Category: random
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1000 Starships to Mars Every 2 Years
Tonight Elon Musk and Chris Anderson have stretched my mind in some unexpected ways. Elon hopes we’ll see (and is working toward) a future within 10-20 years where SpaceX is launching 1000 Starships to Mars every two years, so we can establish a self-sustaining city of a million humans who will be able to carry…
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AI Photo Magic
I love cooking with fire, enjoying fires in our fireplace at home, and building campfires when our family goes camping. I wrote about this a bit in my previous post, “Identity and Fire Cooking.” For the past year or so, we’ve had a friend’s “almost broken” plasma TV in our guest bedroom, serving as a…
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The Story of our Family Recipe Sharing WordPress Website
Family recipes are important. Being able to cook a much-loved family recipe can bring back a flood of good memories, but is also practically important for those of us who do the grocery shopping and cooking for our families or just for ourselves! In this post, I’ll share the backstory of a new website, “Fryer…
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Don’t Let Toxic Voices Tell You Who You Are
This is a message of encouragement for anyone out there who is feeling discouraged, especially teachers, by the hurtful and toxic words of someone else who is bringing you down and causing you to question what you’re doing, and maybe even who you are as a professional educator. We all need to maintain our humility…
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Podcast467: Reflections on a Gap Year Before College
Welcome to Episode 467 of the Moving at the Speed of Creativity podcast, a show by Dr. Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) focusing on digital creativity, media literacy, digital literacy, digital citizenship, instructional technology integration and engaged learning both inside and outside the classroom. This episode features interviews with both Shelly Fryer and Sarah Fryer, about Sarah’s…
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In Praise of Golden Retrievers
In the past year, I’ve become even more aware of how incredibly important and powerful the unconditional love of golden retrievers can be for health, wellness, and family happiness. "Family with Scarlet and Willow" (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer Thanks in large part to my uncle’s family, Ron and Kathy Henley, I’ve had contact and been familiar…
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The Dream of Creative Writing
I have been doing quite a bit of soul-searching in the past few weeks and months, and I have played with several ideas for my future that are worth noting. One of these is my desire to write fiction, to unleash my creative imagination in a channel detached almost entirely from education and educational technology.…
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Reflections on Comancheria, Identity and Frontier Terrorism
I never thought much about my own family bloodlines and ancestry until we moved to Oklahoma in 2006. As I got to know teachers and school staff members in my role (at the time) working as an “education advocate” for AT&T, I learned that all public schools in Oklahoma have “Indian Education” programs and students…
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Thankful for Brave First Responders in Las Vegas
The 13 minute segment from last night’s 60 Minutes show, “Storming Room 135,” is #MustWatch television. “Storming Room 135 on 60 Minutes” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer Las Vegas officers describe storming shooter Stephen Paddock’s hotel room #60Minutes https://t.co/ODMZWoNKWb — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 9, 2017 I’m on the safety committee at our school and we’ve both…
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Share Recipes with Paprika Recipe Manager for iPhone
This weekend I drove our son back to Denver, Colorado, and helped him get situated in a shared duplex as he prepares for his second year of studies at Colorado School of Mines. Since last year he was in a dorm and not cooking on his own, one of the things I’ve needed to do…