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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Clear Signs of Digitally Connected School Leaders

    Are the leaders in your school and/or school district digitally connected? Being a connected educator today is one of the most important hallmarks of effective twenty-first century leadership. How do you know if your school leaders are connected educators? The links and “interactive channels” provided to social media accounts on official school websites can provide…

  • Optimize Your Website by Enabling GZIP Compression

    Put your geek hat on for this post. My challenges continue with my web hosting account and my need to optimize it for a large number of connections / lots of traffic so it does not crash when I share a new post via social media like Twitter or Google+. My most recent website/WordPress discovery…

  • Widget of Recent Student KidBlog Posts with Yahoo Pipes and RSS Dog

    This evening I used the free web service RSS Dog to add right sidebar widgets to a new page of “KidBlog Links” (classroom interactive writing websites) on our school website for Independence Elementary in Yukon, Oklahoma.    by  Wesley Fryer  Several months ago I used Yahoo Pipes (also free) to create an “aggregated feed river” of posts from…

  • Results of Grade 4-5 Interactive Writing School Survey (Oct 2014)

    Interactive writing should be a cornerstone of literacy development and assessment in elementary and secondary schools, but in 2014 it remains a rare activity in most K-12 schools in the United States. Interactive digital writing involves the production and sharing of electronic texts which (in most cases) can be readily conveyed (transmitted), copied, connected (hyperlinked), commented…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Fix When Facebook Shows Wrong Site Image and Title

    This is a somewhat geeky fix I’ll pass along in case you run into something similar. I recently updated the “Write Well, Sell Well” Conference website with our October 24-25, 2014 details, but for some reason when anyone shared the website on Facebook the OLD conference details were presented. I figured out how to fix…

  • How to Archive a KidBlog Website

    I used free KidBlog websites this school year with my 22 classes of 4th and 5th grade STEM students, so they could periodically post text reflections, images, audio reflections, and links to videos we used in class for STEM lessons. Since the school year is over, it’s time to “archive” these classes. This evening I…

  • 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…

  • Print a QR Code for an AudioBoo Recording

    AudioBoo is a fantastic, free website and iOS/Android tablet app students and teachers can use to create “narrated art projects” or short segments for class “radio shows.” The free version allows recordings of up to three minutes each, and accounts can have an unlimited number of recordings. Paid accounts can record up to 30 minutes…