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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • I officially claim this title for my first book – YET unwritten!

    I’m not sure I can do this, and guess this is not likely legally binding in any way, but I would like to none-the-less formally “claim” a title for a book I want to write in the not too distant future. (Specifically, at whatever point I regain full control of my own intellectual property.) The…

  • Here for the learning revolution

    I’m a few days late getting to Jon Becker post’s “Reflections of a new-ish blogger,” but in our digital world of asynchronously empowered conversations, I don’t think that is a bad thing. I read David Warlick’s post “10 Ways to Keep your PLN from Running Amok!” several weeks ago, and remember thinking to myself, “Boy…

  • Selling Twitter Followers?

    Thanks to Darren Kuropatwa for tipping me off to Andrea Hernandez‘s tweet about the pending eBay sale of Andrew Baron’s (of Rocketboom fame) Twitter account and followers. As of now the bid is $1125. Should we be impressed, sad, disgusted, shocked, or not surprised at all? At a minimum I think this shows some creativity,…

  • Google Sites as a classroom learning portal

    Looking for an effective way to create a learning portal for your classroom, which integrates blogs, multimedia, documents, and a variety of interactive features? Consider using the recently announced Google Sites application, part of the growing suite of solutions offered as Google Apps. This YouTube video provides a nice overview: Apparently your organization has to…

  • Podcast242: Solving the Publish At Will Challenge for K-12 Teachers with Podcast Producer

    This podcast is a recording of a conversation I had with Kamala Jolly-Stewart of Mid-Del Schools in Midwest City, Oklahoma. For some time, I have viewed the ability of individuals with access to digital technologies and the web to publish their ideas and voices DIRECTLY on the global stage of the Internet as the ability…

  • Opinions about auto-blogged social bookmark lists?

    This past week, I’ve experimented with the “daily blog posting” option of del.icio.us: I have my del.icio.us account set to auto-post my publicly shared social bookmarks at 0800 GMT each day, which should be 3 am US Central time. (For some reason it works out to be about 3:30 am US Central.) You can view…

  • College students: Win $$$ for developing social networking apps

    My April 1st post “Time to get on the mobile learning train!” was not an April Fool’s joke. A mobile learning revolution is underway, and learners at our colleges and universities are (in many areas) on the leading edge of this change. While many in K-12 schools continue to ban all cell phones and balk…

  • Schools using Twitter for parent and community communication

    Howe Public Schools in southeastern Oklahoma is one of the most innovative and progressive school districts in our state. Howe school leaders have recently set up a Twitter account with the specific purpose of reaching out to parents and other community members for PR and communication purposes. Does anyone know of other schools around the…

  • iPhone Web App explorations begin

    It’s been about 3 weeks since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone software roadmap and released the iPhone SDK (software development kit.) Until this evening I had not taken time to explore the available web apps (web applications) for the iPhone. As I’ve watched a set of severe thunderstorms roll into our area (on TV) north…

  • Exploring differences in preteen social networking sites

    I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Bob Sprankle, Kevin Jarrett, and Maria Knee discuss WebKinz along with a wide variety of other “tween” social networking websites in Bob’s Bit by Bit podcast #63 this week during my commutes in the car. As a kindergarten teacher, Maria described how she has used a “class Webkinz pet” to…