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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Think Differently and Support AutismOklahoma.org

    Did you know 40% of children diagnosed with autism cannot speak? For reasons we don’t completely understand, the numbers of children in our society diagnosed with autism are on the rise. The following is a beautiful, powerful video scripted and created by AutismOklahoma.org. This was published at the end of last month on YouTube. It…

  • How to Enable Comment Moderation on YouTube Videos

    (cross-posted from Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools) When you post a video to YouTube, it is a good idea to turn ON comment moderation. As of this writing in February 2012, it is not possible to make “comment moderation ON” a default setting in YouTube. Follow these three steps after uploading a video to…

  • Vimeo or YouTube? Where to Post Family Videos?

    A family friend and member of our church has a middle school-aged son who is getting to be quite a videographer. I have taught him for two years in Sunday School, and have glimpsed on a few occasions some of the films he’s created with his friends. (Reminds me in a positive way of Super…

  • Visualizing Sharing #edushare

    Two of my top goals as an education advocate and “innovative instructional coach” in Yukon Public Schools this semester are to: help teachers overcome their fears about using multimedia with students to develop literacy skills encourage teachers to SHARE more As I prepared for the two presentations I shared on Tuesday this week at our…

  • Teach Your Students to be Digital Artists (and learn from Kevin Honeycutt)

    Today was my fourth week teaching a 50 minute “Life Skills” lesson at the “Tiger Club” after school program hosted by our church in Edmond, Oklahoma. This is a free after-school program provided for students attending Central Middle School in Edmond Public Schools. In this post, I’m going to describe the lesson “Be a Digital…

  • Use Digital Voice Recorders to Hear Student Voices

    The ten minute video, “Hearing Student Voices,” by National Writing Project 1st grade teacher, Renee Webster, provides a fantastic window into the ways a skilled and sensitive teacher can use simple audio recorders to transform reading and writing experiences for students. The technology tools in this case, digital voice recorders, ARE important for the learning…

  • Stuff I Want to Share at OTA – Encyclo-Media 2012

    Next Tuesday and Wednesday I’ll be attending, presenting, and learning at the 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encylo-Media Conference in Oklahoma City. It’s been two years since I’ve been able to attend this February conference and I’m really looking forward to the opportunity. For my session handout this year, I decided to create a one…

  • Upcoming Wes Fryer Presentations in Oklahoma City (Feb – Mar 2012)

    I received an email today from an educator in Oklahoma City interested in attending one of my workshops on technology integration in upcoming weeks. I thought I’d cross-post the information I sent him in case this is of interest to others. I’m sharing a couple sessions at OTA/Encyclomedia in two weeks in OKC and several…

  • A Saturday Filled with Media Creation and #playingwithmedia

    Today was an unprecedented Saturday for media production and new media experiences around our house. Everything kicked off with a great breakfast with Alan Levine, who visited last night enroute to the east coast, and a big thrill listening to him broadcast live from I-40 on #ds106 radio from his iPhone and talk to my…

  • A Touching Example of Family Digital Documentation

    If you have not already, take 91 seconds and watch the YouTube video, “Google Chrome: Dear Sophie.” It’s a fast-paced, touching look at how some dads are using digital technology to document, share and preserve the lives of their family and their love for their kids. It’s a compelling bit of media, and an outstanding…