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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • CSS Global Worldview Survey – Please help out!

    Students and teachers at the Calgary Science School (CSS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, have created a Global Worldview Survey, and invite you to participate. The grade 8 students at CSS are currently working on a large scale project dealing with the concept of WORLDVIEW, part of the Grade 8 curriculum in Alberta.  As part of…

  • I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0

    Kevin Honeycutt has published an updated YouTube version of his wonderful song, “I Need My Teachers To Learn.” Instead of using video for the b-roll footage, his friend Rae helped him use still images synchronized to the music. It’s just over three minutes long, take some time today and check it out: In many ways…

  • Powerful Ingredients Videoconference today

    Cross-posted to the Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning blog. I shared an hour-long videoconference today for the Tandberg Connections program and the CILC, discussing the “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning” framework. In addition to our H.323 videoconference, which was bridged to endsites in Arkansas, Virginia and Texas, I shared the presentation over Ustream and recorded…

  • Enabling YouTube Comment Moderation (Screenr Screencast Tutorial)

    I recorded a brief 3 minute and 16 second screencast tutorial this evening using Screenr describing how to enable comment moderation on a YouTube video. Refer to my post from September 2009, “Criteria for moderating comments on a viral video,” for background on why enabling comment moderation is always a good idea. Also see the…

  • K12Online09 on The Heartland Flyer

    It is January 1, 2010, and I am riding on the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. I have been watching presentations from the 2009 K-12 Online Conference on my iPhone. Thanks to the available podcast channels in iTunes and the presentation transcoding functionality provided by the conference Blip.tv account,…

  • Hedonism, Politics, Authoritarianism, Twitter and Political Change

    Gary Stager recently tweeted me a link to Evgeny Morozov’s article “Techno-utopian fail.” Of the “techno-utopian” view which predicts social media will lead to democratic revolutions around the world in repressive countries like China and Iran, Morozov asserts: But this is an anachronistic view of the world. Modern authoritarian states have eagerly (but selectively) embraced…

  • Praise for MobileRSS on the iPhone

    I tweeted about this recently but am so impressed with the iPhone app “MobileRSS – Free Google Reader” I’ve decided it warrants its own post. I now read at least 95% of my news and blog updates on my iPhone, and most of those updates come through Google Reader. MobileRSS, also available as a $3…

  • Clever Operation Chokehold Spoof Video

    In the style of the now-famous “Mac versus PC” advertisements run by Apple, Dave Dugdale created a clever 30 second spoof video poking fun at AT&T for its recent announcements and response to “Fake Steve Jobs’” exhortation for iPhone users everywhere to “speak truth to power” and engage in collective action via Operation Chokehold. While…

  • Terrorist groups are recruiting online – What about your school, club or organization?

    Nic Robertson’s video report on CNN today, “How Terrorists Recruit Online,” raises important issues relevant to social media and our need for constructive uses of video websites like YouTube in our schools and communities. This fall I visited with a friend who has been studying the importance of storytelling and the formation of individual as…

  • Kids writing for fun online

    I’m helping members of my son’s Boy Scout troop design and develop a new website using WordPress, and we had a meeting tonight to discuss both content and design elements of the site. One of the boys shared a forum he has recently created using the free website ForumMotion. It warms my heart to see…