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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Critical media literacy

    Sam Keen has an excellent article in the April/May issue of Edutopia entitled “Escaping from Virtual Reality.” The article intro has clear references (although not by name) to Neil Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” which I think is an excellent book for anyone interested in media…

  • Blog spam attacks

    Good grief. I am not sure what is going on, but in the last week I have received more blog comment spam messages than I have in the cumulative lifetime of my blog– over 300 separate blog comment spams. [sigh] Thankfully the free WordPress plug-in Spam Karma 2 has continued to keep things pretty clean…

  • F2F conversations and dialog as the answer

    Andy Carvin wrote a thoughtful post today on the Digital Divide Network about the recent controversies over blogs (and all webpages) being censored by some school district Internet filters if they use/mention the word “MySpace.” Andy cites my post “Censored for Relevance,” which I also made available as a podcast over the weekend. In his…

  • Google’s blog search

    I just discovered Google’s blog search engine, which is also integrated within Blogger. I have heard about this before I guess, but never actually visited the site and tried it. Since Google Blog Search doesn’t seem to directly support tagging, I think Technorati is still better, but hey– this is Google, so it’s bound to…

  • Quality blogging

    Amit Agarwal offered some good suggestions for bloggers back in December 2005 in his post, “How a Blogger can become a good journalist.” His suggestions include: Identify your sources (I would add, LINK YOUR SOURCES when possible) Respect the value of people’s time (AKA KISS: Keep It Simple Silly, people generally want to read short…

  • Censored for relevance

    I have been saddened but also enlightened to learn in the last couple of weeks that this blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, is censored (blocked) within some– and perhaps many– Texas school districts. The reason? I have blogged in the past about the social networking site MySpace, and some (I don’t know how…

  • HigherEd BloggerCon 2006

    HigherEd BloggerCon 2006 is: a fully web-based event focused on how new online communications technologies and social tools are changing Higher Education. Except as noted, presentations are offered free of charge. As a series of online events with a global audience, this promises to be superb. The slogan of the conference is: …transforming academic communities…

  • Mentoring and Edifying Student Bloggers

    Darren Kuropatwa’s Mentorship Blog project reminds me of some thoughts I had in January and shared in a post titled, “Edifying Student Bloggers.” What a great idea: a formal mentorship project to encourage older adults to comment on and mentor / edify / encourage younger students writing on a class blog. I particularly like Darren’s…

  • Blogs are changing education

    eSchool News ran an article Thursday on their 2006 EduBlog awards sponsored by Discovery Education: “Panelists: Blogs are changing education – Winners of the first-ever ‘Best of the Education Blog’ Awards discuss blogging’s impact on teaching and learning” Dennis Pierce, Managing Editor of eSchool News, did a good job with this article and the quotations.…

  • More Photos from Orlando

    Dean Shareski took some photos Thursday night at our Discovery Educators Network hosted dinner and posted them to his Flickr account. Dean is from Moose Jaw, SK, Canada, and his blog is “Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech.” Steve lives in Chicago and now works for Discovery Education, his personal blog is Teach42. Will Richardson…