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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Images and Experiences from TechCon 2008 near Chicago today

    I had a wonderful day today sharing and learning at the TechCon 2008 conference in Naperville, Illinois, just outside Chicago. If the 36+ pages of backchannel chat conversations are any indication, it would appear a lot of dialog and discussion took place as a result of the presentations and networking opportunities afforded by the conference!…

  • TechCon 2008 GabCast Channel and Chatzy Room

    If you’re attending the TechCon 2008 conference today in Naperville, Illinois, here is the Gabcast channel information we are using to share takeaways and learning points from the conference: You can access the conference Chatzy room for backchannel discussions by using the shortened web address tinyurl.com/techcon08 The password to both our Gabcast channel and Chatzy…

  • Reconsidering boundaries on K12Online Presentation Mirroring

    On behalf of our convener team for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference I’ve shared a new post to our blog titled, “Let the content be free! (following CC terms)” Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online08, copyright, intellectualproperty, web2, education, school, learning

  • Visualizing field trip school visitors with Google Maps

    Today I created a Google Map highlighting the locations of schools which have sent students on field trips (many of them FREE thanks to a generous grant from Dell as well as funding from the OHA Teen Board) to the Oklahoma Heritage Association and Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City so far during the 2008-2009 school…

  • K-12 Online Conference 2008 starts tomorrow!

    Tomorrow morning, October 13, 2008, at 12 pm GMT (that’s 7 am for me here in Oklahoma, USA) Dr. Stephen Heppell’s pre-conference keynote will be published “live” on the K-12 Online Conference website. As a co-convener as well as participant in the K-12 Online conference, I am VERY excited we’re about to kick things off!…

  • NECC 2009 proposals are in!

    My proposals are in at last for NECC 2009!

  • What Common Sense Media didn’t tell parents about WikiPedia but should have

    I discovered the collection of technology-related video tips for parents on the Common Sense Media website recently, and was glad to see so many important issues addressed via short messages. I was disappointed, however, to NOT see several recommendations in the video about WikiPedia narrated by Liz Perle (Editor in Chief of Common Sense Media.)…

  • A worthless worksheet and a voluntary VoiceThread

    My daughter’s 3rd grade homework assignment this evening was completing the following “Listening for Syllables” worksheet. Sarah has a fantastic teacher, and my perception of the value of this homework assignment is not reflective of my perception of the overall quality of the educational experiences I think she’s having regularly in her public school classroom.…

  • UStream recording of tonight’s K12Online08 conversation on EdTechTalk

    Dean Shareski and I joined the hosts of “It’s Elementary” this evening on EdTechTalk to discuss the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. An audio-only recording of our discussion is available now via the EdTechTalk Ustream channel. Many thanks to our hosts Lisa Durff, Maria Knee, Jose Rodriguez, and Alice Mercer for giving us this opportunity to…

  • Amazed by the power of asynchronous learning

    Wow. I glanced at the statistics podPress is keeping for my most recently published podcasts this evening: 17 days ago, Dr. Renee Hobbs from the Media Education Lab at Temple University presented “Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age” here in the Oklahoma City metro area as a keynote at the OTEP reading conference.…