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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: google

  • 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…

  • Google Training and Learning Opportunities in Oklahoma

    I received a phone call this week from an Oklahoma teacher interested in becoming “Google Certified.” She’s interested in learning more about “Going Google” in her classroom and also becoming certified as a Google teacher or trainer. Rather than just provide her with my answers to these questions, I’m also posting my ideas here since this…

  • 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…

  • Podcast414: June 2014 Educational Technology Conference Updates

    This audio podcast is a “recording from the road” by Wesley Fryer on June 22, 2014. Wes shares some updates about podcasting software, apps and resources, as well as several recent educational technology conferences. These include the first Texas Google Summit, iPad Media Camp, iPadPalooza, and the Iowa Project Based Learning (PBL) Academy.

  • Learning about Digital Videography from Jim Sill

    This week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from Jim Sill (@mistersill) at the EdTechTeam’s Texas Summit featuring Google for Education in Richardson, Texas. Jim shared several breakout sessions at the conference. The one I attended was on “Telling Stories with the Youtube Editor.” Jim also shared a fantastic closing keynote at…

  • Google Hangouts 101 and Sharing Lessons with Google Tools

    I’m sharing two sessions Tuesday at the EdTechTeam’s Texas Summit Featuring Google for Education in Richardson. My sessions are “Google Hangouts 101” and “Sharing Lesson Plans & Curriculum with Google Tools.” These are both new conference breakouts for me, and I created Google Presentations for each one with embedded videos and hyperlinks. I’ll try to…

  • Embed a Google DocList in a Google Site or WordPress Site

    Digital document sharing can be important and powerful. By sharing files with others “in the cloud,” either publicly or privately, documents can be accessed on multiple devices in any location where an Internet connection is available. At today’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, speakers announced Apple is joining the ranks of cloud-based file sharing…

  • Google Chrome & Homebase” Computer Lab Setup

    This quick video (3 minutes) shows the steps I used to make Google Chrome the default browser in our Windows7 school computer lab, “pin” Google Chrome to the task bar at the bottom of the screen instead of Internet Explorer, and make our school website the default homepage which opens each time the Chrome browser…

  • Options for Uploading Videos to YouTube with School Filtering

    I’m in the midst of teaching my STEM students how to use the iPad app “Explain Everything” to create short, narrated slideshows about the cantilever spans project we’ve been doing recently. My students share iPads on our STEM cart, and do not have their own Google logins to upload videos to YouTube. So, after they…

  • Become a Connected Teacher to Help Students Make Global Connections

    This morning my wife and I experienced a benefit of being “connected educators” together: We participated in a virtual field trip with students and adults in both Tanzania and New York thanks to Google’s Connected Classrooms website. Here’s the quick story of how we ended up learning about the global water crisis on a free…