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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Quickblogging Options: Comparing tumblr and posterous

    One of the most important things we can do as learners, and specifically as educational leaders in our communities, is to SHARE OUR IDEAS. “Quick blogs” are a category of website which is “kind of” a hybrid between a blog, a microblog, and an email service. As far as I know, tumblr and posterous are the two…

  • How We’re Reinventing the Blog by Sachin Agarwal (Posterous co-founder)

    These are my notes from a webinar today hosted by Creative Oklahoma, with Posterous co-founder Sachin Agarwal. Sachin is a4agarwal on Twitter, and sachin.posterous.com on his own site! Sachin talked about how his startup is seeking to reinvent blogs and web publishing in general. Posterous currently has 8 employees. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN…

  • Setup a new WordPress installation as a subdomain with Buddypress

    In the months ahead, I’m expecting to setup several different websites that will be used for educational networking / social networking using WordPress and the Buddypress plugin. I’ve been using WordPress since 2005, but need to get up to speed on Buddypress. Because I’m not going to pay to continue my Digital Dialog Ning, and…

  • K12 Online Echo Webcast TONIGHT with Brian Crosby!

    If you’re not familiar with elementary educator Brian Crosby, you should be. Brian is one of the most passionate educators I know, and he also happens to be one of the most digitally savvy and connected teachers around. Brian’s blog is “Learning Is Messy,” and he was a speaker for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference.…

  • Ning announces new pricing structure – Implications for Storychasers

    Today as anticipated, Ning announced a new pricing structure for its websites which will be implemented in July 2010. Free sites will be phased out, and options will be provided for current site owners (who do not want to start paying) to export their content for re-use elsewhere. The Ning Announcement page includes the following…

  • Quickly publish student writing with WordPress and iPadio (no-edit podcasts)

    Helping people of any age become writers and authors is a BIG deal. In this post, I’ll explain how I used a WordPress blog last night and a free account with iPadio to publish the text of a student-created story as well as an audio recording of the student reading her story orally. It took…

  • Let’s build openly licensed, digital curriculum together – but where?

    This week I’ll be brainstorming with other Oklahoma educators working on a Race To The Top (RTTT) federal grant application. When it comes to technology integration and STEM, one of the best ideas I can suggest is providing opportunities for teachers to build digital curriculum together. If these online curriculum materials are published on the…

  • An Exemplary Scribe Blog Post, Pecha Kutcha Presentation, and Screencast

    My undergraduate students in “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma this semester have learned how to use a variety of web-based tools for communication and collaboration. Here are a few superb examples. Copying the “scribe post blog” idea from Darren Kuroptawa, we’ve used a Blogger site this semester as a shared learning…

  • Podcast347: Be The Change You Want To See In Schools

    This podcast is a recording of Shannon Miller’s presentation with her students at the Iowa 1:1 Institute in Des Moines on April 7, 2010. The title of their presentation was, “Be The Change You Want To See In Schools: Integrating Technology and Making Connections to Create Change.” Shannon is the teacher librarian / media specialist…

  • Always moderate membership in educational networking sites

    For the past four years, I’ve helped lead and facilitate a statewide oral history project in Oklahoma called “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” Since we started using Ning for our learning community and a space to share videos, it’s been VERY important to moderate not only video submissions but also requests to join our community as a…