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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: creativity

  • Podcast361: Be Like Google (as a school community)

    This podcast is a recording of Cathy Kyle and Susan Droke’s presentation, “Be Like Google” at the 1 Oct 2010 Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence’s fall conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The official session description was: As the economy began to slow, Google continued to post positive quarterly earnings. The New York Times headline in 2008…

  • Gogurt Creativity at Panera #micon

    Love this example of spontaneous creativity! By a 5th grade friend of http://twitter.com/landaichesms Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous

  • Be Like Google (as a school community) #micon #gct @ckyle @sdroke

    These are my notes from Cathy Kyle and Susan Droke‘s presentation, “Be Like Google” at the 1 Oct 2010 Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence’s fall conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Session description: As the economy began to slow, Google continued to post positive quarterly earnings. The New York Times headline in…

  • Leading with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World #micon

    My opening keynote this evening at the inaugural conference of the Martin Center for Teaching Excellence in Memphis, Tennessee, was streamed live on Ustream and also recorded. The title of the session was, “Leading with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World.” My slides are available on SlideShare, as well as referenced videos and other links.…

  • Assignment: Build a personal avatar!

    This week, as part of our VoiceThread digital storytelling assignment, my pre-service teachers at the University of North Texas enrolled in “Computers in the Classroom” are required to create a free “avatar” for themselves. In this case, when we use the word “avatar” we’re NOT talking about James Cameron’s recent film by that name! Instead,…

  • Chance favors the connected mind

    Steven Johnson’s four minute video, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” resonates with many of my own thoughts as well as beliefs regarding creativity and innovation. Steven is the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.” This video uses a drawing-based, stopmotion digital storytelling technique similar to that employed by Dan…

  • iCarly inspires The Zebra Print

    As many episodes of iCarly as my daughters have watched in the past couple of years, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that they’ve wanted to create their own web show. They created four episodes this past summer, and asked me to assist them in creating a website (www.thezebraprint.com) and associated YouTube and Twitter…

  • Create animated cartoon videos with GoAnimate #learning2cn

    One team of participants in my cohort group at the Learning 2.010 conference this past weekend in Shanghai created this “Brave New Expo” animation as their final project, using the website GoAnimate. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re especially likely to think this is VERY clever. As a bit of related background, the World…

  • Great student project examples, lesson ideas and links integrating media #learning2cn

    Today our team of cohort learning facilitators for the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai met and planned our activities for the next couple of days. I’m enthused to be working with Carol Jordan in the “Visual and Digital Literacy” cohort at the conference. Carol teaches Chemistry and “Theory of Knowledge” at the Shanghai American School.…

  • Publish student stories online with artwork, text and audio narration with StoryKit (free)

    StoryKit is a wonderful, free application for iOS devices published by the International Children’s Digital Library. I learned about the application and installed it on my iPhone several months ago, but until this month didn’t take time to actually use it. I’m delighted at how easy it is to use and publish student work. This…