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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Summertime and the Learning is Easy?

    I am so honored to be asked to guest blog for Wes. Thank you so much. I am Alice Barr, the Instructional Technology Integrator for Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine. We are a 1:1 laptop school and are going in to Year 8 of the project. I love what adding laptops to our school…

  • Think Before You Tweet

    My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent. I was honored when Wes invited me to guest blog during his absence. I hope this post sparks a conversation that we need to have. I recently came across this video that was created by Steve Johnson which serves as a good reminder…

  • Build Your PLN

    by Miguel Guhlin (Find me on Plurk/Twitter at “mguhlin”) As a educator, probably one of the tougher challenges you face isn’t just keeping up with the technology, but rather understanding how to leverage it in your teaching and learning situation. While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as “learning experiences,” in…

  • Over the Pond and Through The Fiber #aha-moment

    BACKGROUND OF MY A-HA MOMENT WITH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY In the spring of 2006, I had a trans-oceanic, international conversation with other educators which fundamentally changed my perceptions about communication and learning. Using the free software program Skype, I joined Canadian educator Darren Kuropatwa (in Winnipeg, Manitoba), Scottish educator Ewan McIntosh (in Edinburgh, Scotland), and U.S.…

  • Why email is NOT good enough for communication today

    Email is an example of “one to one” (or one to a defined many) communication. When you send an email, you have to specify the recipients in the TO, CC, and BCC fields of your message. While your email message COULD be forwarded on to others (resulting in a greater distribution) and along the line…

  • Quickstart guides for Posterous and iPadio

    Tomorrow our initial three days of the “Oklahoma Creativity Institute” for fifty K-12 teachers starts in Oklahoma City. I’m VERY enthused to be co-facilitating this with Tammy Parks, thanks to the hard work of an entire team including staff at Oklahoma A+ Schools. I’ve created two new handouts for the Institute which you’re free to…

  • Critical thinking is more important than ever amidst Internet-based denier propaganda

    Critical thinking has ALWAYS been an important part of a high quality education. A case can be made in our information-awash society today, however, that critical faculties are needed NOW more than ever. The May 2010 issue of NewScientist magazine includes a special report section titled, “Age of Denial: Why so many people refuse to…

  • If Google Moderator and YouTube are good enough for the White House, what about your classroom?

    On June 15th, 2010, President Obama addressed the nation about the oil spill in the gulf. Following the address, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered questions submitted by thousands of people worldwide who used the free website Google Moderator. To date on the page, “Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions?” 15,835 people…

  • Podstock 2010 will be here soon!

    The annual Podstock conference is just around the corner! Podstock 2010 will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. You can RSVP via the 2010 PodStock Facebook event page! If you have not already, also join the PodStock Ning. 🙂 Kevin Honeycutt and many others at ESSDACK in Hutchinson,…

  • Separate Feedburner chicklets for blog posts and podcasts

    Last week I received a question about the two different “feed count chicklets” I have in the right sidebar of my blog. One of these shows blog subscribers, and the other shows podcast subscribers. The question I received was, “How did you create those?” The short answer is I used Feedburner (now owned by Google…