’ll forgive me…) I was amazed tonight, in scanning over the WikiPedia list of social networking websites, to see that MySpace reportedly has over 289 million users now. If…

  • Eric Langhorst’s keynote at MOREnet

    These are my text notes from Eric Langhorst, 2007-2008 Missouri state teacher of the year, at the MOREnet conference (MITC07)on 15 Oct 2007. “Why Is My Classroom Web 2.0?” This was the conference keynote address. Eric recorded it and will be posting it on his podcast channel in upcoming weeks. “It’s amazing what happens when…

  • CSS help anyone?

    I’ve been making some new changes to the K-12 Online Conference blog template files this evening, and I can’t for the life of me find the code which makes the vertical bar just to the right of the blog title. It’s a bit dismaying to see how different browsers are handling the code, but such…

  • Amidst K12Online07 launch, content control wars rage on in schools

    Taylor the Teacher notes with sadness that after waiting weeks to finish start of school standardized testing / benchmark testing with students, learners of all ages awoke to a new content filter at school that blocks virtually ALL web 2.0 / read/write web content sites: District installed new Internet filter today because the other one…