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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Embedding a Google Document in a Google Site Page

    Google Document sharing can get very messy if you have a lot of students. This semester, I have 45 students enrolled in the two sections of “Technology 4 Teachers” which I’m teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma. One week when I was absent, my substitute instructor discussed the “sample unit plan” assignment with students…

  • Online Student Portfolios: What Tools Are Best?

    I received the following question via email recently, and am posting it here along with my thoughts. I’ve been wanting to write and share about ePortfolios for several weeks, and this question has given me a good opportunity to do so. Please chime in with other suggestions and ideas! I wonder if Moodle is a…

  • Join conversations in the LIVE DEN Virtual Conference

    Today, Saturday April 24, 2010 in North America (right NOW in fact) the Discovery Education Network is hosting a free, virtual conference hosted via WebEX. We just heard a great presentation from Lee Kolbert, and Lee put together an outstanding site of all her session / referenced resources on Google Sites: sites.google.com/site/edtechlearning/ The lineup for…

  • Criticism of School District Content Filtering Policies is not a personal attack on ALL tech directors

    I shared the following today as a response to a comment posted on my recent rant, “Cognitive dissonance from the school internet filtering message.” I think the issues and questions highlighted here are worth extracting and sharing as a separate post. This is a VERY important conversation. Blog reader “JJ” wrote: I am an avid…

  • Google Wave by Simon Ringsmuth #odla2010

    These are my notes from Simon Ringsmuth‘s presentation on Google Wave at the Spring 2010 ODLA conference on April 23, 2010 at the OU K-20 Center. Simon is a professor at Oklahoma State University. Simon’s blog is “The Brighter Side.” Simon is sringsmuth on Twitter. He has his own video production business: Ringsmuth Digital Video.…

  • Lucrative rewards of viral videos encourage parents to put their children on YouTube

    The voices of young people are important. We need to respect and listen to young people, and sometimes in our homes, our classrooms and our broader society we don’t. The advent of YouTube has led to interesting dynamics between parents and children when it comes to sharing and showcasing their voices, however, and Lisa Belkin’s…

  • Podcast346: Discussing Digital Literacy with Educators in the New Literacies Collaborative

    This podcast is a recording of a Ustream presentation by Wesley Fryer on 16 April 2010 to educators at North Carolina State in the New Literacies Collaborative. We used a Google Moderator Topic Series to solicit questions for this open forum. Tablet technologies, 1 to 1 laptop initiatives, digital literacy, and helping students improve their…

  • Alternatives to Ning if free Ning sites are all shut down?

    In yesterday’s TechCrunch article, “Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff” Jason Kincaid shared an email from Jason Rosenthal, Ning’s new CEO. Rosenthal purportedly wrote: So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product [commercialized, paid Ning accounts] to capture this…

  • Cognitive dissonance from the school internet filtering message

    Messages like this one might be common at your school and in your classroom. This was displayed today in my computer’s web browser when I tried to visit the website Flickr, which is included on the website whitelist we distribute to schools in advance of our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop. Several things about this Internet…

  • Technology Trends in Higher Education (April 2010)

    These are my presentation slides for my keynote this morning at the Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The title of my presentation is, “Technology Trends in Higher Education.” Depending on how the PollEveryWhere survey goes at the start, I may or may not get to all these topics. It…