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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • An #etmooc Distributed Digital Storytelling Activity about Beauty

    Thanks to a tweet from Alec Couros, I joined in a wonderful 60 minute webinar shared by Darren Kuropatwa today about digital storytelling. This session is part of etmooc: A Massive Open Online Course on Educational Technology and Media. Topic #2 of #etmooc (for Feb 3-16) is Digital Storytelling. In the session Darren shared all…

  • Create Multiple Audioboo Channels with the Same Gmail Address

    Today I helped one of our district librarians, Jennie Wilmes, create new AudioBoo channels for an upcoming 3rd grade research project about animals. We recorded a six minute video tutorial together about the steps required to do this using the same Gmail account, with the “+text” trick. Hat tip to Sue Waters for sharing this…

  • Nice Cat (An amazing story of encouragement for artistic creativity)

    Take 19 minutes and watch this fantastic TEDtalk: “Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist.” When you do, you’ll understand why the simple phrase, “Nice cat” had such power in the life of a young third grader named Jarrett. Since attending TEDxOU together last Friday, my wife has been enjoying TEDtalks via both…

  • Highlights from the 2013 Trappers Rendezvous Campout

    This past weekend was the 36th annual “Trappers Rendezvous” campout near Hutchinson, Kansas, and over six thousand Boy Scouts and parents descended on the area to enjoy the great weather and a swap meet like no other. This was my third year to attend the Trappers Rendezvous with my son, and in this post I’ll…

  • Tutorial: Creating a Narrated Slideshow with ShowMe for iPad

    Yesterday I worked with a librarian who is going to help 4th and 5th grade students next week record “narrated slideshows” to practice their oral communication skills telling stories with “story cards” from different perspectives. (1st person singular, 1st person plural, 2nd person, 3rd person singular, etc.) This is an excellent Common Core-aligned language project.

  • Amazing Minecraft Webshows, Music Videos and Parody Animation Videos

    This weekend my son, who is now 15 and in 9th grade, shared several YouTube videos he’s been watching recently about Minecraft. This fall he recorded and shared a presentation for the 2012 K-12 Online Conference, “Creating and Playing in Minecraft,” in which he shared some of his favorite YouTube channels by Minecraft gurus. Here…

  • Parody Fest: Goodnight Goon, Dune, Forest Moon, iPad, Democracy & More

    Our family members have been fans of “Goodnight Moon” (by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd) for many years. Prior to Christmas last year, I learned about David Milgrim’s clever “Goodnight iPad” book, which he wrote under the psyudonum “Ann Droyd.” There are several other creative parodies of “Goodnight Moon” available in print,…

  • Gangnam Style Videos: USNA vs USAFA vs Westpoint

    I’m a bit embarrased to admit a recent lack of YouTube cultural literacy: I didn’t follow or know about the “Gangnam Style” song and video sensation until a few weeks ago. I remember hearing the song in early October when our family went to “FrightFest” at Frontier City (our local amusement park in Oklahoma City)…

  • Create Printed Photo Books with your iPhone Using Keepsy

    I love digital photography, but to date have rarely printed my photos. My wife used to be an “analog” scrapbooker, and enjoyed putting together photo collages of prints taken “back in the day” before Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. This fall, my wife joined me on a couple trips to Colorado as well as Oregon for…

  • Digital Storytelling with Pinnacle Studio for iPad

    (Cross-posted from iPad with Wes and PlayingWithMedia.com) If you want to edit and create videos on your iPad, consider using the Pinnacle Studio for iPad app. It may seem expensive for an iPad app at $10, but my formative experiences with it this weekend were VERY positive. IMHO it’s worth the money. While iMovie for…