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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Podcast395: Iowa Teachers & Librarians Discuss Mapping Media to the Curriculum (Lessons Learned)

    This audio podcast is a combined series of six, three minute “radio shows” created by teachers and teacher/librarians in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the College Community School District on October 3, 2012. Participants in this two day workshop on “Mapping Media to the Common Core” with Wesley Fryer learned to facilitate lessons with student created-media including…

  • Lessons Learned from WordPress Blog Upgrades

    This evening I spent a few hours updating a long list of different WordPress blogs I maintain and have put online in the past few years. Since I have so many sites online now, I probably should commit regular time each month or so to this upgrade process. Not upgrading your site can leave you…

  • Automate Email Updates to Parents from Your Classroom Blog

    Email is an important communication platform for many parents in many communities. The digital divide is real, and not all parents use email or have the resources (equipment and connectivity) to receive email. In many schools and communities today, however, many parents ARE using email and it can provide a great “channel” of communication between…

  • Professionally Mobilize Your WordPress Blog with PluginBuddy Mobile

    Huge numbers of people today are accessing Internet websites on mobile devices, so it is imperative content publishers pay attention to the way websites display on smaller, handheld screens. A webpage that looks readable and well laid out on a laptop screen can look terrible on a smartphone. As educators publishing curriculum, classroom updates, and…

  • Changing “Classroom Normal” with Interactive Blogging

    Most K-12 classrooms in the United States today don’t use interactive blogs. By “interactive,” I mean a blog website which permits posts from students as well as the teacher, and comments from blog visitors as well as class members. As I explained in my post earlier this week on the iThemes education blog, “Why WordPress?…

  • Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: Open Source is not Three Guys in a Shed Anymore.

    Since Wes called me Oklahoma’s “Open Source Yoda turned Wyoming Cowboy”in a recent post and has given me the opportunity to write while he is away I thought I would hit on one of my favorite topics for my final post, Open Source Software (OSS). Please let it be noted that Yoda probably has more…

  • #Playingwithmedia: a continuation of learning

    Thank you to Wes Fryer for asking me to participate as a guest blogger. This is cross posted at The View From My WIndow. I work at Yarmouth High School as the Instructional Technology Integrator. In March, we had the pleasure of having Wes come present a full day of learning #PlayingWIthMedia to our district…

  • Professional Digital Publications Archive Project

    This week has already included two major life milestones for me, and one more is coming on Friday: Texas Tech University officially approved the final, corrected version of my dissertation (“Impact Analysis of Phonecasted Lecture Summaries“) for publication in the Texas Digital Library. Today’s notification email indicated I should be ready to wait up to…

  • Security Tips for WordPress: Understanding Network Attacks

    These are my notes from the April 20, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting which focused on “Security Tips for WordPress.” The security portion of our meet up tonight was shared by Chris Dodds, whose website is FocusFire. (@focusfirebiz on Twitter) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We met at The Div…

  • Add Photo to KidBlog Post

    (Cross-posted to “Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools” and PlayingWithMedia.com) Photos can be added to blog posts in different ways. In this post I’ll explain how to add a photo as a linked image on a free (and ad-free) KidBlog.org site. To reduce the amount of time students spend (and possibly waste) searching for Internet…