Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Podcast449: Innovating with Google Tools – Digital Citizenship in the Security State

    Welcome to the November 20, 2016, podcast episode of “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” with Wesley Fryer. This episode includes two recent presentation recordings by Wes from the last two weeks. The first was the opening keynote at the November 12, 2016, Google Summit in Maize, Kansas, titled “Innovating with Google Tools.” The second is…

  • 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…

  • Force Chromebook User Logout When Closed

    Security is a big deal at school and outside the classroom. It’s important to teach as well as encourage everyone at school, including students, teachers, and parents, to remember the importance of LOGGING OUT of shared computers and computing devices after using them. While this is important to emphasize, it’s also valuable to find strategies…

  • Setting Up Google Cloud Printing at School

    Like many schools, we have some older Windows PCs in our library and in other locations which aren’t running as fast as our users would like and need to be refreshed or replaced. We have several carts of Chromebooks in use, which are working great, but haven’t yet purchased Chrome Device management licenses for them to…

  • AirPlay Mirroring for Chromebooks with AirParrot

    I learned many things during my visit to Brazil this week for a two day STEM Institute. One of the most exciting topics involved Chromebooks and Apple’s AirPlay technology. Previously I’d thought only Apple devices (MacBook laptops, iPads, iPhones, etc.) could wirelessly stream and “mirror” content to a projector using AirPlay. It turns out, thanks to Air Parrot for…

  • Email Mail Merge Custom PDF Certificates with autoCrat for Google

    Saturday was our fourth EdCampOKC conference in Oklahoma City and it was great! This year to provide professional development certificates to attendees afterward, our organizer team got fancy and used the free Google Add-On autoCrat. “autoCrat for Google Sheets” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer  autoCrat is a powerful, customizable script for Google Forms and Google Sheets which can…

  • Publishing Student Videos with a Shared YouTube Account

    Since we returned from Christmas break I’ve been working with our 7th grade Spanish teacher to utilize the iPad app “Green Screen” by Do Ink along with a Green Screen setup for his students to record videos of short Spanish language skits they’ve written and memorized. His students have been recording different scenes and combining…

  • App Smash: Google Slides to Explain Everything to YouTube

    Today we had an all-school faculty meeting, and our headmaster asked me to share a presentation about the new learning management system (Blackbaud’s onCampus) which we’re transitioning to now and will use in the fall semester. In this post I’ll describe how I “app smashed” my Google Slides presentation into the Explain Everything app for…

  • Custom Domain Mapping for a Classroom Google Site

    Today I worked with our wonderful lower school (elementary) art teacher, and started helping her create a classroom website using Google Sites. A classroom website, built on a wiki-based platform like Google Sites which permits browser-based page editing and page creation, can become a “digital home base” for students, parents, and other teachers to access…

  • We Need More Curious Dreamers, Tinkerers and Makers

    Thank goodness Orville and Wilbur Wright were not lawyers or accountants! I love what Dr. Paul Czysz said in these 35 seconds of an intriguing 38 minute video interview: …all it takes is a dreamer. Can you imagine the Wright Brothers if one was a lawyer and one was an accountant? Why are you going to…