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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Create Make and Learn Conference: Day 1 Making Media Recap

    Today was the first day of our week-long conference experience in Burlington, Vermont, “Create Make and Learn.” I facilitated workshops this morning and afternoon about “Making Media” and focused on narrated art / narrated photos, narrated slideshows, and paper slide videos. My wife helped me record and share the following 2 minute video, recapping our…

  • Transfer Video from an Android Phone to an iPad

    UPDATE 12 July 2014: Thanks to Kiwi teacher Allanah King (@Allanahk) for sharing the FREE iOS and Android app “Flick” (@get_flick) which supports cross-platform sharing of photos & videos between devices. Transferring to DropBox is another solution suggested by several others which would have been (most likely) faster than the multi-step workaround described in this post. This…

  • Maker Faire Kansas City 2014 Highlights

    This weekend in lieu of ISTE in Atlanta, our family attended the 2014 Maker Faire in Kansas City. Wow what an experience! Here are a few of the highlights, including some photos, videos, and audio recordings I captured as a storychaser during the action-packed day.    by  Wesley Fryer  The first highlight was getting to meet…

  • Learning from Psy About Copyright and YouTube Takedowns

    Copyright is an important but poorly understood topic for many teachers. This summer in 3 day iPad Media Camps I’ve been leading, I explore copyright issues with participants on day 2 when we learn how to create and publish “Quick Edit Videos.” I share both the copyright chapter of “Playing with Media” (2011) and the…

  • Inspired by iPadPalooza 2014 Visual Notetaking

    Today was my first experience at an iPadPalooza in Austin and it was FANTASTIC. I hope my wife and I can both attend next year’s conference, which is scheduled for June 23-25, 2015. I shared two sessions on Coding with Hopscotch and Visual Notetaking, and was able to attend some super sessions by Dean Shareski…

  • Learning about Digital Videography from Jim Sill

    This week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from Jim Sill (@mistersill) at the EdTechTeam’s Texas Summit featuring Google for Education in Richardson, Texas. Jim shared several breakout sessions at the conference. The one I attended was on “Telling Stories with the Youtube Editor.” Jim also shared a fantastic closing keynote at…

  • Amazing Perspective in GoPro Videos

    This week at the Google Summit in Richardson, Texas, Jim Sill shared part of this video from GoPro in his closing keynote. I have seen the GoPro camera and been a little more aware of it because how our church videographers have used one in the past few months to create some pretty stunning perspective…

  • Inspiration from a Navy Seal (William McRaven) and NBA Player (Caron Butler)

    My wife, Shelly Fryer, shared the following two things with her students at Positive Tomorrows today, thanks to the recommendation of her principal, Susan Agel. The first is a graduation speech by US Navy Admiral William H. McRaven, shared in the Wall Street Journal last week as the editorial, “Life Lessons From Navy SEAL Training.”…

  • Rocket Time! (an iPhone iMovie Trailer)

    This evening our family launched water bottle rockets! The last two weeks my 4th and 5th grade STEM students have been building and launching them, and this week my wife is going to build and launch them with her 3rd and 4th graders at Positive Tomorrows. This was her opportunity to have a hands-on lesson…

  • Quick Edit Video: Water Bottle Rocket Launch

    Today my 4th and 5th grade STEM students launched water bottle rockets they built earlier in the week, and this provided the first opportunity for me to use the “slow motion video” option in my T-Mobile iPhone 5S. This video from this morning became our “what not to do” video about standing near water puddles.…