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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: open source

  • Some Moodle lessons learned

    I’ve spent a fair bit of time the past few weeks working in Moodle to create a randomized quiz for students visiting the museum where I work after their field trips, as well as a teacher evaluation survey. I am really enjoying the opportunity my new job role is affording me to create social media…

  • Beefing up your router with PacketProtector

    Thanks to James Deaton sharing his delicious social bookmarks, I learned about packetprotector.org today: a Linux distribution for wireless routers, built on top of OpenWrt. The goal of this project is to transform the router into a unified threat management device… Each of these services is automatically bootstrapped and configured with sensible defaults. A secure…

  • Podcast275V: Installing Moodle via Fantastico from CPanel on a Custom Sub-Domain

    This video podcast features a tutorial screencast explaining how to use the free web-based software installation tool Fantastico to install the open source learning management system Moodle onto a custom sub-domain of a website you pay a web host to use. I use the web host Siteground, which permits me to create an unlimited number…

  • Drupal versus Ning for Learning Community Websites

    One of our StoryChaser educators (jpatten) posted a great question in the forum on the StoryChasers learning community, and because I want to share a rather long answer I am posting it here. The question was: I will be implementing a Federal EETT grant this year with some of my 5th grade teachers (science). Part…

  • Drupal dabbling begins

    This evening’s brainstorming session about the Storychasers project using a skypecast was a success, although the experience was a bit mixed. We ended up with forty participants who stayed with us to the end, but we had a rocky start for several reasons. A few people using Macintosh computers reported that they were able to…

  • Fix for Podpress and WordPress 2.6 compatibility issue

    Thanks to James Lewin for his post “Plug-In Fixes PodPress Problem With WordPress 2.6” which alerted me to “The No Revisions WordPress Plugin.” I can personally confirm that this plug-in DOES fix PodPress functionality in WordPress 2.6. Technorati Tags: wordpress, podpress, blog, podcast, podcasting, plugin, bug, fix

  • WordPress 2.6 up and running

    What a relief! For the past few months I’ve been running WordPress 2.5 on three of the four WordPress blogs my family and I currently use (Learning Signs, Eyes Right and Talking Science) but I’ve held off upgrading my main Speed of Creativity blog because I’ve been burned before with WordPress upgrades. They SHOULD go…

  • Podcast266: Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture by David Thornburg (NECC 2008)

    This podcast features a recording of David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture.” The official conference program description and purpose / objectives for this session were: This talk explores how open education and culture are supported by 1:1 computing facilitated with open source tools, worldwide. True universal…

  • Podcast265: Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web

    This podcast is a recording of a session I shared on July 9, 2008, at the Missouri Distance Learning Association’s Annual Conference in Osage Beach, Missouri, titled “Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web.” The ideas shared in this session were strongly influenced by Karen Fasimpaur’s February 2008 presentation at NCCE titled “Free Content +…

  • Podcast261: Student Perspectives on Reading, Writing, Literacy, Technology Use, Gaming and Publishing on the Global Stage of the Internet

    This podcast features interviews with 14 year old Solana and 8 year old Jack who share their perceptions and ideas relating to reading, writing, literacy, technology use, gaming and publishing on the global stage of the Internet. Solana has had her own computer since she was eight, and with the help of her father found…