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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Issues with tiered content filtering

    I’m working on a new article for the TechEdge on tiered content filtering, which I wrote about recently in the post “Advocating for differentiated content filtering.” The basic idea is this: School districts as “best practice” should provide more permissive levels of content filtering for teachers on the school network, relative to students. As professionals,…

  • Google Maps: Collaboration welcome!

    Ever since I heard and watched David Jakes present on Google Maps as well as Google Earth at TechForum Southwest in Austin this past November, I’ve been itching for an excuse/reason to play more with Google Maps. Last week’s visit to Seattle for NCCE 2008 provided me with just the opportunity I was looking for!…

  • When litigation fear rules the network

    I’m on an airplane flying from Seattle to Denver, enroute back from the NCCE conference to my home in Oklahoma. NCCE was a great conference, and I really enjoyed the opportunities to present as well as have conversations with so many educators from around the Pacific northwest. One of the most troubling themes in several…

  • Podcast235: Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property and Podcasting – NCCE 2008

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. Intellectual property law, Creative Commons licensed media, and the guidelines under which students can legally publish their ideas in a variety of multimedia formats on the OPEN WEB (accessible by anyone) are important…

  • Podcast231: Global Voices – Using Synchronous and Asynchronous VOIP Applications for Worldwide Classroom Collaborations

    This podcast is a recording of my final presentation at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. We were fortunate to have Dr. Scott Mcleod join us over Skype for the first ten minutes of this session from Mubai, India! The program description of my session was: Amazing new voice technologies…

  • Mobile Phone Media Collection and VoiceThread

    I just wrapped up my second workshop at NCCE in Seattle, titled “Cell Phones for Learning.” Participants learned how to use Gabcast to record audio interviews “in the field” as well as Flickr upload by email to share digital photos. We took the photos (from Flickr) and web-posted mp3 files (from a new Gabcast channel…

  • Responses to Growing Up Online

    PBS aired a Frontline special in January 2008 titled, “Growing Up Online.” The entire program can be viewed on the PBS website in separate chapters. I learned about this last week, listening to the most recent Seedlings podcast. This evening in Seattle, I led a three hour workshop on “Safe Digital Social Networking,” and we…

  • Learning should be an invitation, not a mandate

    Marc Prensky, in his recent article in the Feb/Mar issue of EduTopia, “Programming: The New Literacy,” makes a persuasive case for helping learners of ALL ages master a key element of the new literacies of the 21st century: Programming. The following paragraph near the end of his piece really caught my attention: Our machines are…

  • Knowledge and learning require both transmission and construction

    I’m finalizing my session materials for NCCE in Seattle later this week, and want to include a reference to Thomas Edison’s sweeping pronouncements in the 1870s about how the phonograph (one of his inventions) was going to revolutionize education forever. I heard Marco Torres make reference to this in March 2007, when he shared the…

  • Good morning, your workshop materials have been blocked

    BYOB is not just convenient, it can mean survival in the 21st century educational technology and information landscape. After trying to pull up my workshop curriculum and handouts site today at the school where I’m presenting 4 workshops this morning, I was greeted by the following screen:After trying 1 more time to reach the root…