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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • Discussing the Megan Meier MySpace / Suicide Tragedy

    I inadvertently turned off commenting on my post today, “Facing the realities of bullying in our schools and communities.” Thanks to a post by Cathy Nelson responding to those ideas and my WordPress dashboard, this was brought to my attention and I’ve fixed the problem. You should now be able to comment on that post!…

  • Thinking Coffee 2.0

    Vicki Allen created a clever VoiceThread with Houston-area teachers last week on the theme “Coffee 2.0.” (She borrowed the idea from Karen Montgomery.) Are you ever intimidated by the six-part Starbucks coffee orders some people give you? I am. My wife’s preferred order (“grande skinny decaf latte with two sweet and lows”) is really tame…

  • Calling all aspiring Oklahoma digital storytellers!

    I’m pleased to announce an upcoming opportunity for PK-20 educators in Oklahoma to learn more about digital storytelling. A 3 day facilitator workshop for the Oklahoma Digital Centennial / “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project is being offered at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) College of Education November 28, 29 and 30, 2007. More details are…

  • Thinking about simplicity in the context of professional development

    I really enjoyed watching Dr. BJ Fogg’s 11 minute discussion of “simplicity” and his developing framework for understanding simplicity in design contexts this evening. This video is available via Facebook, and you have to be logged in to see it. I had watched about two minutes of the video when I invited my wife to…

  • iMovie HD: Initial Impressions

    I upgraded my iLife applications to iLife ’08 several weeks ago, but until this week hadn’t had an opportunity to work with iMovie HD (the new version of iMovie included in iLife ’08) with much depth. This past Thursday night, I taught a workshop for teachers in Mid-Del Schools on using both Garageband ’08 and…

  • Marketing in the Attention Economy

    Earlier this fall I shared a three part podcast series about the “attention economy” and its implications for schools. These were titled Podcast174: Relevance in the Attention Economy Part 1: Key Ideas, Podcast187: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 2 of 3), and Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3…

  • Think before you post video

    Miguel Guhlin shared the video “Think Before You Post” with me last Friday at the TechForum in Austin. I hadn’t seen this clip before. This is a short, 60 second reminder (actually it’s an advertisement from the U.S. Ad Council) that once an image is posted online, it can be there FOREVER. I’m going to…

  • Lots of Jack O Lanterns and Signs

    I love taking pictures, and I love Flickr. This evening as we supervised trick or treating for our three kids in our neighborhood (we definitely had a record “haul” for candy) I took photos of lots of jack o lanterns. I then joined the “Great Pumpkin” jack o lantern photo pool on Flickr, and contributed…

  • Learning about documentary filmmaking and WWII from Ken Burns

    I have only seen about 30 minutes of the latest Ken Burns documentary “The War,” but what I have seen touched my heart and moved my spirit. I am in the midst of attempting to facilitate several opportunities for Oklahoma teachers and students to utilize videoconferencing as well as online digital tools to get involved…

  • 12th “Great Book Story” project example

    This evening my 2nd grader finished writing up an assigned book report about “China’s Bravest Girl,” a book which relates the legend of Hua Mu Lan on which the Disney movie “Mulan” was based. I helped her select five pictures to accompany an image of the book cover to use for a digital story about…