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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Self-promotional video is instructive on different levels

    In October 2006, the New York Times ran the article “A Student’s Video Résumé Gets Attention (Some of It Unwanted)” which told the story of Yale senior Aleksey Vayner’s self-promotional video which eventually leaked to YouTube. According to the article: Mr. Vayner’s experience shows the not-so-friendly side of the social-networking phenomenon. While sites such as…

  • Power of digital text

    Dr. Michael Wesch from Kansas State University has posted a great five minute video exploring the power of digital and hyperlinked text to connect ideas and people to YouTube: Use the free YouTube downloader if you want want an offline copy saved to your hard drive that you can share with others when you are…

  • Connecting learners with outside experts and each other

    David Truss, inspired in part by Vicki Davis’ post “The Future Wave of School Volunteerism: Be the Textbook” and my post and podcast on “Connecting students with real-world experts” inspired by Texas Teacher Rachael Tucker, has created Fieldfindr: A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute…

  • Bloglines Imagewall backlash

    Miguel Guhlin is calling for a boycott on Bloglines based on their newly announced “Image Wall” feature which dynamically updates a page with fresh, user-contributed/posted images from the web. Before you actually view the imagewall, users have to agree to the following AUP: As Audrey, the first commenter to Miguel’s post noted, clicking on any…

  • Albert Einstein and the policing of Wikipedia

    Our 3rd grade son has been writing a book report on an biography he read about Albert Einstein for several weeks, and our combined research (it’s been a family effort) for his report has provided us all with some interesting insights into WikiPedia and the way in which this global information resource is “policed” by…

  • Updating goals

    I’ve made several edits and updates to my 43 things list. Hadn’t revisted those in quite awhile. Goal setting is definitely a VERY important life activity, and to the extent that using the 43 things site can encourage reflection as well as action on goals I think it’s a GREAT web 2.0 site and resource.…

  • WikiPedia at your fingertips

    I find I’m increasingly Googling to bring up the English WikiPedia homepage and searching for a term in its growing database, often to link to blog posts when I want to connect readers and myself to more information about a topic. I know I could save that address as a bookmark or favorite, but Google…

  • Visualizing census data, patterns and trends

    Social Explorer is a powerful, web-based tool for displaying geographic U.S. census data that can be used for student research projects and presentations. A wealth of data is available in the free version, but even more is available if you or your institution subscribes. This page displays the census data by year that is available…

  • WikiPedia user page, Oklahoma Digital Centennial project

    After seeing Stephen Klein’s extensive WikiPedia user page (linked from Ethan Zuckerman’s post about OLPC implementation today) I decided to create my own WikiPedia user page. The risk of doing this, I suppose, is that someone could edit my page and put something there I wouldn’t want included. (I am NOT throwing down a glove…

  • Using Google Notebook, Google Reader, and Firefox

    I’m attending a three-day training session in Arkansas this week, and tomorrow I’m going to share a session on “Using Google Notebook, Google Reader, and Firefox.” I created the resource page for this session (appropriately enough) in Google Notebook and shared it as a publicly accessible webpage. I included multiple reasons for using Google Notebook,…