Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tag: publishing

  • 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…

  • Visualizing Inside and Outside Sharing

    Shelly (@sfryer) and I are continuing to brainstorm our new book project and social media empowerment campaign, “Inside and Outside Sharing.” We are going to be presenting about “Inside and Outside Sharing” in a few weeks in Austin, Texas, at iPadPalooza, and the following week in Denver at the ISTE conference. We’ve been thinking about ways we can visually…

  • Taylor Swift’s Letter to Apple and Digital Citizenship

    Our 15 year daughter is understandably taken with Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13). Last night we were considering joining Apple Music so she could watch Taylor’s 1989 World Tour Live show, which is exclusive to Apple Music. As a result of those conversations, this morning I watched Taylor’s 20 minute interview with Zane Lowe (@zanelowe), which is available within…

  • Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers by Chris Maselli

    These are my notes from Chris Maselli’s breakout session, “Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers” on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Write Well, Sell Well Conference in Oklahoma City. Chris is a children’s book author as well as a phenomenal teacher/coach on book/ebook marketing for authors. Last year his sessions motivated me to launch the PlayingWithMedia.com…

  • Developing & Writing a Pitch for your Book

    The past two years I have worked with several other local authors in Oklahoma City to organize a wonderful writing conference called, “Write Well, Sell Well Oklahoma City.” The first year it was a 1 day conference, the second year it was a day and a half. This year’s conference will be two days on October 23-24,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Welcome to the golden age of writing and publishing

    Maybe I’ll become an analog/atomic/paper-based published author sooner than I thought, and maybe you will too. Borders has partnered with Bookbrewer, which lets bloggers turn RSS feeds into ebooks and now printed books with relative ease… and relatively little up front cash: Less than $100 if you don’t want to own your ISBN, and $200…