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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Learning More About Visual Notetaking (Authorized Drawing in Class!)

    Yesterday at the 2013 Tablet Summit in Montreal, Quebec, I shared a two-part breakout session on “visual notetaking.” These are visual notes created by two of the workshop participants, Tanya Avrith and Audrey McLaren. Visual notetaking is a great learning strategy to demonstrate, practice, and promote with teachers for many reasons. First of all, we…

  • 2013 Tablet Summit in Montreal: Your Table[t]d’hôte Today

    These are the slides I’m using for the opening keynote at the 2013 Tablet Summit in Montreal, Quebec on Monday. Thanks to help from Susan VanGelder, I’m using a French pun for my keynote title, “Your Table[t]d’hôte Today.” This is a play on words since it’s the “tablet summit.” In French, it means “the menu.”…

  • Amplify Art with Media (Oct 2013)

    Yesterday was a special treat for me in several ways. Not only did I have morning and evening opportunities to go for long walks on a beautiful Florida beach, I also had a chance to share some ideas with art teachers attending the Florida Art Education Association’s 2013 Conference in Daytona Beach. I titled my…

  • A Fourth Grader is Inspired by Oklahoma Artist Danny Gordon

    Today was momentous in the life of my 4th grade daughter, Rachel: She was able to meet and spend some time with the amazing Oklahoma artist, Danny Gordon. Danny presented a session yesterday at the 2013 Oklahoma Technology Association and EncycloMedia Conference in Oklahoma City, and when I learned part of his story I knew…

  • Learning Cool Things at the 2013 Tulsa Mini Maker Faire

    Today, thanks to a Twitter-inspired digital rabbit hole, two of my kids and a friend attended the first-ever Tulsa Mini Maker Faire.* It was an hour and a half drive for us from Oklahoma City, but despite the rain it was worth the trip! Here are a few of the things we learned and did.…

  • Oklahoma Innovation Task Force Education Survey

    If you are an Oklahoma educator, please take a few minutes to complete this 29 question survey for Creative Oklahoma. The past couple of years I’ve attended several meetings of this task force (both in person and on the phone) and believe the work they are doing is important. We need to place much more…

  • Opening Doors for Students: An ISTE 2013 Ignite Presentation

    In June 2013 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, I had an opportunity to share a short “Ignite” presentation during the opening session. An Ignite presentation typically includes 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds, so each presentation is five minutes long. (I used less than 20 slides…

  • We Are The Miners of Minecraft (A Clever Queen Remix)

    My 15 year old son is a huge Minecraft fan, and loves both watching and curating creative Minecraft videos on YouTube. Periodically he shares some with me, and this evening we watched “‘We Are The Miners’ – A Minecraft Parody of Queen’s We Are The Champions (Music Video)”. As a long-time fan of Queen, I…

  • iPhoneography Light Painting

    This evening at the 2013 Willowood Technology Summit, I used my iPhone to capture some remarkable images of “light painting.” The last times I experimented with light painting and LED pens was in April and May of 2010. This time, however, instead of a “regular” digital camera I used my iPhone5 and the “Slow Shutter”…

  • Rachel Shares a Story about a 3rd Grade Class Enhanced eBook

    This week in iPad Media Camp at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, it was a great joy to teach alongside both my daughters, Sarah and Rachel. On day 3, when we focused on eBooks and interactive writing, Rachel shared the story of how her 3rd grade teacher last year learned about creating enhanced eBooks with…