My father led a class for Dave Ramsey‘s “Financial Peace University” this past fall at his church in Manhattan, Kansas. Since I’m exploring some new job as well as consulting possibilities following the completion of my PhD this fall, he shared the Lesson 11 CD with me over the holidays titled “Working In Your Strengths.”
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To close out 2011 and start 2012 I’m starting a series of “lessons learned” blog posts. In this first one, I’ll share some of my takeaways using the extremely innovative BlueJeans.com videoconferencing service for professional development workshops. This month I offered a series of “videoconference PD” sessions I called “The 12 Days of Playing with
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Inspired by Ben Grey‘s December 7th post, “Challenging Seconds,” I’ve opted for a sixty second video this year in lieu of a family Christmas Card. Following the rules outlined by Ben, this is a 60in60 video: 60 images 1 second per image (total of 60 seconds) The video tells a story Merry Christmas and Happy
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Update 1 Jan 2012: We cancelled our trial membership to Hulu Plus. Although some negative reviews of the free Hulu Plus iPad app in iTunes might lead you to believe the app has “a lack of AirPlay support,” I’m pleased to report iOS 5‘s support of mirroring on an Apple TV permits content from Hulu+
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It’s confession time: I fell off the ’365 photos wagon’ on October 30th. Since January 1, 2011, I’d been faithfully posting one photo per day to my Tumblr blog. Every so often I’d miss some days and need to play catch-up, but for a variety of reasons that routine ended at the end of October.
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Impressive home Christmas light displays are pretty common these days in most parts of the United States, but this year I encountered a first right here in Oklahoma City: A synchronized light display with music provided via a low-power FM transmitter in the homeowner’s garage! People drive by and tune their car stereos to 97.7
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On November 13, 2011, Ali Carr-Chellman (@aac3 on Twitter) shared an important and courageous message at TEDxPSU. Her 13.5 minute message was titled, “A Closer Look at Cyber Charter Schools.” Among other things, Ali challenges us to question the growing nexus between non-profit “cyber charter schools” and for-profit curriculum companies. As we continue hear different
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As 2011 draws to a close I’m organizing, sharing, and tagging a variety of photos I took this past fall with my iPhone on Flickr. In the past at times like these I’ve tended to upload large bunches of photos and skip the process of individually labeling photos. Instead, I’ve just organized photos in sets
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Merry Christmas! As a Christmas treat, I’ve created two discount codes I invite you to use and share. Today and tomorrow only (through midnight PST, December 25th) anyone worldwide can download any of my “Playing with Media” podcasts for FREE instead of paying 99¢ each. Available sixty minute podcasts / screencasts include: Narrated Slideshows iPhoneography
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Good news! Enhanced eBooks with embedded audio and video are now supported on the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. I recorded and edited this video on an iPhone4 using iMovie for iPhone. Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
The Technology Shopping Cart podcast has been digitally resurrected after a 3 year hiatus of podfading! In this recorded call from December 23, 2011, Alice Barr, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer discussed a variety of iOS applications and technology gadgets on our wish lists for Christmas 2011. Refer to the podcast shownotes for links to
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Podcast387: TechShoppingCart Episode 10 – Christmas 2011 Apps and Gadgets [ 55:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1313)
I’m thrilled to report it’s now possible to DIRECTLY download the enhanced/multimedia version of my eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” to iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches and open it immediately in the iBooks application! Remember bulk pricing discounts for the eBook are available if you’re interested in purchasing ten or more
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This podcast is a a recording of Cheryl Beaman and Michelle Barnes’ presentation, “Implementing 1:1 Classrooms” at the 2011 Innovative Learning Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, on November 10th. This annual conference is hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma. Cheryl Beaman is the director of technology for Grandview Public Schools, and Michelle Barnes is
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Podcast 386: Implementing 1:1 Classrooms in Grand View Schools, Oklahoma [ 47:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (945)
As a Star Wars fan familiar with the “Mary Did You Know” song, I found the YouTube remix “Vader Did You Know?” song and video HILARIOUS today. Enjoy! This video is a great example of fair use and legal video remixing. Show this to your students and discuss it. Is this legal? Are the creators
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Living as we do in a sea of digital information, we all need to set and manage clever “information traps.” The reason is simple: Every day we encounter useful, digital “stuff” we want to save for later and in many cases share with others. In this post, I’ll describe how to use Zoo Tool, Posterous,
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Last Friday my 8th grade son, Alexander, had an opportunity to tour the College of Engineering at Kansas State University. This was his second “official” college visit. Last May, before I presented at TechForum Chicago, he had a chance to visit Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. On both visits, college staff have been a bit
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(cross-posted from learn.playingwithmedia.com) A recording of Wesley Fryer’s 68 minute videoconference on December 12, 2011, “Narrated Slideshows,” is available as a 99¢ download. This is a high quality screencast published at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, and is 1.6 GB in size. (A high speed Internet connection is required for download.) The workshop description was:
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My 14 year old son is really into the online world / game simulation Minecraft. My Mac laptop is our only home computer with adequate RAM and processor speed to run the program, so he’s regularly competing with me these days for laptop screen time. This month I’ve installed a new (and larger) hard drive
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A recording of my 69 minute videoconference on December 8, 2011, “Tell a Story in 5 Photos,” is available as a 99¢ download. This is a high quality screencast published at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, and is 1.5 GB in size. (A high speed Internet connection is required for download.) The workshop description was:
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The six minute video, “Productivity Future Vision (2011)” provides an interesting glimpse into our future which MAY be increasingly filled with cloud-based data accessed on differently sized, touch-based devices. This video is part of a new marketing campaign by Microsoft and General Motors called “Productivity Future Vision.” It’s quite interesting this video was produced by
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