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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • What are the new literacies?

    After participating in Friday’s online discussion in Elluminate organized by Josie Fraser about digital literacy and 21st century skills, Dean Groom’s post from yesterday resonates with me: Why have a ‘shared drive’ when you can have a wiki? What does an email do for a group that a wiki won’t do better? We are not…

  • Join the Digital Literacy debate – Live!

    Please join me and many others in the Digital Literacy debate organized by Josie Fraser: …the Digital Literacy debate… will be taking place online, in Elluminate, on Friday 27 March 2009, at 1pm GMT [THAT’S 8 AM CST] … The purpose of the debate is to try and move forward on issues surrounding Digital Literacy.…

  • Live from the OK State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit

    I’m attending the Oklahoma State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit this afternoon at Oklahoma Christian University. I’m experimenting with the Ustream Mobile broadcaster to provide a live video stream of the event, as well as CoverItLive. I’ve virtually “attended” events previously via CoverItLive but haven’t used it myself until today. Feel free to join in the chat…

  • Twitter follower bio word clouds

    Thanks to a tweet from Paul McMahon in Hong Kong I discovered Twittersheep today. The site creates a dynamic word cloud using the bios of people who follow a specific Twitter user. Here’s the current one for my followers: This word cloud not only communicates interesting things about folks with whom I share many common…

  • Podcast308: A Long Overdue Personal and Professional Life Update (March 2009)

    If you listened to Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train, you might have wondered just want sort of disruptive changes were taking place in my life (this past January) which I was only able to reference obliquely in that podcast. In this 40 minute podcast recorded in the car this past week driving up…

  • The value of comment moderation and feedback from a social media audience

    I have not made time the past several weeks to listen to and moderate new VoiceThread comments which others have left on digital stories my children and I have made on the site the past few years. Since we’re on Spring Break, my girls and I took some time to go through the VoiceThread comments…

  • Podcast307: The Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in Missouri Schools by Bob Martin

    This podcast is a recording of Bob Martin’s presentation at the 2009 COSN Conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11th. Bob is a technology leader for MORENET, a nonprofit providing a variety of technology services (including connectivity as an ISP) for over 500 schools in the state of Missouri. MORENET is part of the University…

  • Podcast306: Voices of COSN 2009 (Grantwrangler, a handheld data projector, and cloud-based computing)

    This podcast from the 2009 COSN conference in Austin, Texas, features interviews with three individuals focusing on the website Grantwrangler, the 3M Micro Professional Projector MPro110, and the cloud-based computing model embraced by the company Stoneware Inc. Show Notes: Grant Wrangler is a free grants listing service offered by Nimble Press. We help teachers find…

  • Google Apps: Implementation and Changing the Way We Do Business

    I was not able to attend this CoSN09 presentation in-person since it was scheduled at the same time as Cheryl Lemke’s preso on web 2.0 research, but the presentation is available online (on Google Presentations, not surprisingly) and I recorded audio from the session with presenter permission, which I’ll republish here soon. Prince George’s County…

  • Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade

    These are my notes from Monica Martinez’s CoSN09 spotlight session, “Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING VIDEOS HERE. POWERFUL IDEAS. GOOD SYNTHESIS AND RESOURCES. Grassroots Economy The Institute For The Future –…