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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: apple

  • iPad Video App Smash: Auphonic, Voice Record Pro and Green Screen

    This afternoon I decided to try a new “app smash” workflow and create an enhanced version of a recorded iPad video from Friday’s OMLEA conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This revised version of the video includes the slides I showed on the screen during my “OklaEd talk,” and also includes an enhanced audio track. “iPad Video…

  • Using Google Reverse Image Search to Create a (late) Bibliography

    Three months ago our youngest daughter, sixth grader Rachel, worked with a classmate to create a two minute video about “The Oregon Trail” for her social studies class and the National History Day (NHD) contest. They shot the video on her iPhone 5 and she edited it in iMovie for iPhone. I encouraged her to…

  • Narrated Sketchnote on Mindfulness and Resiliency

    Today our school’s “Conference on Education” kicked off with a keynote address by Dr.R. Murali Krishna. (@DrRMKrishna) Dr. Krishna is the author of “Vibrant: To Heal and Be Whole – From India to Oklahoma City.” His keynote today focused on mindfulness and ways to use deep breathing and meditation to increase resiliency and overall health as…

  • Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhones: No Flash Required

    One of our teachers loves to share photos he takes of students working in class using Picasa on his classroom Google Site. He’s been using Picasa for years, but unfortunately all of the sharing options (like photo slideshows) from Picasa don’t work on smartphones like iPhones. I think this is because some of them are…

  • App Smash: Google Slides to Explain Everything to YouTube

    Today we had an all-school faculty meeting, and our headmaster asked me to share a presentation about the new learning management system (Blackbaud’s onCampus) which we’re transitioning to now and will use in the fall semester. In this post I’ll describe how I “app smashed” my Google Slides presentation into the Explain Everything app for…

  • Save YouTube Videos to iPad Camera Roll for Green Screen Compositing

    Last week in the post, “iPad App Smashing Green Screen Videos from YouTube,” I described an iPad workflow for saving YouTube videos from the web directly into the camera roll of an iPad, and then using those videos as “background videos” in a composited or combined green screen video. While those steps can work, one…

  • Podcast 438: Reflections on iCamp KSU 2016 by Shelly and Wesley Fryer

    This podcast recording is a reflection by Shelly and Wesley Fryer about iCamp KSU 2016, a full day, hands-on workshop on integrating iPads in the classroom as tools for media creation by students to “show what they know with media.” iCamp KSU was held at the Kansas State University Alumni Center in Manhattan, Kansas, and…

  • iPad App Smashing Green Screen Videos from YouTube

    Last night my wife threw down the “geek glove,” asking me if her students could import green screen videos from YouTube on their iPads and then overlay/combine their own green screen videos with them using the “Green Screen” app by Do Ink. Her students have been creating some Star Wars themed green screen movies in…

  • Backup iPhone SMS Messages on a Mac

    I’m helping a friend who needs to backup text messages and other data from a family member’s iPhone, so I’ve been doing research to figure out the best and most inexpensive way to create these backups. While the Messages app on a Mac or iPad can keep copies of many text messages sent by and…

  • Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” Options

    This is an email I sent out today to all faculty/staff at our school. The majority of our teachers have Macbook Pro laptops. Feel free to copy/re-use any of this email text if desired. We have setup the Software Update service in OS X Server so when faculty/staff install Mac updates from their laptops they can get…