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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • Podcast444: Reflections on iPad Media Camp (July 2016)

    Welcome to a recorded podcast from the road with Wesley and Shelly Fryer, reflecting on the past week of iPad Media Camp workshops in Stilwell and Tulsa Oklahoma in July 2016. This is the fourth summer of iPad Media Camp workshops, which are multi-day, hands-on experiences for educators focused on using iPads to create and…

  • Experimenting with WordPress on the Google Cloud with Bitnami

    Hold on to your hats, because this post is going to extend my personal “geek quotient” a bit and may for you as well. As you read, keep in mind I’m a teacher and school technology director, not a full time coder or web developer. I’m sharing this post to document my own learning curve…

  • Tweeted Learning from ISTE 2016

    As I did for iPadPalooza in Austin last week, I’ve created a Storify archive of the 500+ tweets and retweets I shared this week from the ISTE Conference in Denver, Colorado. Before I embed the Storify archive, however, I’ll single out a few notable tweets. Tuesday I shared a poster session (and was greatly assisted…

  • Audience Feedback at iPadPalooza 2016

    iPadPalooza 2016 is almost over, and it’s been a fantastic conference. If you’re an educator and use an iPad, this is a “must attend” event. Next year the conference will be earlier in June. This year in addition to a mini-keynote with Shelly on day 1 about “Digital Sharing,” I shared three breakout sessions on “App…

  • Visualizing Inside and Outside Sharing

    Shelly (@sfryer) and I are continuing to brainstorm our new book project and social media empowerment campaign, “Inside and Outside Sharing.” We are going to be presenting about “Inside and Outside Sharing” in a few weeks in Austin, Texas, at iPadPalooza, and the following week in Denver at the ISTE conference. We’ve been thinking about ways we can visually…

  • Communicating with Elected State Representatives via Social Media

    This morning after our church service, I recorded and shared four videos on YouTube and Twitter relating to our current budget crisis in the Oklahoma legislature. In the first video, “A Transformed Political Culture in Oklahoma,” I encouraged other Oklahomans to: Use a smartphone to record short videos for elected officials, sharing an opinion and specific…

  • Podcast441: iPads in Maker Studio by Shelly Fryer (May 2016)

    This podcast is a recording of Shelly Fryer’s presentation “iPads in Maker Studio” via a Google Hangout for the 2016 Global Maker Day Conference. The session description was: “Learn how our third and fourth grade students use their iPads in our maker studio to document their learning and share both inside and outside our classroom.…

  • 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…

  • 15 Minute Snapchat 101 Tutorial

    This evening my 18 year old son gave me some lessons on using Snapchat. After reading Mathew Ingram’s  (@mathewi) article from last week, “Snapchat’s Ultimate Goal Isn’t Just Chat—It’s Total Media Domination”  on our flight into Ohio, I decided Snapchat is a social media app and platform I need to learn more about. Last week, Carl Hooker…

  • Presentations on Creativity, 3D Printing, Digital Sharing and More

    Friday I had an opportunity to attend and present at the OMLEA Conference for Middle Level educators and administrators, sponsored by CCOSA and held a the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The best part of the day was having the chance to co-present with two of the teachers from my school, Casady School in Oklahoma…