Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Month: July 2012

  • Leveraging YouTube to Tell The Story of Your Non-Profit

    (Cross-posted as a slightly secularized version from Eyes Right) Upendo Kids International is a mission outreach non-profit based in Edmond, Oklahoma, which sends teams each summer to Kenya to show God’s love and kindness through a variety of activities. This evening, I had an opportunity to show the nineteen members of the June 2012 Upendo…

  • Add Video Annotations to a YouTube Video

    Sometimes when you create a narrated slideshow, screencast, or other video for YouTube, you make mistakes. Sometimes you also want to provide additional information, like a hyperlink, for viewers of your video. In these cases, consider adding “annotations” to your YouTube video. The YouTube Help page, “Getting Started with Annotations,” provides excellent instructions for using…

  • FAQs About iPads and Media in the Classroom

    During the June and July 2012 sessions of the 3 day workshop “iPad Media Camp,” I asked participants to post questions they had about our curriculum as well as related topics using a Google form. Instead of just answering questions in class, I created narrated slideshows using the iPad app “Explain Everything” and posted the…

  • Follow Lady Gaga, Dean Shareski & Justin Bieber on Twitter

    Today during iPad Media Camp I showed our participants how to follow @iPadMediaCamp on Twitter. Much to my surprise, the top recommendations (auto-created by Twitter) for “who to follow” are Lady Gaga, Dean Shareski, and Justin Bieber. Apparently Dean’s “learn the guitar via YouTube videos” project from last year has borne AMAZING fruit! He’s a…

  • Turn On Comment Moderation on a YouTube Video

    Yesterday during iPad Media Camp in Edmond, Oklahoma, teachers created their own YouTube channels and learned how to shoot, edit and publish videos to YouTube using an iPad. One of the important things we should do as teachers when we publish videos to YouTube is turn ON comment moderation. Yesterday I created a four minute…

  • iPad Tutorial: Use a Free Amazon Wish List as an Information Trap for Books

    (cross-posted from iPadWithWes.com) Montana educator Jason Neiffer uses the metaphor of “creating information traps” to describe strategies for digitally capturing and archiving information for later use. In this three minute screencast, Wesley Fryer demonstrates how you can use a free “wish list” (included with every Amazon.com account) as an “information trap” for books on an…

  • July PD in OKC: Google Docs, iPad Media Camp & Scratch Camp

    If you live in or near Oklahoma City, you’re invited to join in three different professional development workshops I’ll be leading in July. Next Tuesday, July 10th, I’ll be teaching a full day “Introduction to Google Documents” workshop for Canadian Valley Technology Center based in Yukon, Oklahoma. Angela Mills is coordinating the workshop (Angela.Mills [at]…