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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Talking K12Online09 on Seedlings

    Check out this past Thursday’s Seedlings webcast (available as an audio podcast) when Maria Knee discussed the upcoming 2009 K-12 Online Conference! They also discussed what Maria’s been doing the past 6 months, H1N1, and Monarchs in Space! Cross-posted to the K-12 Online Conference Blog. Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online09, webcast

  • Google Profiles, Online Reputation Management, and Digital Footprints

    Today at the TIC TAC Conference in Tonganoxie, Kansas, I shared a breakout session titled, “Crafting Your Digital Footprint.” My 9 year old, Sarah, led this session several weeks ago in Maine at the ACTEM09 Conference. Thanks to TWiT Podcast 218, I learned this week (in advance of the session in Tonganoxie) that Google Profiles…

  • Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power of the Social Web

    Today I had an opportunity to co-present with my 6 year old daughter, Rachel, at the Norman Public Library for approximately forty librarians working in the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma. The topic of our two hour presentation was, “Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power of the Social Web.” System librarians have re-evaluated…

  • Five K12Online09 Presentation Teaser Trailers (so far)

    If you’re not subscribed to the K-12 Online Conference blog, the K12Online Twitter feed, or Facebook page, you may not have noticed we’ve had five of our 2009 conference presenters share “teaser trailers” about their upcoming sessions! These are optional, short (30 – 60 second) advertisements for conference sessions by presenters, designed to whet your…

  • K-12 Online Conference 2009 Teaser

    The free, worldwide K-12 Online Conference is just around the corner, and this short teaser video from Maria Knee, one of our co-conveners, will whet your appetite about what is to come! If you have not already, please join the K-12 Online Conference Ning, subscribe to the conference blog, follow k12online on Twitter, and become…

  • Save the Date! PodStock 2010: July 16-17

    It’s coming and you won’t want to miss it! The 2010 PodStock conference will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. The 2009 PodStock conference was a GREAT event, made superb by the contributions of lots of creative educators from around the midwest of the USA and beyond. Mark…

  • Photographic privacy is over

    The days of photographic privacy are over. It is important for people of all ages, but especially teenagers who are most prone to rash behavior, to understand this and its implications. Chris Foresman’s November 2, 2009 article for ARS Technica, “Students suspended for racy slumber party pics, file lawsuit,” is the latest well-publicized case in…

  • Internet addiction a growing concern

    Amanda MacMillan’s article last month for CNN Health, “Internet addiction linked to ADHD, depression in teens” highlights a troubling study from Taiwan pointing to widespread Internet addiction problems faced by adults as well as youth. This paragraph really got my attention: Our culture practically mandates time online, he (Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis of the Center…

  • A proposed student social media protest campaign for NYSCATE

    Sylvia Martinez is spot on in her post today, “Students are not the enemy.” Shame on the vendor and vendor representative, Sophos and Chris Ridgway, for sharing an upcoming session at NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) conference titled, “The Enemy Within: Stop Students from Bypassing Your Web Filters.”…

  • Podcast333: Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China

    This podcast is a reflection I recorded on a flight back to the United States from the October / November 2009  21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China. There are some issues about which I am reticent to blog, given their poliltical sensitivity in China, but want to share and reflect upon because of the…