Note: As of 1 Oct 2026, this is a FULL STATIC COPY of all 6,390 posts shared on this blog since 2003. Updated content and ideas from Wes Fryer are still available!

Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Using Google Reverse Image Search to Create a (late) Bibliography

    Three months ago our youngest daughter, sixth grader Rachel, worked with a classmate to create a two minute video about “The Oregon Trail” for her social studies class and the National History Day (NHD) contest. They shot the video on her iPhone 5 and she edited it in iMovie for iPhone. I encouraged her to…

  • Publishing Student Videos with a Shared YouTube Account

    Since we returned from Christmas break I’ve been working with our 7th grade Spanish teacher to utilize the iPad app “Green Screen” by Do Ink along with a Green Screen setup for his students to record videos of short Spanish language skits they’ve written and memorized. His students have been recording different scenes and combining…

  • Save YouTube Videos to iPad Camera Roll for Green Screen Compositing

    Last week in the post, “iPad App Smashing Green Screen Videos from YouTube,” I described an iPad workflow for saving YouTube videos from the web directly into the camera roll of an iPad, and then using those videos as “background videos” in a composited or combined green screen video. While those steps can work, one…

  • Lessons Learned using Storycorps iPhone App for Family Oral History Interviews

    Today I interviewed my mom and my dad about some of their life experiences using the free Storycorps iPhone app. Our son used the app last fall during his Boy Scout Eagle Project, which involved interviewing local senior citizens about their lives. Alex didn’t have any problems with the app for the interviews he and…

  • iPad App Smashing Green Screen Videos from YouTube

    Last night my wife threw down the “geek glove,” asking me if her students could import green screen videos from YouTube on their iPads and then overlay/combine their own green screen videos with them using the “Green Screen” app by Do Ink. Her students have been creating some Star Wars themed green screen movies in…

  • Best Free iPad Apps for Stopmotion Movies

    Two of my teachers have emailed me today for Stopmotion video iPad app suggestions. Here’s what I sent them. If you have alternative suggestions please let me know with a comment or Twitter reply to @wfryer. Here are 2 StopMotion apps which are free and work well: Stop Motion Cafe: (this is the one my…

  • Family New Years Green Screen Video

    This afternoon members of our family recorded some short video highlights and memories of 2015, in front of the green screen we set up over the Christmas holidays in my wife’s classroom makerspace. I brought these video clips into the Green Screen iPad app by Do Ink, and added related images as well as videos in…

  • Star Wars 1978 Remix (Lubbock, Texas)

    In 1978, following the release of Star Wars, Episode IV, “A New Hope” in 1977, several elementary age kids in Lubbock, Texas, re-created the Star Wars story and recorded their production using a silent “Super 8” movie camera. They created the following six minute version of the movie. Cast Members included: Mark Smith: Darth Vader,…

  • An Invitation: Share #BobTaughtMe

    Did Maine teacher and educational technology pioneer Bob Sprankle teach you any lessons or inspire you? If so, you are invited to share at least one of those lessons and stories on the open web, with a wider community. It’s been two days since we heard the tragic news of Bob’s death. Since that time, some of us have started to share…

  • Video Production Class Links & Resources

    I met with our upper division (high school) video production class teacher this afternoon, and we discussed ideas for her upcoming 12 week (trimester) class. These are the links and videos I shared with her, which may be of interest to you if you’re working with students on video production! The “Show What You Know With…