Moving at the Speed of Creativity PodcastsMoving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts include presentations and reflections relating to student engagement, the effective use of digital technologies to support learning, digital storytelling, web 2.0 in the classroom, and other topics related to improving both teaching and learning. Learn more on www.speedofcreativity.org. Produced by Wesley Fryer in Edmond, Oklahoma.Podcast282: A Conversation with Superintendent Doug Taylor about Student Engagement, Digital Storytelling, and Collaborative Digital Technologies- September 22, 2008 This podcast is a recorded conversation with Doug Taylor, superintendent of Gage Public Schools in Oklahoma, at the EncycloMedia conference on Thursday, September 18, 2008. Doug discusses how students and teachers in Gage schools are utilizing netbooks like the Asus eeePC, open source software programs, Linux, and Google Documents. Gage educators are realizing the benefits of spending money which would otherwise go towards software and operating system licensing fees toward curriculum resources.http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3078/0/2008-09-20b-speedofcreativity.mp... Podcast281: Brisinger Book Release, Home Run Books, Flow, and Reading Advice from 10 Year Old Alexander- September 21, 2008 This podcast is a recorded interview in the car with 10 year old Alexander. Two years ago, as a third grader, Alexander read the book Eragon after he saw the movie and it become his "home run book." Literacy scholar Jim Trelease coined the phrase "home run book" to describe a book which someone reads that hooks them on reading and propels them to thereafter be a member of the literacy club. Since Eragon and Eldest (Christopher Paolini's sequel to Eragon) are two of his favorite books of all...http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3076/0/2008-09-20a-speedofcreativity.mp... Podcast280: Get Wiki With It!- September 19, 2008 This podcast is a recording of my presentation at the EncycloMedia 2008 conference in Oklahoma City on September 18, 2008. The session description was: This presentation focuses on helping teachers and students utilize WIKIS to effectively collaborate and learn. A wiki is a website that permits designated individuals to jointly author and edit documents. The wiki software TRACKS each person's contributions, and facilitates easy comparisons between different document versions. Wikis can be used..http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3073/0/2008-09-18-speedofcreativity.mp3 Podcast279V: Setting up a SubDomain with cPanel- September 12, 2008 This video podcast is a short screencast describing how you can use the free website management tool CPanel (provided by my own webhost, Siteground, as well as many others) to set up a subdomain on your website. The main reason to set up a subdomain is so you can use a subdomain web address to tell other people how to find your website. As an example, my main website is speedofcreativity.org. I have Wordpress installed at the root level of my domain. I have other instances of Wordpress...http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3052/0/2008-09-11V-speedofcreativity.mo... Podcast278: TechShoppingCart Podcast09: Digital Wishes, Flip Video Labs, and Manifest Destiny for EdTech- September 5, 2008 Welcome to episode 9 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, a podcast (and now live webcast) where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. This episode features a conversation with Heather Chirtea of ToolFactory, Vicki Allen, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer about podcasting, digital storytelling, mobile podcasting labs, mobile flip video labs, "ushering" technologies which encourage teachers to extend their journeys of learning with educational technologies further,...http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3039/0/2008-09-05-speedofcreativity.mp3 Podcast277: A Conversation with Carol Anne McGuire - Imagineering the Ideal K-6 Classroom Learning Environment (Part 2)- September 3, 2008 This podcast is a recording of a conversation I had this evening over iChat with Carol Anne McGuire, discussing her experiences helping kids soar with their learning using a variety of project-based learning, collaboration and technologically-infused teaching methods. Carol Anne is the architect of the successful "Rock Our World" project, and has helped students create some of the most compelling podcasts I've heard to date. (Her students' "Mother's Day Podcasts" are some of my favorites.) In...http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3027/0/2008-09-02-speedofcreativity.mp3 Podcast276: Imagineering the Ideal K-6 Classroom Learning Environment (Part 1)- September 2, 2008 In this podcast I share 45 minutes worth of brainstorming on the subject, "Given all the resources, administrative and parental support needed, how would you imagineer the ideal K-6 classroom learning environment" Imagineering is a term I associate with Walt Disney and Disneyland, where creative and capable individuals come together to both imagine and engineer new worlds together. Carol Anne McGuire asked me last week to share some ideas with her along these lines, and prior to our...http://www.speedofcreativity.org/podpress_trac/web/3024/0/2008-09-01-speedofcreativity.mp3 |