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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Lego Stopmotion: Voldemort Meets Gandalf

    My son showed me this whimsical and fun Lego Stopmotion film (Brickfilm) this morning: “LEGO Voldemort Goes Wand Shopping.” I think the authors did a great job portraying the power of Gandalf in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Gandalf trumps everyone else! Enjoy! I bet you know some students who would love to see…

  • Combine Audioboo Sound Recordings with Audacity

    In this post, I’ll explain how you can use a trick to directly save mp3 audio versions of Audioboo recordings you (or others) have shared online, and then combine them together in a single recording using free Audacity software on a laptop or desktop computer.

  • Snow Day in OKC: An iMovie Trailer and iMovie Theater Adventure

    We don’t get snow very often in Oklahoma City. The last two winters we haven’t received enough to go sledding, so yesterday and last night when we received about five inches it sparked a lot of excitement at our house. Today Rachel and I enjoyed our “snow day” off from school by going sledding with…

  • Small Museums, Libraries and Archives: Advocating to Preserve Community Heritage

    Susan Feller is a friend who works with the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Trust and the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. She alerted me that the Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Trust is hosting a free, face-to-face opportunity to attend an online webinar with others in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday, December…

  • Great STEM Rube Goldberg Video – Girls Love Making Stuff!

    Take a couple minutes and watch the now-viral video, “GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys “Princess Machine” (a concert for little girls).” It’s a delightful Rube Goldberg project, but it makes a larger point about how engineering and MAKING isn’t just for boys! Girls love making engineering projects too! Thanks to Chris Simon, STEM Coordinator…

  • Educators Rejoice! YouTube Permits Moderated Video Comments By Default

    Educators rejoice! This is a great piece of news. I’ve waited a couple of years for Google to make this available as a YouTube channel setting. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Jonny Hunter YouTube has tremendous value to classroom teachers as a free video hosting platform. In the past, when posting…

  • Empowering Women Worldwide Through Creative, Handmade Designs

    Today during our lunch break in Fort Wayne, Indiana (where I’m attending Library Camp 2013) I had an opportunity to meet Nicole Moore. Nicole is the director of retail operations for “Creative Women of the World,” a local nonprofit with an important mission. You’ve probably heard about organizations like Kiva which provide micro-loans to individuals…

  • Good Teachers Make a HUGE Difference – and PD is VITAL! [VIDEO]

    This evening in Galena, Illinois, I shared how wonderful the Mobile Learning Conference was several weeks ago in Tucson, as well as the other conferences sponsored by the Arizona K-12 Center. These conversations reminded me of the fantastic 3.5 minute video which the center put together several years ago. This is one of the most…

  • Avoiding Digital Disasters: Video Is the New Pen

    Yesterday in Yukon, Oklahoma, I led an “iPad Quick Edit Videography” workshop for Storychasers. Workshop participants and I brainstormed, planned, recorded and edited short videos focusing on digital citizenship issues which public photo and video sharing can raise. Our full curriculum from the workshop is available on Google Sites. I edited a video with some…

  • Great News for iPad Videographers (Open-In Audio Functionality Added to Pinnacle Studio)

    I just updated my Pinnacle Studio for iPad app tonight, and noticed in the update description some HUGE news: The app now supports opening audio files you send yourself in email and can open from other apps. You can also import different kinds of media (including audio) from cloud storage sources. This is tectonic-sized good…