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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Updated Media Product Names for Mapping Media to the Common Core

    This week I’ve been working on updating several of the “product names” for my Mapping Media to the Common Core / Curriculum website and forthcoming eBook. I made changes to six of the twelve products: Blogging is now “Interactive Writing” (so it can include Google Docs too) Concept Map is now “Visual Notetaking” (I created…

  • Exploring Instructional Uses of YouTube with Lucy Gray (August 2012)

    These are my notes from Lucy Gray‘s breakout session, “Exploring YouTube,” on August 7, 2012, at the Blackfoot Educational Technology Conference in Missoula, Montana. Resources from Lucy’s presentation are available on this blog post. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resources from this session: Exploring Instructional Uses of YouTube (Slideshare) YouTube was…

  • 12 Graphics to Illustrate Mapping Media to the Curriculum

    (cross-posted from Playing with Media) This evening I spent several hours drawing on my iPad using the wonderful app, Brushes. Since I do NOT consider myself to be much of an artist, digital or otherwise, this was an unusual activity for me. I need twelve different graphics which can serve as icons for my continuing…

  • Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone: Perfect for HDR iPhoneography

    If you have an iPhone, you need the $2 Pro HDR app. HDR photography (High dynamic range imaging) combines a dark exposure and a light exposure of the same scene to create an picture with far more color depth than a “regular” digital image. Even though my iPhone4 has a built-in camera HDR feature, without…

  • Favorite Videos from iPad Media Camp

    (Cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com) In June and July this year I’ve had wonderful experiences facilitating three day iPad Media Camps for teachers, librarians and administrators in Oklahoma. On day two of iPad Media Camp, campers learn how to create “Quick Edit Videos” with an iPad and publish them directly to their own YouTube teacher channel. These…

  • Amazing Minecraft Time Lapse Building Videos

    Today for our fourth day of Scratch Camp in Edmond, Oklahoma, at The Div as part of the Div Jr Program, my 14 year old son (Alexander) joined us and shared several things. Before we got started with our second day focusing on game development in Scratch, I shared two amazing Minecraft videos Alex found…

  • A Video Lecture You Won’t Soon Forget: Video Games and Storytelling

    Daniel Floyd’s ten minute YouTube video, “Video Games and Storytelling,” is a video lecture you won’t soon forget. Reminiscent of “RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us,” about Dan Pink’s book “Drive,” this video by Daniel Floyd is the most intense, “rapid-fire” visual presentation of related images I’ve seen in a…

  • Webcasting with Ustream, an iPad, a Tripod & an XLR Boundary Microphone

    Last night I had an opportunity to video record a presentation by Jim Singleton, the current President of The Fellowship of Presbyterians, at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma. This was the first time I used my iPad2 and the Ustream Broadcaster application (free) to webcast live and archive an event. In this post I’ll recount…

  • Leveraging YouTube to Tell The Story of Your Non-Profit

    (Cross-posted as a slightly secularized version from Eyes Right) Upendo Kids International is a mission outreach non-profit based in Edmond, Oklahoma, which sends teams each summer to Kenya to show God’s love and kindness through a variety of activities. This evening, I had an opportunity to show the nineteen members of the June 2012 Upendo…

  • Add Video Annotations to a YouTube Video

    Sometimes when you create a narrated slideshow, screencast, or other video for YouTube, you make mistakes. Sometimes you also want to provide additional information, like a hyperlink, for viewers of your video. In these cases, consider adding “annotations” to your YouTube video. The YouTube Help page, “Getting Started with Annotations,” provides excellent instructions for using…