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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: mobile

  • Create a Narrated Slideshow on an iPad with Haiku Deck and Explain Everything

    This week I’m leading a 3 day iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City. On day 1 we learned about creating 5 photo stories and narrated slideshows with the iPad apps Educreations (free) and Explain Everything ($3). On day 2 we learned how to create “Quick Edit Videos” using the iMovie iPad app. In the morning…

  • Interview on the Techlandia Podcast and Webshow

    This evening I participated in the wonderful, weekly Techlandia Podcast. Techlandia Podcast (@techlandiacast) is a weekly Google Hangout hosted by Curt Rees (@CurtRees), Alison Anderson (@tedrosececi) and Jon Samuelson (@ipadsammy) which is published as a weekly audio podcast. The YouTube recording of our conversation is 69 minutes long. The iOS apps I mentioned in the…

  • Podcast403: Radio Shows & iOS Audio Podcasting with Joe Dale

    This podcast is an “over the pond and through the fiber” audio recording of a Skype conversation between UK educator Joe Dale and US educator Wes Fryer on May 7, 2013. The topic of conversation was radio shows and audio podcasting, and specifically highlighted different apps and techniques for creating radio shows with mobile iOS…

  • Document Field Trip Learning with AudioBoo

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) As a free audio service with free smartphone apps for both iPhone and Android, AudioBoo is an ideal platform to use on a student field trip to document experiences with both audio and images. This morning I accompanied my 3rd grade daughter’s class to the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, as…

  • iPad Media Camp: June & July 2013 in Oklahoma & Kansas

    This summer you’re invited to join Dr. Wesley Fryer for three days of hands-on, engaging professional development in iPad Media Camp. If you are interested in Common Core aligned professional development, digital literacy, student engagement and improving student achievement, iPad Media Camp is the summer workshop for you. This innovative, three day experience is designed…

  • Paper Slide Video: Your Next (or First) BYOD Technology Integration Project

    Paper-Slide Videos are one practical type of technology integration project which can work well in a BYOD setting, and in this post I’d like to share some lessons learned from last week when I helped one of the 7th grade geography teachers in our district facilitate a three day paper-slide video project which ultimately culminated…

  • Understanding Why eBooks “Feel Different”

    This is the best explanation I’ve read to-date about how and why ebooks “feel different” than print books for readers. I particularly like the analogy to Google Maps: In contrast [to print books], most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their…

  • What iPad Apps Do You Recommend?

    A friend of mine recently got an iPad Mini and asked me for app recommendations. I took screenshots of the current apps I have on my iPad and uploaded them to a Flickr set, and also shared the following app list links with him. My favorite iPad Media apps: http://www.ipadmediacamp.com/apps/ My fav iPad productivity apps:…

  • Impressed with Freshpaint App For Windows 8 (Microsoft Surface Tablet)

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Today my 9 year old and I played with some Microsoft Surface Tablets at the Microsoft Store at Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City. Rachel immediately wanted to find a painting app, since she’s created a LOT of digital art in the past using “Brushes” on the iPad. She created the following…

  • Options for Posting by Email (RIP Posterous)

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) Lots of media sharers around the world continue to mourn the announcement the blogging site Posterous will officially go offline on April 30, 2013. The folks at Twitter apparently bought Posterous for the brains of their programmers, not because they wanted to develop or even sustain their platform, and that’s a shame.…