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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Strange WordPress, mySQL and other errors

    Many, many thanks to Bob Sprankle for guest blogging here the past 3 days! It has been great to rest easy, knowing my blog was in such able hands! It was also a joy to have Bob videoconference into our workshop yesterday (using iChat) briefly, in Goodland, Kansas, to discuss the value of students sharing…

  • About this blog

    Inspired by Doug Noon, I’ve created an “About” page for my blog. (This is probably long overdue.) I’ve included links in a couple of places on my blog sidebar previously to information “about me,” but I hadn’t previously tried to summarize in 150 words or less (my own self-imposed word limit) the focus and purpose…

  • Ecto 3 Alpha released, not recommended

    For the past couple of years I have used the offline blog post composer Ecto, and I have loved it. Since upgrading to WordPress 2.2 as my blogging engine, however, version 2 of Ecto has not functioned for me. I was pleased to learn an alpha version of Ecto 3 is now available, which DOES…

  • Recognizing the value of social networking

    I am glad to see eSchoolNews has picked up on the Grunwald research report for the National School Boards Association on social networking which I blogged about last Friday, in the post “Clarifying perceptions about digital social networking risks.” The eSchoolNews article today is titled, “96 percent of teens use social-networking tools: Survey reveals schools…

  • reCAPTCHA, OCR, and the work of blog commenters

    I listened to the June NPR Technology report “Turning Verification Codes into Books?” several weeks ago, but not until this evening when I was visiting Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit blog did I become a willing worker in the creative reCAPTCHA project. This ingenious project is using the captcha word entries bloggers enter when commenting…

  • Maintaining perspective and changing the world

    If you are not a reader of Tom Hemingway’s “Tryangulation” blog, I’d recommend checking out his thoughts. Tom has lived in Turkey for the past eight years, but has had a rich array of experiences living in working in many different countries. One of the best things about the blogosphere is the way it can…

  • Advice for web 1.0 to 2.0 (WordPress) page conversion?

    Geeky but important question: Has anyone had luck batch converting a large number of similar, static webpages into a format that is importable into WordPress? I’m thinking a program like TextWrangler which supports batch grep search and replace commands might work, but that would be a pretty geeky / technical way to do this. Anyone…

  • The importance of freely sharing ideas

    I’m attending our Oklahoma “2007 State Superintendent’s Annual Leadership Conference” today in Oklahoma City. We’re about to hear the keynote address by Dr. Robert Marzano, whose book (and the title of his presentation) “School Leadership That Works” is among a collection of books I’ve bought from Amazon.COM but not yet read. If I could suspend…

  • Blogging histories

    I was interested to hear Will Richardson discuss the number of blog posts he’s written and comments he’s received since he began blogging years ago, in his NECC preso “From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms.” Since I upgraded my WordPress blog engine to version 2.2 yesterday and can now use WordPress…

  • Thoughts on moderating comments?

    I’m curious what others’ current views are on moderating comments on a professional learning blog like this one. Until yesterday, I have not had comment moderation turned on, but for some reason an offensive comment and link got through Akismet and the other anti-blog spam plugins I had activated. This was more troubling than it…