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Reflections on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (Part 1)

By Wesley Fryer On June 29, 2022 · Tagged With: coding, lego, robotics, scratch, stem · Add Comment

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Sharing My Enthusiasm for Space Exploration

By Wesley Fryer On February 7, 2022 · Tagged With: nasa, seec2022, space, stem · Add Comment

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Amazing #STEM Animated Visual Notes by Dominic Walliman

By Wesley Fryer On December 20, 2020 · Tagged With: digitalstorytelling, edtech, stem, visualnotes · Add Comment

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The Orbital Perspective: Inspired by Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, the Wexford Gleeks and Rod Murray

By Wesley Fryer On March 7, 2020 · Tagged With: inspiration, inspirational, nasa, science, space, stem · Add Comment

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Twitter Documentation of Classroom Folio Observations

By Wesley Fryer On May 21, 2019 · Tagged With: folio, instructional, MakerEd, makerspace, pedagogy, socialmedia, stem, twitter · Add Comment

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Podcast460: UCO and OCCC Concurrent Classes, GitHub in CompSci, and Elementary Coding Lessons

By Wesley Fryer On March 12, 2018 · Tagged With: code.org, coding, concurrent, enrollment, occc, okcps, pbskids, scratch, scratchjr, stem, uco · Add Comment

Welcome to episode 460 of Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer, from March 13, 2018. This podcast features a series of three recent interviews, and opens with a recommendation to try the newly updated Anchor.fm website and Anchor mobile app for podcast creation and publishing. The first interview is with high school senior Sarah Fryer, who shares her experiences and lessons learned taking concurrent classes from the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) and the Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) as a student in Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS). Sarah took two classes from UCO in fall 2017, including one online course and one face-to-face course at the UCO campus in downtown Oklahoma City. This spring Sarah is taking two concurrent classes from OCCC, again one online and another face-to-face. The second interview is with Eric Ebert (@biggestmeow), the high school computer science teacher at Casady School. Eric shares a little about the growth of the computer science program at Casady, and how he has been using GitHub and GitHub classroom to help his students manage their coding projects. Eric also shared how he's used audio podcasts created with Garageband and SoundCloud to encourage student reflection during and at the conclusion of coding projects. The third interview is with Shelly Fryer (@sfryer), a 3rd grade teacher at Casady School who has been integrating coding into her language arts lessons and Maker Studio time using the iPad app PBSkids Scratch Junior. Shelly taught an after-school class for 3rd and 4th graders in fall 2017 on coding with PBSkids Scratch Junior, teaching students how to create animations, tell stories, and create simple games. In spring 2018, Shelly has taught the same after-school class on PBSkids Scratch Junior for first and second graders. She has also co-led an after-school coding class using Scratch software for third and fourth graders. She shares stories and lessons learned from these coding classes, and also highlights her recent experiences at a Code.org workshop in San Antonio as one of three coding Ambassadors from Oklahoma. Please refer to the podcast shownotes for links to referenced resources and student projects from this podcast. Share your feedback as a comment on this podcast episode on speedofcreativity.org, or by reaching out on Twitter to Wes Fryer @wfryer.

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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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Educational Technology Updates for January 2018

By Wesley Fryer On January 28, 2018 · Tagged With: coding, digcit, minecraft, scratch, seesaw, steam, stem, tabpilot · Add Comment

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Developing Computational Thinking with Scratch Coding (webinar video)

By Wesley Fryer On December 1, 2017 · Tagged With: coding, edtech, hourofcode, scratch, steam, stem, workshop · Add Comment

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Web-based Video Editing with WeVideo (Including Green Screen)

By Wesley Fryer On August 19, 2017 · Tagged With: edit, edtech, MakerEd, multimedia, steam, stem, video, WeVideo · 1 Comment

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Opening Tinkercad 3D Designs in Minecraft

By Wesley Fryer On February 10, 2017 · Tagged With: 3dprint, 3dprinting, design, minecraft, stem, tinkercad · Add Comment

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Podcast446: Reflections on a PBS Scratch Jr Coding Camp for Kids

By Wesley Fryer On September 17, 2016 · Tagged With: coding, pbs, scratch, scratchjr, stem · Add Comment

Coding is an important literacy skill we need to introduce to everyone in the 21st century! This podcast features reflections by Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) following a PBS Scratch Jr. Coding Camp for Kids in Edmond, Oklahoma, on September 17, 2016. It also includes some recorded audio from Shelly's lessons during the workshop for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. The coding camp was sponsored by The Div (@thedivorg), a local 501c3 nonprofit "dedicated helping the next generation thrive through access to technology education." According to its official website, "ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children (ages 5-7) to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of young people (ages 8 and up) around the world. In creating ScratchJr, we redesigned the interface and programming language to make them developmentally appropriate for younger children, carefully designing features to match young children's cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development. ScratchJr is available as a free app for both iPad and Android tablets. For more information about ScratchJr, see http://scratchjr.org." PBS Scratch Jr. was introduced in December 2015 and is an official version of the original app but includes familiar and favorite characters from PBS Kids. Check out our podcast shownotes for referenced links to all the videos and resources used in this Kids Coding Camp and mentioned in our podcast.

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Create a Maze Game in PBS Scratch Jr

By Wesley Fryer On September 15, 2016 · Tagged With: coding, jr, junior, pbs, scratch, scratchjr, stem · Add Comment

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Podcast442: Classroom Passion Projects, Maker Studio & Digital Citizenship with Shelly Fryer

By Wesley Fryer On May 30, 2016 · Tagged With: edtech, MakerEd, passion, projects, stem · Add Comment

This Speed of Creativity podcast features an extended interview with 3rd and 4th grade teacher Shelly Fryer, who shares about her students' classroom passion projects, learning in "Maker Studio," and learning about digital citizenship via the class chat feature of the iPad app News-O-Matic. Shelly has been teaching for over twenty years, and this was her third year to teach at Positive Tomorrows School in Oklahoma City. Positive Tomorrows is a special K-5 school which exclusively serves homeless children and their families. Shelly class has had "1:1 iPads" for the past 2.5 years, and she continues to find multiple ways to integrate iPad use meaningfully into her curriculum through engaging student activities. As Shelly explains in the interview, PT truly is "the school she loves" for so many reasons. The curricular autonomy which she enjoys as a teacher empowers her to differentiate her curriculum to the learning needs and interests of her students, and bring a variety of STEM and Maker Education (MakerEd) learning activities to students as well. Shelly explains in the interview why this year's classroom "passion projects" were likely the best student projects she's ever facilitated as a classroom teacher. From learning to sew a dress, to how to code on an iPad, to learning how to dance, to learning how to play the guitar, her students each selected a topic of interest and then explored that topic for several weeks. Each student shared a culminating presentation with other members of the class, after becoming the local "expert" on their topic of inquiry. In the second part of the interview, Shelly shares how the "Create, Make and Learn" MakerED Institute in Burlington, Vermont, in the summer of 2013 was pivotal in her journey as a Maker and elementary teacher integrating STEM activities into classroom learning. Shelly tells the story of how her students enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to create, make, collaborate and share in her Maker Studio in the closing weeks of the school year. She also describes how she worked to build a kind, respectful, and collaborative classroom culture in which students could safely thrive as learners and problem solvers. Last of all in the interview, Shelly shares how she and her students used the "class chat" feature of the iPad app to have important conversations about digital citizenship, internet safety, and digital ethics. If you listen to this podcast, please share feedback with Shelly by reaching out to her on Twitter (@sfryer). Visit her classroom website at http://classroom.shellyfryer.com and her professional blog on http://www.shellyfryer.com. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to resources and tools Shelly mentioned in the interview, including her presentation for Global Maker Day on May 17, 2016, "iPads in Maker Studio."

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Podcast441: iPads in Maker Studio by Shelly Fryer (May 2016)

By Wesley Fryer On May 17, 2016 · Tagged With: app, edtech, ipad, steam, stem · 1 Comment

This podcast is a recording of Shelly Fryer's presentation "iPads in Maker Studio" via a Google Hangout for the 2016 Global Maker Day Conference. The session description was: "Learn how our third and fourth grade students use their iPads in our maker studio to document their learning and share both inside and outside our classroom. See how apps for photo collages, green screen videos, making ebooks, coding apps, and Lego Stopmotion are essential digital tools in our classroom maker studio for creating and sharing." Access the slides and referenced resources from this presentation on Shelly's website: http://classroom.shellyfryer.com/workshops/ipads-maker-studio. Connect with her on Twitter @sfryer. Refer to the podcast shownotes for additional links and resources about this presentation as well as Global Maker Day!

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Reflections on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (Part 1)

Sharing My Enthusiasm for Space Exploration

Amazing #STEM Animated Visual Notes by Dominic Walliman

The Orbital Perspective: Inspired by Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, the Wexford Gleeks and Rod Murray

Twitter Documentation of Classroom Folio Observations

Podcast460: UCO and OCCC Concurrent Classes, GitHub in CompSci, and Elementary Coding Lessons

Learning at the March Oklahoma STEM Consortium Meeting

Educational Technology Updates for January 2018

Developing Computational Thinking with Scratch Coding (webinar video)

Web-based Video Editing with WeVideo (Including Green Screen)

Opening Tinkercad 3D Designs in Minecraft

Podcast446: Reflections on a PBS Scratch Jr Coding Camp for Kids

Create a Maze Game in PBS Scratch Jr

Podcast442: Classroom Passion Projects, Maker Studio & Digital Citizenship with Shelly Fryer

Podcast441: iPads in Maker Studio by Shelly Fryer (May 2016)

Glimpsing the Future with Alec Ross

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

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