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Podcast472: Remote Learning in Oklahoma #OklaEd

By Wesley Fryer On April 26, 2020 · Tagged With: covid19EDU, edtech, leadership, oklaed, oklahoma, remotelearning · Add Comment

This podcast is a recording of a webinar panel discussion by Oklahoma educators Telannia Norfar, Delilah Rodriguez, Rhonda Schroeder and Wesley Fryer on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Our topic of conversation was "Remote Learning in Oklahoma," as we are now about a month into "learning at home" because of the neo-coronavirus / COVID-19 global pandemic. The questions we discussed included, What is your current role and situation with 'remote learning' in Oklahoma? What is your technology situation like in terms of student devices, teacher devices, and utilized platforms? What are discovering that should be changed about school as a result of this situation? What are some success stories about remote learning at your school / for you? How do you think we can help teachers and schools prepare for ongoing remote learning in the event we don't return face-to-face to school in August, or we do but have to go back to remote learning in the fall? Check out the shownotes for links to Twitter IDs for each of our panelists, as well as other referenced resources and links from the conversation.

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Thoughts on Content Filtering, Parent Education, and School Laptop Initiatives

By Wesley Fryer On January 14, 2020 · Tagged With: edtech, laptop, norman, oklaed, oklahoma · Add Comment

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Podcast467: Reflections on a Gap Year Before College

By Wesley Fryer On August 25, 2019 · Tagged With: gap, gapyear, okcps, oklaed, parenting, year · Add Comment

Welcome to Episode 467 of the Moving at the Speed of Creativity podcast, a show by Dr. Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) focusing on digital creativity, media literacy, digital literacy, digital citizenship, instructional technology integration and engaged learning both inside and outside the classroom. This episode features interviews with both Shelly Fryer and Sarah Fryer, about Sarah's "gap year" in 2018-19 following high school graduation. Sarah graduated in 2018 from Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City Public Schools, and majored in drama at ClassenSAS. Rather than head directly to college, Sarah took a gap year to work, take dance classes, get more involved in the music ministry of our church, and get a better idea of what she wants to study and do after high school. In the first part of this podcast, Wesley and Shelly reflect on the gap year experience for Sarah, how it came about, what happened, and what lessons were learned. In the second part, recorded earlier, Sarah reflects on her gap year. In both segments, Shelly and Sarah offer advice to other students as well as parents who might be considering a gap year, and encouragement to consider whether or not a gap year is the right choice and "the best fit" for you or your child. Check out the podcast shownotes to referenced resources, including some other blog posts relating to parenting, high school, and helping kids make decisions about college and life. Contact links for Shelly and Wesley Fryer are also included in the shownotes. Feedback on this podcast episode is welcome!

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How I’m Voting and Prepared to Vote in Oklahoma City November 6, 2018

By Wesley Fryer On November 5, 2018 · Tagged With: election, elections, oklaed, oklahoma, vote, voting · Add Comment

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Arab Spring and the 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout

By Wesley Fryer On April 9, 2018 · Tagged With: oklaed, oklahoma, politics, strike, teacher, walkout · Add Comment

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Pre-Reflections on the April 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout

By Wesley Fryer On March 31, 2018 · Tagged With: educator, funding, oklaed, oklahoma, okleg, politics, state, teacher, walkout · 1 Comment

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Learning at the March Oklahoma STEM Consortium Meeting

By Wesley Fryer On March 9, 2018 · Tagged With: MakerEd, oklaed, oklaedstem, oklahoma, steam, stem · Add Comment

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Reflections on Learning from the OU Innovation Hub

By Wesley Fryer On December 9, 2017 · Tagged With: casadylearns, coding, creativity, csx, innovation, learning, learningspaces, oklaed, oklahoma, spaces · Add Comment

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Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin Misunderstands Testing and School Quality

By Wesley Fryer On May 8, 2017 · Tagged With: education, EOI, fallin, governor, mary, newsok, oklaed, oklahoma, policy, testing · Add Comment

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Podcast451: SeeSaw, Enriched Assessment, Creating and Making with iPads

By Wesley Fryer On March 10, 2017 · Tagged With: edtech, ipad, oklaed · Add Comment

This podcast features an interview with Shelly Fryer, discussing the use of SeeSaw to create student portfolios, strategies for enriched assessment using iPads, and her recent experiences leading professional development workshops for Oklahoma A+ Schools. She also discusses her recent experiences at EdCampOKC, a regional "unconference" for area educators, her students' recent eBook projects which culminated their Black History research unit, and reflected on STEM/STEAM lessons her her classroom Maker Studio. Shelly has been an elementary teacher and early childhood educator since 1985, and has been teaching 3rd and 4th grade students for the past four years in a 1:1 iPad classroom. Links to other referenced resources are included in the podcast shownotes. If you listen to and enjoy this podcast, please let Shelly and Wes know by sending a Twitter reply to @sfryer and @wfryer. Also consider subscribing to the "EdTech Situation Room" podcast (www.edtechSR.com) and the "Fuel for Educational Change Agents" podcast (audio.speedofcreativity.org). Your feedback and suggestions are welcome!

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10 Days till EdCampOKC 2017: March 4, 2017 at Del City High School

By Wesley Fryer On February 21, 2017 · Tagged With: edcamp, edcampokc, oklaed · Add Comment

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5th EdCampOKC Coming to Del City High School March 4, 2017

By Wesley Fryer On December 13, 2016 · Tagged With: edcamp, edcampokc, oklaed, oklahoma, pd · Add Comment

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Podcast445: Voices from iPadPaloozaOU + the iPad Media Activities & Project Matrix

By Wesley Fryer On August 28, 2016 · Tagged With: ipad, ipaded, iplzaOU, oklaed, podcast, podcasting · Add Comment

This podcast features a series of recordings from the first iPadPaloozaOU conference held in Norman, Oklahoma, on August 26 and 27, 2016. The first segment is a series of audio reflections shared by participants in Shelly Fryer's Friday breakout session, "The Room 108 Radio Show." Just like Shelly has her students share in her classroom radio show, iPadPaloozaOU participants shared their first names and answered the question of the day, "What have you learned at iPadPaloozaOU and are taking back to your classroom?" The second segment is Shelly Fryer's five minute closing keynote, shared on Saturday. Five different Oklahoma educators shared a short talk about a subject they are passionate about during the combined keynote. Shelly talked about homelessness in Oklahoma, her school, Positive Tomorrows, and the importance of loving and building relationships with the students in our classrooms. Shelly shared 1 correction via Twitter following her keynote: 1 in 21 Oklahoma students are homeless today, according to recent studies. Check out the podcast shownotes for a link to a recent NewsOK.com article citing this statistic. Finally, the third podcast segment is a recording of Dr. Wesley Fryer's breakout session, "iPad Media Activities and Project Matrix." The description of the session was: "Come learn the specific steps teachers and students can use to create over 20 different iPad media projects as well as whole-class, interactive iPad writing activities. The iPad Media Activity and Project Matrix (www.ipadmediacamp.com/matrix) is used in iPad Media Camp workshops to help teachers learn to integrate effective use of iPads into the curriculum. The matrix includes whole-class response activities (interactive digital writing), single-app projects (using a learning journal like SeeSaw), 2 app projects (create + share) and Multi-app projects (app-smash projects)." The matrix is available as a series of linked Google Draw documents on http://www.ipadmediacamp.com/matrix. Check the podcast shownotes for additional referenced links and resources from these presentations. Many thanks to Anne Beck and her organizer team for making the first iPadPaloozaOU a smashing success!

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A Transformed Political Culture in Oklahoma #transformOK #OklaEd

By Wesley Fryer On May 22, 2016 · Tagged With: Legislature, oklaed, oklahoma, politics, transformOK · Add Comment

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Scratch Day in Oklahoma City on Saturday, May 14, 2016

By Wesley Fryer On May 2, 2016 · Tagged With: coding, kids, oklaed, oklahoma, scratch, students · Add Comment

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Scratch Camp Facilitator Workshop (April 2016)

By Wesley Fryer On April 15, 2016 · Tagged With: coding, oklaed, oklahoma, scratch, workshop · Add Comment

Presentations on Creativity, 3D Printing, Digital Sharing and More

By Wesley Fryer On February 21, 2016 · Tagged With: 3dprint, 3dprinting, creativity, ipad, oklaed, omlea, sharing, stem · Add Comment

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Podcast433: Sharing Student Work Online (October 2015)

By Wesley Fryer On October 7, 2015 · Tagged With: create2learn, media, oklaed, otaem15 · Add Comment

This podcast is a recording of Dr. Wesley Fryer's presentation "Sharing Student Work Online" on October 7, 2015, at the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) / Encyclo-Media Conference in Oklahoma City. The session description was: When students at school use media to “show what they know and can do,” they need safe, adult-moderated, online spaces to share their digital work with others and receive thoughtful feedback. Learn how to to use free websites like KidBlog and Blogger, along with apps like Easy Blogger Jr., to share student work online and moderate feedback. Discuss how to help students “compose quality comments” for others. Explore workflows to safely use a classroom YouTube channel to publish and share student work, also with moderated feedback. See examples of school and classroom permission forms for publishing student work. Get practical ideas for “normalizing” the regular, open publication of student work at your school for moderated feedback from peers, parents, and others around the world. Check the podcast shownotes for links to session slides (shared as a Google Presentation) as well as other referenced resources.

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TEDx Video Conversation Night

By Wesley Fryer On August 4, 2015 · Tagged With: education, leadership, oklaed, oklahoma, ted, tedx · Add Comment

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Invite Students to Enter Clean Shorts Film Festival

By Wesley Fryer On August 1, 2015 · Tagged With: choctaw, contest, digital, digitalstorytelling, oklaed, oklahoma, storytelling, student, video, videography · Add Comment

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