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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: distributed-learning

  • Podcast398: A Student’s Experiences in Oklahoma City Public Schools Virtual School

    This first podcast of 2013 on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts” features an interview with Jackson, an 11th grader in Oklahoma City Public Schools, who took a virtual course in fall 2012 through the OKCPS Innovations K-12 Virtual Institute. The Innovations K-12 Virtual Institute is Oklahoma City Public Schools’ virtual school, provided at no…

  • Oklahoma City PS Students: Enroll in Virtual Classes for Fall 2013 by Feb 8th

    This evening I spent some time looking over course titles and descriptions offered by the Oklahoma City Public Schools Virtual Academy. My 9th grade son is interested in possibly taking a technology course online in lieu of the mandatory face-to-face technology course offered at his school, Classen School of Advanced Studies. Course descriptions by grade…

  • Podcast397: Takeaways from and Reflections on the 2012 EDUCAUSE Conference

    This is a “podcast from the road” by Wesley Fryer reflecting on the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference. In the podcast Wesley discusses learning management systems including the free/beta LMS OpenClass from Pearson, Kuali open source solutions for higher education, badge-based learning initiatives and tools, open journals / open academic publishing, Wolfram Alpha, MOOCs and native mobile…

  • Blogging the Conference: EDUCAUSE 2012 Session Notes

    The past three days I’ve been in Denver, blogging sessions from the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference for iThemes. iThemes is a WordPress and web design focused company in Edmond, Oklahoma, and I’ve been blogging on a contract basis for them past few months on the iThemes Education blog. (@ithemesEd on Twitter) This was my first time…

  • First Multi-part Video Tutorial with MentorMob: Community Voices Interview Project

    (cross-posted in modified form from Storychasers.org) This semester Storychasers has started a “lessons” section of our project wiki and shared “Community Voices” interview project ideas. Using MentorMob, we’ve created a seven part video tutorial highlighting steps students can follow to successfully plan, record, write about and share an audio interview with a family or community…

  • iPhone 5, Steve Jobs Reflections, & Amazing (free) Science Videos

    This evening my mind was blown several times, and video content on our Apple TV was the source. First of all, I watched the full two hour Apple iPhone 5 event video from yesterday. It’s a free video podcast on “Apple Keynotes” in iTunes, and I’ve watched the past several events directly on our home…

  • Better Than Teacher-Created Video Flipped Classrooms: The Power of Student Made Videos

    Audio podcasts remain a GREAT way to obtain free, regular professional development. Although I’m not as “regular” as I once was as a podcaster, I continue to periodically post podcast audio to both my “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” podcast channel as well as my secondary “Fuel for Educational Change Agents” podcast channel. While…

  • YouTube is the new Cable Channel Platform

    Internet-based television (IPTV) is continuing to disrupt traditional media broadcasting models. As we await the launch of Apple’s expected television set (iTV) integrating iOS app functions including Siri voice control, this process will only accelerate. Writing about IPTV opportunity costs in “Is a vast video library worth the time and money?“, Daniel Frankel notes: “To…

  • Reflections on Graduation Rituals, Celebrations, College Debts and a Ph.D.

    This weekend has been a great blessing. It’s been (and continues to be) a time to celebrate a long academic journey with my family and friends which has resulted in, among other things, the following document and new initials to follow my name in professional academic contexts. In this post, I’d like to share a…

  • Professional Digital Publications Archive Project

    This week has already included two major life milestones for me, and one more is coming on Friday: Texas Tech University officially approved the final, corrected version of my dissertation (“Impact Analysis of Phonecasted Lecture Summaries“) for publication in the Texas Digital Library. Today’s notification email indicated I should be ready to wait up to…