Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Tag: education

  • Welcome to OLD School Assignment Turn In

    The following photographs could likely be taken at almost any College of Education today in the United States. I’m not sharing this to be harshly critical of the current institution for which I am teaching as an adjunct instructor: Rather I’m sharing these images because they reflect the assessment status quo for many professors / instructors…

  • Podcast345: Open Educational Resources (OER) – Iowa 1:1 Institute

    As more schools embrace 1:1 learning on a variety of platforms, the importance of digital curriculum will grow. Open Educational Resources (OER) are licensed under terms which permit other educators to both use and (in some cases) remix content to fit the standards, context, and needs of their classrooms. This podcast is a recording of…

  • Heartland eLearning Conference: PI4BL Workshop

    This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on…

  • K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts

    The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and…

  • Podcast340: On board the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in Yukon, Oklahoma (interview with Ryan L’Esperance)

    On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visited Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. This podcast features a seven minute interview with Ryan L’Esperance, an audio engineer who works and lives on the tour bus ten months of the year. According to the official website of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus:…

  • Podcast336: Personal Updates and Voices of ACTEM – Talking with Richard Byrne, Bob Sprankle and Kern Kelley

    It’s been awhile since my last podcast! No podfading here, however…. In this podcast I share a recap of several technology initiatives in which I’ve been involved in the past month, some thoughts about Larry Lessig’s EduCause presentation in November 2009, and a couple short interviews at the ACTEM conference in Maine with Richard Byrne,…

  • 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…

  • Podcast331: Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations

    This podcast is a recorded presentation from the 2009 Oklahoma School Public Relations Association conference at Quartz Mountain on April 23, 2009. This session, presented by Wesley Fryer, was titled, “Leveraging the Potential of Social Media for School Public Relations.” The official presentation description was: Social media technologies offer excellent opportunities for school public relations…

  • Join the K12Online08 flashback and K12Online09 preview – LIVE this Saturday on EdTechTalk!

    Planning for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference has continued steadily throughout this summer and early fall. I’m pleased join others in announcing, thanks to the hard work of the K12Online09 Live Events Committee, the first official LIVE event of the 2009 conference! More details are available on the K12Online09 LAN Party Wiki. Here’s a repost…

  • Technology Professional Development and Chocolate Cake

    [NOTE: Though I had hair his hair color when I was a kid, I am not Wes Fryer.  I’m just a guy who Wes bribed into guest blogging.  Actually, I’m Jon Becker and I usually blog over at Educational Insanity. If you subscribe to Wes’ blog and/or you like Wes’ writing, you’ll like mine better;-)]…