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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Calling all digital storytellers!

    I’ve created a “Digital Storytellers” group on the NECC 2008 Ning, as well as an accompanying wiki site. I’m hoping others interested in digital storytelling will contribute to and use these resources to share links and ideas related to digital storytelling next week in San Antonio and afterwards! Please join in! 🙂 Technorati Tags: necc,…

  • Lessons learned about Stopmotion after Arts Academy Day 1

    My experiences today teaching the stopmotion filmmaking class for the Fine Arts Academy at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, were very positive. (For the record, I AM taking vacation this week from work to do this.) Here are a few of my “lessons learned” so far. Simple is better. It was interesting to see groups…

  • A family evening media triple play

    We didn’t plan this in advance, but each of our children ended up publishing (with help) a media file tonight after dinner. Our eight year old attended a theater camp for the past two weeks in Texas which culminated in two performances of “Schoolhouse Rocks Jr.” and recorded a VoiceThread about her experiences. She also…

  • Prepping for a week of stopmotion fun!

    Ever since I first saw the Clay Animation Kit from Tech4Learning at the TCEA conference in the late 1990s, I have yearned for an opportunity to play with its contents and have fun making my own claymation videos! Members of our immediate family are BIG TIME fans of claymation movies like those of Wallace and…

  • Got Storm Stories to Share?

    Steven Kimmi from Salina, Kansas, is looking for others who have “storm stories” to share, and has created a VoiceThread for this purpose: Isn’t the collaborative world in which we live absolutely amazing?! Living as we do now in Oklahoma, I’ve become VERY aware (especially this spring) of how many storm and tornado stories there…

  • VoiceThread archival export and comment moderation experiences

    I presented a session on VoiceThread today for the “Survive and Thrive” 2008 Single Moms conference in Edmond, Oklahoma. My session was titled “Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread.” My earlier session in the day on “Internet Safety” was better attended, largely because I don’t think many of the moms attending the conference knew what “digital storytelling”…

  • Thumbs down for Indy Jones 4, thumbs up for Prince Caspian

    WARNING: MOVIE SPOILERS AHEAD! IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THESE FILMS YET, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS POST. One of the best tests of quality for new, professionally produced movies these days, in our family, is whether or not we want to own the DVD of a movie we have seen at the theater.…

  • VoiceThread questions for graduating seniors

    Educators at Asher Public School in Asher, Oklahoma, created the VoiceThread “Questions for Graduates” in our workshop about summer learning opportunities with web 2.0 tools today. If you are a current graduate of high school or college, or know one, feel free to respond and invite others to respond to these questions. I have comment…

  • Web-based animation, video and storytelling options grow

    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. I continue to be a vocal advocate of web-based digital storytelling tools which primarily use still images and audio narration, like VoiceThread, but the growing availability of web-based video editing…

  • Taking notes on effective electoral video marketing

    U.S. Presidential elections inevitably lead to interesting and thought provoking advertisements, but I am not sure previous elections generated as many opportunities to learn from effective electoral marketing ads as the 2008 campaign. The primary reason for this is user-created content: It continues to explode, and the variety as well as quantity of video content…