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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: schoolreform

  • Crescent Public Schools: The Eyes of Oklahoma Are Upon You!

    Tomorrow on Thursday, February 4, 2010, the Oklahoma State Board of Education will hold it’s monthly meeting at Crescent Public Schools. This is a BIG deal. Crescent Public Schools is one of only FIVE public school districts in Oklahoma (out of 530+) which is currently implementing a 1:1 learning initiative. That will change later this…

  • Podcast337: Evangelizing Educational Transformation and 1:1 Learning in Iowa Schools

    On January 28, 2010, a group of students in grades 5-12 from Van Meter, Iowa, shared testimonies for the Iowa House/Senate Education Appropriations Committee about 21st Century Learning and the way learners can be empowered with digital tools. This podcast is an audio recording of a skype conversation with Deron Durflinger, secondary principal of Van…

  • Interactive Digital Native Map and the What’s Your Issue Videography contest

    PBS Frontline’s digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier is a fantastic program as well as media-rich website filled with videos, articles, and information about our digital youth culture. The documentary premieres this week on February 2nd, but the website is already filled with outstanding resources. One of my favorites is project’s Digital Native Map, an…

  • Arts Integration at Wilson Elementary in OKCPS

    This evening our family attended an evening presentation at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City Public Schools for families entitled, “Arts Integration at Wilson Elementary.” The interactive workshop was led by Randy Barron, a “Kennedy Center Teaching Artist” who has been working with Wilson teachers the past three days as their interpretive dance integration coach and…

  • From One Computer Lab to 1:1 – Best Practices of Technology Integration by Katie Bader and Diane Bilcer

    These are my notes from Katie Bader and Diane Bilcer’s presentation, “From One Computer Lab to 1:1 – Best Practices of Technology Integration” at the One to One Institute‘s conference on November 9, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I recorded this session and may share it as a podcast…

  • Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher

    On the first day of class this semester in “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma, I shared the following fifteen minute / nineteen slide presentation with my students on the topic, “Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher.” I’ve shared this as a synchronized Slidecast on SlideShare. Things I Want To…

  • Update about the PodStock 2010 Conference

    Last week when I was at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas, I recorded the following three minute update with Lori Fast and Kevin Honeycutt, discussing preparations for the 2010 PodStock Conference. Podstock 2010 will take place July 16 and 17 in Wichita, Kansas. Join the Podstock 2010 Facebook Event to stay up to date about the…

  • Helping students picture themselves at college

    The EduTopia video “YES Prep Boasts a College-Bound Culture” is right on target: Helping students “picture themselves” at college, develop the goal orientation which leads to college attendance as well as the SKILLS required for success in college all start with face-to-face visits to different university campuses. This video inspires me to think about setting…

  • I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0

    Kevin Honeycutt has published an updated YouTube version of his wonderful song, “I Need My Teachers To Learn.” Instead of using video for the b-roll footage, his friend Rae helped him use still images synchronized to the music. It’s just over three minutes long, take some time today and check it out: In many ways…

  • Learning from Angela, Kern and Konrad

    These are my notes from several K12Online09 presentation videos I watched this evening riding the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Fort Worth, Texas, back to Oklahoma City on my iPhone. This post was blogged on my netbook running Win7 using free Windows Live Writer software, downloadable from Microsoft as part of Windows Live Essentials. A…