This week’s 1.5 day workshop with educational administrators and teachers in Montana, “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD,” was a great learning experience at multiple levels. Whenever educators get together and create media projects which are shared online and celebrated, good things usually happen. That’s been a key part of the formula for our Storychasers’
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As the executive director of Storychasers, I’m cross-posting the following information here from the Storychasers blog. Storychasers is pleased to announce the dates for four upcoming “phase 1″ digital storytelling workshops in Spring 2011: Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 19-21 Jan 2011 Yukon, OK Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 2-4 Mar 2011 Midwest City, OK TBA 6-8 Apr 2011
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I’m pleased to announce the launch of “Fuel for Educational Change Agents,” a new educational podcast channel available on audio.speedofcreativity.org. The official description of this new channel, which I’m publishing using free / open source Podcast Generator software, is: This audio podcast channel includes a variety of audio recordings by and recorded by Wesley Fryer,
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After a lot of searching for cameras and cables in our house, as well as wrangling with various configurations for screencasting and webcasting over Ustream.tv, I think I’m set for tomorrow’s workshop on “iPhone & iPad Apps for Fun & Productivity.” It’s challenging enough to come up with a reasonably good document camera solution to
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On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, you’re invited to attend (in person or virtually) a hands-on workshop I’ll lead in Oklahoma City titled, “iPhone & iPad Apps for Fun & Productivity.” Workshop registration is available via EventBrite. The workshop description is: Bring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to this hands-on, interactive workshop as together we
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The location has changed for my upcoming December 14th and 15th Google Tools Workshops in Oklahoma City. These BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops will be held at the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative, located downtown across from the Federal Building at 723 N. Hudson Ave. View Larger Map Currently, just 5 seats are still available
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I’m pleased to announce virtual attendance and participation options are now available for the December 14th workshop I’m offering in Oklahoma City on “Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations and Drawing,” and the December 15th workshop on “Google Maps and Google Earth.” Discounted online registration is available for groups (including more than one person) as well
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Please help spread the word about the December 14th and 15th workshops in Oklahoma City about Google Tools which I’m organizing and leading. More information and registration links are available on wiki.wesfryer.com/workshops. With the help of an iWork template for Pages, I created an informational flyer about these BYOL (bring your own laptop) hands-on workshops,
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I’m pleased to announce two opportunities for educators as well as business professionals to learn more about Google Apps (Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations and Drawing) as well as Google Geo-Apps (Google Maps and Google Earth) on December 14 and 15, 2010, in Oklahoma City. I will be leading both these full day, hands-on, BYOL
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A one page PDF marketing flyer for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference is available. Please share this far and wide! While we don’t want to waste trees and “being digital” is great, it can also be helpful to post printed versions of this on your library bulletin board, in the teachers’ lounge, and in other
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The 2010 K-12 Online Conference starts on Monday, October 11th with Dean Shareski‘s pre-conference keynote. The next two weeks, 40 presentations by educators and students from around the world will be posted both to the conference blog and the conference Ning. Five presenters have created short, “teaser videos” to whet our appetites in advance of
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I had about 16 minutes today at TeachMeet Tennessee to share some ideas, websites and tips related to digital storytelling and balanced content filtering in schools. I uploaded the audio recording of my session to Voisse. My links are below. http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ http://talkwithmedia.wikispaces.com/ Storychasing tools (workshop wiki) http://storychasers.org/ StoryKit (free iOS digital storytelling app) StoryKit example:
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The K-12 Online Conference is the best free professional development opportunity for educators worldwide of which I’m aware. The call for 2010 conference volunteers has been posted. photo credit: woodleywonderworks Please read over the post, consider the different committees, and submit the provided Google form to volunteer. The conference starts in mid-October, so there’s only
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The call for proposals for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference has been released! Please check out all the details, and the online Google form, on the K-12 Online Conference blog. This year the conference will feature a “Student Voices” strand for the first time! Please consider submitting a proposal by August 13, 2010, and share
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The annual Podstock conference is just around the corner! Podstock 2010 will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. You can RSVP via the 2010 PodStock Facebook event page! If you have not already, also join the PodStock Ning. Kevin Honeycutt and many others at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas,
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Beth Goodwin created a short “PhotoPeach” digital story to share a visual narrative (set to music) of last Friday’s professional development session in Wells, Maine. She titled it, “Teachers at Work-21st Century Literacy.” After an initial hour-long presentation, all junior high school teachers in attendance had about an hour and a half to work and
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Yesterday I had an opportunity to share a presentation with the faculty at Wells Junior High School, in Wells, Maine. Cheryl Oakes webcasted the presentation on UStream. I shared a modified version of my presentation, “Tales of Digital Magic.” The Ustream recording is 1 hour, 18 minutes long. The most amazing thing about this day
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Congratulations to the following nineteen Oklahoma public school districts, who were awarded ARRA grant funds by the Oklahoma State Department of Education on Thursday, March 26, 2010. Anadarko Public Schools Briggs Public School Catoosa Public Schools Cordell Public Schools Crescent Public Schools Depew Public Schools Drumright Public Schools Gage Public Schools Grand View Public School
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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
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