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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Videoconference With Your Grandchildren

    Several months ago Maryan Pelland, a writer for grandparents.com, contacted me about our family’s experiences using videoconferencing with our children and their grandparents / our parents. A few months ago she published the article “Videoconference With Your Grandchildren: Hearing your grandchildren’s voices is special, but seeing their faces is even better. Videoconferencing is the next…

  • Addressing concerns about Ning open social networking vulnerability

    I posted the following memo to our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community this afternoon, in response to questions raised by a school district official and a company providing content filtering services for some of our Oklahoma school districts. This is also available as a PDF file. See my November 11, 2008, post “Making the case…

  • Webcasting on a Shoestring

    I shared a presentation today at the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association‘s annual conference in Oklahoma City titled “Webcasting on a Shoestring.” The program description for this session was: Historically it has been quite expensive to produce and host a live radio program that is broadcasted for a global audience. Today, it is possible to…

  • Podcast291: Humanizing the Learning Technology by Tammy Parks

    This podcast is a recording of the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference keynote by Tammy Parks. Tammy is a fantastic educator who teaches in Howe Public Schools in Howe, Oklahoma. Tammy teaches broadcast journalism, and utilizes videoconferencing technologies as well as web 2.0 tools with both students and teachers in engaging ways. This…

  • Moodle advocacy by School Charlson

    Scott Charlson presented the session “K12 Student Engagement: Beyond the 3:00 Bell” at the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference on 13 Nov 2008. These are a few of the links and notes I jotted down from his session. A Ustream.tv recorded archive of Scott’s session is available. MoodleRooms is being used by the…

  • Humanizing the Learning Technology by Tammy Parks

    These are my notes from Tammy Parks’ keynote at the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference on 13 Nov 2008 titled, “Humanizing the Learning Technology.” Tammy teaches broadcast journalism in Howe Public Schools. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session and will post it subsequently as an audio…

  • WikiPedia to go (an offline download for schools)

    Is WikiPedia blocked at your school or library? Are administrators, teachers, and librarians in your school district wary to permit students to use WikiPedia for research purposes because of its dynamic nature? photo credit: sooperkuh If that is the case, a conversation about our universal need for media literacy is probably appropriate. WikiPedia is often…

  • Making the case for a safe, moderated learning community for Oklahoma schools

    In response to some questions we’ve had in the past couple of weeks regarding the Ning website we’re using for our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” statewide oral history and digital storytelling project, I posted the following in our forum (“Clarifications on our COV learning community (Ning) website”) and also on Classroom 2.0 (“Specific guidelines needed for…

  • A new browser simulation game: Travians (not Travian)

    My 10 year old son has discovered a new online simulation game called Travians. The game is similar in some ways to the war game Travian, which he played independently for the past year and I played with him as my own character for 10 months in an alliance we joined for mutual protection and…

  • Exploring, Learning and Communicating with Wordle

    Wordle is not only a fun site to use, it also can be an illuminating tool for learning in different contexts. Tag clouds are commonly used on social bookmarking websites like delicious.com and photo sharing sites like Flickr, but with Wordle anyone can create a “word cloud” about anything. According to the Wordle homepage: Wordle…