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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Jimmy Wales on WikiPedia

    Tomorrow in Enid I’ll be talking, sharing and teaching about wikis and WikiPedia, as well as Flickr. I know from some brief discussions today that at least a few of the teachers in attendance at our three-day workshop are very hostile to WikiPedia and the entire concept of wikis. This isn’t something new for me…

  • Free speech on MySpace

    Today’s USA Today article “Court: MySpace postings are free speech” reports on a case involving a February 2006 MySpace post by a student, described as “an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal.” The Indiana appeals court overruled the lower court’s ruling that the student author’s comments were obscene, supporting the student’s appeal in…

  • Pay attention to the natives

    Great video posted to YouTube and the Jordan T4 district website similar to Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know” preso focused on the importance of engaging digital natives, utilizing available technologies like cell phones, etc: I really liked the way the authors cited sources at the bottom of the screen for various statements that were made.…

  • Podcast144: Free online videos for learning from NextVista.org

    This podcast features a recorded interview from the SITE 2007 conference with Rushton Hurley, executive director of Next Vista for Learning. Nextvista.org is nonprofit organization offering an online library of free videos for learners everywhere. Users can find resources to help them learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities,…

  • Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge

    A blog post from Marina Cantacuzino brought The Forgiveness Project to my attention today for the first time, and permitted me to hear the thoughts of people like Desmond Tutu and others who have both been touched by unimaginable hatred and freed from a destructive cycle of bitterness through forgiveness and grace. The following paragraph…

  • MIDI keyboard advice?

    Ever since I became awed with the power and flexibility of Gargeband software listening and learning from Marco Torres at our ADE academy in July 2005, I’ve wanted to purchase my own MIDI controller keyboard to take the program and my quite limited musical creativity to another level. Last October I had a chance to…

  • TeacherTube and Zamzar rather than YouTube

    I don’t have formal survey data to back up this perception, but it seems to me that the vast majority of U.S. public schools now block all access YouTube with network content filters. There are some understandable reasons for that action, I suppose, but overall I think the blocking of YouTube by school districts reflects…

  • Recording skype video and audio calls

    I was glad to learn this evening that Call Recorder for Skype, a $15 program I’ve used for a year or so to record skype audio calls now has been updated to also record Skype video calls. Excellent! The program integrates right into Skype (for Macintosh) so you specify the settings you want like other…

  • Flat world 1:1 learning

    I’ve shared some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog this evening/morning in a post I titled, “Flat world 1:1 learning.” If you just link to one thing from this post, check out Marco Torres’ latest video from Eek, Alaska. Now that’s the type of school I want my own children attending!

  • Read/Write web political disruptions

    Citizen journalism took headlines recently with Phil de Vellis’s (aka ParkRidge47 on YouTube) remix of the 1984 Apple Ad as a “Vote Different” video critique of Hillary Clinton and endorsement of Barack Obama. Writing on The Huffington Post, Phil reveals his only tools to create this headline-grabbing video were his Macintosh laptop, an Internet connection,…