Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tag: digital

  • Podcast447: Reflections on Screenagers Movie – Growing up in the digital age

    This 20 minute podcast features reflections by Sarah Fryer, Rachel Fryer, and Wesley Fryer after watching a screening of the film, “Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age.” http://www.screenagersmovie.com This 70 minute movie was shown on September 21, 2016, to an audience of parents, students, and educators at Christ the King School in Oklahoma City. The…

  • Visualizing Inside and Outside Sharing

    Shelly (@sfryer) and I are continuing to brainstorm our new book project and social media empowerment campaign, “Inside and Outside Sharing.” We are going to be presenting about “Inside and Outside Sharing” in a few weeks in Austin, Texas, at iPadPalooza, and the following week in Denver at the ISTE conference. We’ve been thinking about ways we can visually…

  • Learning about Digital Citizenship with Carl Hooker

    The past two days, Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) shared a series of outstanding presentations on digital citizenship with students, parents, faculty and staff at my school (Casady School) in Oklahoma City. I have known Carl for many years, and had a chance to participate in his amazing iPadPalooza conference in Austin in 2014. I attended his Miami Device 2015 session…

  • Custom Domain Mapping for a Classroom Google Site

    Today I worked with our wonderful lower school (elementary) art teacher, and started helping her create a classroom website using Google Sites. A classroom website, built on a wiki-based platform like Google Sites which permits browser-based page editing and page creation, can become a “digital home base” for students, parents, and other teachers to access…

  • Star Wars 1978 Remix (Lubbock, Texas)

    In 1978, following the release of Star Wars, Episode IV, “A New Hope” in 1977, several elementary age kids in Lubbock, Texas, re-created the Star Wars story and recorded their production using a silent “Super 8” movie camera. They created the following six minute version of the movie. Cast Members included: Mark Smith: Darth Vader,…

  • Brainstorming the Digital Sharing Map: Classroom Edition

    For the past year or so, my wife Shelly (@sfryer) and I have been talking a lot about helping organize and facilitate a “Digital Sharing Conference” (@digishare) in Oklahoma City. The Google Doc I shared this past August includes more background. Two of the influences on our thinking about this new event include Miami Device (@miamidevice)…

  • Invite Students to Enter Clean Shorts Film Festival

    This past Thursday I had an opportunity to attend and participate in EdCampEOC, held in Choctaw, Oklahoma, about 30 minutes to the east of where we live in OKC. During and after session 2, I met Ben Hlavaty (@czeckeredpast). Ben is starting his second year as the high school Video Production & Digital Photography Instructor at Eastern Oklahoma…

  • Indeed You Are Powerful – Digital Screen

    Has anyone else noticed how powerful the allure of digital screens is? I’ll hazard a guess the answer is a resounding “yes.” We can’t go anywhere these days without seeing people glued to their smartphones. Why is this the case? There are many reasons, but I assert a primary one is that digital screens offer…

  • Digital Storytelling MeetUp with Joe Lambert: Friday, February 13

    Storychasers invites you to join Joe Lambert, executive director and founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling, for a FREE meetup on Friday, February 13, 2015, discussing digital storytelling and the power of story to transform lives and enrich our communities. Teachers, librarians, and other educators interested in digital storytelling and oral history projects will…

  • Digital Storytelling Resources from Classroom 2.0 Live (Oct 2014)

    Yesterday I facilitated a 60 minute webinar on Classroom 2.0 Live about digital storytelling. This was an “open mic” session, which is similar to facilitated conversations at EdCamps. The webinar is archived on YouTube, and referenced links are included in this LiveBinder. These are some of the links I saved from the webinar, which were…