Category: christian

  • 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…

  • Batting 1-1 With Three More Pitches Coming

    I’ve been wanting (and perhaps even NEEDING, as other bloggers might be able to understand) to write about our son’s college application journey for a long time. This isn’t just his journey, although it certainly is principally his decision to make and entirely HIS life to live. It’s also a journey for our family, and…

  • Podcast432: Dan Straughan Shares About the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance

    This podcast is a presentation by Dan Straughan, executive director of the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance, shared on Friday, September 25, 2015, at the Friday Morning Mens Group of First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma. For several months, our men’s group has been reading and studying the wonderful book, “Same Kind of Different As Me:…

  • Help Ricky Wyatt’s Family on Tues Dec 30th: Eat at S&B Burger in Norman, OK

    Update 12/29/2014: Ricky passed away this weekend. This fundraiser is still going forward to support the family. If you live in or near Norman, Oklahoma, help the family of Ricky Wyatt with their overwhelming medical expenses following his diagnosis of ALS in March 2012 by eating lunch or dinner at S&B Burger at 102 Main on Tuesday,…

  • Come See “One Incredible Moment” in Edmond This Weekend

    This weekend, if you live anywhere near Oklahoma City or Edmond, Oklahoma, I strongly encourage you to come see the FREE and amazing musical, “One Incredible Moment.” This is a production and outreach ministry of our church, First Presbyterian of Edmond. The musical will be performed again tonight (Saturday) and Sunday nights. Yesterday’s article in the…

  • The Evolution of BYOD for our Church Session

    This is the second year I’ve served as an elder on our church session, which is similar to a board of directors in many ways. As you might expect, I bring my laptop, iPad and iPhone to our monthly meetings, and prefer to have all meeting documents in electronic rather than printed form. While some…

  • Managing Digital Footprints – for grandparents (March 2014)

    Update 2/13/2014: An audio podcast recording of this presentation is available on “Fuel for Educational Change Agents.” These are the slides for a presentation I’m sharing Wednesday evening titled “Managing Digital Footprints – for grandparents.” This is the description I added to the slides in SlideShare: This is a presentation shared by Dr. Wesley Fryer…

  • Podcast412: Reflections on Prisons, Schools, Poverty and Families in Oklahoma

    This Christmas Eve 2013 audio podcast is a recorded conversation with Shelly and Wesley Fryer, reflecting on their recent experiences on December 9th with the “Redeeming the Family” outreach ministry at Mable Bassett Women’s Prison in McCloud, Oklahoma. Redeeming the Family is an organization serving the innocent children of incarcerated parents in Oklahoma through the…

  • Visual Notetaking at ISTE 2013

    I have learned a great deal about visual notetaking the past year as I’ve been working on my second eBook project, “Mapping Media to the Common Core: Vol I.” Canadian educator Giulia Forsythe has been and continues to be inspirational to me. Rachel Smith’s 18 minute TEDx talk, “Drawing in Class,” has also been a…

  • Redeeming the Family: Blessing Children of Incarcerated Parents

    (cross-posted from Redeeming the Family and Eyes Right) This is a 14 minute video reflection by Wesley Fryer, who volunteered with Redeeming the Family on May 15, 2013, at the Cimarron Correctional Facility (prison) in Cushing, Oklahoma. Oklahoma currently has 17 prisons, and Cimarron is one of three which is privately operated. Corrections Corporation of…