Category: socialnetworking
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Creativity, Connectedness and the Adjacent Possible
One of my favorite quotations is by Steven Johnson, who asserts that “Chance favors the connected mind.” Who we associate with, the environments in which we live and work, and the historical context in which we live have a profound impact on our creativity and the ideas to which we are exposed and develop. In…
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Create Embeddable Twitter List with List.ly
This evening I created a linked list of sponsors for EdCamp Broken Arrow (coming up this Saturday just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma) using List.ly. This was SO much faster and easier than “creating the list by hand” on the event WordPress site. That tedious process involved saving images of each sponsor logo locally, uploading each image…
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Podcast418: Jennie Magiera’s Inspirational Keynote From EdTechTeacher Summit July 2014
This podcast is a recording of Jennie Magiera’s opening keynote on the second day of EdTechTeacher’s Summit in Chicago on Navy Pier on July 29, 2014. Jennie is a teacher and educational leader in the Chicago Public Schools, and has taught in a 1:1 iPad classroom. Check the podcast shownotes for some of the referenced…
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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…
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Managing Digital Footprints – for grandparents (March 2014)
Update 2/13/2014: An audio podcast recording of this presentation is available on “Fuel for Educational Change Agents.” These are the slides for a presentation I’m sharing Wednesday evening titled “Managing Digital Footprints – for grandparents.” This is the description I added to the slides in SlideShare: This is a presentation shared by Dr. Wesley Fryer…
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Twitter Archived Learning from EdCampOKC 2014
Last Saturday I participated in our second annual EdCampOKC, this year at US Grant High School in Oklahoma City Public Schools. OKCPS was a fantastic host for EdCampOKC – not only were the facilities great, the wifi network was fast and reliable all day! Woo hoo! Thanks to Cisco, Eric Hileman and Scott Meyer for…
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Craigslist and Facebook Bring Lost Golden Retriever Home
On New Year’s Eve, I found a golden retriever running loose in our neighborhood. He had a collar but no tag. We took him to a pet store on New Year’s Day to check for a microchip, unfortunately he didn’t have one. We posted 5 printed signs with his photo near the intersection where we…
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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…
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Building Virtual Bridges Through Sharing and Transparency
Lee Kolbert tagged me in her post, “Strengthening The Ties Within The Blogging Community,” with a blog meme passed on by Jen Wagner in her post, “Because Kristy Asked.” There are several different posts I’ve been wanting to write over the past few weeks and haven’t yet… but I’m putting them off further (probably till…
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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…