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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Podcast107: Be (Constructively) Digitally Disruptive in 2007

    In this first podcast for 2007, I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4)…

  • Empowering citizen journalists

    In my every-other Friday post for TechLearning last week (“What are you going to do?”) I made a brief reference to the pivotal role citizen journalists play and are likely to play around the globe in the years ahead: The causes of human rights and self-determination, along with many others, have more potential to be…

  • Podcast106E: Draft for Review and Feedback – Safe Classroom Blogging

    Blogs are being SAFELY used by classroom teachers around the world to help students develop and refine their abilities to write and communicate effectively. Learn about a variety of classroom blog examples, and how you can get started using blogs in your classroom with free, safe digital tools. (This is an audio-only version of this…

  • Podcast106: Draft for Review and Feedback – Safe Classroom Blogging

    Blogs are being SAFELY used by classroom teachers around the world to help students develop and refine their abilities to write and communicate effectively. Learn about a variety of classroom blog examples, and how you can get started using blogs in your classroom with free, safe digital tools. (This is an enhanced version of this…

  • Accessibility, skype, email and info management

    I learned today it’s possible to add a free button to your blog or other website that shows your current Skype status. I’ve added this code to my personal “contact” webpage. The code to create this sort of personalized status Skype button is available from the Skype website. This is a feature that’s been included…

  • Please ask them to podcast, coach!

    The December 7th eSchoolNews article “Ex-coach: Tech a win for student athletes- Former NCAA basketball coach Mike Jarvis launches campaign to help student athletes keep up with their studies through video technology” drives home a point for me I’ve been thinking about for several weeks. We need to promote the goal of blended learning and…

  • IPTV, Less advertising, and new media

    The latest (December 2006) issue of Wired magazine has several excellent articles that relate to YouTube, IPTV, the rapidly changing landscape of paid advertising, and new media technology use in general– but especially by younger demographic folks. The three articles are part of a series titled “Web Video Grows Up,” and includes “The YouTube Effect,”…

  • Skype later today/tonight?

    I’ll be teaching a workshop today about classroom collaborations using videoconferencing and other technologies, from 4-7 pm US Central time. If you are interested in “Skyping in” briefly to say hello (with or without video) please leave a comment here with your Skype address, and we’ll try and give you a call! 🙂 You can…

  • IM assists in a local hostage crisis

    Well, today was a bit scary for people living in Edmond, Oklahoma, where I live just north of Oklahoma City. A man off the street broke into a woman’s house, took her hostage, went to a bank and then Home Depot where the woman escaped by loudly yelling “Man with a gun!” He then proceeded…

  • A workshop first

    Tonight was a personal first: I taught a three hour workshop on podcasting to about twelve teachers in St Louis, Missouri from my house in Edmond, Oklahoma! I have taught this workshop on podcasting a fair number of times, and taught (and just “met” with others) via videoconferencing technologies a fair number of times too–…