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Moving at the Speed of Creativity wesfryer.com About Presentations Publications Projects Lessons Connect Mastodon Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Threads I Am Healed I am healed, I know who I am, and I know the work God has called me to do. This is a big deal. I have spent the past three decades as a largely broken and wounded human being. I have been a person who was seeking healing, and finding healing, but just taking baby… April 28, 2024 Visualizing Off-Planet Habitats My middle school computer programming students are continuing to work on our Coding Mars” unit, in which they are using Minecraft MakeCode to simulate the 3D printing of structures and habitats which Icon of Austin, Texas, is under contract with NASA to do first on the moon / the lunar surface and (ultimately) on Mars.… April 11, 2024 SIFTing our Sources So many things have been going well in my media literacy, computer programming and engineering middle school courses this semester I should be blogging about our classroom learning every day! In this post I’d like to briefly reflect and share about an InfoPics lesson we are doing today as part of our Froot Loop Conspiracy… April 2, 2024 Internet Radio Dreams This morning I’m dreaming of Internet Radio: My OWN Internet radio station patterned after the amazing example of ds106 Radio. Let me explain. In December 2012, I published the 3 minute photo story, Live Internet Radio Broadcasting from a Bus.” In it, I shared a story about webcasting a live radio show from a bus… March 30, 2024 War Over TikTok The article caught my eye this morning: US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users” (ArsTechnica, 7 Mar 2024.). It highlights a proposed bill in the US House of Representatives which would require the Chinese government to entirely DIVEST (sell off) TikTok to non-Chinese owners. I have a few… March 8, 2024 Trust Me Documentary This evening I attended most” of the March 2024 meeting of TIP Teachers,” which is Teachers for an Informed Public.” I’ve been a participant of TIP Teachers for over a year now, although I’m in North Carolina and the majority of the educators involved in TIP are in the State of Washington. Last summer in… March 4, 2024 Teaching the Conspiracies This week on January 31, 2024, I’m excited to start facilitating a six week online course for educators titled, Teaching the Conspiracies.” This anytime learning course” is offered as part of the 2024 MediaED Institute by the Media Education Lab, with whom I’m an affiliated faculty member. The course description is: In this 6 week… January 28, 2024 Engaging with the Duke Polarization Lab This morning I submitted the Get Involved Form” shared by the Polarization Lab at Duke University. This two minute video (shared in November 2019) from the Duke University Department of Political Science provides a concise overview of the Lab’s focus and mission. The Mission” page of their website also provides more details. Submitting this interest… January 2, 2024 Full Text RSS Feeds from Mastodon Prepare for a geekier than normal” post: I want to share about a custom GPT I’m trying to build that will extract article link titles, website sources, article dates, and article hyperlinks from a Mastodon account’s RSS feed, and specifically an RSS feed which includes a particular hashtag. I’ve titled my latest iteration, EdTechSR Podcast… December 20, 2023 Beware of Facebook Event Bad Actors Scammers and bad actors are not new. The methods which con artists use to try and trick people into giving away their money or sharing private, personal information continue to evolve, however. It can be valuable to learn about some of these new scam techniques, especially in our increasingly DIGITAL world. In this post, I’d… December 11, 2023 Older Posts → Where technology news meets educational analysis!” Check out more options to learn with and connect with me! Search Search Blogging since 2003! 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