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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Scratch Gold

    I received around 75 thank you notes today from 2nd and 3rd graders at Skyview Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools. A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to introduce them to Scratch software, thanks to an invitation from their STEM teacher, Crystal Butcher. I read all of these and decorated one wall…

  • Remembering the Importance of Creativity in a High Stakes Testing School Culture

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Dr. Cyndi Danner Kuhn is using my ebook this semester, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing,” as her course textbook in DED 318 at Kansas State University. DED 318 is a required technology education course for pre-service teachers, and it’s great to see how Cyndi continues to iterate and evolve…

  • Nice Cat (An amazing story of encouragement for artistic creativity)

    Take 19 minutes and watch this fantastic TEDtalk: “Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist.” When you do, you’ll understand why the simple phrase, “Nice cat” had such power in the life of a young third grader named Jarrett. Since attending TEDxOU together last Friday, my wife has been enjoying TEDtalks via both…

  • Amazing Minecraft Webshows, Music Videos and Parody Animation Videos

    This weekend my son, who is now 15 and in 9th grade, shared several YouTube videos he’s been watching recently about Minecraft. This fall he recorded and shared a presentation for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference, “Creating and Playing in Minecraft,” in which he shared some of his favorite YouTube channels by Minecraft gurus. Here…

  • Why Scratch Club?

    (cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase) This Spring 2013 semester, twenty-four 4th and 5th grade students are participating in “Scratch Club” after school at Independence Elementary. STEM teacher Chris Simon is sponsoring the club, which students were invited to apply for in December. See the previous post, “Yukon Students Learning Computer Programming with…

  • Yukon Students Learning Computer Programming with Scratch

    (cross-posted from the Learning Showcase website of Yukon Public Schools) The December 12, 2012, issue of the Yukon Review featured an article on page 11 about students taking STEM classes with Chris Simon at Independence Elementary School. STEM is an acronym for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.” The article was titled, “‘Scratch’ teaches students computer…

  • FREE Playing with Media Meetups in Oklahoma City in 2013

    To share ideas, apps, and tools for creating different kinds of multimedia products with teachers, parents, homeschoolers and students, I’m going to start offering monthly “Playing with Media Meetups” in Oklahoma City starting in January 2013.

  • When Creative Musical Genius Meets YouTube

    There are some people in this world who have creative, musical genius that absolutely knocks your socks off when you hear and see it. Jon Cozart (Paint on YouTube) is one of those people. His 104 second video with himself, “Lord of the Rings in 99 Seconds,” has 1.3 million YouTube views to date. It…

  • Publish a Free Digital Magazine with Zeen

    Zeen (@zeen_com on Twitter) is a free, online platform in beta for creating digital magazines. The website lets you quickly pull photos from Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, as well as videos from YouTube and integrate them into slick, multi-page online magazines. Today I created a travelog magazine about our family’s recent fall break adventures titled, “Boston…

  • Podcast397: Takeaways from and Reflections on the 2012 EDUCAUSE Conference

    This is a “podcast from the road” by Wesley Fryer reflecting on the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference. In the podcast Wesley discusses learning management systems including the free/beta LMS OpenClass from Pearson, Kuali open source solutions for higher education, badge-based learning initiatives and tools, open journals / open academic publishing, Wolfram Alpha, MOOCs and native mobile…