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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Why Are Thousands of Oklahoma Teachers Protesting Today at the Capitol?

    Today will be a historic event in Oklahoma education history: Thousands of Oklahoma teachers, parents, and others are gathering for a rally on the steps of our state capitol in Oklahoma City. According to today’s Tulsa World article, “Education funding rally: Thousands of Oklahomans expected to descend on Capitol, press for more school dollars,” State…

  • The Evolution of BYOD for our Church Session

    This is the second year I’ve served as an elder on our church session, which is similar to a board of directors in many ways. As you might expect, I bring my laptop, iPad and iPhone to our monthly meetings, and prefer to have all meeting documents in electronic rather than printed form. While some…

  • First Choose Your Own Adventure Story with Twine: The Spark

    Update: philome.la (@philomela_twine) is a website providing free hosting of Twine stories powered by TiddlyWiki. For official Twine news follow @twinethreads. Twine is a free, open source software program and browser-based platform (in alpha) for creating “choose your own adventure” style stories. I loved these books when I was in elementary school. You can read…

  • 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…

  • Why I Switched My WordPress Web Host from WP Engine to Site5

    Over the past two weeks I’ve reluctantly completed the arduous and stressful task of migrating 30+ websites to a new web host. Most of these sites run WordPress. In this post, I’ll share some of my lessons learned and the specific reasons why, after 8 months as customer of WP Engine, I switched to Site5…

  • 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…

  • Amplify Art with Media (Oct 2013)

    Yesterday was a special treat for me in several ways. Not only did I have morning and evening opportunities to go for long walks on a beautiful Florida beach, I also had a chance to share some ideas with art teachers attending the Florida Art Education Association’s 2013 Conference in Daytona Beach. I titled my…

  • Podcast406: Amplifying Our Students: Social Media in the Classroom by Jennifer Magiera & Autumn Laidler

    This podcast is an audio recording of Jennifer Magiera and Autumn Laidler’s ISTE 2013 presentation, “Amplifying Our Students: Social Media in the Classroom.” The official session description was: Find ways to leverage social media, such as Twitter, blogs, Google Moderator and YouTube to amplify K-12 student learning and create more authentic learning environments. Refer to the podcast shownotes…

  • Migrating from Podcast Generator to WordPress and Podlove

    In December of 2010, I created “Fuel 4 Educational Change Agents” as a secondary podcast channel to complement my primary “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast” channel. I created this secondary channel of “no-edit” and lightly-edited audio recordings using the free, open source software program Podcast Generator, which I learned about doing research for…

  • With TweetChat Offline, What Websites are Best for Twitter Edchats?

    This evening during the weekly Oklahoma Educational Chat (#OklaEd) I learned the website TweetChat has gone offline, apparently for an upgrade. TweetChat has been my preferred website and tool in the past to use for educational Twitter chats. Here are the TweetChat alternatives I learned about thanks to the suggestions of several others, in my…