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Contents
  1. Welcome!
  2. Inquiry Form
  3. Keynotes
  4. Breakout Sessions
  5. SlideShares & Podcasts

Welcome!

I’d love to present for and share ideas with educators at your school, conference, or other professional development event! Please use these resources to identify topics of interest and get in touch.

Inquiry Form

To inquire about availability and booking, please contact me directly using the following electronic contact form. Reach me by phone at 405.562.6175.

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Keynotes

Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media
Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media” to become more effective communicators and improve our media literacy skills as both learners and citizens. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Author and educator Wesley Fryer will inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator! Learn more, order Wesley’s eBook, and access session resources on www.playingwithmedia.com.
http://wfryer.me/improve

Crafting Your Professional Digital Footprint
Your digital footprint is visible when someone searches Google for your name. What are the top search results? As faculty members we need to maintain up-to-date websites reflecting our publications, research and academic activities. These sites can become cornerstones of our professional “digital footprints.” In this nuts-and-bolts session, we’ll analyze several exemplary faculty websites to identify both important content as well as effective designs for sharing it. We will specifically explore WordPress (a free content management system) and learn how to use it to build an effective, online information portal as a faculty member. We will also explore ways our professional social media profiles on websites like Twitter, Facebook. Google+, and LinkedIn can be integrated with our primary professional website. Learn to take charge of your digital footprint and advance your academic career.
http://wfryer.me/footprint

We Must Share
As educators in 2012 we have moral obligations to digitally share our ideas and work on the open web. Following the advice of David Wiley, we must overcome our ‘inner two year old’ and stop hiding our best ideas and resources from the rest of the world. Let’s explore together ways educators in higher education are openly sharing ideas digitally, as well as tools and websites which can facilitate that process along with intellectual property respect. This session will inspire and equip you to become a more creative and effective teacher and learner in the 21st century, which means (among other things) acting as a generous, digital sharer.
http://wfryer.me/share

Roadmap to Blended Learning
What is blended learning and why should educators embrace it? How can we move towards a vision of blended learning in our schools? This session presents an OVERVIEW, WAYPOINTS, and DIRECTIONS for the Roadmap to Blended Learning.
http://wfryer.me/roadmap

Breakout Sessions

Creating Multimedia eBooks
Learn how to create enhanced/multimedia eBooks including digital text, hyperlinks, images, and embedded videos. In addition to using Apple Pages software (part of iWork) participants will learn how to use Calibre software (free and cross-platform) to convert multimedia documents into a variety of eBook formats. (Referenced resources and links are available)
http://wfryer.me/ebooks

iPhoneography
Smartphones like the iPhone have ushered in a new golden age of digital photography. The best camera is the one you have with you. The higher resolution along with the editing/processing capabilities and uploading/sharing options of modern smartphones make iPhoneography a flexible as well as fun type of digital photography. In this session we’ll explore a variety of concepts, techniques, and applications related to iPhoneography.
http://wfryer.me/iphoneography

Tell a Story in 5 Photos
Visual literacy and visual communication skills can be developed effectively through image-based communication. In this session we will discuss examples of five photo stories, explore copyright-friendly websites for finding images to use in five photo stories, and learn how to create and share five photo stories with a variety of web-based tools.
http://wfryer.me/5photos

No-Edit Audio Podcasting
Audio recording provides one of the best ways to improve oral communication skills. In this workshop we’ll explore a variety of online tools which facilitate “no-edit” audio podcasting. Websites like AudioBoo, Cinch, and SoundCloud offer cloud-based audio recording and sharing using free smartphone applications as well as browser-based interfaces. Learn how no-edit audio podcasts can become important elements in students’ digital portfolios.
http://wfryer.me/noedit

Audio Record and Share Student Poetry
After your students write original poems, help them share their creativity in their own voices. Learn how to use the free, online tool Cinch to quickly record and share student poetry in automatically-created “channels” for each class or project.

Living History Audio Projects
After your students  write a “Living History Museum” script for a historical character, help them share their creativity in their own voices. Learn how to use the free, online tool Cinch to quickly record and share student “Living History” speeches in automatically-created “channels” for each class or project.

iPad Quick Edit Videography
Learn to shoot, edit, and publish a video on an iPad in a fraction of the time this process takes with a laptop computer and “traditional” video gear! Flash-based video camcorders on mobile computing devices (like the iPad) can empower learners to create and publish “quick edit” videos. In this session we will discuss example iPad videos, explore different apps for quick-edit videography, and learn to to successfully facilitate student-created iPad videos. We’ll also learn about options for puppet videography with iPads, including actual finger puppets as well as virtual puppets using apps like Puppet Pals. Prepare to have fun and unleash a wealth of creative ideas on your students during and following this session!
http://wfryer.me/ipadvideo

Classroom Blogging
Learn how to setup, use and moderate content on a classroom blog to improve student writing skills. A moderated classroom blog is the ideal platform to use to share announcements, classroom news, and student work for a public audience. In this session we’ll use free blogging tools like KidBlog and Class Blogmeister to facilitate student writing. We’ll also explore how free blogs on Posterous.com can be used by students to not only share text, but also different kinds of rich media including images, audio and video files.
http://wfryer.me/blog

Narrated Slideshows
Learn how to create and share a narrated slideshow online including recorded audio synchronized to selected photographs or images. We’ll discuss different examples of narrated slideshows and review effective processes for facilitating student narrated slideshows. Websites and tools for creating narrated slideshows we will explore include VoiceThread, SlideShare, and SonicPics for iOS.

Classroom Radio Shows
Learn how to help improve student reading, writing, and oral communication skills by creating your own classroom radio show! We’ll explore exemplary student audio podcasts and classroom radio shows in this session, and learn how to use free Audacity software as well as mobile audio recording apps to successfully become podcasters.

Puppet Videography
Learn how to use finger puppets, hand puppets, and “app puppets” (in iOS applications like PuppetPals and Sock Puppets) with students to create informative as well as entertaining videos. Puppet videos can have fewer privacy and confidentiality issues in school than other videos, since student faces are not recorded. In this session we’ll discuss different puppet videography examples and learn how to create our own. Come to this workshop ready to have FUN and be CREATIVE!

Classroom Learning Portals
Learn how to create a website using wiki software which can serve as a classroom learning portal or “home base” for your students. This site can include links, assignments, resources, and other digital curriculum materials. We’ll explore and discuss exemplary classroom learning portals created by other teachers and learn how to create our own. A variety of wiki tools will be compared including WikiSpaces for Educators and Google Sites. We’ll learn how to hyperlink and embed a variety of content into these sites.

iPad Media Creation
Learn a variety of applications, strategies and techniques for helping students CREATE media using iPads, iPod Touches or iPhones. We will explore applications for mobile blogging, audio recording, music creation and videography. To be fully digitally literate, people today need to be able to create compelling messages with media. Come learn how to transform your iPad into a powerful platform for multimedia creation and sharing!

Classroom Backchannels
Learn how to create and use online ‘backchannels’ in the classroom to facilitate student discussion, collaboration and reflection. A variety of backchannel websites will be used and explored including Etherpad and TodaysMeet. The use of Twitter hashtags for communication and collaboration will also be addressed.

Smart Networks: Making K12 computing more like college
A robust, flexible, and accountable computer network is a cornerstone of 21st century learning. The purpose of this presentation is to “catalyze” a dialog about school networks, policies, and leadership vision needed for 21st century k12 schools. Our K12 networks need to operate and look more like college networks. In this session we’ll discuss the why’s, the what’s and the how’s for creating smart school networks.
http://wfryer.me/smart

Support STEM Skills with Scratch
How are you supporting the development of problem solving skills, creativity, and computational thinking skills in your school today? Scratch software (scratch.mit.edu) is free software from MIT which can be used by students and teachers to create animations, games, simulations, music, art, stories, and more. In this session we’ll explore Scratch software, watch and learn from some exemplary student projects, and discuss how you can get started using Scratch with students today.
http://wfryer.me/scratch

Deepening our Learning Through Storytelling: creativity, STEM and stories
As learners of all ages (teachers and students) we need to “play with media” and utilize media tools to communicate. Good stories start with good writing and an invitation to share. In this session we’ll explore and discuss examples of digital media focusing specifically on science and math themes.
http://wfryer.me/stemstories

SlideShares & Podcasts

A variety of my past presentations are available via SlideShare.

Some of my 60 minute breakout sessions are also available as downloadable podcasts.

I regularly post audio podcasts on two FREE channels:

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