Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: guestblogger

  • Avoiding AT&T’s Ridiculous iPhone Data Fees by Switching to T-Mobile

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. The cost of activating an iPhone with AT&T is absolutely ridiculous. Since I have several kids, and eventually want all of them to be able to use smartphones, this is a real concern for me. Our family wireless bill now exceeds a monthly car payment, and…

  • Awesome Brickfilm

    This is a guest post by my 13 year old son, Alexander. So I don’t normally write things up but but dad asked me to share this. I love building and playing with legos. It is always fun to build fancy ships but the lego minifigure is also one of the best tools to make stopmotion films…

  • Shifting from Writing to Videography

    Andrew B. Watt here… Over the last few months, I’ve made a shift in my online footprint, from being a blogger to a video-maker. It started as a foray into video work but it’s become a part of my classroom process, homework review process, and online activity. Wes asked me to write a bit about how…

  • How to use your iPad and iPhone / iPad Touch with an External Display / Projector

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. I wrote a series of posts in March 2010 on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” You can access those posts by searching for posts shared by me. If you have questions about this post I’ll be glad to answer them via comments here. iOS is…

  • Summertime and the Learning is Easy?

    I am so honored to be asked to guest blog for Wes. Thank you so much. I am Alice Barr, the Instructional Technology Integrator for Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine. We are a 1:1 laptop school and are going in to Year 8 of the project. I love what adding laptops to our school…

  • Wanna Hitch? Tether Your Android or Blackberry Phone

    Image Source: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/03/tether-3g.jpg Note: The following is a guest blog post from Miguel Guhlin, who blogs regularly at Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org. Tethering…a term unknown to me. I know what it means to “tether” something but what did it mean in terms of my mobile device? Apparently, it can be defined in this way: Using an application…

  • In the Middle of Different

    My name is Dawn Danker and I’m the Information and Academic Officer for Yukon Public Schools.  I’m blessed to be in a district where we are focused on a vision for Excellence in Education through the means of providing dynamic opportunities to our students.  We are building environments where our students can begin to explore…

  • Think Before You Tweet

    My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent. I was honored when Wes invited me to guest blog during his absence. I hope this post sparks a conversation that we need to have. I recently came across this video that was created by Steve Johnson which serves as a good reminder…

  • Build Your PLN

    by Miguel Guhlin (Find me on Plurk/Twitter at “mguhlin”) As a educator, probably one of the tougher challenges you face isn’t just keeping up with the technology, but rather understanding how to leverage it in your teaching and learning situation. While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as “learning experiences,” in…

  • Top Android Phone Apps

    Note: The following is a guest blog post by Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner. Source: http://www.utahands.com/artists/miles/images/paintings_files/cheshire_cat.jpg “iPhone has tons of great apps,” argued a colleague at a conference. I stared at her hand, which held her iPhone up, waving it around to find nearby restaurants. For the life of me, I couldn’t think of an…