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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Publishing Student Videos with a Shared YouTube Account

    Since we returned from Christmas break I’ve been working with our 7th grade Spanish teacher to utilize the iPad app “Green Screen” by Do Ink along with a Green Screen setup for his students to record videos of short Spanish language skits they’ve written and memorized. His students have been recording different scenes and combining…

  • Inside and Outside Digital Sharing

    This past Friday, my wife (@sfryer) and I facilitated a full-day, hands-on workshop about ways to use iPads in the classroom with students to “show what they know with media.” 164 teachers participated in the workshop, which was held in two adjacent ballrooms of the Alumni Center at Kansas State University. The event, iCamp iPad…

  • Custom Domain Mapping for a Classroom Google Site

    Today I worked with our wonderful lower school (elementary) art teacher, and started helping her create a classroom website using Google Sites. A classroom website, built on a wiki-based platform like Google Sites which permits browser-based page editing and page creation, can become a “digital home base” for students, parents, and other teachers to access…

  • January 15, 2016 iPad Workshop at Kansas State

    Join Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) on Friday, January 15, 2016, for iCamp iPad Day at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas: A full day of hands-on learning about using iPads in the classroom! The day’s agenda, required and optional apps, and referenced resources are linked on the Google Doc available via wfryer.me/icamp06. Participants will…

  • Taylor Swift’s Letter to Apple and Digital Citizenship

    Our 15 year daughter is understandably taken with Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13). Last night we were considering joining Apple Music so she could watch Taylor’s 1989 World Tour Live show, which is exclusive to Apple Music. As a result of those conversations, this morning I watched Taylor’s 20 minute interview with Zane Lowe (@zanelowe), which is available within…

  • Remembering Bob Sprankle on EdTechTalk

    This evening of group of educators gathered together on a Google Hangout hosted by Paul Allison of EdTechTalk and remembered Bob Sprankle. Bob died last week on December 8, 2015, and is dearly missed by many friends and fellow educators around our earth. Panelists included Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes, Dave Cormier, Jeff Lebow, Jennifer Maddrell, Tanya…

  • Brainstorming the Digital Sharing Map: Classroom Edition

    For the past year or so, my wife Shelly (@sfryer) and I have been talking a lot about helping organize and facilitate a “Digital Sharing Conference” (@digishare) in Oklahoma City. The Google Doc I shared this past August includes more background. Two of the influences on our thinking about this new event include Miami Device (@miamidevice)…

  • Celebrating Good Memories of Bob Sprankle

    How do we grieve the loss of good friends who have died in an age of social media? Hopefully the same way we would have grieved before technology arrived to draw us even closer: By celebrating their life and remembering the good memories and experiences we had together. By gathering together and praying with and…

  • Classroom Blogging Options (August 2015)

    Every classroom needs a moderated, online space where students can share their ideas with others and receive feedback. While blogging has “been around” and used in classrooms all over the world for more than ten years now, classroom blogs are still rare in many schools and communities. Like other kinds of technology, blogging platforms have…

  • Podcasting Options with WordPress

    Next Monday night, on July 27th at 7 pm, I’m going to share a short presentation at the monthly OKC area WordPress User’s Group meeting. This is a free meetup at Oklahoma Christian University the last Monday of each month. The title of my presentation will be, “Podcasting Options with WordPress.” In addition to discussing…