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This podcast is an audio recording of Wesley Fryer’s workshop on October 11, 2012, “Geo-Map Projects in the Classroom” for Yukon Public Schools in Yukon, Oklahoma. The official workshop description was: “A Geo-Map media project can include text, hyperlinks, images, and videos connected to locations on virtual maps. Geo-Map projects can provide windows into events, concepts, places and stories which join disparate media elements into a cohesive digital narrative. Geo-Map projects are not just for social studies! Learn in this workshop how to connect reading, writing, real-world math data, science, and more to “place locations” and create engaging project or assignment opportunities for students.” Referenced resources are available on maps.playingwithmedia.com/geo-map.

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This podcast is an unedited recording of Wesley Fryer’s workshop on April 5, 2012, “No Edit Audio Podcasting” for Yukon Public Schools. Resources for this session are available on wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/handouts/noedit. Since I shared this workshop last Spring, my thinking has shifted about naming this activity and professional development sessions like this. My preference is now to teach both teachers and students how to create “Narrated Art” as well as “Radio Shows.” Those are both products included in my “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” digital literacy project. (I think it’s best to avoid technical jargon and acronyms when it comes to multimedia communication with teachers, since those terms are more likely to “intimidate rather than invite” teachers to play with media.) Learn more about multimedia communication and digital literacy by reading my eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.”

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This is an audio podcast recording of Wesley Fryer‘s breakout presentation, “Creating Narrated Slideshows and Screencasts,” on August 8, 2012, at theBlackfoot Educational Technology Conference in Missoula, Montana. The official conference session description was: “The ability to create narrated slideshows and screencasts and share them online should be a basic skill for digitally literate learners today. In this session we’ll explore the reasons why “playing with media” (including narrated slideshows/screencasts) is essential for digital literacy development, and discuss why teachers as well as students should be able to create narrated slideshows specifically to teach, learn, and demonstrate content mastery. We’ll view examples of narrated slideshows created by teachers as well as students, and learn about different tools we can use to create and publish these creations online. We’ll discuss the “workflow” for students creating narrated slideshows as a class assignment, either at home or in class using a cart of laptop computers, iPads, or the school computer lab.” Slides and referenced resources are available. Follow Wesley on Twitter: @wfryer. This session is about 1 of 12 media product options on “Mapping Media to the Common Core / Curriculum,” which is still under construction.

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This is an audio podcast recording of Wesley Fryer’s session, “eBooks: Possibilities and Creation Options” at the Blackfoot Educational Technology Conference in Missoula, Montana, on August 7, 2012. I answered participant questions about eBooks and eBook formats, shared several different examples of both student-created eBooks as well as professionally published eBooks, and demonstrated how to use the iPad application “Book Creator” to create an enhanced eBook. Referenced session resources are available on http://wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/handouts/ebooks.

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This podcast is an audio recording of Wesley Fryer’s breakout session at the May 29, 2012, “Inspiring Excellence” conference in Kansas City Kansas Public Schools titled, “Tell a Story in 5 Photos.” The official session description and link for session resources was: Visual literacy and visual communication skills can be developed effectively through image-based communication. In this session we will discuss examples of five photo stories, explore copyright-friendly websites for finding images to use in five photo stories, and learn how to create and share five photo stories with a variety of web-based tools. Access session links/resources on: wfryer.me/5photos. Check out our creative narrated 5 photo digital story, created as an enhanced eBook for iPad, “Attack of the Funnel Cake Frauds”. Check out several of the “5 Photo Fairy Tale Charades” stories we created also on 5photos.posterous.com. (That site moved to 5photos.posthaven.com after Posterous closed.)