Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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  • Takeaways and Learning from the MSON Summer 2020 Annual Conference

    Last week I had the opportunity to attend the second edition of the MSON Summer 2020 Annual Conference, held virtually via Zoom. MSON is the “Malone Schools Online Network” (@MaloneSchools), and for the first time this year (I’m guessing because of COVID-19) their annual conference was open to educators everywhere. Our school (where my wife…

  • Recent Virtual Workshops by Wes (March – April 2020)

    The move to “remote learning” at our school in late-March 2020 has corresponded with an uptick in the number of online workshops and webinars I’ve offered for teachers, mainly for faculty at our school as part of my “day job,” but also a few evening and weekend virtual presentations. All of the workshops I’ve led…

  • Professional Development and Identity

    The best professional development experiences are wonderful because they remind us of who we are: They affirm and support our evolving senses of identity in a complex world filled with mixed messages and lots of noise. In this post, I’d like to reflect briefly on professional development and identity. “The October 2019 #CUDenverLSI Design team…

  • Summarizing Summer Institute in Digital Literacy Learning via Twitter Moments

    Whew! This week I’m attending the 2019 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy (#digiURI) in Providence, Rhode Island, and it’s been a wonderful whirlwind of learning so far. A few years ago, as my use of Twitter increased, I stopped documenting my learning from conferences and other professional development events on my blog via separate posts.…

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

    The 5th annual EdCampOKC (@edcampOKC) FREE professional learning event for PK-16 educators is coming to Del City High School in MidDel Public Schools on Saturday, March 4, 2017! Our organizer team met virtually this evening (with Zoom) to work on plans and committee assignments, and online registration is now LIVE via EventBrite! Please register soon,…

  • Podcast444: Reflections on iPad Media Camp (July 2016)

    Welcome to a recorded podcast from the road with Wesley and Shelly Fryer, reflecting on the past week of iPad Media Camp workshops in Stilwell and Tulsa Oklahoma in July 2016. This is the fourth summer of iPad Media Camp workshops, which are multi-day, hands-on experiences for educators focused on using iPads to create and…

  • Mission to Mars STEM Camp for Teachers: June 6-9, 2016

    You’re invited to join Amy Loeffelholz (@AmyLoeffelholz), Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and I this summer for our third STEMseeds PD Camp for teachers. This year we’re offering a 4 day, hands-on STEM experience, and calling the workshop “Mission to Mars STEM Camp for Teachers.” Our audience is all K-12 classroom teachers as well as STEM teachers. The…

  • K12 Online Conference Webinar Saturday Sept 19th

    Please plan to join organizers of the FREE K12 Online Conference for a webinar this Saturday, September 19, 2015 at noon Eastern / 11 am Central / 10 am Mountain / 9 am Pacific on Classroom 2.0 Live. Complete details are available on live.classroom20.com. This is the 10th year for the K12 Online Conference and it’s…

  • Attend a Summer 2015 iPad Media Camp in June, July or August

    Summer 2015 will be my fourth year to present and lead 3 day iPad Media Camp professional development workshops. This summer iPad Media Camp will be offered six times, and three of these sessions are open for public registration. These include: 17-19 June 2015 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) 20-22 July 2015 (Olathe, Kansas) 3-5 August 2015 (Manhattan, Kansas)…

  • Paper Slide Video PD Reflections From Wichita

    I recently had an opportunity to share some professional development workshops with teachers in Wichita, Kansas. This was a repeated, 2.5 hour BYOD workshop on “Mapping Media to the Common Core,” and I focused primarily on interactive writing (with TodaysMeet) as well as quick-edit videos using YouTube Capture and paper-slide videos. I have a variety of…