Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: isafety

  • Configuring FREE Home Content Filtering with OpenDNS

    Following today’s fortuitous find of an Apple Airport Extreme Router for $40 at a local pawn shop, I needed to configure it for home content filtering as well as videoconferencing. After resetting the router to factory defaults, I turned it on (after power cycling my cable modem) and configured it to create a wireless network…

  • Socioclean Can Help Clean Up Your Digital Footprint

    Socioclean is a web application (currently free) which will scan all your Facebook tagged photos and public status/wall posts for anything which might be inappropiate and therefore damaging to your professional digital footprint. I was quite surprised my Facebook page initially earned a “C” on the site, but I got my grade changed to an…

  • Photo Geotagging Poses Privacy Risks, But Is NOT a Reason for Panic

    The 4 minute video segment, “Smartphone pictures pose privacy risks” by NBC news in November 2010 highlights the risks posed by photo geotagging and social networking sites. Unfortunately, like some other mainstream media press reports on social media, the implications of the segment are irresponsibly portrayed in an extreme, out-of-balance matter. The reporters imply posting…

  • Beware of Inappropriate Ads on Free Classroom Websites

    While numerous websites are available today which can be used to share educational content with students, parents and others, it is VERY important to be aware of advertising and the specific types of advertising which websites utilize. This post provides a case in point. I’ve experimented with the free webservice Wirenode.com to create a “mobile…

  • “Reply All” Bridgestone Super Bowl Ad Highlights Important Social Media Issues #msmeca11

    Did you watch the Super Bowl on television last night and see the Bridgestone “Reply All” commercial? David Zax’ article on February 3rd for FastCompany, “Super Bowl Ad Stories: How a Real “Reply-All” Faux Pas Yielded Comedy Gold” tipped me off this would be one to watch. The video is about an oh-so-easy to do…

  • Is it right to decide to make your children famous?

    Will Richardson shared numerous thought provoking ideas as well as article and book recommendations in his presentation in Amarillo today, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves.” One of the standouts which I read after his presentation, waiting here in the Amarillo airport for my flight home, is Steven Johnson’s May…

  • First XtraNormal Video: MySpace Suicide Prevention

    I’m presenting a morning session with Karen Montgomery on Monday in Amarillo, Texas, on “Social Media Guidelines for Schools” for the “Teaching the 21st Century Student” conference. We are going to use several stories and case studies in the presentation to encourage discussion about the issues social media raises for educators as well as students.…

  • TEDxOKC Self-Nomination: Balanced Filtering Online Gradebook

    I nominated myself this evening for TEDxOKC, which is scheduled for April 8, 2010, in Oklahoma City. The nomination form requires three video links and a short paragraph. I used the following: Why All Learners Need Laptops NOW! View more webinars from Wesley Fryer. Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0) View more…

  • YouTube video by Willow Smith goes viral, leads to recording contract #cmtc10

    Yesterday at the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, my 10 year old daughter and I shared a breakout session titled, “When Student Published Videos Go Viral: Lessons Learned.” In our discussions we focused on four different viral videos which can be considered case studies for student media publishing: Jessi Slaughter (Jessica…

  • Digital Citizenship for our Schools @alicebarr #cmtc10

    These are my notes from Alice Barr’s breakout session, “Digital Citizenship for our Schools” at the the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, NH on 30 Nov 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Track conference conversations using the Twitter hash tag #cmtc10. Alice is the Instructional Technology Integrator at Yarmouth High…