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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • A Storychasers code of ethics, remembering Lee Baber

    You’re invited to join a conversation in Elluminate this Wednesday evening, August 6th, to discuss a proposed code of ethics for our Storychasers project in 2008-2009, as well as other ideas for this new project idea. We will meet for ONLY one hour this week, since some participants may (like me) plan to participate in…

  • Decking a house – Sharing with a VoiceThread and a JayCut video

    I had a chance today to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in my city, Edmond, Oklahoma, for one of the families in our community. With temperatures in the afternoon reaching over 100 degrees, this was certainly an appreciation moment for my “normal” work routine in an air conditioned building! I posted about sixty…

  • A delicious facelift, skypecast drawbacks, and a new Flickr site

    I was enthused to see this afternoon the social bookmarking website del.icio.us has gotten a redesign and facelift: The domain del.icio.us seems to now automatically redirect to delicious.com. Previously I don’t think this redirect was automatic from the “.us” site to the “.com” site. Previously I think it was reversed, the “.com” site redirected to…

  • Drupal dabbling begins

    This evening’s brainstorming session about the Storychasers project using a skypecast was a success, although the experience was a bit mixed. We ended up with forty participants who stayed with us to the end, but we had a rocky start for several reasons. A few people using Macintosh computers reported that they were able to…

  • How can I join tonight’s skypecast?

    I received a question from Amy Hopkins in northeast Texas today that may be on the minds of more educators: “How can I join tonight’s skypecast?” (Last night’s published podcast and my July 25th post “Let’s brainstorm ideas for Storychasers” provide more background about this.) Before I answer that question, I want to point out…

  • Great VoiceThread resources

    I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast “Revisiting VoiceThread” from July 23rd today on my commute to and from work. Among the nuggets of good advice shared in the session about helping students effectively use VoiceThread were the following basic but powerful recommendations: Rather than start teachers and students at the “invention”…

  • Transformative power of flash-based video cameras

    Around ten years ago when I first heard Alan November speak at the TCEA conference in Austin, I heard him differentiate between types of classroom technology use. Initially, virtually all teachers use technologies in “accommodating” ways which replicate existing tasks but may make them more efficient thanks to technology. Eventually, he said (as I recall)…

  • Let’s brainstorm ideas for Storychasers

    NECC 2008 was a fantastic experience in San Antonio this year, but the road trip down to San Antonio and back to Oklahoma (for me) with Kansans Kevin Honeycutt, Michelle Honeycutt, Ginger Lumen, Charlie Mahoney, and Dean Mantz was one of the top highlights of the week. On the way down we engaged in some…

  • Empowering Oklahoma Educators to Preserve and Share Oral History

    I’ve written a draft of an article for the Oklahoma Heritage Association‘s membership magazine entitled, “Empowering Oklahoma Educators to Preserve and Share Oral History.” This is shared as a published Google document. It will likely be revised at least a bit later this week, but as it stands it provides a great deal more background…

  • First experiences with web-based digital story editing: JumpCut!

    Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 8 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. Today was day 2 of our July Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop for educators, and this afternoon’s agenda involved three hours of (almost) uninterrupted work time for teachers, administrators, and librarians…