Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: mobile

  • First Android-Edited Video: WeVideo App

    This evening I edited, created, and published my first video using an Android-based Nexus 7 tablet. I used the free Android mobile app “WeVideo” to edit it, because it was recommended in this recent Google for Education video about creating stop motion videos in the classroom. I used some images and 1 video clip from…

  • Learn About Lightspeed Mobile Manager

    Our school district is using the Lightspeed Mobile Manager for ALL our iPads this year. Previously I synced my iPads in my STEM classroom cart to a Macbook laptop and didn’t use a mobile manager. Here are a couple of links our IT department provided, which I’m going to use to learn more about using…

  • Podcast417: Mobile Digital Ethnography, Place-Based Learning and Inquiry

    This podcast is an interview with Thomas Steele-Maley, the Director of Academic Technology and Innovation for GEMS World Academy – Chicago, discussing mobile digital ethnography, place-based learning, and inquiry learning. GEMS World Academy is launching now (in fall 2014) and this summer elementary students (in grades 5-6) have been participating in inquiry-based ethnographic activities as urban…

  • Hands On with the Amazon Fire Phone

    I’m in Chicago this week for the EdTechTeacher Summit, which starts tomorrow. We dropped into the AT&T store on Michigan Avenue, and I saw they have the new Amazon Fire smartphone. (They have only had it for a week!) I couldn’t resist the temptation to post a quick video review. It’s also fun to practice…

  • Road Trip Wireless Devices (July 2014) #SignOfTheTimes

    According to a Qualcomm infographic published by ArsTechnica in May 2014, in the United States “the average home has 7 connected devices today, that’s predicted to exceed 20 devices by 2020.” If our family was included in that survey sample today, we would definitely inflate the mean. This weekend our family took a 1600 mile…

  • Transfer Video from an Android Phone to an iPad

    UPDATE 12 July 2014: Thanks to Kiwi teacher Allanah King (@Allanahk) for sharing the FREE iOS and Android app “Flick” (@get_flick) which supports cross-platform sharing of photos & videos between devices. Transferring to DropBox is another solution suggested by several others which would have been (most likely) faster than the multi-step workaround described in this post. This…

  • iPad App Smashing with Google Forms, Haiku Deck, Explain Everything, and YouTube

    It’s become a tradition in the 3 day iPad Media Camp workshops I’ve been leading the past 3 years to give teachers an opportunity at the end of day 1 to submit questions to me using a simple, one question Google form.   by  Wesley Fryer  Since we learn how to create narrated slideshows on the iPad…

  • Coding with Hopscotch and Visual Notes with iPads

    Thursday I’m sharing two presentations at iPadPalooza in Austin, Texas. Here are the titles, descriptions, and slides for these breakout sessions. Both are hands-on workshops, however, so most of the time we’ll be exploring and playing with the apps Hopscotch and Brushes! Coding Fun with Hopscotch for iPad Hopscotch is a free iPad app which…

  • iPad Media Camp July 8-10 at UFM Community Learning Center in Manhattan, Kansas

    Because of unforeseen scheduling issues, the location for the July 8-10 iPad Media Camp in Manhattan, Kansas, has moved to the UFM Community Learning Center. UFM is located directly east of Kansas State University and Bluemont Hall, and will provide a superb location for this three day, hands-on learning event. This Google Map shows the…

  • Family Oral History and Smartphones (May 2014)

    These are the slides I’m sharing on Saturday at the annual Mo-Ranch Men’s Conference near Hunt, Texas. My presentation is titled, “Family Oral History and Smartphones.” Family Oral History and Smartphones (May 2014) from Wesley Fryer I’ve presented similar sessions at this conference in the past titled, “Telling Your Mission Story with iPad Video” and…