Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress

    The evening of December 18, 2013, I shared an online presentation for the “Digitizing Writing Wednesday Webinars Series” titled, “Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress.” The archived video from the Adobe Connect webinar is now available! My presentation slides are available on SlideShare. Miguel Guhlin collected a variety of show notes on…

  • Managing Distractions: Maintaining Focus and Creating Media

    We live in a highly distractible era. Some people’s reaction to our world of always-on communication, mobile phones and digital interruptions is to say: “Let’s turn everything off! Let’s throw it all out!” That is the response and message in the humorous book/video, “Goodnight iPad” by Ann Droyd. I used that video a couple of…

  • My year with an iPad

    My very first classroom in Grapevine, TX had a Macintosh LC550 connected to a 32″ television. This was 1995, and I had never seen anything like this. Once I figured out how to use it, I was enamored. The thought of displaying digital content while I was teaching was mind blowing, and I immediately began…

  • The Post-PC Age is Upon Us

    I’ve read two articles this week which really got my attention: “Gartner May Be Too Scared To Say It, But the PC Is Dead” (5 April 2013 by Mark Gartner for ReadWriteWeb) “FU, Windows 8, PC shipment decline is worst EVER” (10 April 2013 by Joe Wilcox for Betanews) I LOVE my MacBook Air laptop…

  • Student “Confession Pages” Trend Highlights Free Speech Issues & Need to Address Ethics / Digital Citizenship

    This past Thursday during our second “Mapping Media to the Common Core” Montana cohort class meeting via videoconference, I learned about the trend of “student confession pages” among high school as well as college/university students in some places. I was first alerted to this thanks to a discussion in the ePUB ebook chapter I wrote…

  • How Can I Webstream an Event?

    This evening, in response to a Twitter question from Justin Staub, I created a 12 part MentorMob article series (technically it includes 11 articles and 1 audio podcast) addressing the question, “How Can I Webstream an Event?” There are multiple answers to this question, of course, which are appropriate for different situations depending on available…

  • Open Sharing Leads to eBook Inspiration: Indonesia to Minnesota to Oklahoma

    This evening I responded to Alan Levine’s call for video contributions to his wonderful project, “True Stories of Open Sharing.” My 5 minute submission is titled, “Open Sharing Leads to eBook Inspiration: Indonesia to Minnesota to Oklahoma.” These are the links I included in the YouTube video description: Twitter collaborators in this story include: http://twitter.com/thehomeworkdog…

  • Setting Up a Skype Home Phone

    This evening I configured a Skype phone (an IPEVO SO10 Skype Desktop Phone I won in 2008 in a “What Skype Means to Me” contest) as a home phone. In this post I’ll briefly recap the whys and how-tos of this process. Since our most recent move in 2011 we’ve ditched our POTS line and…

  • AudioBoo Websites and Ports to Unblock on Your School Internet Content Filter

    AudioBoo is a fantastic, free website and mobile app for students to use to create “narrated art” as well as other kinds of short audio recordings about their curricular assignments. If you want to use AudioBoo on a school network, however, you need to be sure the following websites and “ports” are UNBLOCKED on your…

  • Academic Journal Paywalls are Educationally Counter-Productive and WRONG

    The proliferation of “paywalls” for academic journals is educationally counter-productive and WRONG. Today, we accept as “normal” that academic journals charge fees for digital access. In an analog world, when publishers bore tangible costs for distributing paper-based copies of articles, this made more sense. In our increasingly digital world today, however, when the marginal cost…