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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • New Snow Day iMovie Trailer Video

    Our youngest daughter, Rachel, is 11 years old and absolutely loves going sledding whenever we have snow (or even sleet!) in Oklahoma City. Today we went sledding in our 2.5 inches of snow that fell on Sunday and gave us all a “snow day” from school, and I created a new iMovie trailer of our…

  • Stopmotion Project Tips & Advice

    I received some questions from a middle school teacher in Connecticut this weekend about classroom StopMotion projects. He also specifically asked about the tripods we are using for our iPads. This may be helpful to others, so I am sharing my email reply in this post. Hi! We are using the Makayama iPad 2 tripod…

  • Green Screen Photo Station at our Fall Festival

    This evening was the “Fall Festival” at the elementary school where I teach STEM in Yukon, Oklahoma, sponsored by our PTA. This is a big fundraiser for us, and I think may be our biggest money-making opportunity of the year.    by  Wesley Fryer  This year I agreed to organize and run a “Green Screen photo booth.”…

  • Make Marvelous Movies by Tony Vincent

    These are my notes from Tony Vincent‘s Miami Device breakout session, “Make Marvelous Movies.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All session resources are on: http://learninginhand.com/mdmovies Follow Tony Vincent on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tonyvincent TONY IS “THE CONSUMMATE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL – I LOVE LEARNING FROM HIM! I LOVED HOW HE HELPED US BOTH REMINICE…

  • Enhanced iPad Videos by Greg Kulowiec at Miami Device 2014

    These are my notes from Greg Kulowiec‘s breakout session at Miami Device on Enhanced iPad Videos on November 6, 2014. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Follow Greg on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gregkulowiec I’m a big fan now of students creating content for videos OFFLINE using paper and pencil – create RSA style animation videos…

  • Sketchnote of Show What You Know With Media by Silvia Tolisano

    Today has been a big day for me for multiple reasons at Miami Device. One of the biggest was the opportunity to meet Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) for the first time face-to-face and have lunch together. Silvia has been one of my educational technology “yodas” for many years, starting with her first presentations for the K-12 Online Conference…

  • Introducing the PlayingWithMedia.com Video Library

    For at least the past year I’ve been wanting to create a space online where I can teach and share video-based lessons about a variety of different media apps, websites, and sharing techniques. I’d considered creating something like “Speed of Creativity University,” but my wife thought that sounded too formal. Two weeks ago at the Write…

  • Inspired by Ben Wilkoff’s 6 Second Stories for Learning

    This post is the first of a series of reflections on presentations I’ve watched that are part of the 2014 K-12 Online Conference. @k12online is a free, annual, pre-recorded video-based conference by educators, for educators. This year the conference strands were STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math),  Stories for Learning, Passion Driven Learning, and Gamification. I’ve…

  • Paper Slide Video PD Reflections From Wichita

    I recently had an opportunity to share some professional development workshops with teachers in Wichita, Kansas. This was a repeated, 2.5 hour BYOD workshop on “Mapping Media to the Common Core,” and I focused primarily on interactive writing (with TodaysMeet) as well as quick-edit videos using YouTube Capture and paper-slide videos. I have a variety of…

  • Digital Storytelling Resources from Classroom 2.0 Live (Oct 2014)

    Yesterday I facilitated a 60 minute webinar on Classroom 2.0 Live about digital storytelling. This was an “open mic” session, which is similar to facilitated conversations at EdCamps. The webinar is archived on YouTube, and referenced links are included in this LiveBinder. These are some of the links I saved from the webinar, which were…