Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer

  • SIFT on Mastodon

    The social media landscape is changing, and we all need better media literacy skills to help us make good choices. In this post, I’ll highlight how the “SIFT” web literacy framework can be helpful as many people start or continue building social connections on Mastodon, a “federated” and open source software platform which is an…

  • Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)

    Google Chrome continues to be my preferred web browser in late 2022. For the past couple years, I’ve been using a school-provided MacOS M1 MacBook Air laptop as my “daily driver” computer. Back in June 2015, I wrote the post, “Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions.” This is my update for November 2022, seven years later!…

  • Media Dominoes Fall

    In tonight’s EdTech Situation Room webshow and podcast, I shared Storyblocks as my “Geek of the Week.” It is an amazing virtual media library for videographers, storytellers, and Storychasers. The Storyblocks website explains: Unlock access to our library of over a million royalty-free footage, template, music, and photo assets as well as an easy-to-use video…

  • Faculty Survey with Dr. Fryer

    Students working on our yearbook at Providence Day School sent faculty a survey this fall. Here are the questions they asked me, and my answers. Students sent this survey as a Google Form. I’ve included some hyperlinks in my answers below, but these were not part of my submitted answers for students on our Yearbook…

  • Share Audio on YouTube

    Digital storytelling can take many forms. Recording an audio-only interview using a smartphone is one of the easiest ways to record a family oral history interview, but once you’ve recorded the interview, where do you share the file online? If you pay for a commercial web host to share your audio interview, you have to…

  • “Dance Off” Lego Robotics Challenge

    My middle school robotics students are having fun and learning a lot, working through the freely available Carnegie Mellon Lego Spike Prime Robotics curriculum unit on “Movement.” I have 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in this class. Since some students always finish faster than others, I’ve created an optional “Lego Robotics Bonus Challenge” for…

  • First HAM Radio Club Meeting

    This evening I attended my first-ever HAM Radio Club Meeting. It was the meeting of the Mecklenburg Amateur Radio Society (W4BFB – MARS) and held at St. Giles Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. In this post I’ll share the 30 minute audio podcast reflection I recorded afterwards about the experience and some things…

  • Tips for Using Jamboard

    Jamboard is a useful and free collaborative, digital whiteboard which is now included as part of the Google Workspace tool suite. (Google Apps.) This is a 5 minute tutorial video I recorded today. Here’s the description and video! Some tips for using Google Jamboard with students. In this video I demonstrate how to save a…

  • The Story of Bella Tunno (Narrated Sketchnote)

    Michelle Buelow is a successful entrepreneur and the CEO of Bella Tunno. Michelle presented about her journey and lessons learned in both life and business to our students at Providence Day School on September 14, 2022. This is a “narrated sketchnote” of her talk that I created during and immediately following her presentation. The original…

  • iPad Screen Recording for Narrated Sketchnotes

    I love creating both sketchnotes and narrated sketchnotes, and helping students learn to create sketchnotes! I’m now teaching media literacy and robotics at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our secondary students have iPads to use as their personal digital learning devices. For our sketchnoting unit, we’re pairing communication skill development with sketchnoting…

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