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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Mobile Media Scavenger Hunts with GooseChase

    Thanks to Peggy George (@pgeorge) sharing GooseChase* (now also available as GooseChaseEDU with discounted educator pricing) my wife and I have helped lead three different mobile media scavenger hunts this summer! All three have been very successful and met with rave reviews from participants! Like “The APPmazing Race” at iPadPalooza each year in Austin, a GooseChase…

  • Choose Your Own Adventure YouTube Video: Lessons Learned

    (Here’s the link to the video if you want to watch it first!) This week I’ve had an opportunity to present again at the AMAZING “Create, Make and Learn” Summer Institute in Burlington, Vermont organized by Lucie deLaBruere (@techsavvygirl). My wife, Shelly (@sfryer), is attending again and we are both learning a lot. Monday and Tuesday,…

  • Learning About Early Pottawatomie County, Kansas History

    Today I had an opportunity to share several presentations at the Kaw Valley Academy of Technology and Education (KVATE) in St. Marys, Kansas, 30 minutes from Manhattan where I grew up and my parents live. On the way back, I saw a sign just west of Belview for an Oregon Trail historical marker. Often when I’m…

  • Upload Videos Using the iPhone YouTube App

    More teachers today are creating videos and sharing them with students for assignments and to teach different concepts. While it’s possible to upload videos to a school or personal YouTube channel from a laptop computer, it’s also possible to directly upload videos from your iPhone (or Android phone) or iPad. “YouTube for iOS” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer…

  • Pictograph Memories at Camp Cimarron

    This weekend Sarah and I went on a survival campout Friday evening and Saturday with her Venture Crew. We camped about an hour north and east of Oklahoma City, at an old Campfire Girls Camp called “Camp Cimarron” near Coyle. For over 50 years, Camp Cimarron was a much-loved summer camp destination for many Oklahomans, operated by…

  • Normalizing Audio in an iPad Paper Slide Video with Auphonic

    Last week Shelly Fryer‘s (@sfryer) 3rd and 4th grade students created an excellent paper slide video to culminate three weeks of classroom study about bats. In this post, I’ll explain how I helped Shelly “normalize” the recorded audio of her students (so even the quietest students are loud enough to be clearly understandable in the…

  • Green Screen Videos to Share with Teachers

    Last week I led a 3 day iPad Media Camp at my school in Oklahoma City for K-12 teachers. I introduced participants to green screen videos and a production workflow including: the iPad Camera app the Green Screen app by Do Ink iMovie for iPad “iPad Media Camp 2016 OKC” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer  Before learning tips…

  • Comparing Risks and Benefits of a PreTeen YouTube Channel

    Our daughter, Rachel, is thrilled to have hit the 400 subscriber milestone on her YouTube channel. To celebrate and thank her fans, she created a “400 Subscriber Special” video this week that features an awesome “speed draw” as well as details of a special giveaway she’s having. I’m so amazed at how her video creation skills…

  • iPad Video App Smash: Auphonic, Voice Record Pro and Green Screen

    This afternoon I decided to try a new “app smash” workflow and create an enhanced version of a recorded iPad video from Friday’s OMLEA conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This revised version of the video includes the slides I showed on the screen during my “OklaEd talk,” and also includes an enhanced audio track. “iPad Video…

  • Presentations on Creativity, 3D Printing, Digital Sharing and More

    Friday I had an opportunity to attend and present at the OMLEA Conference for Middle Level educators and administrators, sponsored by CCOSA and held a the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The best part of the day was having the chance to co-present with two of the teachers from my school, Casady School in Oklahoma…