Category: creativity
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Refreshed VoiceThread and Parent Permission form
A new and “refreshed” version of my favorite web-based digital storytelling tool, VoiceThread, is now online and available. I’ve just given it a brief spin, and it looks good. According to Andrew writing on the VoiceThread blog: Here’s what’s new on VoiceThread: Redesigned browsing, creating content and account management functionalities Upload more media types to…
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Turning to YouTube for an Origami Tutorial
My 4th grade son is working on a homemade boat project this weekend, as he’ll be racing his model tomorrow at school in recognition of Columbus Day and Christopher Columbus. The specifications require the boat be made of homemade materials, include no motors, and have a width no greater than 2 1/2 inches. Students must…
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Many more K-12 Online Conference Teasers
If you haven’t been regularly checking out the K-12 Online Conference blog the last two weeks, check out this page which includes links to all the presentation “teasers” submitted to date. Wow do we ever have a creative lineup of presenters for the conference this year! 🙂
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A whole different level of amateur rocket launches
Have you ever launched Estes model rockets with students or with your own children? As part of a “Power and Energy” class I took in 7th grade in Manhattan, Kansas, we built our own rockets and used Estes engines to launch them. That was certainly a memorable class project! A year or so ago, we…
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Book cover copyright issues with VoiceThread stories
This past week, a friend of mine shared the “Great Book Stories” project with a group of librarians and received some VERY strong pushback from a few of them over copyright issues. Several of the librarians were FIRMLY convinced that using a photograph of a copyrighted book cover in a student project posted on the…
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Notes from Gary Stager’s Learning 2.0 Session: 10 things to do with a laptop
I AM CURRENTLY ON THE FLIGHT FROM SHANGHAI TO TOKYO. THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE PODCAST OF GARY STAGER’S FINAL SESSION AT THE LEARNING 2.0 CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI LAST WEEKEND. (TYPHOON WIPHA SLOWED DOWN AS IT APPROACHED THE COAST OF CHINA, AND WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE OFF IN SLIGHTLY ELEVATED WINDS BUT OTHERWISE…
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Podcast193: Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society
This podcast is a recording of my first morning session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society.” The description of this session in the conference program was: As Dr. Lawrence Lessig has observed, we…
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Understanding Internet architecture, a need for smarter networks, TCP and UDP differences
Before starting this post, which promises to be rather lengthy, it is likely worth noting the disclaimer which appears in the upper left corner of my blog website but does not appear within my RSS feed for posts: “Wesley Fryer is the author of Moving at the Speed of Creativity. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein…
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K-12 Online Conference Teasers!
We’re about a month away from the start of the 2nd annual, FREE K-12 Online Conference. This year presenters have been invited to create short “teaser” videos giving others a better idea of what they will be addressing in their presentation. Four teasers are now available, with hopefully more to come! Learn more and watch…
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Interaction is insufficient, creation and construction are key
I was (at last) able to listen to Dr. Mitchel Resnick’s keynote address from BLC 2007, thanks to Bob Sprankle’s podcast recording. (Original link broken: Here’s an Internet Archive Wayback Machine version, which includes the original mp3 podcast!) I’ve heard Bob, Queyen Arana, and a few others mention what a fantastic message Mitch shared in the…