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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • A proposed student social media protest campaign for NYSCATE

    Sylvia Martinez is spot on in her post today, “Students are not the enemy.” Shame on the vendor and vendor representative, Sophos and Chris Ridgway, for sharing an upcoming session at NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) conference titled, “The Enemy Within: Stop Students from Bypassing Your Web Filters.”…

  • Podcast333: Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China

    This podcast is a reflection I recorded on a flight back to the United States from the October / November 2009  21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China. There are some issues about which I am reticent to blog, given their poliltical sensitivity in China, but want to share and reflect upon because of the…

  • Social Media Change Agents Must First Enlist the Support of Top Leaders

    Josh Bernoff, co-author with Charlene Li of the book “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies,” has specific recommendations for organizational revolutionaries who want to use social media in transformational ways to change cultures of work and service. In this ten minute interview, Josh discusses the importance of winning over the top leader…

  • Podcast331: Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations

    This podcast is a recorded presentation from the 2009 Oklahoma School Public Relations Association conference at Quartz Mountain on April 23, 2009. This session, presented by Wesley Fryer, was titled, “Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations.” The official presentation description was: Social media technologies offer excellent opportunities for school public relations…

  • Apple iPad rumors, Netbooks, and Commodifcation

    Jeremy Horwitz’s rumor post from Monday on iLounge, “Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet,” contains some tantalizing predications from an allegedly reliable inside source: 10.7” screen 2 versions: 1 with 3G and another without Announcement date: January 19, 2010 Sale date in May or June 2010 This, however, was the prediction which generated the…

  • Did You Know 4.0 – The Mobile Revolution is Here

    Posted on September 14, 2009, “Did You Know 4.0” already has about 300,000 YouTube views and you can bet it’s headed for viral status as were its predecessors. The video was put together in advance of the third annual Media Convergence Conference in New York City, 20-21 October, 2009. Unlike its predecessors, the focus of…

  • Standalone WiFi Skype Phones and Rocket Scientists

    Steve Jurvetson, in his ForaTV video presentation, “The User-Generated, Real-Time Web,” says (among other things) that we’re going to see Skype spin off from eBay in the next few months (his speech was in June) and create standalone, wifi-based phones which have been a part of the founding vision of Skype since the beginning but…

  • Over 17,000 views on YouTube in 24 hours

    This does not qualify as a viral video, perhaps, but I was still blown away to see that my daughter’s 2 minute response to President Obama’s speech yesterday has had over 17,500 views on YouTube in just 24 hours. Whoa! What happened? I’m not 100% certain, but apparently thanks to Twitter and Facebook links it…

  • Podcast328: Students as Self-Advocates: Why/How Learners Should Craft Their Own Digital Footprints (Ginger Lumen)

    This podcast features a recording of Ginger Lumen’s presentation with her students at the 2009 PodStock conference entitled, “Students as Self-Advocates: Why/How Learners Should Craft Their Own Digital Footprints.” The official conference description of the session was: When you last “Googled” your name, what did you find? All learners should ponder those results when considering…

  • New Ustream and Qik Apps available for iPhone, but no live-streaming without jailbreak

    Both Ustream and Qik now have official applications available in the iTunes Store for the iPhone GS, but neither permit live webcasting/streaming– the versions which do still require a jailbreak. Both of the official iTunes Store apps also require an iPhone 3G S, while the jailbreak versions function on any iPhone. The official iPhone Ustream…