Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: isafety

  • Why Connected Camps ROCKS for Minecraft After School

    Our daughter Rachel is an avid Minecraft player. Last summer we paid to enroll her in the Connected Camps (@connectedcamps) online summer Minecraft camp and it was AWESOME. Even though Connected Camps is based in California and we live in Oklahoma City, the magic of the interwebs meant Rachel could fully participate in this virtual…

  • Learning about Digital Citizenship with Carl Hooker

    The past two days, Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) shared a series of outstanding presentations on digital citizenship with students, parents, faculty and staff at my school (Casady School) in Oklahoma City. I have known Carl for many years, and had a chance to participate in his amazing iPadPalooza conference in Austin in 2014. I attended his Miami Device 2015 session…

  • Book Review: “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” by danah boyd

    This semester one of my personal goals has been to read more books. I’ve been a subscriber to Audible.com since 2010, but had fallen out of the habit of listening to books on my drives and commutes in the past year, as well as reading books before bed. Over time my media diet had changed…

  • Hacker Cases Highlight Need for Greater Personal Account and Information Security

    The more we rely on userIDs and passwords to verify our identity online, the more susceptible we are to attacks by people who, for different reasons, want to harm us or take control of our digital accounts. Several recent cases of hacked accounts highlight the need for greater personal account security and information security overall.…

  • Deleting Foursquare and Personal Privacy Boundaries

    After quite a bit of personal debate over the past week, I deleted my Foursquare account today. Lee Kolbert‘s December 21st post, “Why I Deleted Foursquare, and Why You Should, Too!” was the catalyst which encouraged me to seriously weigh the benefits and potential drawbacks of using Foursquare. 2346 checkins, 501 “friend” connections, 377 shared…

  • Beware of iPhone “Melt” App Email and SMS Spam

    It must be a sign of the times. About three weeks after my ten year old daughter had her first “phishing” experience with Genieo adware on one of our family Apple laptop computers, my older (13 year old) daughter managed to accidentally spam over 2000 people (my entire iCloud contacts list) with personalized text messages…

  • Beware of Genieo Adware on Apple Computers

    Today was a sad but perhaps inevitable day: I saw installed adware on an Apple laptop for the first time. The adware was from a company called Genieo, which the English WikiPedia identifies as an Israeli startup. Thomas Reed‘s June 2013 article, “Malicious Genieo installers persist,” documents the adware problem which can infect both Apple/Macintosh…

  • RATs, WebCams & Online Predators: More Reasons to Ditch Windows-based PCs Forever

    The growing ubiquity of technology in our lives has made many parents into accidental home IT managers. How many different laptop, desktop, tablet, and mobile phone computers do the people in your household now operate and use? Another way to ask this question is: How many different devices in your home connect to the Internet…

  • Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World

    These are my notes from Jennifer Cutler’s presentation for the OU K-20 Center provided PD workshop, “Digital Citizenship: Learning to Cross the Street in a Digital World” at Ranchwood Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2013. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We don’t share this with you at the start…

  • 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…