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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: mobile

  • That Camera Gear is SO 2007!

    This weekend I put together a presentation / slideshow for my STEM students I titled, “Visual Notetaking and Dreaming Big.” In the presentation this week in class, I’m sharing with my students about my 2007 trip to MacWorld in San Francisco, when I saw Steve Jobs announce the iPhone to the world. Look closely at…

  • Video Tutorial: Creating Narrated Art or Photos with AudioBoo for iPad

    Last month on November 11th, AudioBoo updated its iOS app. The free AudioBoo app for iOS (also available for Android, Windows phone and Blackberry) now permits recording on the iPad version, and combines the features of the previous “AudioBoo Classic” and “AudioBoo2” apps. This evening for the third class meeting of my seven-part Mapping Media…

  • Mapping Media to the Common Core with iPads (Dec 2013)

    These are slides from my morning presentation, “Mapping Media to the Common Core with iPads” today in Norman, Oklahoma, at the 2013 Interactive Learning Institute hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma. Access all the Mapping Media resources on maps.playingwithmedia.com. My eBook, “Mapping Media to the Common Core: Vol 1” is available…

  • Lessons Learned Using Nearpod Presentations on iPads with Students

    The past three weeks I’ve taught and facilitated lessons for my 4th and 5th grade STEM students on coding using the free iPad app Hopscotch. I created and published a short, FREE eBook (“Hopscotch Challenges“) to provide tips for my students (and others) on different scripts which can be used to draw geometric pictures as…

  • A Free iPad Alternative to BoardDocs For Meeting Agenda and File Sharing

    I’m serving in my second year of a three year term as an elder in our church, and our meetings usually fall on the last Monday of each month. As you might expect, I prefer to forgo paper copies of agendas and committee meeting notes, and instead bring my iPad and laptop to our meetings.…

  • iCamp January 15, 2014 in Manhattan, Kansas: iPad Day!

    My friend Cyndi Danner-Kuhn at Kansas State University is helping put together a day of iPad-focused professional development for educators in Manhattan, Kansas, on January 15, 2014. The flyer below includes the highlights, more details about offered sessions are available on this Scribd document. It’s $25 (including lunch) and online registration is available through January…

  • Preparing for STEM Lessons on Coding with Hopscotch for iPad

    This evening I’ve been playing with the free iPad app “Hopscotch,” which I’m planning to use for a four part / two week introductory unit on coding on the iPad with my 4th and 5th grade STEM students. (@iesSTEM) I’ve worked quite a bit with Scratch software from MIT, but this is my first time…

  • Beware of iPhone “Melt” App Email and SMS Spam

    It must be a sign of the times. About three weeks after my ten year old daughter had her first “phishing” experience with Genieo adware on one of our family Apple laptop computers, my older (13 year old) daughter managed to accidentally spam over 2000 people (my entire iCloud contacts list) with personalized text messages…

  • 2013 Tablet Summit in Montreal: Your Table[t]d’hôte Today

    These are the slides I’m using for the opening keynote at the 2013 Tablet Summit in Montreal, Quebec on Monday. Thanks to help from Susan VanGelder, I’m using a French pun for my keynote title, “Your Table[t]d’hôte Today.” This is a play on words since it’s the “tablet summit.” In French, it means “the menu.”…

  • Great News for iPad Videographers (Open-In Audio Functionality Added to Pinnacle Studio)

    I just updated my Pinnacle Studio for iPad app tonight, and noticed in the update description some HUGE news: The app now supports opening audio files you send yourself in email and can open from other apps. You can also import different kinds of media (including audio) from cloud storage sources. This is tectonic-sized good…