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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Why YOU Should Become a Storychaser (whiteboard animation video)

    Why should you become a Storychaser? Here’s a short (1 minute, 40 second) “whiteboard animation” video which answers that question! Learn more about iPad Digital Storytelling workshops offered by Storychasers! Register to attend an upcoming workshop in the Oklahoma City area, or contact Storychasers to arrange for a workshop to be shared with teachers in…

  • How to Share Videos from a School iPad Cart

    I visited with a K-3 librarian today who recently received a cart of iPads at her school for teachers to check out and use with students. She was unsure how to share videos the students create and save to their iPad camera rolls, however, with apps like iMovie, Puppet Pals, and Sock Puppets. In this…

  • Amplify Art with Media (Oct 2013)

    Yesterday was a special treat for me in several ways. Not only did I have morning and evening opportunities to go for long walks on a beautiful Florida beach, I also had a chance to share some ideas with art teachers attending the Florida Art Education Association’s 2013 Conference in Daytona Beach. I titled my…

  • AirDrop Video Sharing, 5 Photo Stories and Narrated Slideshows

    Today in Chickasha, Oklahoma, I led a “bring your own iPad” workshop for Storychasers on “Narrated Slideshows and Screencasts with the iPad.” This is the first iPad workshop I’ve led since updating my iPad2 to iOS 7. In the morning, we viewed and discussed different examples of student-created narrated slideshows and screencasts. These included: Ejyafjallajokull:…

  • Four Upcoming iPad Digital Storytelling Workshops in Oklahoma

    Storychasers is delighted to announce FOUR upcoming iPad-based digital storytelling workshops in Oklahoma, in October, November and December 2013. Each full-day workshop is BYOD (bring your own iPad) and runs from 9 am to 3:30 pm. The cost is $99, but for an additional $20 participants can stay for an additional hour of training and…

  • Beyond the Bake Sale: Building Social Capital in our Schools by Dean Shareski

    These are my notes from Dean Shareski‘s breakout session, “Beyond the Bake Sale: Building Social Capital in our Schools,” at the Mobile 2013 Conference in Tucson, Arizona, on September 18, 2013. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. An older (Feb 2013) version of Dean’s slides are available on SlideShare: Understanding and Building Social…

  • Opening Doors for Students: An ISTE 2013 Ignite Presentation

    In June 2013 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, I had an opportunity to share a short “Ignite” presentation during the opening session. An Ignite presentation typically includes 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds, so each presentation is five minutes long. (I used less than 20 slides…

  • Learning About Physics and Four Fundamental Forces on YouTube

    Today my 10th grade son showed me several videos on YouTube he’s “liked” recently (they are conveniently accessible via an auto-generated playlist on his channel) including this one about physics and the four fundamental forces of nature, “The Force is Real” by Rusty Ward on his new YouTube series, “Science Friction.” Years ago when he…

  • Contrasting Video Messages: Goodnight iPad and Cheryl and Morgan: Learning Independence

    Today in Bethany, Oklahoma, I spent the day introducing about fifty elementary teachers to “Mapping Media to the Common Core.” We learned to create narrated slideshows with EduCreations, create enhanced eBooks with Book Creator for iPad, create “narrated art” with AudioBoo, share “5 Photo Stories” to a Blogger site with email, and why it can…

  • iPhoneography Light Painting

    This evening at the 2013 Willowood Technology Summit, I used my iPhone to capture some remarkable images of “light painting.” The last times I experimented with light painting and LED pens was in April and May of 2010. This time, however, instead of a “regular” digital camera I used my iPhone5 and the “Slow Shutter”…