Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Tag: youtube

  • Student Voice, YouTube, & Digital Citizenship: Rachel Fryer on the TEDx Stage

    TEDxWallerMiddleSchool was one of only 22 TEDxYouth events hosted worldwide in 2016, and the only TEDxYouth event held to date in Oklahoma. This was the second time students and educators at Waller Middle School in Enid have hosted a TEDx event. Last year all the speakers were local, but this year a few outside speakers…

  • Communicating with Elected State Representatives via Social Media

    This morning after our church service, I recorded and shared four videos on YouTube and Twitter relating to our current budget crisis in the Oklahoma legislature. In the first video, “A Transformed Political Culture in Oklahoma,” I encouraged other Oklahomans to: Use a smartphone to record short videos for elected officials, sharing an opinion and specific…

  • Comparing Risks and Benefits of a PreTeen YouTube Channel

    Our daughter, Rachel, is thrilled to have hit the 400 subscriber milestone on her YouTube channel. To celebrate and thank her fans, she created a “400 Subscriber Special” video this week that features an awesome “speed draw” as well as details of a special giveaway she’s having. I’m so amazed at how her video creation skills…

  • Using Google Reverse Image Search to Create a (late) Bibliography

    Three months ago our youngest daughter, sixth grader Rachel, worked with a classmate to create a two minute video about “The Oregon Trail” for her social studies class and the National History Day (NHD) contest. They shot the video on her iPhone 5 and she edited it in iMovie for iPhone. I encouraged her to…

  • 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…

  • Save YouTube Videos to iPad Camera Roll for Green Screen Compositing

    Last week in the post, “iPad App Smashing Green Screen Videos from YouTube,” I described an iPad workflow for saving YouTube videos from the web directly into the camera roll of an iPad, and then using those videos as “background videos” in a composited or combined green screen video. While those steps can work, one…

  • 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…

  • Brainstorming the Digital Sharing Map: Classroom Edition

    For the past year or so, my wife Shelly (@sfryer) and I have been talking a lot about helping organize and facilitate a “Digital Sharing Conference” (@digishare) in Oklahoma City. The Google Doc I shared this past August includes more background. Two of the influences on our thinking about this new event include Miami Device (@miamidevice)…

  • Podcast 436: The Technology Director Speaks

    11 topics in 67 minutes! In this podcast recording, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares some updates about his new position this year as a school technology director, previews “iPad Media Camp in a box” for summer 2016, shares his current favorite podcasts and audiobooks, discusses lessons learned about fiber optic cabling, and lessons learned from seven videoconferences…