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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Notes from Alan Kay’s keynote at EduComm07

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM ALAN KAY’S KEYNOTE ON 19 JUNE 2007 AT EDUCOMM. ALAN GAVE ME PERMISSION TO RECORD THIS AS AN AUDIO PODCAST, WHICH I WILL PUBLISH HERE LATER TONIGHT. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alan Kay has an amazing bio: Amazing lifetime achievements. An amazing thinker, creator, and inventor. “the best…

  • Podcast158: Digitally Informed School Leadership for the 21st Century

    This podcast was created and recorded on June 6, 2007, during a workshop with school principals and assistant principals in Humble ISD, near Houston, Texas. In the first section, administrators share instructional advice for new teachers. After a brief personal reflection, the podcast includes the culminating discussion between administrators who had read ideas from Doug…

  • The future is unwritten

    I flew down to Houston today, and had an opportunity to listen in the airport, in the air, and a bit on the cab ride to my hotel to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ recent interview at the D5 conference. The interview and subsequent Q&A lasts 1.5 hours, and is available as a free download…

  • That igloo is getting pretty fancy

    My 9 year old showed me his Club Penguin igloo this evening: Getting pretty fancy! 🙂 At last count I think he had 7 puffs, but he doesn’t always feed them regularly. He says he’s feeding just 3 of them because he wants 4 of them to run away, but that strategy hasn’t proven effective…

  • Insight into the new ISTE NETS

    As you may know, this summer many are eagerly anticipating the refresh of the ISTE NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) first published in 1998. Gary Stager recently interviewed Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, and published their discussion as a new article titled “Refreshing the ISTE Technology Standards” on the District Administration website. This update to…

  • Our musical performer tonight is George Bush

    For my final guest I’d like to introduce George Bush singing a U2 song (What would the Tonight Show have been without a musical guest). The following is not intended to be a political statement but rather an example of a mashup. It is indeed a powerful example. With tools available to students today, this…

  • Rather than innovate, Microsoft may litigate against open source

    On May 14, 2007, senior editor of Fortune magazine, Roger Parloff, published the article “Microsoft takes on the free world.” According to the article: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there’s a shadow hanging over Linux…

  • Good thoughts from Carl Honore

    I’ve almost finished reading Carl Honore’s book “In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed,” and I discovered his 20 minute TED talk video today recorded in July 2005, and posted online in February 2007. These are a few of my notes from that presentation. We are marinated the culture of speed today, our…

  • A great era for rocket scientists

    For those who thought the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were the golden age for rocket scientists, think again. The June 2007 issue of Wired Magazine has several articles relating to the new “rocket boom,” and I read Carl Hoffman’s article “Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth’s Orbit” this evening.…

  • Two great podcast presentations from TCEA 2007

    I was delighted to learn this evening that both the presentation of Lynn Burmark (of The Thornburg Center) titled “They laughed when I told them how I beat stress!” and Jamey Osborne’s presentation “Creative Commons: Escape the Hassles of Copyright Infringement” from TCEA 2007 are available online via the Apple Learning Interchange. (Thanks Tim Wilson!)…