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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Bulk-Modify YouTube Videos to Turn ON Comment Moderation

    YouTube can be used in powerful, transformative ways to support classroom learning, especially when STUDENTS create content shared online. Today, as I helped one of our 7th grade geography teachers wrap up a paper-slide video project in which student-created videos were uploaded to his YouTube channel, we discovered that YouTube now permits “bulk modification” of…

  • Paper Slide Video: Your Next (or First) BYOD Technology Integration Project

    Paper-Slide Videos are one practical type of technology integration project which can work well in a BYOD setting, and in this post I’d like to share some lessons learned from last week when I helped one of the 7th grade geography teachers in our district facilitate a three day paper-slide video project which ultimately culminated…

  • Egypt After Arab Spring: A Paper Slide Video Example and List.ly Bibliography

    The last couple weeks I’ve been working with a 7th grade geography teacher to develop a Common Core Standards-aligned project which will culminate recent student studies about Africa. Since all the computer lab computers are tied up with mandated online testing and a mobile cart of computers or iPads isn’t available in his building for…

  • Create a Multi-Track Radio Show (Podcast) with Audacity

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) This evening I recorded a twenty minute screencast, demonstrating how to use the FREE software programs Audacity, iTunes, The Levellator, and the websites AudioBoo and DropBox to create and publish a multi-track Internet radio show or podcast. Access more tools, tutorials, and resources about creating radio shows on the “Radio Show” page…

  • Create an All-iPad Class Radio Show with AudioBoo, Bossjock, GoodReader, & SoundCloud

    Do students in your classroom regularly create online “radio shows” to share information with parents and others? With more people than ever (over half of U.S. adults) owning smartphones capable of accessing Internet websites and playing digital audio files, classroom radio shows can potentially reach a larger percentage of your parents than ever. Common Core…

  • Oklahoma Students Reflect on Scratch Projects at Scratch Camp (March 2013)

    Today in the last hour of our fourth day of Spring Break “Scratch Camp” in Yukon, Oklahoma, ten of our student participants briefly shared one of their Scratch projects and described how they’d built it using different Scratch blocks. Scratch is a wonderful, FREE software program from MIT which allows students to create games, tell…

  • Inspired by the First All-Female USAF Boeing E-3 Sentry Air Crew

    (cross-posted from Learning Signs, our family learning blog) Rachel and Sarah had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to visit Tinker Air Force Base by Oklahoma City and tour a Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) aircraft with the first all-female crew in the history of the US Air Force. The girls spent about ten minutes in the cockpit…

  • Share the Joy of Pi Day Today

    Yes, today is “Pi Day” since it’s March 14th. I invite you to “share the joy which is Pi Day” by watching and passing along this three minute video from 2009, which my kids helped me create for the “Film on the Fly” Pi Day contest. Why We Need Pi Looking for an idea to…

  • Options for Posting by Email (RIP Posterous)

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Lots of media sharers around the world continue to mourn the announcement the blogging site Posterous will officially go offline on April 30, 2013. The folks at Twitter apparently bought Posterous for the brains of their programmers, not because they wanted to develop or even sustain their platform, and that’s a shame.…

  • Curriculum Stories with StopMotion Animation by Jan Cosmos

    These are my notes from Jan Cosmos’ (Viterbo University) presentation, “Curriculum Stories with StopMotion Animation” at the 2013 ICE Conference outside Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Since technology projects can be so time consuming, we really need to focus on project ideas that are WORTH the kids spending time on story is…