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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Understanding the value of social media use for literacy development

    Students in my “Technology 4 Teachers” class watched and reflected on the EduTopia Digital Generation Youth Profile video for Cameron last week. I wrote the following as a comment on one of my student’s blogs:  My favorite quotation from your post was, “If more students like Cameron could find a way to use their technology as…

  • Taking class attendance with cell phone SMS messages and PollEverywhere

    I’ve used PollEverywhere the past two weeks to take class attendance in my Technology 4 Teachers course at the University of Central Oklahoma. The first week I had everyone submit their name with a cell phone as a SMS message at the start of each class. I opened the poll at the start of class,…

  • Week 2 Lecturecasting with Ustream, Blip.tv and MPEGstreamclip

    Blip.tv rocks. Last week, in the post “Lecturecasting on a Shoestring with a Macbook, Ustream, CamTwist, MPEG Streamclip and Blip.tv,” I described how I was using the site to provide lecturecasts of my “Technology 4 Teachers” class sessions this term. Today in week 2 of our class, we focused on social bookmarking. It took about…

  • 27080 views in 2009 on SlideShare

    I received the following email from SlideShare today, regarding my Slideshare account in 2009. I am not sure I can comprehend 27,080 views of 13 presentations. There were probably 20 people at most who attended my Copyright for Educators session at ITSC 2009 in Portland, Oregon, last year face-to-face. Of the 9000+ views of that…

  • Include PBworks wiki pages as repeated header or footer content

    “Include pages” are simple yet incredibly powerful design elements in more modern websites powered with content management systems. By using an “include page” for header or footer information, for example, it is possible to update a SINGLE file with a new copyright statement and make that text visible / available on ALL the webpages on…

  • Protected and inactive organizational Twitter accounts, Digital Footprint Maintenance

    I’ve been interested to see organizational Twitter accounts in the past few months which have been established but are either protected or not in use. Oklahoma City Public Schools has an official Twitter account but has updates protected. My request to follow updates was granted, so I am able to see and follow OKCPS Twitter…

  • Update about the PodStock 2010 Conference

    Last week when I was at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas, I recorded the following three minute update with Lori Fast and Kevin Honeycutt, discussing preparations for the 2010 PodStock Conference. Podstock 2010 will take place July 16 and 17 in Wichita, Kansas. Join the Podstock 2010 Facebook Event to stay up to date about the…

  • Donate to the Red Cross for Haiti Relief – Be wise and tech saavy

    It has been sobering to watch the tragic events in Haiti unfold this week. Good friends of mine are stationed at the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, and had formerly been stationed in Haiti in the mid-1990s. They are both involved intensively in the relief efforts, the husband/father actually flew via helicopter today from…

  • Implications of (almost) free online storage for educators and students

    Remember being amazed 1 GB flash media drives existed at all, because your mind was still used to thinking in MEGAbytes instead of GIGAbytes? Have you had the experience yet of seeing vendors at conferences give away 1+ GB flash drives with their free files and marketing content already loaded, because they are so cheap…

  • Riddikulus! @newsok Please change your policy locking up your archives to paying customers only

    NewsOK (The Daily Oklahoman) is the largest newspaper in Oklahoma City, and I suspect the largest mainstream media conglomerate in our state. I love to read their news feeds in my RSS aggregator, but their policy of forcing the public to PAY to access news articles over 60 days old is flawed and should change.…