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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: blogs

  • What Support for Interactive Writing (Blogging) at High School Should Look Like

    Ever wonder what support for interactive writing / blogging should look like at the high school / secondary level? Here’s a fantastic answer to that question: Our school has about 800 students (200 per grade) and we are requiring all our freshmen to start a blog about their school experience, and maintain it over their…

  • Options for Posting by Email (RIP Posterous)

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Lots of media sharers around the world continue to mourn the announcement the blogging site Posterous will officially go offline on April 30, 2013. The folks at Twitter apparently bought Posterous for the brains of their programmers, not because they wanted to develop or even sustain their platform, and that’s a shame.…

  • Options & Tips for Migrating a Posterous site to WordPress, Tumblr, or Posthaven

    Three days ago the blogging service Posterous officially announced they will close up shop / go offline on April 30, 2013. Those of us who have used Posterous in the past few years and grown to love it are disappointed, but thankfully there are several alternatives available to Posterous and even more are likely to…

  • A Vision for Interactive Writing, Student Publishing, and Digital Portfolios in the Classroom

    These are my notes from Matt Hardy‘s WONDERFUL presentation on February 9th on Classroom 2.0 Live about Blogging in the classroom and the platform he co-founded, KidBlog! The official title of his presentation was “Using Kidblog to Document Student Learning.” I listened to the audio-only version of this presentation available via the iTunes-U channel of…

  • 5 Hours of Professional Development Podcasts from Yukon Today

    Today I shared five different presentations for teachers in Yukon Public Schools in the district’s annual professional development conference. I recorded audio for each session and published them to my secondary podcast channel, “Fuel for Educational Change Agents.” Here are the session titles, descriptions, resource links, and podcast audio links.

  • Playing with FeedWordPress: Planning for the Classroom Newspaper of Now

    Clay Shirky contends what many people perceive as “information overload” in their lives today is actually “filter failure.” Immense quantities of information criss-cross our planet at the speed of light 24/7, so our abilities to effectively filter and purposefully direct flows of information have become important literacy skills. In this post, I’m going to share…

  • Another Way to Create a New Posterous Account

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) UPDATE Jan 8, 2013: Please see the comments, this method is NOT working now for email addresses previously unaffiliated/unregistered with Posterous. I fear the worst for the site’s demise… Posterous is one of the best, free websites to use for sharing a variety of multimedia files with others on the public web.…

  • Setting Up Blogging Buddies with KidBlog, Excel and a Google Spreadsheet

    Since January of 2012 I’ve been working with teachers in Yukon Public Schools as an “innovative instructional coach.” One of the primary things I’ve been working with teachers on is interactive writing: Helping setup class blogs teachers can use to facilitate sharing student writing online. I help teachers configure their sites so they can MODERATE…

  • Custom Content Types and Gravity Forms in WordPress

    These are my notes from the October 29, 2012 OKC WordPress User’s Group meet up. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I arrived about 30 min late.) Kristen Wright of iThemes was the first presenter of the evening, discussing ‘Custom Post Types – What They Are and Why You Might Want to Use…

  • Can Blogger.com Support Moderated Web Forms for Post Contributions Like WordPress?

    I’d love some help answering this question: Can Blogger.com sites support “moderated web forms for post contributions which include attached photos” like WordPress can using Gravity forms or TDO-Mini Forms? I think the answer is no, but I’d like confirmation. I need to setup a “lesson idea sharing site” for teachers and principals to use…