Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: economics

  • Podcast 436: The Technology Director Speaks

    11 topics in 67 minutes! In this podcast recording, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares some updates about his new position this year as a school technology director, previews “iPad Media Camp in a box” for summer 2016, shares his current favorite podcasts and audiobooks, discusses lessons learned about fiber optic cabling, and lessons learned from seven videoconferences…

  • Industrial Farms, Cheaper Food & Healthy Eating

    I found the following statistics from Michael Specter’s recent article, “Freedom from Fries,” in The Atlantic thought provoking: Fast food has become a synonym for bad food. Yet, the industrial farm system that has made it possible for McDonald’s and many other chains to sell cheeseburgers for a dollar has also enabled Americans to spend…

  • Writing for Greater Impact by Shannon Ethridge

    These are my notes from Shannon Ethridge‘s presentation, “Writing for Greater Impact” on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Write Well, Sell Well Conference in Oklahoma City. Follow Shannon on Twitter: @ShannonEthridge. Shannon is an incredible author, speaker, coach and teacher. She has created “the platform” Michael Hyatt writes about. She wrote “Every Woman’s Battle” which is…

  • Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers by Chris Maselli

    These are my notes from Chris Maselli’s breakout session, “Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers” on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Write Well, Sell Well Conference in Oklahoma City. Chris is a children’s book author as well as a phenomenal teacher/coach on book/ebook marketing for authors. Last year his sessions motivated me to launch the PlayingWithMedia.com…

  • Podcast432: Dan Straughan Shares About the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance

    This podcast is a presentation by Dan Straughan, executive director of the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance, shared on Friday, September 25, 2015, at the Friday Morning Mens Group of First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma. For several months, our men’s group has been reading and studying the wonderful book, “Same Kind of Different As Me:…

  • Cautiously Optimistic About Iran and United States Relations

    I’m cautiously optimistic about Iranian and United States relations in the wake of the July 14th announcement by President Obama of the Iranian Nuclear deal and his hour long press conference yesterday focusing primarily on that accord. We live in the day of 140 character information bites, but I encourage you to fully watch both these…

  • Traveling with Airbnb? Consider Checking Crime Maps First

    Last week and this week several members of our family have been and are visiting Philadelphia and Washington D.C. We were in Philly to attend part of the 2015 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference, and are visiting friends as well as sightseeing in D.C. for the 4th of July weekend. We’ve used…

  • Upgrade a Verizon Hotspot for $22 Without a New Contract

    Mobile, cellular hotspots can be money pits, but they also can be lifesavers if you’re presenting about educational technology in a location with spotty connectivity or draconian Internet content filtering. After considerable research in the summer of 2012, I opted to start paying $50 per month for 5 GB of wireless data from Verizon. At the time…

  • Cognitive Dissonance and Segregated Oklahoma Schools

    Last Friday was a holiday for students and staff in Yukon Public Schools, where I teach 4th and 5th grade STEM full time. Thanks to Andre Daughty, Friday afternoon I was able to visit three of our local, neighborhood schools in Oklahoma City Public Schools near our house. Prior to Friday, I had visited John Marshall…

  • The Number 1 Oklahoma Education Policy Issue: FAIR Taxation of Oil and Gas

    Tonight is the eve of another rally on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol to support public education. (@OKEDRally) While the talking points and agenda for the rally look good, they do not appear to directly address the number one Oklahoma education policy issue which we all SHOULD be talking about constantly with our elected…