Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Podcast420: eBook Projects & Publishing Workflow Options

    In this podcast from the road, Wesley Fryer discusses recent and current eBook projects using the iPad app “Book Creator” by Red Jumper in his STEM classroom and in the library of his elementary school in Yukon, Oklahoma. The five different publishing workflow options he explores in detail are: 1 – Open in iBooks locally,…

  • iPad App Clean Install (December 2014)

    Thanks to some professional development work I’m starting with a new grant project, I was able to setup a new iPad Air 2 this weekend with all the apps I use for personal productivity, content creation and sharing. As is the case with a laptop, it’s often beneficial to do a “clean install” of applications rather…

  • Make Marvelous Movies by Tony Vincent

    These are my notes from Tony Vincent‘s Miami Device breakout session, “Make Marvelous Movies.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All session resources are on: http://learninginhand.com/mdmovies Follow Tony Vincent on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tonyvincent TONY IS “THE CONSUMMATE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL – I LOVE LEARNING FROM HIM! I LOVED HOW HE HELPED US BOTH REMINICE…

  • Free MinecraftEDU Server Remote Control Options for Mac Users

    Next week I’m starting a three part, six day MinecraftEDU lesson with my 4th and 5th grade STEM students which will be a mathematical “building challenge” similar to but a little different than what I had students do last year. Last semester I had students work in groups to complete a “permeter/area building challenge,” and students worked…

  • Learn About Lightspeed Mobile Manager

    Our school district is using the Lightspeed Mobile Manager for ALL our iPads this year. Previously I synced my iPads in my STEM classroom cart to a Macbook laptop and didn’t use a mobile manager. Here are a couple of links our IT department provided, which I’m going to use to learn more about using…

  • Setting Up an iPad Cart [VIDEO]

    UPDATE: I’ve made this video “private” temporarily because I’m in the process of figuring out how to get my apps installed… The steps described below are still the ones I followed, but…. I’ll add more info here soon. My learning curve with this is not finished….. Our school district IT department formatted (erased/wiped) all our…

  • YouTube is the new Cable Channel Platform

    Internet-based television (IPTV) is continuing to disrupt traditional media broadcasting models. As we await the launch of Apple’s expected television set (iTV) integrating iOS app functions including Siri voice control, this process will only accelerate. Writing about IPTV opportunity costs in “Is a vast video library worth the time and money?“, Daniel Frankel notes: “To…

  • FaceTime from the Michigan Avenue Apple Store

    Today during a fun visit to the Apple Store in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, my wife, son and I talked to our family back in Oklahoma over a FaceTime videoconference. We used my wife’s phone for the videoconference, and I snapped the following photo using my iPhone. At times like these, it feels a bit…

  • Podcast377: iPad Stylus Recommendations from Kevin Helmer

    This podcast is an interview with Kevin Helmer, iPad artist and digital road warrior, at the Celebrate Texas Voices digital storytelling workshop in Lubbock, Texas, on April 19, 2011. Kevin discusses four different “capacitive” stylus pens he uses with his iPad and their relative merits. He also discusses several apps he’s used and likes for…

  • Piano Scales? There’s an App For That!

    As our children move into middle and high school and take specialized classes, it’s more common for homework assignments to move beyond our parental comfort zones of expertise. That was the case tonight with my 7th grade son, who is taking an introductory piano course all year at his public magnet school, Classen SAS of…