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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • iPad Doorprizes, Clearly Announced Conference Recording Permissions, & Ustreaming #micon

    If you ever have an opportunity to attend one of the conferences or workshops sponsored by The Martin Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, definitely go! This past September at their conference, educators in attendance won FIVE brand new Apple iPads along with several Flip Video cameras as door prizes. Now that’s what you call Christmas in…

  • Utilizing Social Media (in schools and for citizen journalism) #collab21

    These are my notes from Carl Anderson‘s (@anderscj on Twitter) presentation “Utilizing Social Media” at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. IF YOU ARE NOT FOLLOWING CARL YET ON TWITTER, DO IT NOW. HE’S…

  • Firesheep should get your ATTENTION: Open Public Wifi Dangers are REAL

    This may be the most important post you’ll read on my blog from a personal, digital security standpoint. If you use ANY website today which requires a login but does NOT use a “persistent https” secure connection thereafter, you’re at MAJOR risk of having your account(s) hacked if you use open, wifi hotspots in coffee…

  • Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work

    This is a short article I wrote for the November Educational Technology Newsletter of Gadsten City Schools in Alabama. Feel free to republish this with attribution. Personal computers have been with us for over thirty years.1 In the last five years, mobile devices like smartphones and mp3 players have become much more common in our…

  • AudioBoo provides a great opportunity to record and share holiday memories

    You can’t put a pricetag on the value of your own child’s voice, sharing an exciting moment or explaining something in their own words. We publish a lot of things over on “Learning Signs,” our family learning blog, but one of the most important things we do is record and share our voices. Two weeks…

  • #OpenBeta5 and Ideas for the Balanced Filtering Online Gradebook

    Last night I had the opportunity to share five minutes of passion and ideas about BalancedFiltering.org at OpenBeta5 in Oklahoma City. The lightning talks were recorded, and I’m hoping will be posted to YouTube soon. I’ll link and embed my talk here when it’s published. One of the exciting things I learned about at OpenBeta was we’re…

  • Ideas for a Flip Camera Video Scavenger Hunt

    The department at the University of North Texas for which I’m teaching this semester (The Department of Learning Technologies, within the College of Information) has a new resource for faculty / instructors to checkout for student use: A set of 24 Flip video camcorders! Specifically, we have 8 GB Flip Ultra HD cameras. I’ve checked…

  • Following Greyson Chance’s Rise to Musical Fame

    Greyson Chance is a twelve year old from Edmond, Oklahoma, whose 3.5 minutes of YouTube fame at a local church talent show singing a Lady Gaga song in April 2010 catapulted him to the Ellen Show and a musical recording contract. According a tweet by Ellen last week, retweeted by Greyson, he’ll will be back…

  • Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool

    These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS…

  • Learning about AudioBoo from a 1st Grader at College

    Today I had the wonderful privilege of providing my seven year old daughter with her first experience attending a college class at The University of North Texas. Perhaps even more exciting than attending and teaching in class together were the experiences of riding the shuttle bus to and from main campus, seeing all the students…