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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • First certified African American Teacher in Mountain View Gotebo Schools, Oklahoma

    Sean Buchanan‘s autobiographical 4.5 minute video he created last week and shared on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community is outstanding. (“You’re Going Where?“) The way he told this story really caught me by surprise when he shared it. I’ve given away the surprise with the title of this post, which Sean included in the…

  • Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing (supplementary curriculum videos)

    Brad Logan from Mountain View – Gotebo Schools in Oklahoma created and shared the 5.5 minute video, “Sister’s Story,” on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community. This powerful video recounts his sister’s memories of the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Brad did a great job including his…

  • Summarizing copyright and fair use with a mashup of Disney movie clips

    The video “A Fair(y) Use Tale” was created in 2007 by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University to illustrate key concepts of U.S. copyright law, exclusively using short clips from copyrighted Disney movies. The full video is 10 minutes, 14 seconds long. This is a VERY clever as well as memorable way to encounter key…

  • Scratch, Stopmotion, Lego Robotics, Worm Farming and more at Kids College in Altus

    The past two summers, I have facilitated week-long youth workshops on stopmotion moviemaking in Edmond, Oklahoma. This summer I’m not planning to lead one, but I’ve received a few phone calls and emails in past months from parents asking me to. For parents / kids / families living near Altus, Oklahoma, I’d encourage you to…

  • Digital audio recorder quest: affordable, powerful, compatible (May 2010)

    In our 2.5 day oral history and digital storytelling workshops, Storychasers typically provides each participant with a “digital backpack” of equipment including a digital audio recorder, a headset with microphone, a digital camera, a USB flash drive, and a media SD card for the camera. Of these five items, the digital audio recorder is my…

  • Large hail damages car windows and Tinseltown Theater in Oklahoma City today

    This afternoon my son and I attempted to see the movie “Ironman 2” at Tinseltown Theater in Oklahoma City, but were interrupted by a severe thunderstorm which dumped large, damaging hail on the area around the theater, including my car. After having to evacuate the theater because of roof damage which led to leaks and…

  • From a church talent show to the Ellen DeGeneres Show: YouTube fame for an Edmond 6th grader

    If you want proof social media technologies can transform lives, look no further than 6th grader Greyson Chance of Edmond, Oklahoma. Two weeks ago Greyson’s father used a hand-held camera to record his son’s piano and vocal performance of Lady Gaga’s song, “Paparazzi” at a local church. The video went viral within 2 days of…

  • Ideas on Human Motivation shared via StopMotion and Creative Drawing

    Combine powerful ideas from Dan Pink, an extremely talented artist, stopmotion photography and Youtube: What do you get? The almost-eleven minute video, “RSA Animate – Drive.” This is one of the best visual presentations of ideas I’ve ever seen. School administrators and politicians, are you listening? As educators we need to be. Sean Griffin‘s artistic…

  • Welcome to the Social Media Revolution (video)

    Social media’s not a fad, and it’s high time educational leaders with positional authority, university faculty, PK-12 administrators, classroom teachers, librarians, parents, and other leaders for learning took notice. “Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)” is a 4.5 minute video which makes this point with statistics and images reminiscent of “Did You Know 4.0.” Some of…

  • NCLB has killed creative teaching and energetic learning about science (at least before state testing)

    Carol Engelmann, in a video interview for the Imagine It! Project, correctly observes our politically-inspired educational culture of high stakes accountability (NCLB) has severely hurt the cause of creative teaching, driven passionate teachers away from the profession, and DISCOURAGED rather than encouraged excitement in many K-12 science classrooms. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsfree video player Carol…