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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • YouTube and electoral politics

    I created a personal blog site over at my.barackobama.com this evening and posted some thoughts titled, “The personal value of YouTube in politics.” I’m not only intrigued by the role social media is playing in 21st century U.S. politics, I’m also interested in being involved. YouTube rocks. I also like the things I hear Senator…

  • Facing the realities of bullying in our schools and communities

    This morning’s Today show featured the story of a Missouri teen who committed suicide (in October 2006) after a “MySpace romance” fell apart, which turned out to be a hoax created by the parents of one of her classmates. Ironically, the parents were neighbors living close by the teen. (See “Parents of MySpace hoax victim…

  • Thinking Coffee 2.0

    Vicki Allen created a clever VoiceThread with Houston-area teachers last week on the theme “Coffee 2.0.” (She borrowed the idea from Karen Montgomery.) Are you ever intimidated by the six-part Starbucks coffee orders some people give you? I am. My wife’s preferred order (“grande skinny decaf latte with two sweet and lows”) is really tame…

  • Podcast205: Innovation, Integration and the K-20 Center: Why Educational Leadership Needs Technology (Quyen Arana)

    This podcast features a recording of the luncheon presentation by Quyen Arana at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 6, 2007. The title of Quyen’s presentation was, Innovation, Integration and the K-20 Center: Why Educational Leadership Needs Technology. The program description of his presentation was: The K20 Center at the…

  • Connection info for Friday’s Web 2.0 Webinar

    If you’ve had any trouble registering for Friday’s free webinar I’m co-presenting with Vicki Allen (which I mentioned in last night’s post “Join us Friday for a webinar on Web 2.0”) you can use the following information and links to join us directly: Nov 14th Webinar info Participant Information When: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:00…

  • Planning for Human Rights Day Participation: Dec 10th

    We generally “observe” holidays in U.S. public schools, but we don’t often “participate” in them. Sure we have class parties and sometimes have different school-wide celebrations, but do those activities really constitute “participation” or “commemoration?” In the case of Veteran’s Day this week, some schools did invite veterans to come and speak at special events.…

  • Join us Friday for a webinar on Web 2.0

    Vicki Allen and I are going to share an hour long webinar titled “Web 2.0 Tools for Learning” for AT&T this Friday, November 16th at 7:00 pm GMT. (That is 2 pm Eastern, or 1 pm Central time in the U.S.) The webinar is free and open to anyone worldwide to attend. A PDF file…

  • Deciding who to follow on Twitter

    Social networking is fun as well as interesting to watch, study, and participate in. (I know, I’m ending a sentence with a preposition, but I’m hoping you’ll forgive me…) I was amazed tonight, in scanning over the WikiPedia list of social networking websites, to see that MySpace reportedly has over 289 million users now. If…

  • Podcast203: Empowering and Protecting Tomorrow’s Digital Citizens (with Miguel Guhlin)

    This podcast is a recording of a session I co-presented with Miguel Guhlin at the Southwest TechForum in Austin on November 2, 2007. Whether we’re with them or not, today’s young people are venturing into the virtual world, where they face challenges of the sort we could hardly have dreamed of a few decades ago.…

  • Podcast202: 21st Century Cartography by David Jakes

    This podcast features a recording of David Jakes’ excellent presentation about Google Maps and Google Earth at TechForum Southwest in Austin, Texas, on November 2, 2007. Every subject can be studied within a geographical context.  Two freely available tools, Google Earth and Google Maps can be used by teachers and students to create rich learning…