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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning

    These are my notes from Alan November’s keynote, “Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning,” at the 2008 OU K-20 Center’s 2008 MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma. My thoughts and comments are in all caps. I am recording this session and will post as a podcast, Alan gave permission, OU K-20 Center is also…

  • Using Technology for Building Learning Communities by Alan November

    These are my notes from Alan November’s first presentation, “Using Technology for Building Learning Communities,” at the 2008 OU K-20 Center’s 2008 MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma. My thoughts and comments are in all caps. I am recording this session and will post as a podcast if Alan gives permission… The smart toilet and fridge…

  • Two Million Minutes: A call for educational change

    The documentary film “Two Million Minutes” highlights stark contrasts in the educational experiences, perspectives, and expectations of high school students in the United States, China, and India. The film’s title is derived from the mathematical statistic that following eighth grade graduation, students have approximately two million minutes to spend until they graduate from high school.…

  • Podcast220V: Cleaning Up Downloaded Podcasts with Juice Receiver

    This podcast is a short (3 min, 16 sec) screencast explaining how you can use free Juice Receiver software to quickly identify and clean up podcast channels that have more episodes than you want to keep, or episodes you’ve already watched / listened to. Juice Receiver can work in conjunction with iTunes, and when you…

  • Extent of a child’s right to online privacy

    I led a question-filled discussion this evening for an hour and a half with parents at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City, titled “Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents.” Of the presentations and workshops on Internet safety and safe digital social networking I’ve led to date, I think this one was the best received…

  • VoiceThread Publishing Example: Safe, Powerful, Interactive

    Thanks to a tweet from New York school librarian Karen Kliegman, I learned about a superb elementary VoiceThread project she helped facilitate titled, “Federal Holidays: New Holiday Proposals.” This student VoiceThread project exemplifies “best practices” for safe publishing of student work in several ways: SAFETY: Student identities are not revealed. Each student created a custom…

  • Podcast219: Powerful Tools, Powerful Possibilities

    This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the STARtech: Technology for the Next Generation conference at Salina South High School in Salina, Kansas, on January 21, 2008. An amazing array of digital tools are now available for anyone connected to the Internet to use and share his/her voice with the world using…

  • Helping Mom Move to Google Docs

    Back in March, I recorded and shared an interview with my mother in which she discussed her experiences reading a variety of different blogs over the past few years: Powerful and Meaningful Connections from Blogging International Students, MilBloggers, and Others (An interview with Angie Fryer.) At that time, I also introduced her to social bookmarking…

  • Podcast218: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast04 – An Interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell (Co-Founders of VoiceThread) Discussing the new VoiceThread for Education

    Welcome to episode four of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell, the co-Founders of the VoiceThread website and web 2.0 tool. Steve and Ben discuss the background for how VoiceThread…

  • Podcast217: Making the Case for Blended Learning

    This podcast is a recording of a thirty minute skype connection I made to GT teachers in Ector County Schools, Odessa, Texas, on January 18, 2008. The focus of my presentation was making the case for using and supporting blended learning tools and learning methodologies in the 21st century classroom. There are an enormous array…