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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Podcast446: Reflections on a PBS Scratch Jr Coding Camp for Kids

    Coding is an important literacy skill we need to introduce to everyone in the 21st century! This podcast features reflections by Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) following a PBS Scratch Jr. Coding Camp for Kids in Edmond, Oklahoma, on September 17, 2016. It also includes some recorded audio from Shelly’s lessons during the…

  • Create a Maze Game in PBS Scratch Jr

    Scratch is a wonderful, FREE, block-based coding language and website students around the world have used since 2007 to create over 16 million projects. “Scratch is used in more than 150 different countries and available in more than 40 languages.” Learners of all ages have created a diverse array of animations, games, interactive art projects, music and dance projects, stories, and…

  • MinecraftEDU House Spanish Labeling Challenge

    Today I co-taught a lesson with one of our middle school Spanish teachers called the “MinecraftEDU House Spanish Labeling Challenge.” Students worked with a partner to build a house in MinecraftEDU, and then labeled items in Spanish using Minecraft signs. To keep the focus on building and labeling items in Spanish, students worked in a pre-configured MinecraftEDU world which…

  • Tweeted Learning from ISTE 2016

    As I did for iPadPalooza in Austin last week, I’ve created a Storify archive of the 500+ tweets and retweets I shared this week from the ISTE Conference in Denver, Colorado. Before I embed the Storify archive, however, I’ll single out a few notable tweets. Tuesday I shared a poster session (and was greatly assisted…

  • 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…

  • Podcast442: Classroom Passion Projects, Maker Studio & Digital Citizenship with Shelly Fryer

    This Speed of Creativity podcast features an extended interview with 3rd and 4th grade teacher Shelly Fryer, who shares about her students’ classroom passion projects, learning in “Maker Studio,” and learning about digital citizenship via the class chat feature of the iPad app News-O-Matic. Shelly has been teaching for over twenty years, and this was…

  • Podcast441: iPads in Maker Studio by Shelly Fryer (May 2016)

    This podcast is a recording of Shelly Fryer’s presentation “iPads in Maker Studio” via a Google Hangout for the 2016 Global Maker Day Conference. The session description was: “Learn how our third and fourth grade students use their iPads in our maker studio to document their learning and share both inside and outside our classroom.…

  • Scratch Day in Oklahoma City on Saturday, May 14, 2016

    Know any kids in grades 2-6 who would love to learn how to create their own video games? Register them today to join me for Scratch Day at Oklahoma City University on Saturday, May 14, 2016! Scratch Day is an annual event sponsored by the MIT Media Lab to promote coding, digital creativity, computational thinking, and…

  • Comparing Risks and Benefits of a PreTeen YouTube Channel

    Our daughter, Rachel, is thrilled to have hit the 400 subscriber milestone on her YouTube channel. To celebrate and thank her fans, she created a “400 Subscriber Special” video this week that features an awesome “speed draw” as well as details of a special giveaway she’s having. I’m so amazed at how her video creation skills…

  • Best Stylus for iPad Drawing and Sketchnoting

    One of our teachers asked for my recommendation of a good iPad stylus to use for drawing and illustration today. Here’s what I shared with her. I’ve used a number of styluses in the past few years and my favorite is definitely the Jot Pro by Adonit. Make sure you get the iPad version. You can…