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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Podcast135: Playing School or Preparing for Life? (by Meg Ormiston)

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Meg Ormiston at the METC Conference in St. Louis today. The conference program description of her presentation was: Are we preparing students to be successful in school or successful in life? If livelong learning is the goal, the methods, tools and strategies must change from “text…

  • Playing School or Preparing for Life? by Meg Ormiston

    These are my notes from Meg Ormiston’s METC 2007 presentation “Playing School or Preparing for Life?” on 27 Feb 2007. (I recorded this session and will post this later as a podcast.) www.techteachers.com meg [at] techteachers [dot] com Isn’t the goal of school to prepare for life? We have to STOP THIS GAME! – we…

  • Self-promotional video is instructive on different levels

    In October 2006, the New York Times ran the article “A Student’s Video Résumé Gets Attention (Some of It Unwanted)” which told the story of Yale senior Aleksey Vayner’s self-promotional video which eventually leaked to YouTube. According to the article: Mr. Vayner’s experience shows the not-so-friendly side of the social-networking phenomenon. While sites such as…

  • Creative Commons: Escape the hassles of copyright infringement

    These are my notes from a presentation by Jamey Osborne at TCEA 2007. Jamey is with the Ysleta ISD Instructional Technology Dept in El Paso (josborne [at] yisd [dot] net) – he is an ADE and Adobe lead teacher [JAMEY IS ALSO A GURU OF MYSQL / MYPHP DATABASES FOR EDUCATORS, GREAT WORKSHOP RESOURCES AND…

  • Creative Educator magazine

    In my phone conversation with my wife this morning, she mentioned a great new magazine arrived at our house yesterday, “The Creative Educator.” This is a publication of the very creative and innovative folks over at Tech4Learning, who make wonderful products that inspire creativity like The Clay Animation Kit and Frames, which is a Mac/Windows…

  • Encouraging student political interest and activism

    C-SPAN is sponsoring a documentary digital storytelling contest on its site, StudentCam. Unlike many other national digital storytelling contests, entrants do NOT have to be 18 to enter. According to the official rules, students must be in grades 6 – 12. Students select a political issue they care about and prepare a documentary video of…

  • Vista is out, but do educators care?

    Well, Windows Vista is now on the market, but my question is: Do any educators care? I don’t know of any midwest U.S. school districts planning to make the transition to Vista anytime soon. In an interview with CNN this morning, Bill Gates said: People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.…

  • Rise up with Uth TV

    Students today need not wait for their school, teachers, or community leaders to recognize the power of digital storytelling and become globally acknowledged filmmakers. The percentage of older adults in my community aware of YouTube seems to be growing but is still quite limited. More youth as well as older learners need to know about…

  • Talking about educational blogging with wider audiences

    Will Richardson has shared a 2 minute video via YouTube recorded at a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference held in April. He discusses the ways blogs can be used by people to control their own learning experiences, and the value of engaging in conversations via the blogosphere. It is great to see…

  • Podcast 120: Using Flickr and Bubbleshare for Digital Storytelling and Collaborative Projects

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared this week about using the free websites Flickr and Bubbleshare for digital storytelling and collaborative projects with students in different grade levels. Flickr is far more than a photo sharing website: It is a social network that permits people to collaboratively create pools of images,…