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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Talking with PBwiki Summer Campers: Basic Ingredients for Blended Learning

    Last week I was invited to share a webinar presentation via Skype through Ustream.tv with educators involved in the PBwiki summer camp facilitated by Kristine Molnar. Kristine aggregated the resources we discussed during this session as well as participant comments and feedback on her wiki. The ideas I shared were based on a presentation I’ve…

  • Four projects and 1 place to know about

    I learned recently about an educator who is making a professional development journey across the United States to work with teachers and schools on using collaborative web 2.0 tools with students, and I sent her an email with the following information. These are collaborative projects I want to make sure she knows about, as well…

  • A Storychasers code of ethics, remembering Lee Baber

    You’re invited to join a conversation in Elluminate this Wednesday evening, August 6th, to discuss a proposed code of ethics for our Storychasers project in 2008-2009, as well as other ideas for this new project idea. We will meet for ONLY one hour this week, since some participants may (like me) plan to participate in…

  • A delicious facelift, skypecast drawbacks, and a new Flickr site

    I was enthused to see this afternoon the social bookmarking website del.icio.us has gotten a redesign and facelift: The domain del.icio.us seems to now automatically redirect to delicious.com. Previously I don’t think this redirect was automatic from the “.us” site to the “.com” site. Previously I think it was reversed, the “.com” site redirected to…

  • Drupal versus Ning for Learning Community Websites

    One of our StoryChaser educators (jpatten) posted a great question in the forum on the StoryChasers learning community, and because I want to share a rather long answer I am posting it here. The question was: I will be implementing a Federal EETT grant this year with some of my 5th grade teachers (science). Part…

  • How can I join tonight’s skypecast?

    I received a question from Amy Hopkins in northeast Texas today that may be on the minds of more educators: “How can I join tonight’s skypecast?” (Last night’s published podcast and my July 25th post “Let’s brainstorm ideas for Storychasers” provide more background about this.) Before I answer that question, I want to point out…

  • NOTk12onlineconference.org

    NOTk12onlineconference.org? What is THAT? Give a listen and learn! 🙂 Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online08, notk12online, notk12online08

  • Great VoiceThread resources

    I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast “Revisiting VoiceThread” from July 23rd today on my commute to and from work. Among the nuggets of good advice shared in the session about helping students effectively use VoiceThread were the following basic but powerful recommendations: Rather than start teachers and students at the “invention”…

  • Magically entered data

    If you have not recently created a spreadsheet in Google Documents and used the free option to create a form, you should give it a try. I still subscribe to Surveymonkey and use it for some web surveys, but increasingly I find myself using Google Documents for web forms. Why? It is free so when…

  • How can our school set up a team blog for teachers?

    I received a question via email from Tammy Parks in Howe, Oklahoma, recently, who just returned from BLC08 eager to setup a team blog for teachers at her school. Her question is: Our district would like to set-up a teacher blog site for each teacher to post a daily classroom summary. Initially, we would like…