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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: google

  • We Need More Curious Dreamers, Tinkerers and Makers

    Thank goodness Orville and Wilbur Wright were not lawyers or accountants! I love what Dr. Paul Czysz said in these 35 seconds of an intriguing 38 minute video interview: …all it takes is a dreamer. Can you imagine the Wright Brothers if one was a lawyer and one was an accountant? Why are you going to…

  • Make a Windows Laptop Into a Chromebook with Chromixium

    We have two new Dell Latitude 3150 laptops at school, which we initially purchased and setup with Windows 10 as an operating system. I learned this week that the hardware of the Latitude 3150 is the same Dell is using for their Chromebook line. If you order with Windows, you pay more for the OS licensing.…

  • Our Daughter Plays Minecraft with International YouTubers

    Our youngest daughter, Rachel, has become a pretty amazing Minecraft guru in the past year.  I initially taught her to play, but the HOURS she has invested in playing, watching Minecraft YouTuber videos, and creating her own videos have catapulted her far beyond my own meager Minecraft skills into the digital stratosphere. She’s recorded some…

  • Sharing Learning from Miami Device 2015

    The last two days my wife and I attended and participated in the 2nd annual Miami Device Conference in Coconut Grove, Florida. Organized by gifted educator Felix Jacomino, Miami Device is one of the the premier learning events on our planet for educators. The next Miami Device conference will be November 9-10, 2017, so mark your calendar now…

  • Google Cloud Print Offline with Brother MFC-J4420DW

    At the start of this semester I decided it was time for a new home printer. With 2 kids now in high school and 1 in 6th grade, reliable home printing is a necessity rather than a luxury. Our old printer worked fine, but since we now have several Chromebooks in our family laptop mix, I decided…

  • WordPress OKC Meetup Tips (August 2015)

    Tonight was our monthly Oklahoma City WordPress Meetup, and although I was almost an hour late (due to family carpooling duties) I still learned about a variety of new WordPress plugins I hadn’t previously encountered. Stephen Bell, the co-founder of the OKC-based web design company Steed Interactive, shared the second presentation of the evening which…

  • Handy Features of Google Classroom

    This week I taught my first workshop on Google Classroom to faculty at my new school, and we learned some exciting things together during the session. Having good answers to the question “how do my students turn in their digital work to me as a teacher” is SO important in schools today, and Google Classroom provides…

  • Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions

    For many years I’ve used multiple web browsers on my laptop computers because each one offers different advantages. My two primary browsers today, on both my Mac laptop as well as my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) are Google Chrome and Safari. Since Safari is the default iOS browser, I end up using it the…

  • Set Your Default YouTube Upload Channel

    For over a year now, YouTube has permitted users to create multiple channels with a single Google account. In the past, to manage more than one YouTube channel, users had to create separate Google accounts. Now YouTube channels can even be shared with other Google account users, similar to the way Google Docs are shared. The screenshot…

  • STEM, iPad & Google Workshops in June 2015

    Dates and locations for my summer educational workshops and presentations are getting finalized at last. A couple things have changed in the past few weeks which have affected scheduling. Since my wife was selected as a “lead” 2015 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator, which includes a free day at ISTE, I’ll be attending HackEd this year on…