Wesley Fryer

As a free audio service with free smartphone apps for both iPhone and Android, AudioBoo is an ideal platform to use on a student field trip to document experiences with both audio and images. This morning I accompanied my 3rd grade daughter’s class to the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, as a parent volunteer. …

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Apr 23

Why Map Media to the Curriculum?

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These are resources Wesley Fryer shared today with teachers in Saskatoon Public School Division over Skype on the topic, “Why Map Media to the Curriculum?” An audio recording of this session is also available. In his 50 minute presentation Wesley specifically focused on student-created media projects including eBooks and “narrated art.” Why Map Media to …

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Apr 22

Bulk-Modify YouTube Videos to Turn ON Comment Moderation

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YouTube can be used in powerful, transformative ways to support classroom learning, especially when STUDENTS create content shared online. Today, as I helped one of our 7th grade geography teachers wrap up a paper-slide video project in which student-created videos were uploaded to his YouTube channel, we discovered that YouTube now permits “bulk modification” of …

Tags: comment, edtech, education, howto, moderation, tutorial, youtube

Apr 20

Paper Slide Video: Your Next (or First) BYOD Technology Integration Project

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cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com We are hearing more about BYOD (bring your own device) initiatives in many school districts these days, but what kinds of technology integration projects can teachers and students realistically do when some (but not all) students have smartphones and the teacher has one laptop? Today’s smartphone (or the smartphone of four years …

Tags: ccss, commoncore, edtech, noedit, paper, paperslide, quickedit, slide, video, youtube

Apr 15

Create a Multi-Track Radio Show (Podcast) with Audacity

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This evening I recorded a twenty minute screencast, demonstrating how to use the FREE software programs Audacity, iTunes, The Levellator, and the websites AudioBoo and DropBox to create and publish a multi-track Internet radio show or podcast. Access more tools, tutorials, and resources about creating radio shows on the “Radio Show” page of Mapping Media …

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Apr 14

Transliteracy is the New Language Arts

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This is a wonderful definition of “transliteracy” from The Transliteracy Research Group: Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. I’ve heard of and read about transliteracy a bit in the …

Tags: arts, language, literacy, reading, transliteracy, writing

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Apr 06

Credly-powered Digital Badges for Mapping Media to the Common Core

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I have started to create a digital badge credentialing process for the media products included in the digital literacy framework, “Mapping Media to the Common Core.” Digital badging is a way to provide credit and recognition for skills learners demonstrate in different contexts. In this case, I’m wanting to use a variety of digital badges …

Tags: badge, badging, ccss, common, commoncore, core, digital, literacy, media, multimedia, playingwithmedia

Mar 26

Value of Low Tech: Paper Slide Videos

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I’m working with a middle school geography teacher on some technology integration ideas for his curriculum. His students are studying Africa in upcoming weeks. Since the school computer labs are tied up from now through the end of April for online testing (I wonder how many Oklahoma parents, legislators and taxpayers realize this is the …

Tags: paper, paperslide, slide, video

Mar 09

Impressed with Freshpaint App For Windows 8 (Microsoft Surface Tablet)

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Today my 9 year old and I played with some Microsoft Surface Tablets at the Microsoft Store at Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City. Rachel immediately wanted to find a painting app, since she’s created a LOT of digital art in the past using “Brushes” on the iPad. She created the following picture in about …

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Mar 04

Options for Posting by Email (RIP Posterous)

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Lots of media sharers around the world continue to mourn the announcement the blogging site Posterous will officially go offline on April 30, 2013. The folks at Twitter apparently bought Posterous for the brains of their programmers, not because they wanted to develop or even sustain their platform, and that’s a shame. Some former Posterous …

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