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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Personalized Digital Newspapers

    Analogies can help us understand new concepts. I’m fond of talking about “digital newspapers” rather than aggregators or feed readers when helping learners of any age understand how web tools like Google Reader and Netvibes can become valuable parts of our personal learning landscape. WHERE do you learn today? For me, I increasingly learn a…

  • K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts

    The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and…

  • Communicating In The Digital Age (SlideShare Slidecast)

    This morning I’ve uploaded a mp3 audio recording of my presentation, Communicating In The Digital Age, to SlideShare, and synchronized it to my multimedia slides using the provided web-based interface. This was a breakout session at the annual professional development conference for the Pioneer Library Association in Oklahoma. Communicating In The Digital Age By Wesley…

  • Podcast339: Communicating in the Digital Age (Presentation for Pioneer Library System Librarians)

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by Wesley Fryer with librarians and staff of the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma on February 15, 2010, in Moore. Our digital communications landscape today includes far more than email. By working in the “cloud” using collaborative environments like Google Docs and Google Reader, we flexibly…

  • Review of Ustream Producer by Dean Mantz

    Dean Mantz, the director of technology in Sterling, Kansas, recorded a 14 minute review of the new UStream Producer application on February 2nd which he (naturally) posted via Ustream. I want to start using this application for my Technology 4 Teachers (T4T) lecturecasts, which I have been recording to Ustream and then cross-posting to a…

  • Tips to be a better blogger

    This is the text of an email reply I sent to a graduate education student in Pennsylvania who asked for tips on educational blogging. 1. Write with hyperlinks and embed media when you can. 2. Read and comment on many other educational blogs. The ones I follow are listed on my blog under “resources.” 3.…

  • Any interactive website is poison

    I had a conversation with an Oklahoma educator today who confirmed something I’d suspected and guessed for quite awhile: In one of our large metro-area school districts, ANY website which has ANY interactivity of ANY kind (blog, wiki, social networking site, etc) is blocked because that type of interactivity is viewed by district leaders as…

  • PollEverywhere grappling with Monetization and Free Educator Plans

    Web services are not free to provide. Someone pays. Sometimes those paying are advertisers, but in many cases content and service providers pay costs but rationalize those costs because they are offset by income from other related sources. It’s very interesting as well as instructive to watch the development of pricing schedules and “free” access…

  • Announcing The Digital Magic Tricks Workshop

    Digital Magic Tricks is a two day(+) learning experience based on the Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning Framework by Wesley Fryer and Karen Montgomery. To schedule a workshop or obtain more information, please contact Karen. WHY EDUCATORS SHOULD ATTEND: To become digital learning leaders, educators need opportunities to be STUDENTS in digitally blended classrooms. Our two(+) part…

  • Storychasing Literacy Keynote on SlideShare (METC 2010)

    I recorded audio during my opening keynote (“Storychasing Literacy“) at the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) today, and synchronized that mp3 file this evening to my presentation slides on SlideShare. Storychasing Literacy (METC 2010) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer. SlideShare does permit users to add YouTube videos to slides, but videos cannot be added…