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  • Why You Want to GateKeep Your Teen’s iOS Apps

    If your kids have iPhones and/or iPads, it’s a good idea to enable Family Sharing on your Apple IDs / iTunes accounts and on your iOS devices. Family sharing permits parents to approve or decline/disallow child requests to purchase apps and music from iTunes and the Apple App Store. Depending on the age of your…

  • Video Toolbox: A Good iPad App for Blurring Student Faces (when needed)

    It’s important to obtain parent and student permission before publishing photos or videos online. Of the 610 fourth and fifth graders currently at my elementary school, only 10 parents have requested that their child’s photo NOT be published online. Our secretary is able to run a report directly from PowerSchool and provide that list to…

  • Document Your World With HyperLapse Videos

    If you own an iOS device and have not yet given the amazing videography app Hyperlapse a try, consider this post your official invitation and challenge. According to the English WikiPedia: Hyperlapse (also walklapse, spacelapse, stop-motion time-lapse, motion timelapse, moving timelapse) is an exposure technique in time-lapse photography, in which the position of the camera is…

  • Download & Use Vine Videos in iPad Media Projects

    Last October I was very inspired by Ben Wilkoff‘s keynote presentation “6 Second Stories for Learning” in the free, K-12 Online Conference. If you haven’t seen it yet, set aside 16 minutes of your day and watch it. In the first half, Ben utilizes a long series of 103 different, six second videos which he recorded…

  • iPad App Clean Install (December 2014)

    Thanks to some professional development work I’m starting with a new grant project, I was able to setup a new iPad Air 2 this weekend with all the apps I use for personal productivity, content creation and sharing. As is the case with a laptop, it’s often beneficial to do a “clean install” of applications rather…

  • Teaching iPad Videography From 3800 Miles Away

    Friday I had an opportunity to share a videoconference about iPad Videography from my home in Oklahoma City with a group of about 15 homeschoolers in Nenana, Alaska, which is almost 4000 miles away.    by  Wesley Fryer  It blows my mind that it’s possible to teach and share like this. I posted the recorded audio from…

  • To-Do and Task Manager Options

    I’ve been trying different digital “task managers” to keep to-do lists over the years, and this semester I’m really liking Wunderlist. It has a viable free plan (I haven’t paid for a commercial plan yet) and if you want you can collaborate with others on your lists. You can also share your lists in a read-only…

  • iPad Apps for PreK Aides and Students (Feb 2013)

    This morning I facilitated another 1.5 hour iPad workshop for teacher-aides in Yukon Public Schools who work with PreK students on our elementary campuses. This was the third workshop we’ve had together since these staff members received iPads late last fall.

  • Apps and Clouds: An Introduction to Internet Resources

    Yesterday I shared an introductory professional development workshop in Yukon, Oklahoma, titled, “Apps and Clouds: An Introduction to Internet Resources.” This evening I published my presentation slides to SlideShare, published a “lightly edited” audio recording of the 98 minute session, and also created a linked webpage with all referenced resources and videos. Feedback for this…

  • Podcast387: TechShoppingCart Episode 11 – Christmas 2011 Apps and Gadgets

    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…