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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Create an iPad Stand for Stopmotion from Cardboard

    Jackie Myers, the 4th and 5th grade art teacher at Independence Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, explains how to create a functional iPad stand using a cardboard box, duct tape, and a box cutter. Jackie used cardboard iPad stands like these with her students in April 2014 on a stopmotion video project. View examples of…

  • Fun Scratch Projects Today in STEM Class

    I’m continuing to teach my 4th and 5th graders in STEM class about coding and how to create projects using Scratch software. Last week students got started with coding using tutorials on Code.org. For our first lesson of this week students completed the “Step-by-Step Intro” to Scratch. I recorded a screencast of the instructions for…

  • Add Music to iPad Stopmotion Videos with YouTube Capture

    I’ve been helping our elementary school art teacher, Jackie Myers, get ready for a stopmotion video project she’ll be starting with her students on Wednesday. I wrote more about how we found the free iPad app she’s using for the project, Stop Motion Cafe, in the March 17th post, “Preparing for a Stopmotion Art Project.”…

  • Preparing for a Stopmotion Art Project

    I LOVE stopmotion video projects. Last week our school art teacher Jackie Myers, and I had a very rare opportunity to collaborate during a school day thanks to a morning fifth grade field trip to our district 6th grade academy. After spring break (this week) I’ll be starting a 2 week unit in STEM class…

  • March is Teen DIY Tech Month at OKC Metro Libraries

    Spring Break starts next week for students and teachers in Oklahoma City Public Schools, and the following week for most of the other districts in our state. The OKC Metro Libraries have declared the month of March to be Teen DIY (Do It Yourself) Tech Month.   by  Wesley Fryer  The best way to stay updated on…

  • Don’t Judge the Creativity of All Chicago Teachers & PD Based On 1 Absurd Video

    The 62 second video, “CPS Teacher Professional Development from CEO’s Network,” is being shared by a lot of folks on social media. Valerie Strauss posted it today on her blog for the Washington Post, The Answer Sheet, with the title, “A video that shows why teachers are going out of their minds.” Larry Ferlazzo posted…

  • Introduce Students to Coding with Hopscotch for iPad

    Update Dec 13th: The archived recording of this webinar in Adobe Connect is available. These are my presentation slides for today’s free ISTE SIGML webinar, “Introduce Students to Coding with Hopscotch for iPad.” The webinar starts at 7 pm EST. Introduce Students to Coding with Hopscotch for iPad from Wesley Fryer The session description is:…

  • FREE Hour of Code Webinars with Wes

    This week as part of the 2013 “Hour of Code” and Computer Science Education Week I’m sharing two different FREE webinars on Wednesday and Saturday. Please mark your calendars so you can join one or both events! Introduce Students to Coding with HopScotch for iPad Wed Dec 11, 7 pm EST FREE Adobe Connect webinar…

  • The Hour of Code

    This is a short paragraph I submitted for our school’s December newsletter for parents, discussing what we’ve been doing in STEM class in November and are doing this month supporting “The Hour of Code.” IES Students in STEM in November learned to “code” on our class iPads using the free app, Hopscotch (www.gethopscotch.com). A free…

  • Hopscotch Challenges: A Free Curriculum eBook for iPad Coders

    Update Nov 16, 2013: I’ve revised the eBook twice since publishing it last week, it’s now in version 1.2, with several new chapters and a student video demo about using Emoji keyboard icons as Hopscotch characters! This week I started introducing my 4th and 5th grade STEM students to coding with the free iPad app,…