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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: design

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Podcast404: Learning About the Textile Industry Through Object-Based Global Exchange

    This podcast is an interview with Branson Skinner and Liz Ricketts, founders of theOR.org and a global exchange framework which helps students learn about the textile industry, sustainable textile production, and a host of global literacy issues through the object-based curriculum TheseThingsTakeTime. This interview was recorded in Washington D.C. on June 15, 2013, at the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Update and Manage Multiple WordPress Sites with InfiniteWP

    Last week I attended a fantastic webinar about InfiniteWP on WebDesign.com taught by Benjamin Bradley. If you maintain multiple self-hosted WordPress websites, you definitely need to check out InfiniteWP. It’s a FREE, installable web tool that lets you update WordPress plugins, themes, and the WordPress core from a centralized site and login. In addition, a…

  • 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…

  • Yukon Review Covers Spring Break 2013 Oklahoma Scratch Camp

    On Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Yukon Review newspaper ran Jim Powell’s article in section C titled, “Students spend spring break learning a ‘new language.’” The subtitle was, “‘Scratch Camp’ teaches youngsters about computer programming.” Since archives of the Yukon Review’s articles are not currently accessible on the open web and are not indexed by…