Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tag: ebook

  • Facilitating Student eBook and Book Publishing with Book Creator and Lulu

    For the past three years, I’ve had the opportunity to partner with our high school English department chair, Whitney Finley, who teaches a unique and engaging creative writing class for 12th graders in which they write and publish their own children’s picture books. After creating their books, as a group students visit our Kindergarten students…

  • Share eBook Highlights from iBooks

    This morning I taught the lesson for our Sunday School class as a substitute teacher, and in addition to my slides was able to share all my highlighted notes from the lesson’s chapter in our book, “Good to Great in God’s Eyes” by Chip Ingram. (@chipingram) In this post, I’ll share how I used the iBooks…

  • Sharing My Learning via Twitter from Write Well, Sell Well 2015

    Yesterday and today I presented and participated in the 2015 “Write Well, Sell Well Conference” in Oklahoma City. This is the third year of the conference, and it was absolutely amazing. I wrote three blog posts with my notes from sessions, but mainly used Twitter to archive and share my own learning. Those posts included: iPad Green…

  • Archived Learning from the 2015 Mobile Learning Experience

    I have opportunities to attend and participate in many educational conferences each year, and it’s always interesting to compare the scheduling, session mix, atmosphere, and overall experience of these events. Last week was my third time to attend the “Mobile Learning Experience,” organized by the Arizona K-12 Center (@azk12) and Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent,) and this year was the…

  • 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,…

  • Podcast 419: An Interview with Shelly Fryer About Student Voice & iPad Projects

    This podcast is a Thanksgiving interview with Shelly Fryer, a self-contained 3rd and 4th grade teacher in an iPad 1 to 1 classroom in Oklahoma City. Shelly’s students recently completed a research project in which they created enhanced eBooks using the Book Creator app for iPad, and published their eBooks as videos to their classroom…

  • Add Kindle MOBI eBook to WordPress Online Store

    The past few evenings I’ve been adding all my eBooks (9 at this point) to a new online store I’ve created on PlayingWithMedia.com, using WordPress and iThemes Exchange. The reason my total number of eBooks jumped so fast was my decision last month to start offering individual chapters of “Mapping Media” for sale as $2.99…

  • Mapping Media Vol 1 Chapters Available as Separate eBooks

    I’m pleased to announce  individual chapters  of ‘Mapping Media to the Common Core: Volume I” are available as separate eBooks for $2.99 each on Amazon.com. I’ve updated the book/eBook descriptions on the “About” page of the Mapping Media website. Whether you are a current teacher, a pre-service teacher, or an instructor/professor teaching educational technology courses, the availability…

  • EdCamp, eBooks & STEM (OTA – EncycloMedia 2014)

    Our annual OTA (Oklahoma Technology Association) and EncycloMedia Conference is this week on Tuesday and Wednesday in Oklahoma City, and I’ll be co-presenting and sharing three different sessions. Here are the links to the slides and referenced resources for each session. I’ll likely audio-record these for later sharing on my secondary “Fuel for Educational Change…

  • Creating Multimedia eBooks (July 2014)

    These are my slides, shared as a Google Presentation, for Tuesday’s EdTechTeacher 2014 Summit session, “Creating Multimedia eBooks.” While I’ve presented much of this content previously in different conference, workshop, and other PD venues, this is a “new remix” of these ideas in a longer slide deck. Additional links are available on the Google Site…