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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • I can hum, so I can find a mystery song

    Wow. I am blown away. In a response to yesterday’s post “Challenging Internet search tasks,” Kern Kelley shared a link to Midomi.com. The website describes the service the following way: Search with your Voice: Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone. Sounds too good to…

  • Podcast165: Voices of NECC07 Part 1: Geocaching, Imbee and Technology Integration Coaching

    This podcast features several recordings from NECC 2007 before sessions, on the vendor floor, and in the edublogger lounge. The first interview is with Dr. Paul Clark of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, who discusses the educational fun of geocaching. (Paul actually located 16 different geocaches in Atlanta during this year’s NECC, with his partner in…

  • Podcast164: Dr. Tim Tyson’s NECC 2007 Closing Keynote

    This is a podcast recording of the closing keynote at NECC 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference description of the session was: Dr. Tim Tyson, principal of Mabry Middle School, has been called “the Pied Piper of Educational Technology” by the School Library Journal … and we agree! Sticking with our keynote theme on creativity…

  • All my NECC photos are on Flickr

    I’ve uploaded the last of my photos from NECC 2007 in Atlanta to a Flickr set (which I’ve been adding to all week) and also added these to the NECC 2007 Flickr group. Good times! 🙂 Technorati Tags: necc, necc07

  • Use YouTube to ask U.S. Presidential candidates questions

    The Democratic Party in the United States is soliciting questions for upcoming debates between its Presidential candidates via YouTube. If you don’t already have a webcam, get one and record a thoughtful question for DNC candidates via video. Then post it to YouTube. Encourage your own children, young people you know, and students you teach…

  • Nuggets from NECC (2)

    Wow. NECC 2007 is officially over, and my brain is feeling pretty full. Yesterday was a day full of conversations in the hallways and at the EduBlogger lounge for me (along with my session in the afternoon.) Today was highlighted by several wonderful sessions, more hallway conversations, and a great series of lessons on advanced…

  • Seattle Schools Embrace Moderated Read/Write Technologies

    At last, a VERY encouraging headline about digital social networking in schools! According to Thursday’s article “Seattle Public Schools builds social-learning site for its tech-savvy teens” the district has rolled out its own website for encouraging safe and appropriate read/write sharing by students in the school district. The site is called L3RN: Similar to the…

  • Hallmark of 21st Century Learning: Use of web video

    Do you need to use web video to teach and learn “well?” Certainly not. However, given the availability of high quality, free digital curriculum on the Internet, I think teachers and students alike would be silly to not take advantage of the learning opportunities these resources provide. Jeremy Behrens gave me a heads up this…

  • Podcast162: Martin Levin on Changing the Face of Our Educational Practice Using Web 2.0 Technologies

    This podcast features a presentation by Martin Levin at EduComm 2007 in Anaheim, California on June 20, 2007. Martin Is The Technology Director Of The Armidale School In Australia. The official description of this session was: Why not take advantage of a 1:1 laptop deployment and get kids to publish their work in a Web2.0…

  • Megamedia in Your Pocket: Nuts and Bolts of iPods, A/V and Education

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM HALL DAVIDSON’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 2007. MY OWN REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Hall’s PPT for this session is available for download. (19.7 MB) Hall showed first clip from “Planet Earth” from his iPod – is included in the “plus package” of UnitedStreaming from DiscoveryEducation can do an entire PowerPoint…