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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Join in 12 Days of Playing with Media

    You’re invited to join in “The 12 Days of Playing with Media:” A series of twelve workshops focused on learning more effective ways to communicate with digital text, images, audio and video in December 2011! Visit learn.playingwithmedia.com for complete details as well as registration links. Each workshop will be offered in three versions: a 3…

  • Lessons Learned from Image Attribution & Tweetribution Confusion

    Today was a first: I read a blog post which appeared attributed to me that I never wrote! This wasn’t a scrape blog or a post intentionally crafted to mislead. Instead it was a case of “tweetribution confusion” via image attribution. In this post I’ll try to explain. Tannis Emann, a Canadien educator and @tmemann…

  • When Parents Don’t Want Student Email

    I received a question recently from a technology integration specialist. He is working with a school which has parents who don’t want their child/student to have an email address at school. Since the teachers are using a variety of web-based tools for publishing student work, and some websites require student email addresses, this presents challenges…

  • Podcast384: Michael Wesch at Heartland eLearning 2011

    This podcast is a recording of Michael Wesch’s keynote presentation at the Heartland eLearning Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, on March 8, 2011. This was a superb and provocative presentation about teaching, learning, lecturing, engagement, student interests, meaning, identity, recognition, and many other issues. In his keynote he suggested we need to move from simply getting…

  • Post a Photo to a Photo 365 or 180 Blog

    Smartphones and mobile applications make the process of posting pictures to a personal “Photo365” photo blog or a “Photo180” class blog very easy. This is an example of “the ethic of minimal clicks” I highlight in my eBook, “Playing with Media.” Here are the steps I use to post a photo each day to my…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 2)

    This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 1)

    This is my part 1 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. (Part 2 notes are also available) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First we heard from Traci Blazosky, sharing her presentation, “The Monster Mash-Up.” Resources from her preso are on…

  • Share Your Ideas for K-12 Online 2011: Purposeful Play

    You’ve still got several more days (till October 17th at midnight PDT) to submit a proposal for the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! Complete details about this wonderful, FREE, online conference are available on k12onlineconference.org. As a selected presenter you’ll create a twenty minute, engaging video presentation to share in one of our “strands” during our…

  • A Second Grade Field Trip to the Zoo with AudioBoo

    Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com. This week on Tuesday my daughter’s second grade class took their fall field trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo. I brought my iPhone and iRig microphone, and the girls in our group used the camera along with the free app AudioBoo to record some reflections during our visit. We recorded nine AudioBoos…

  • Copyright Infringement Claims Lead to Suspension of Legoboy YouTube Channels

    My 13 year old son is a HUGE fan of Legos and stopmotion lego animation videos. He has been pretty upset this weekend and today by a string of events which have affected one of his favorite YouTube Lego builders and animators. “LegoBoy” (real name “David”) is a U.S. teenager who has built a following…