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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • At the Eastern Edge of our Continent: Wells Reserve at Laudholm (Maine)

    Today our family explored the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, which is “a National Estuarine Research Reserve with its headquarters listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” We don’t have estuaries in Oklahoma. According to the English WikiPedia, an estuary is: …a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams…

  • Kansas Honor Flight: October 2012 (Narrated Slideshow)

    Last week my father had an opportunity to serve as a ‘guardian’ on a Kansas Honor Flight to Washington D.C. Approximately 25 World War II veterans flew from Kansas City and 25 from Wichita, Kansas, to our nation’s capitol to visit the National World War II Memorial as well as other historic sites. This past…

  • Student-Created Sequoyah Book Reports, AudioBoo, iPads and QR Codes

    (cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase website) Fourth and fifth grade students at Independence Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools are sharing their learning as well as excitement for library books this year in a unique, highly digital way that is not only fun, but also meets Oklahoma’s new Common Core State Standards…

  • Tutorial: How To Upload a Video to YouTube

    (cross-posted from Yukon Public Schools Instructional FAQs) Here are instructions for uploading a video to your YouTube channel. If you haven’t setup your channel yet, see the post, “Create an Educational YouTube Channel” and do that first. STEP 1: LOGIN TO YOUTUBE Visit youtube.com and click the SIGN IN link in the upper right corner.…

  • First Multi-part Video Tutorial with MentorMob: Community Voices Interview Project

    (cross-posted in modified form from Storychasers.org) This semester Storychasers has started a “lessons” section of our project wiki and shared “Community Voices” interview project ideas. Using MentorMob, we’ve created a seven part video tutorial highlighting steps students can follow to successfully plan, record, write about and share an audio interview with a family or community…

  • What do you want to CREATE today? (Oct 2012)

    For the past few months I’ve been working on a new website and book project I’m calling, “Mapping Media to the Curriculum.” Rather than wait until the entire project is finished to announce it, I’ve been sharing as I go along. This evening I renamed and redrew the product I’d formerly called “No-Edit Podcast” as…

  • HDR iPhoneography at Camp USAFA

    This weekend is the 20th reunion of my graduating class at the US Air Force Academy, and (as always) it was a pleasure today to be “photographically armed” with an iPhone and the Pro HDR app. Here are a few of my favorite takes from today. It was a gorgeous Colorado fall day! I applied…

  • Common Core Writing Lesson With AudioBoo: 9/11 Narrated Art

    (Cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase website) Kayleen Browning teaches 6th grade Social Studies at Yukon Middle School. This year, she asked her students to identify a word which summarized things they had studied and learned about the 9/11 attacks in 2001 by al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mrs.…

  • First iPad Digital Story with Hokusai and iMovie for iPad

    I spent eight hours today continuing to develop and refine the 2 day workshop curriculum on “iPad Digital Storytelling” which I’m developing with others for Storychasers. We’re creating an “iPad only” workshop which doesn’t require the use of a laptop or desktop computer: Just an iPad. We want to help participants create narrated slideshow videos…

  • Rachel Wants to Be a Scientist

    (cross-posted from our family learning blog, “Learning Signs”) Rachel (my 9 year old) recorded this last night, following several discussions we’ve been having over the past few weeks about science and becoming a scientist. Last spring I took Rachel to Chris Simon’s classroom at Independence Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools, and she was VERY…