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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Podcast290: The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development

    This podcast is a recording of the NECC 2008 presentation “The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development,” shared on July 2, 2008. The offical description of this session in the NECC program was: There is a tangible electricity present when teachers connect with each other, and connect their students to others in…

  • Why is voting cool now?

    Our education committee for the Oklahoma Creativity Project had an interesting discussion during our monthly meeting regarding today’s U.S. elections. Why is voting “cool” now, in the perception of many people in our country? Certainly participatory technologies have played a role in these changing perceptions. The CNN-YouTube presidential debates were a big part of this.…

  • Navigating challenges of public learning communities for students

    Perhaps this was inevitable. This evening we had our first instance of a student creating a profane and inappropriate account profile in our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community, and posting a profane comment on the profile wall of another student member. I’ve used Skitch to hide the identifying information of the student in question in…

  • Help evaluate the 2008 K-12 Online Conference

    If you have participated in any capacity to date in the 2008 K-12 Online Conference as a participant, presenter or volunteer, please take about 5 minutes and complete this short Google form evaluation. An embedded version of the form is available on this post from the conference blog. Looking at the ClustrMap hits for the…

  • K12Online08 in the palm of my hand

    It’s amazing that in the palm of my hand, I can hold an ENTIRE educational conference. This afternoon, I went ahead and subscribed to both the K12Online08 video and audio podcast channels in iTunes in the iTunes library I use when I sync my iPhone. After subscribing, I clicked the “Podcasts” menu item in the…

  • Mr. T is not familiar with connectivism

    In this rather amusing advertisement for Hitachi, Mr. T claims “intelligence is never in the network.” Apparently Mr. T has not been introduced to the concepts of connectivism. 🙂 Even though this video script for the the actor formerly known as Laurence Tureaud may not reflect a basic understanding of connectivist learning theory, I do…

  • Podcast287: Navigating Opportunities and Risks in Hyperconnected Schools (TechCon 2008 Keynote)

    This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the TechCon 2008 conference held in Naperville, Illinois, just outside Chicago on October 17, 2008. TechCon is jointly sponsored by The Illinois Association of School Business Officials, Illinois Computing Educators and Illinois Chief Technology Officers. The description of my session was: Rapid advances in communication…

  • Join in Live K12Online08 Conversations Thursday and Saturday!

    Amazing presentations continue to be shared in the 2008 K-12 Online Conference! I was not able to take in a full session today, however, and I feel behind already! I’m reminded of the following “Pirates of the Caribbean” parody slide Karen Montgomery shared last year at the METC conference in St. Louis: I don’t want…

  • Research-based suggestions for the digital storytelling process

    Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 8 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. This morning I took 15 minutes and watched the wonderful presentation “Student Creation of Digital Documentaries in History Classrooms: Research Findings” by Glen Bull, Tom Hammond, and Curby Alexander published…

  • Professional development submission requests integrated in K12Online08 blog

    I am SO, SO pleased to announce at long last that participants in the K12Online08 conference can now submit reflections for professional development credit on the conference blog as comments and receive an email PD certificate. Please read the post “Receive professional development credits” on the K-12 Online Conference blog for more details. Note that…