Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • Building Virtual Bridges Through Sharing and Transparency

    Lee Kolbert tagged me in her post, “Strengthening The Ties Within The Blogging Community,” with a blog meme passed on by Jen Wagner in her post, “Because Kristy Asked.” There are several different posts I’ve been wanting to write over the past few weeks and haven’t yet… but I’m putting them off further (probably till…

  • Learning About Posting YouTube Videos to WordPress, Windows RT Copy Paste, and iMovie for iPhone

    This afternoon my 10 year old, Rachel, showed me a video she’d found on YouTube on the amazing channel AsapScience. My wife and I gave her a Windows RT tablet for her birthday in September, and she’s enjoyed using it not only to watch YouTube videos (and subscribe to them with the Google Account we…

  • Use IFTTT to Auto-Tweet New Posts from Your Classroom Blog

    IFTTT (If This Then That) is a fantastic, free website for filtering and managing information flows. After registering for a free IFTTT account, you can copy this “recipe” I created for my wife’s class blog today which auto-magically tweets out new posts. The trickiest part is probably identifying the “web feed” for your classroom blog,…

  • Email Multiple Photos from an iPad to A Blogger Site

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Today in iPad Media Camp in Manhattan, Kansas, participants learned how to email multiple photos from an iPad to a Blogger website, using a “secret email address” defined in the Blogger settings. This technique works well when creating 5 Photo Story projects with students or with teachers in professional development settings. In…

  • 5th Graders Enjoy Interactive Writing on KidBlog

    For the second year, fifth grade students in Mrs. Sue Hooge’s classes at Independence Elementary School have had the opportunity to share their writing projects online using the free website KidBlog. Mrs. Hooge setup three different KidBlog sites for the 5th grade writing students she taught last year in her homeroom, Mrs. Cromwell’s class, and…

  • WordPress Feed Error with Whitespace or Extra Line Breaks Fixed

    Tonight there is a BIG reason to rejoice in my house, and it’s not JUST because the tornados which visited the Oklahoma City metro area this afternoon missed our house. My good news is this: After two weeks of having my WordPress blog feed broken, it’s FIXED at last! In this post I’ll document, both…

  • Encouraging 5th Grade Writing with Benny the Mastiff & KidBlog in Piedmont, Oklahoma

    Pam Tarlton is a 5th grade writing teacher at Piedmont Intermediate School in Piedmont, Oklahoma. With the support of her principal, Shawn Blankenship, Pam introduced interactive writing to her students this year using the free website, KidBlog. Pam told the story of how her 150 pound mastiff dog, Benny, played an important role in helping…

  • WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)

    These are my tweeted notes (along with some from other attendees) on Tony Perez of Sucuri‘s excellent webinar for WebDesign.com on WordPress security on May 1, 2013. Many thanks to iThemes for hosting this GREAT webinar. [View the story “WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)” on Storify] Technorati Tags: blog, security, wordpress

  • April 2013 OKC WordPress User Group Meetup Notes

    These are my notes from last night’s WordPress User’s Group Meetup in Edmond, Oklahoma. The OKC WordPress Users Group meets each month (generally) on the last Monday of the month at 7 pm. Many thanks to Erick Gfeller and Morgan Estes for the informative presentations! * [View the story “#wordPressOKC Notes 29 April 2013” on…

  • Updates to Blog Advertising Options and Procedures

    One of the downsides to writing a popular blog is extra email from advertisers and PR folks who want you to write about their product or service. For at least five years (following the lead of Larry Lessig, who I first saw use the service) I’ve used a POBox.com public email address, and that has…