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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Podcast106: Draft for Review and Feedback – Safe Classroom Blogging

    Blogs are being SAFELY used by classroom teachers around the world to help students develop and refine their abilities to write and communicate effectively. Learn about a variety of classroom blog examples, and how you can get started using blogs in your classroom with free, safe digital tools. (This is an enhanced version of this…

  • 5 Things You Wish You Did Or Didn’t Know About Me Meme

    Thanks to Doug and Brian, I’m offering my own list… 1. In the summer of 1990 when I spent three weeks in England visiting the Upper Heyford Air Force base (then a host to USAF squadrons as well as RAF fliers) I got an incentive ride on a F-111. The weather that day was cloudy…

  • Walled garden DSN apps

    Miguel has been hard at work lately building his wikispaces site… I discovered today his excellent page of Web 2.0 Apps for Use in K-12 Schools for those who want to build and maintain safe “walled-garden” environments for students to engage in blogging and other forms of safe digital social networking. I’ve added this to…

  • Top 100 Education Blogs

    I was initially honored to be included in the Online Education Database’s “Top 100 Education Blogs” list, and still am a bit appreciative, but after reading Darren’s post and the results of his fairly extensive research, I’ve removed a link to this resource list from both this blog entry and my vitae. Why would I…

  • Web 2.0 in school reform

    Well, I’m glad to read I’m in good company thinking and writing about the role of blogs and other web 2.0 technologies can and should play in school reform efforts. Martin LaMonica’s December 1st article on CNet, “Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0” includes the following quotation from learning, business and technology guru John…

  • Making learning relevant

    What differentiates a relevant, worthwhile learning experience from an experience that was effectively a useless waste of time? This question can apply to both formal as well as informal learning experiences, meetings, workshops, etc. I think one measure is the degree to which learners revisit ideas that were presented and shared during a meeting or…

  • More on Bloom’s and student creativity

    I posted some new thoughts over on the TechLearning blog (“Valuing student creativity”) that extend some of the ideas I shared here yesterday related to the 2001 revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. Technorati Tags: bloomstaxonomy, creativity, education, schoolreform

  • The greatest university of all

    I think this quotation by Thomas Carlyle is worth thinking about in the context of blogging and blog reading, as well as literacy in general: What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. I would amend…

  • Winter Interactive Educator

    The Winter 2006 issue of Smart’s free Interactive Educator magazine is now available. (PDF format) My article, “Lowdown on RSS Feeds,” is on pages 42-43. Here’s the intro to the piece: The term RSS may be part of the normal vocabulary of teachers attending conferences like the National Educational Computing Conference, but mention RSS to…

  • An invitation to share classroom blog perspectives

    The presentation agenda for the MacWorld 2007 Education strand has been published by IDG. I feel a little like Jack Dawson in the movie “Titanic” to be be included in such an august group! This is really going to be a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to both attend and…