Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: christian

  • When you fall, get back up: It matters how you finish (inspirational video)

    The power of video to inspire and move us in less than three minutes is amazing. This video by Nick Vujicic (“Are You Going To Finish Strong?) can help anyone get some perspective on their life and day, as well be inspired. According to the current English WikiPedia article for Nick: Nicholas James Vujicic (born…

  • Online video editing with Kaltura and Stroome

    Following up on my browser-based video editing experiments with Jaycut earlier in the week, this evening I used the website Stroome.com to edit a short, four minute video about an outreach project of our local church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Stroome uses the open source Kaltura video editor, and this was my first time to use…

  • Message for Oklahoma Christians: Muslims are NOT our enemies

    This evening at our church’s annual congregational meeting, a leader of the mission committee stood up and talked about a recent trip he’d taken to Uganda. He commented that this time, he noticed more Muslim mosques in the towns they visited, and said this was evidence “the enemy is advancing.” I almost fell out of…

  • Green Screen Effects in iMovie 09

    Last month fifth graders in the Sunday School class I teach at our church recorded both still images and video to create a “remix” of a music video by the group, “Go Fish.” To seek formal permission for this remixed version, I posted the video as a YouTube response to the original music video. I…

  • No Ning networks for students under age 13, Monitored ePals email Accounts

    Well, this is a bummer. The Ning Terms of Service agreement explicitly prohibits anyone from creating any Ning social networking sites “targeted at children under the age of 13.” I was aware of COPPA and knew I’d have to get parent permission for students to participate in an online community I was creating for a…

  • Decking a house – Sharing with a VoiceThread and a JayCut video

    I had a chance today to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in my city, Edmond, Oklahoma, for one of the families in our community. With temperatures in the afternoon reaching over 100 degrees, this was certainly an appreciation moment for my “normal” work routine in an air conditioned building! I posted about sixty…

  • 5th grade Sunday School technology integration

    In response to Kent Chesnut’s request for more information about how I’m integrating technology in lessons with our 5th grade Sunday School students at church this year, I recorded an hour-long podcast in the car and posted it to Eyes Right this evening. If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’…

  • Update on Alana Warfel and Hollow band

    A month ago I wrote about Alana Warfel and her Christian rock band “Hollow” in the blog post “Surprise, your preschool teacher is a rock star!” In that post I mentioned her band was looking forward to the GMA Music in the Rockies conference both for the learning experiences it would offer them as a…

  • Prepare now for the 10,000+ channel future

    I had some very interesting conversations with folks on the SuperShuttle ride from the airport to the hotel this afternoon/evening in Anaheim. The gentleman sitting next to me was a pastor from Louisiana, originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. When I asked him where in Vietnam he was from, he actually identified his city…

  • Reflecting on helping kids develop their own ethical filters

    I’ve posted a new podcast for “Digital Dialog” that I created this past week with my wife, Shelly. Our conversation focuses on chapter 1 of the 2007 book “Children’s Ministry in the 21st Century” by Craig Jutila, Jim Wideman, and Pat Verbal. Link to our “Digital Dialog” Ning social network on digitaldialog.ning.com. I had previously…