Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Use Video Camera Like a Pencil – A Blog Like a Textbook

    Today during our lunch break at the “Create, Make and Learn Institute”, I picked up a copy of the July – August September 2014 newsletter of the Peace and Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont. The newsletter includes an article by Dr. Rob Williams, board president of ACME: Action Coalition for Media Education, titled, “Fight for…

  • Fix When Facebook Shows Wrong Site Image and Title

    This is a somewhat geeky fix I’ll pass along in case you run into something similar. I recently updated the “Write Well, Sell Well” Conference website with our October 24-25, 2014 details, but for some reason when anyone shared the website on Facebook the OLD conference details were presented. I figured out how to fix…

  • How to Archive a KidBlog Website

    I used free KidBlog websites this school year with my 22 classes of 4th and 5th grade STEM students, so they could periodically post text reflections, images, audio reflections, and links to videos we used in class for STEM lessons. Since the school year is over, it’s time to “archive” these classes. This evening I…

  • Remove Disqus “Around the Web” Ad Images and Links from Your Blog

    It’s unfortunate it’s taken me so long to figure out I could do this, but this afternoon I FINALLY turned off the “around the web” images and links which have been appearing at the bottom of my blog posts for the past couple years since I started using the free Disqus commenting system for WordPress…

  • Blogs I Follow (From a Feedly OPML Export)

    I received an email this weekend from a reader of one of my books who wanted an updated list of educational blogs I subscribe to and read. I updated my “Educational Blogs” page today with an updated linked list, and the following explanatory text: The following is a list (updated on 19 April 2014) of…

  • Book Review: “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” by danah boyd

    This semester one of my personal goals has been to read more books. I’ve been a subscriber to Audible.com since 2010, but had fallen out of the habit of listening to books on my drives and commutes in the past year, as well as reading books before bed. Over time my media diet had changed…

  • Tender and Sweet First Grade Blog Comments

    Most of the teachers at my wife’s elementary school in Oklahoma City have starting using KidBlog with their students this semester for interactive writing, and students as well as parent volunteers are getting involved with commenting. This comment thread on a first grader’s photo post about his animal project is tender and sweet, including feedback…

  • WordPressOKC Meetup Notes: 31 March 2014

    These are my notes from the March 31, 2014 WordPress OKC Meetup group. Since our church session generally meets the last Monday of the month (when the WordPress OKC meet up is held) I haven’t been able to attend for the last year and a half. Our session met last Tuesday because of scheduling conflicts,…

  • 4 Free WordPress Plugins to Reduce Comment Spam

    As eCommerce has continued to grow over the past decade, comment spam on blog websites has also increased dramatically. There are several reasons for this, but the primary one is financial: In an attempt to increase the “page rank” (Google search engine ranking) of different websites, unscrupulous people have employed comment spamming methods to try…

  • 2 Challenges: With STEM & iPads

    There are a lot of challenges I face at school, but two stand out to me tonight. One concerns depth of learning with STEM content, and the other involves iPads and deep reflection. We finished the second day of a four-day unit on kitchen chemistry today, and after two and half months of using our…