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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Podcast216: Conversations about Classroom Blogging, Instructional Change, and Schooliness by Clay Burell and Ken Carroll

    This podcast features excerpts of the conversation during an unconference session facilitated by Will Richardson at the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai, China, in September 2007. Although there were many more participants, the only ones whose permission I was able to obtain to share their comments were Clay Burell and Ken Carroll. For that reason,…

  • Manage Twitter contacts with Twitter Karma

    Another learning moment regarding Twitter thanks to Sue Waters… Twitter Karma is a superb tool for managing your Twitter contacts. It is web-based and lets you filter your contacts, so you can see very quickly who is following you but you are not following. You can click a contact to visit their Twitter page in…

  • Feedback on a great podcast about articulating a vision for educational change

    The following is a comment I left tonight for Ben Wilkoff on his September 2007 podcast, “Articulating Vision.” It’s not long, take a moment and give Ben a listen as well as some feedback. I’d be interested to hear your responses to Ben’s ideas as well. I’m cross-posting it here for several reasons, but principally…

  • Surviving 11 days without my MacBook

    What a relief. After 11 days, my MacBook is back from Apple Repair and running as good as new, understandably so because it essentially IS new. I’m glad computer warranties don’t expire after a certain number of “use hours.” Automotive warranties usually have both a time and mileage expiration: 3 years or 30,000 miles. If…

  • Monitoring Twitter direct messages and blog comments with Safari RSS

    Thanks to a helpful blog comment from Sue Waters, I learned this week how to use TweetScan to create an RSS feed for the direct messages I receive in Twitter and monitor those both in Google Reader as well as Safari RSS. If you are a Windows user (or like me, predominantly a Mac user…

  • NCCE and Seattle in February

    It’s been official for awhile but I haven’t posted about this till now: I’m thrilled to be traveling to Seattle in late February for the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) conference as an invited featured speaker. Many thanks to Jeff Allen for helping facilitate this! I am scheduled to share four presentations at NCCE:…

  • Podcast215: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast03 – Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology

    Educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. Welcome to the “Technology Shopping Cart,” and our third episode when we focus on “Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology” as well as our “geeks of the week.” Access our show notes below and on our wiki for links to the websites and resources we discussed…

  • Morning with the Practical Principals

    Don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t ALWAYS listen to educational podcasts in the morning when I mysteriously find myself at the local YMCA gym, or on my commutes to and from work. The fact that I CAN choose between music and high quality, free educational professional development when I turn on my iPod is…

  • Want E-learning job leads? Get Linked-In!

    I was contacted this morning by Will Kelly, who is a Technical Recruiter/Account Manager in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. Will is looking for educators who could be hired for eLearning course development, and wanted to know if I had recommendations for good prospects. He found me via a Google search, apparently, for eLearning and distance…

  • ClaimID and website verification

    Our digital identities online are only going to increase in importance in the months and years ahead. How do people verify what websites are genuinely yours? This is a question many people (including teachers) may have not given much thought in the past, but I think it’s a good idea to start considering it. The…