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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • 3rd Grade Narrated Art About Bats

    (cross-posted from the Learning Showcase of Yukon Public Schools) Third graders in Mrs. Bounds‘ class at Parkland Elementary School learned about different kinds of bats in October. Working with the Parkland librarian, Mrs. Eskew, Mrs. Bounds helped her students take pictures of their bat artwork and narrate those pictures using the free website AudioBoo. Here…

  • Notes from C-School (Creativity Boot Camp)

    These are my notes from a “dry run” / practice of C-School (Creativity School / Creativity Boot Camp) at Creative Oklahoma on October 30, 2012. Please register and join us for C-School in two weeks on Monday, November 12, 2012 in Oklahoma City! This full day workshop precedes the 2012 State of Creativity Forum on…

  • Best iOS Apps for Audio Recording & Sharing (Oct 2012)

    I love creating and sharing lists of recommended iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch apps on the free website Appolicious. Back in October of 2011 I created an Appolicious App list titled “Audio Recording and Sharing (Oct 2011),” and today I decided to create an updated version I’m calling, “Audio Apps (Oct 2012).” If you compare…

  • The Digital Shift eConference Tomorrow & More iPad eBook Authoring Apps

    If you’re a librarian or work with library media specialists, I hope you’re planning on attending tomorrow’s Library Journal and School Library Journal‘s virtual conference, “The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond.” The conference is ALL online and registration is still open, including ‘site licenses’ when multiple people at your school or in your school…

  • Devastated at the Forced Closure of the OKC Coworking Collaborative by US Fleet Tracking

    I have removed content from this post pending additional research I am completing. I will update this with more information soon.

  • Podcast395: Iowa Teachers & Librarians Discuss Mapping Media to the Curriculum (Lessons Learned)

    This audio podcast is a combined series of six, three minute “radio shows” created by teachers and teacher/librarians in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the College Community School District on October 3, 2012. Participants in this two day workshop on “Mapping Media to the Common Core” with Wesley Fryer learned to facilitate lessons with student created-media including…

  • Reconsider Your Neutral Brainstorming Assumptions

    I’m continuing to read and love Jonah Leherer‘s book, “Imagine: How Creativity Works.” His discussion of research on “brainstorming” versus discussions that involve debate and critique are particularly insightful. In the past, I just assumed “the right way” to generate ideas in class or in another group was to follow “traditional” rules of brainstorming, where…

  • Amazing Minecraft Time Lapse Building Videos

    Today for our fourth day of Scratch Camp in Edmond, Oklahoma, at The Div as part of the Div Jr Program, my 14 year old son (Alexander) joined us and shared several things. Before we got started with our second day focusing on game development in Scratch, I shared two amazing Minecraft videos Alex found…

  • July PD in OKC: Google Docs, iPad Media Camp & Scratch Camp

    If you live in or near Oklahoma City, you’re invited to join in three different professional development workshops I’ll be leading in July. Next Tuesday, July 10th, I’ll be teaching a full day “Introduction to Google Documents” workshop for Canadian Valley Technology Center based in Yukon, Oklahoma. Angela Mills is coordinating the workshop (Angela.Mills [at]…

  • Street Art + Stopmotion = Creative Digital Storytelling

    Goons, the nephew of a participant in this week’s iPad Media Camp in Yukon, Oklahoma, is a Chicago “street artist” who created all the original artwork in the amazing 78 second stopmotion YouTube video, “Clean It Up,” sponsored by Orbit Gum. It currently has over 1 million views. The teacher/relative of Goons shared this video…