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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Share the K12Online09 Printable Flyer at your school

    Thanks to the hard work of Patrick Woessner and others on the K12Online09 PR committee, a 2 page printable flyer is now available which you can use to share the 2009 K-12 Online Conference with other educators with whom you work! Please read the full post on the K-12 Online Conference blog – due to…

  • WatchKnow vets educational YouTube videos

    Thanks to a post from the ever-helpful and prolific Richard Byrne, I learned about the website WatchKnow. According to the website’s about page: Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos… WatchKnow—as in, “You watch,…

  • Join us on Classroom 2.0 Live Talking K12Online09 Saturday

    Cross-posted to the K-12 Online Conference blog. Tomorrow on Classroom 2.0 Live, organizers of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference will discuss this year’s conference which begins on Monday, November 30th with a pre-conference keynote by Kim Cofino. Here are the details of this FREE online meetup! Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009 Time: Saturday, November 28,…

  • 4 More K12Online09 Teasers!

    The 2009 K-12 Online Conference starts on Monday! Our presenters continue to share short “teaser” videos giving previews of their presentations. To view all the teasers, you can click the “2009 – Teasers” category on our blog, or view them in the “videos” section of our Ning. Here’s the teaser video for Julie Lindsay‘s upcoming…

  • I’ve Got a Feeling we’ll see more Lip Dubs like this one

    According to the English Wikipedia, a “Lip dub” is: …a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with…

  • Five more K12Online09 Teaser Trailers!

    The FREE 2009 K-12 Online Conference officially kicks off a week from today, on Monday, November 30, 2009. Five new teaser trailers have been added to our Conference Ning in the past week, and also posted to the conference blog. Check them out, and if you have not already: Join the K12Online Ning Subscribe to…

  • K12Online09 LAN Party #3 Tonight! (22:30GMT/ 3:30pmPST/ 4:30pmMST/ 5:30pmCST/ 6:30pmEST)

    Please join educators worldwide TONIGHT/TODAY on November 18, 2009 at 22:30GMT/ 3:30pmPST/ 4:30pmMST/ 5:30pmCST/ 6:30pmEST for a live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to…

  • Debating the propriety of blanket censorship by school IT departments

    I received the following comment today on my August 21, 2009 post, “Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classroom?” from Ricky. He began his comment by quoting a sentence of my post with which he took issue, and then shared his views: “we need to make sure that networks work FOR…

  • Accessing the web where URL shorteners don’t work? Problem solved with Untiny

    It’s unfortunate but true that in many US schools as well as some countries (like China) “web shortener” URLs like tinyurl.com, bit.ly, ow.ly, etc are BLOCKED. If you’re in this boat, give Untiny a try. If this site is unblocked, you can enter the shortened URL into Untiny and it will convert / extract /…

  • Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs

    This functionality has been available on Google Documents for awhile, but this evening I finally took some time to try it for myself. Like commercial survey services like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms (a feature of Google Spreadsheets on Google Docs) now supports branching, or conditional survey questions! This means you can ask a question, and route…