Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tag: ipad

  • Recording and Sharing Your iPad with In-Person and Remote Learning Students

    Update 8/24/2020: I’ve created a step-by-step tutorial for these steps, using either Google Meet or Zoom. This is linked from our “Lesson Cast” support page on our school instructional support website. Today is our 3rd day back with students for the 2020-21 academic year, and it’s both good and challenging. Most of our students have…

  • Seesaw Skills, Assessment and Parent Feedback

    Last week I had an opportunity to attend the LLI Southwest Conference at The Oakridge School in Arlington, Texas, and present with two of our second grade teachers about our “Seesaw Skills iPad Pilot Project,” which I’m leading this year with teachers in our Lower Division at Casady School in Oklahoma City. In this post,…

  • Help Students Use Icons and Photos in Narrated Slideshows

    My wife (@sfryer) is starting a narrated slideshow media project tomorrow with her third graders. About a week ago, all the third graders at our school went on a field trip to a local kitchen where they prepared soup for the homeless in our community. This was part of a service learning project, and launched…

  • Make Media Camps in July 2018: Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Dallas

    I’m excited to announce the availability of three upcoming “Make Media Camps” for PK-12 teachers and university faculty in July 2018 in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and Dallas. The past five summers, I have led and co-led 3 day iPad Media Camp workshops with my wife, Shelly Fryer. This summer, we are continuing to iterate with…

  • Pocket Share Jesus (May 2017)

    This weekend was the annual MoRanch Men’s Conference near Hunt, Texas, and I prepared an updated version of the workshop, “Pocket Share Jesus,” which I shared last year. Tonight I recorded a 43 minute narrated slideshow and video demo of the session. Here’s the video and my slides. To make this video, I used my…

  • Upload Videos Using the iPhone YouTube App

    More teachers today are creating videos and sharing them with students for assignments and to teach different concepts. While it’s possible to upload videos to a school or personal YouTube channel from a laptop computer, it’s also possible to directly upload videos from your iPhone (or Android phone) or iPad. “YouTube for iOS” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer…

  • iPad Musical Creativity Apps

    Today at the OTA / EncycloMedia 2016 Conference in Oklahoma City, keynote speaker Shannon M. Miller (@shannonmmiller) shared a wealth of apps, websites, and project ideas in her breakout session, “Igniting Innovation and Creativity in Our Makerspaces With Digital Tools and Apps.” One of the apps she shared is “MusiQuest – Music & Beat Maker.”…

  • Green Screen Videos to Share with Teachers

    Last week I led a 3 day iPad Media Camp at my school in Oklahoma City for K-12 teachers. I introduced participants to green screen videos and a production workflow including: the iPad Camera app the Green Screen app by Do Ink iMovie for iPad “iPad Media Camp 2016 OKC” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer  Before learning tips…

  • Tweeted Learning from iPadPalooza 2016

    The iPadPalooza 2016 conference in Austin last week was a fantastic learning event, and as I found it in 2014, a bit overwhelming. (But in a very good way, like educational technology conferences are prone to be these days.) I’m now in the habit of sharing my learning at educational conferences via Twitter, so this…

  • Audience Feedback at iPadPalooza 2016

    iPadPalooza 2016 is almost over, and it’s been a fantastic conference. If you’re an educator and use an iPad, this is a “must attend” event. Next year the conference will be earlier in June. This year in addition to a mini-keynote with Shelly on day 1 about “Digital Sharing,” I shared three breakout sessions on “App…