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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Unplugging, Devices, Camping, Spades and Fairy Houses

    Last week our family spent six wonderful days “off the grid” tent camping in the mountains of southeast Colorado, about two hours northwest of Trinidad at 9800 feet altitude in Purgatoire Campground. There were many highlights of the vacation for me, but one of the best was simply playing cards with our family. We played…

  • Visual Notes from Steven Anderson & Kyle Pace’s ISTE Session for Administrators

    Yesterday at the 2013 ISTE Conference in San Antonio I attended Steven Anderson & Kyle Pace’s “Curation, Creation, and Collaboration for 21st Century Administrators” session. Instead of blogging the session with text notes, as I normally do, I drew some visual notes which I finished up this morning using Brushes for iPad.

  • Visual Notes and Narrated Art: Benefits of Student-Created Videos on YouTube

    Today in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, I shared the six minute video, “Developing Communication Skills With YouTube & iPad Videos” with teachers, librarians, and school division educational consultants. This video was originally shared on the “Learning Showcase Website” of Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Inspired by the work of Giulia Forsythe and Rachel Smith on visual notetaking,…

  • Learning about Visual Notetaking from Giulia Forsythe

    In the process of writing and finalizing the chapter on “Visual Notetaking” for my forthcoming eBook, “Mapping Media to the Common Core,” I found Giulia Forsythe’s blog page “Visual Practice” and her WONDERFUL presentation a year ago for the 2012 University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy.

  • Hackers & Tinkerers Invent The Future

    I love this quotation. The full article is thought provoking and worth reading. Woz was able to invent the future because he had a hacker mentality, that combination of burning curiosity, patience and creativity that enables people to figure things out though epic trial-and-error. He was a tweaker, solderer, tester, reverse-engineer, dumpster diver and code…

  • Podcast403: Radio Shows & iOS Audio Podcasting with Joe Dale

    This podcast is an “over the pond and through the fiber” audio recording of a Skype conversation between UK educator Joe Dale and US educator Wes Fryer on May 7, 2013. The topic of conversation was radio shows and audio podcasting, and specifically highlighted different apps and techniques for creating radio shows with mobile iOS…

  • Why Your School Needs a Scratch Club [VIDEO]

    (cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools’ Learning Showcase website) This past year, fourth and fifth grade students at Independence Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, have had the opportunity to participate in an after-school Scratch Club led by STEM teacher Chris Simon. Scratch is a free program from the MIT Media Lab, which permits learners of…

  • Using Student Videos on YouTube to Demonstrate Proper School Procedures

    (cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools’ Learning Showcase website) Jennie Wilmes, the K-3 librarian at Shedeck Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, has been working with teachers this semester on a new “digital way” to help students learn proper procedures at school. Using some very talented student actors, Mrs. Wilmes created and published six short videos…

  • iPad Media Camp: June & July 2013 in Oklahoma & Kansas

    This summer you’re invited to join Dr. Wesley Fryer for three days of hands-on, engaging professional development in iPad Media Camp. If you are interested in Common Core aligned professional development, digital literacy, student engagement and improving student achievement, iPad Media Camp is the summer workshop for you. This innovative, three day experience is designed…

  • The Daily Oklahoman Shares Yukon Scratch Camp Learning with Oklahoma City Readers

    The Daily Oklahoman (NewsOK.com) is the largest metro newspaper in Oklahoma City. They published an article today about last week’s Scratch Camp, “Computers take center stage during Yukon’s spring break.” I was very glad to see they included several photos in the article showing we had good participation from both girls and boys. I was…