Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Month: October 2011

  • Dust Bowl Nightmare in Lubbock

    Kevin Helmer, who I met this past April during a Storychasers “Celebrate Texas Voices” workshop in Lubbock, Texas, tweeted me the following 3 photos tonight of the dust storm today (Monday, October 17, 2011) in Lubbock.

  • Cloud Computing Excitement for Content Consumption

    Microsoft’s recent advertisement, “Airport – To the Cloud – Windows 7” closes with the tagline, “To Create and Share – Anywhere.” The activity in the 30 second spot, however, doesn’t have anything to do with CREATING digital content, it’s all about CONSUMING it via Slingbox-like functionality included in Windows7. The man and woman in the…

  • Share Your Ideas for K-12 Online 2011: Purposeful Play

    You’ve still got several more days (till October 17th at midnight PDT) to submit a proposal for the 2011 K-12 Online Conference! Complete details about this wonderful, FREE, online conference are available on k12onlineconference.org. As a selected presenter you’ll create a twenty minute, engaging video presentation to share in one of our “strands” during our…

  • Visualizing Librarian Questions about eBooks

    Here’s a Wordle word cloud visualization of all 64 questions librarians asked during our panel presentation, “Navigating the Road Ahead: A Guided Discussion of Ebooks in K-12 Libraries,” in the October 12, 2011 webinar “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity.” This Wordle draws attention to some of the primary themes…

  • eBook Webinar Q&A

    We had 347 virtual participants for our panel presentation, “Navigating the Road Ahead: A Guided Discussion of Ebooks in K-12 Libraries,” in the October 12, 2011 webinar “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity.” These are the six questions I answered individually (with text that I saved) during the actual webinar.…

  • A Second Grade Field Trip to the Zoo with AudioBoo

    Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com. This week on Tuesday my daughter’s second grade class took their fall field trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo. I brought my iPhone and iRig microphone, and the girls in our group used the camera along with the free app AudioBoo to record some reflections during our visit. We recorded nine AudioBoos…

  • Favorite iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch Audio Editing Apps (October 2011)

    I received a request from Lorelei Loveridge, who I met last week in Doha, Qatar, asking for a list all the apps I use on my iPhone and iPad. Fortunately this isn’t an extremely time consuming list to share since I’ve been using Appolicious for about a year. ALMOST all the apps I use along…

  • 4th Graders Interview Michigan State Representative Al Pscholka

    Last month 4th grade students in Brad Wilson’s class in Stevensville, Michigan, took a field trip to their state capitol in Lansing and interviewed their representative, Al Pscholka. Students used an older iPod Touch equipped with a thumbtack mic, and the free application Cinch to record as well as publish the 43 second interview. Thanks…

  • Reflections on Unlimited Petroleum Wealth from the Persian Gulf

    I recorded this video on the edge of the Persian Gulf on Saturday morning (yesterday) in Doha, Qatar. It feels quite surreal to now be back home on the other side of our planet, after just leaving the Persian Gulf about 20 hours ago. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous…

  • Flying Home From Doha [Narrated Slideshow]

    Tonight after landing in Oklahoma City after leaving the Persian Gulf this morning, I recorded an eleven minute narrated slideshow about my unique travel day on my iPhone using SonicPics. I recorded this while waiting for my luggage to arrive.    http://www.sonicpics.com  Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous If you…