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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Podcast280: Get Wiki With It!

    This podcast is a recording of my presentation at the EncycloMedia 2008 conference in Oklahoma City on September 18, 2008. The session description was: This presentation focuses on helping teachers and students utilize WIKIS to effectively collaborate and learn. A wiki is a website that permits designated individuals to jointly author and edit documents. The…

  • Ways to use a wiki

    In my presentation “Get Wiki with It” today at EncycloMedia 2008 in Oklahoma City, session participants brainstormed different ways educators can and are using wikis to support learning inside and outside the classroom. This was our list: 1. Connect with parents through publishing student work 2. Homework groups with kids (ask questions) 3. Share lesson…

  • Financial literacy web tools and curriculum from Shryk

    I learned briefly today from Shane Kempton of Phase Two Interactive in Oklahoma City about several web-based tools and resources related to financial literacy which are of high interest to me as a parent and educator. I’m guessing these are also of interest to many others for similar reasons. Our students and children need to…

  • Explaining the value of microblogging and Twitter for educators

    Maggie Verster (an educator in Johannesburg, South Africa – Twitter: maggiev) has created and shared an excellent tutorial via SlideShare titled “Twitter for Educational Purposes.” Twitter for educational purposes -A tutorial View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: school2.0 howto) Her learning outcomes for the tutorial are three-fold: Communicate using a micro-blogging system Update…

  • Helping more teachers and students access a Ning website via a subdomain and a CNAME entry in DNS

    I am delighted after many months to have finally figured out how to do something which I hope will greatly extend the accessibility of our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” Ning website to more teachers and students in Oklahoma schools (and elsewhere) in the months ahead. It is no secret many of our school districts here in…

  • Marketing flyer for K12Online08

    It’s here! Please share it far and wide: The 2008 K-12 Online Conference marketing flyer! (PDF format) Many thanks to the K12Online08 PR committee! Technorati Tags: k12online08, k12online, marketing, flyer, advertising

  • The Educational Technology Influence Nexus

    I had a thought provoking conversation recently with Karen Montgomery about some terms and dynamics relating to educational technology in our schools. Vicki Allen had shared this after talking to a Tandberg system engineer. In our schools, we have “obtainers” and “maintainers” when it comes to educational technologies. The obtainers are teachers, instructional technology directors…

  • PodCorps.org, Citizen Journalism and StoryChasers

    This is a cross-post from TechLearning today. Affiliated with the 501(c)(3) non-profit Conversations Network, PodCorps is a: …worldwide team of producers who record and publish interviews and spoken-word events that would otherwise be lost forever. Podcasters and videobloggers join PodCorps.org to learn, share experience with others and give back to their communities. This sounds like…

  • Podcast278: TechShoppingCart Podcast09: Digital Wishes, Flip Video Labs, and Manifest Destiny for EdTech

    Welcome to episode 9 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, a podcast (and now live webcast) where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. This episode features a conversation with Heather Chirtea of ToolFactory, Vicki Allen, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer about podcasting, digital storytelling, mobile podcasting labs, mobile flip video labs, “ushering”…

  • Tech Shopping Cart webcast Friday

    Please join us for another episode of “The Technology Shopping Cart” podcast/webcast on Friday, September 5, 2008 at 10 am US Central time. We’ll convene on Ustream, and will be joined by Heather Chirtea of ToolFactory. Among other topics I’m sure we’ll discuss ToolFactory’s Flip Video Mobile Lab and Podcasting Mobile Lab. I’m very interested…