Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: distributed-learning

  • Audio Podcasting Workflows (August 2016)

    Audio podcasts are one of my favorite types of media products to create and share. While images and video clips used in narrated slideshow and quick edit video projects can significantly enhance engagement and learning for people watching and listening, those elements can also add significant time requirements as well as layers of complexity to…

  • Podcast443: Preparing for the 2016 iPadPalooza and ISTE Conferences

    This podcast includes a practice mini-keynote as well a preparatory conversation between Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) in advance of the 2016 iPadPalooza Conference (in Austin, Texas) as well as ISTE Conference (in Denver, Colorado) in upcoming weeks. Shelly and Wes discuss several new ideas related to “The Digital Sharing Project” and the…

  • How Much Should Teachers Share Online?

    This morning as I browsed recent updates and recommendations to my YouTube subscriptions on AppleTV, I saw Amy Burvall (@amyburvall) recently liked the February 2015 video “Vlog 1: Importance of Sharing” by pre-service teacher, Dakota Smith. He posted this over a year ago in February 2015. I watched the entire video, and was so glad…

  • EdTech Situation Room on Wednesday Nights

    I’m thrilled to announce the start of a new weekly webshow and podcast, “The EdTech Situation Room.” Our byline is “where technology news meets educational analysis.” Follow us on Twitter @edtechSR and follow us on Blab.im to stay updated. This podcasting effort has been at least three years in the making, so it’s very exciting to have it…

  • App Smash: Google Slides to Explain Everything to YouTube

    Today we had an all-school faculty meeting, and our headmaster asked me to share a presentation about the new learning management system (Blackbaud’s onCampus) which we’re transitioning to now and will use in the fall semester. In this post I’ll describe how I “app smashed” my Google Slides presentation into the Explain Everything app for…

  • Podcast 437: The 2015 EdTech Year in Review

    This podcast is a recorded Google Hangout On Air from December 31, 2015, of a panel discussion with Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Eric Langhorst (@elanghorst), Nikki D Robertson (@nikkidrobertson), and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer). The title of this roundtable discussion was “The 2015 EdTech Year in Review,” and focused on some of the most important developments and news items…

  • The 2015 EdTech Year in Review – Google Hangout On Air (Dec 31st)

    Update Dec 31st: An audio podcast and video archive of this Google Hangout is available, including all referenced shownotes! Join Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Eric Langhorst (@elanghorst), Nikki D Robertson (@nikkidrobertson), and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) for a roundtable discussion via Google Hangout On-Air about some of the most important developments and news items regarding educational technology…

  • EdCampVoxer (Dec 23-30) & EdCampOKC (March 5)

    This is the text of an email I sent to all the faculty and staff at my school this morning. Feel free to copy and use this email or adapt this email to fit your own situation, to help get the word out about EdCampVoxer and EdCampOKC!   “EdCampOKC 2016 EventBrite Header” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer   …

  • Podcast 436: The Technology Director Speaks

    11 topics in 67 minutes! In this podcast recording, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares some updates about his new position this year as a school technology director, previews “iPad Media Camp in a box” for summer 2016, shares his current favorite podcasts and audiobooks, discusses lessons learned about fiber optic cabling, and lessons learned from seven videoconferences…

  • Our Daughter Plays Minecraft with International YouTubers

    Our youngest daughter, Rachel, has become a pretty amazing Minecraft guru in the past year.  I initially taught her to play, but the HOURS she has invested in playing, watching Minecraft YouTuber videos, and creating her own videos have catapulted her far beyond my own meager Minecraft skills into the digital stratosphere. She’s recorded some…