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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Stellar idea for using social bookmarks to intro / build community

    Lucie deLaBruere shared a fantastic idea with me this afternoon about using del.icio.us social bookmarking for helping groups introduce themselves to teach other during teacher professional development workshops. Here are the steps: Setup a new and unique del.icio.us account for your workshop. Share that userid and password with all participants. Ask each participant to post…

  • School 2.0 and the Future of School by Tim Manger

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM TIM MAGNER’S PRESENTATION AT NECC 2007 ON 26 JULY 2007. TIM IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. AT TIM’S REQUEST I AM NOT GOING TO PODCAST HIS SESSION. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore (Dorothy Gale) As late…

  • School 2.0 and the Future of School by Tim Manger

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM TIM MAGNER’S PRESENTATION AT NECC 2007 ON 26 JULY 2007. TIM IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. AT TIM’S REQUEST I AM NOT GOING TO PODCAST HIS SESSION. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore (Dorothy Gale) As late…

  • Nuggets from NECC (1)

    Well, the first day of NECC for me was great! It is too bad, however, that so many groups scheduled their parties for Monday night. I attended an AT&T function, but there were also events sponsored by Apple, Google, and TechLearning. I wish I could have attended them all! The Google one is still going…

  • New TechEdge article

    I’ve written a new article for the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association, titled “Join the Global Education Conversation.” This will be published in print in their fall issue. In the article I go into a bit more detail about read-only and read-write culture than I have in the conference keynotes I’ve…

  • Seattle Schools Embrace Moderated Read/Write Technologies

    At last, a VERY encouraging headline about digital social networking in schools! According to Thursday’s article “Seattle Public Schools builds social-learning site for its tech-savvy teens” the district has rolled out its own website for encouraging safe and appropriate read/write sharing by students in the school district. The site is called L3RN: Similar to the…

  • Administrators Who Blog, Read Blogs, and Podcast

    My latest “Tech Trends” article in the summer issue of Smart Technologies “Interactive Educator” magazine is available for free download. The article, “Top-Level Bloggers: Social technologies move into the office” starts on page 40. The entire summer 2007 issue is available as a PDF download. (5 MB) Whether or not your principal, assistant principal, superintendent…

  • Lessig turns from IP to politics and government corruption

    Wow. One of my favorite thinkers and writers about copyright and intellectual property issues, Dr. Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law school, has decided to change directions. Instead of focusing on those topics, he is going to focus (for the next decade) on our political process (in the United States) and specifically the corruption which…

  • Podcast163: What Educators Need to Know About Web 2.0

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared at EduComm 2007 on June 19, 2007, in Anaheim, California. We hear a great deal of buzz in the blogosphere about web 2.0 and the read/write web. Are these developments truly revolutionary for learning, or merely evolutionary? In this presentation I took on this question…

  • Podcast162: Martin Levin on Changing the Face of Our Educational Practice Using Web 2.0 Technologies

    This podcast features a presentation by Martin Levin at EduComm 2007 in Anaheim, California on June 20, 2007. Martin Is The Technology Director Of The Armidale School In Australia. The official description of this session was: Why not take advantage of a 1:1 laptop deployment and get kids to publish their work in a Web2.0…