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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Creating Oral History Interview Videos on an iPod Touch

    I’m working with an Oklahoma teacher who helped her students conduct multiple interviews last week and this weekend with U.S. military veterans for Veteran’s Day. She is exploring several project ideas for students using these recorded interviews, and I’m brainstorming with her to figure out how students could create oral history interview videos (like those…

  • Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media

    Yesterday at the November 10, 2011, Innovative Learning Institute hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma, I shared a breakout session titled, “Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media.” The session description was: Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media”…

  • Why Veteran’s Day is November 11th

    Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States. To all our veterans, active duty members of the military, and family members of veterans around the world I say THANK YOU. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your honor and integrity. Thank you for your patriotism and your sacrifices for our nation. We are…

  • Join in 12 Days of Playing with Media

    You’re invited to join in “The 12 Days of Playing with Media:” A series of twelve workshops focused on learning more effective ways to communicate with digital text, images, audio and video in December 2011! Visit learn.playingwithmedia.com for complete details as well as registration links. Each workshop will be offered in three versions: a 3…

  • Storychasing Times Square & Lady Liberty in NYC

    This Friday and Saturday, following a presentation of the “Roadmap to Blended Learning” for school administrators in Briarcliff Manor, New York, I enjoyed visiting New York City proper for the first time. I took the train into the city to Grand Central Station Friday afternoon/evening and enjoyed Battery Park / Liberty Island / Ellis Island…

  • A Teachable Copyright Moment from Erik Qualman

    Today in New York I shared the presentation, “The Roadmap to Blended Learning” for school administrators at a Technology Leadership Institute hosted by the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center. Roadmap to Blended Learning (4 Nov 2011) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer I showed several videos during the presentation, and the first one was “Social…

  • Have Students Create An Actors’ Commentary Video

    Cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com One of the best parts of DVD movies are the commentaries by directors, actors, costume designers, and others involved in the creation and production of films. A few years ago, Kevin Honeycutt and I were talking about student video production and came up with the idea of a “Director’s Commentary” or an…

  • Awesome Brickfilm

    This is a guest post by my 13 year old son, Alexander. So I don’t normally write things up but but dad asked me to share this. I love building and playing with legos. It is always fun to build fancy ships but the lego minifigure is also one of the best tools to make stopmotion films…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 2)

    This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it…

  • Explaining Google Searches and Page Rank

    The three minute video, “How Search Works” from Google provides a nice overview of search engine basics, page rank, and online advertising. Consider sharing this with your students and discussing both the function as well as the power / importance / ethics involved in Internet search today. Google’s official YouTube channel has hundreds of other…