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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Family Oral History and Smartphones (May 2014)

    These are the slides I’m sharing on Saturday at the annual Mo-Ranch Men’s Conference near Hunt, Texas. My presentation is titled, “Family Oral History and Smartphones.” Family Oral History and Smartphones (May 2014) from Wesley Fryer I’ve presented similar sessions at this conference in the past titled, “Telling Your Mission Story with iPad Video” and…

  • Create an iPad Stand for Stopmotion from Cardboard

    Jackie Myers, the 4th and 5th grade art teacher at Independence Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, explains how to create a functional iPad stand using a cardboard box, duct tape, and a box cutter. Jackie used cardboard iPad stands like these with her students in April 2014 on a stopmotion video project. View examples of…

  • Options for Uploading Videos to YouTube with School Filtering

    I’m in the midst of teaching my STEM students how to use the iPad app “Explain Everything” to create short, narrated slideshows about the cantilever spans project we’ve been doing recently. My students share iPads on our STEM cart, and do not have their own Google logins to upload videos to YouTube. So, after they…

  • Great STEM Video for Architecture and Cantilever Spans Lesson

    Thanks to Brian Crosby, my 4th and 5th grade STEM students are in the midst of a mini-unit focusing on cantilever spans and architecture. Since our high stakes testing saga in Oklahoma of modified schedules is continuing this week, it’s good to have flexible lesson plans. After building the cantilever spans per Brian’s lesson suggestions,…

  • Print a QR Code for an AudioBoo Recording

    AudioBoo is a fantastic, free website and iOS/Android tablet app students and teachers can use to create “narrated art projects” or short segments for class “radio shows.” The free version allows recordings of up to three minutes each, and accounts can have an unlimited number of recordings. Paid accounts can record up to 30 minutes…

  • Don’t Judge the Creativity of All Chicago Teachers & PD Based On 1 Absurd Video

    The 62 second video, “CPS Teacher Professional Development from CEO’s Network,” is being shared by a lot of folks on social media. Valerie Strauss posted it today on her blog for the Washington Post, The Answer Sheet, with the title, “A video that shows why teachers are going out of their minds.” Larry Ferlazzo posted…

  • Mapping Media to the Common Core (eMINTS Conference – Columbia, Missouri)

    Today I’m presenting “Mapping Media to the Common Core” as the day 2 keynote address for the eMINTS conference in Columbia, Missouri. If you aren’t familiar with eMINTS, according to their website: eMINTS professional development uses interactive group sessions and in-classroom coaching/mentoring to help teachers integrate technology into their teaching using an instructional model that…

  • American Revolution Videos from Schoolhouse Rock and Discovery United Streaming

    Today we had a lot of teachers absent from school for different reasons and were shorthanded for substitute teachers. As a result, instead of having a planning day, I was a 5th grade substitute teacher. The day’s main lesson focused on different elements of the American Revolution. Instead of just having the students read in…

  • Lessons Learned With Elementary STEM Centers

    The past two weeks I’ve facilitated a series of center-based lessons for my 4th and 5th grade STEM students (@iesSTEM) in a unit I titled, “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music.” In addition to learning about sound and music, my students have been practicing ways to “document their learning” using text, images, and…

  • Documenting the 2014 Trapper’s Rendezvous with iPhone Video

    This weekend my son and I camped near Hutchinson, Kansas, with several thousand other Boy Scouts and Scout leaders at the annual “Trapper’s Rendezvous” campout. I created a 14 minute video yesterday afternoon with footage I captured at the event, and edited it together with iMovie for iPhone. The Trapper’s Rendezvous campout is an opportunity…