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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: open source

  • Software and hardware recommendations for an offline elementary school?

    A friend and co-worker is about to travel to Costa Rica on special trip, inspired by a friendship his wife established with a peace corps volunteer working there. A rural elementary school they are going to visit has recently received several computers and electrical power. My friend and his wife are bringing an older computer…

  • A digital playground of dreams?

    The July 18, 2007, Christian Science Monitor article “Why children need to learn to play” resonated deeply with me. The author includes several quotations from David Elkind, author of “Power of Play” and “The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.” According to the article: “Over the past two decades, children have lost 12…

  • Rather than innovate, Microsoft may litigate against open source

    On May 14, 2007, senior editor of Fortune magazine, Roger Parloff, published the article “Microsoft takes on the free world.” According to the article: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there’s a shadow hanging over Linux…

  • Time lapse digital storytelling fun

    The chain of online learning leads to an unexpected but wonderful place again today… While exploring Steve Whitaker’s website today after learning about Ustream, I discovered the free software Gawker which: is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users…

  • FLOSS Your World: It’s About Free (Steve Braunius)

    A wiki of resources for this session is available from the Connecting and Collaborating conference on April 20, 2007 in Holland, Michigan. I also recorded this session with Steve’s permission and will be posting it here as a podcast soon. My notes from Steve’s session: I was a 4th grade teacher, at some point I…

  • The Balancing Act: Juggling the Demands of Emerging Technology

    These are my notes from the Opening Keynote for the Oklahoma Technology Association’s 2007 conference, 2/6/2007) by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson of Eduscape Inc. – Larry gave permission for me to record this session and release subsequently as a non-commercial podcast. I’ll be publishing http://eduscapes.com/sessions/balance Click on the “activate” session (Journal of Technology-Rich Learning)…

  • Vista is out, but do educators care?

    Well, Windows Vista is now on the market, but my question is: Do any educators care? I don’t know of any midwest U.S. school districts planning to make the transition to Vista anytime soon. In an interview with CNN this morning, Bill Gates said: People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.…

  • Google Reader and OpenID

    I have started experimenting with Google Reader for RSS Feeds instead of using Bloglines, and so far I like the results. The ability to star and share feeds is great, and the page loading does seem faster in Firefox. The Google Reader FAQ provides a good overview of its capabilities. I also discovered the OpenID…

  • Say YES to creativity in 2007

    Inspired by David Thornburg (something not difficult to experience if you read his work or hear him in person) I posted some thoughts to the ITM today I titled, “Say YES to creativity in 2007.” I really like the sheep/shepherd metaphor for education. Perhaps I could have used a better picture of shepherds, but that…

  • Open Source and Web Standards in 2007

    I’ve posted some thoughts on open source and web standards to the Infinite Thinking Machine blog in a new post titled, “Key technology trends for Educational Leaders in 2007.” Technorati Tags: education, linux, opensource, openoffice