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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • PodNova and Podcast Subscriptions

    The recent crash of my laptop hard drive has provided an excellent opportunity to tryout the free software program PodNova. PodNova is both a free web 2.0 service and a free client application that works with iTunes and several other podcatching software programs. As a web 2.0 service, it provides a method for not only…

  • MySpace resource for educators and parents

    Kevin Farnham is nearing publication of a new book about MySpace filled with information and tips for a variety of people. As publication draws near, he is continuing to post many of the tips from the book on his blog, HowToPrimers. Here is a quotation from one of his posts on March 6th: MySpace is…

  • Kids respond to Xanga publicity

    I had an interesting conversation with a reporter this evening on the phone. She called to ask about student podcasting, and we discussed different schools in our state (Texas) as well as around the country who are using podcasts in creative ways. She told me an interesting story that happened about a year ago when…

  • ClustrMaps

    It’s a small world after all. Every once in awhile a web 2.0 technology, website, or service makes me exclaim loudly and almost (or actually) fall out of my chair. ClustrMaps is the cause today. The map below shows the locations of over 200 different people who have visited my blog in the last 24…

  • SuprGlu feed river

    SuprGlu is a free, web 2.0 aggregation site allowing users to create a personal portal site integrating various RSS feeds from popular sites like flickr, del.icio.us, blogging engines, etc. According to the Suprglu website: SuprGlu currently relies on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM feeds. These are feeds published by the web service you use…

  • Share Bubbleshares on a Blog

    I just discovered a cool way to embed a Bubbleshare narrated slideshow right within a blog post, by visiting Cheryl Oakes’ Webhead blog. Apparently, from any publicly viewable Bubbleshare album, just add the directory name “/blog” to the end, and you’ll see the HTML code you can copy and paste into your blog post to…

  • Podcast39: The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning

    Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going with respect to teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States in the 21st Century? Do we want to just use technology to do traditional education more efficiently, or do we want to do education differently and better? In this presentation…

  • Wikipedia accuracy

    The December 2005 article in Nature, “Internet encyclopaedias go head to head,” reveals the amazing accuracy of WikiPedia. Despite the fact that it is over 10 times the size of “traditional” print-based and commercial encyclopedias, WikiPedia contains about the same number of inaccuracies per entry as Encyclopedia Britannica. Consider this quotation from the article: The…

  • Web 2.0 matters

    In his post “The New Literacies: Essential or Enrichment?” on the TechLearning blog last week, David Jakes cites some impressive statistics making the case for why web 2.0 matters in our lives today and should matter in classrooms: Blogs became a new standard when 70,000 are created each day, when between 700,000 and 1.3 million…

  • pbwiki

    pbwiki (Peanut Butter wiki) is a website offering freely hosted wikis similar to jot.com and wikispaces.com. And, there is not a limit to how many pages or wikis you can create with pbwiki! Thanks for Alan Levine for posting about pbwiki.