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OKC Bombing

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Every Place Has a Story

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One Day on Earth: Help Storychase the World's Story on 10.10.10

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Wesley Fryer commented on Edna Parrish's video '"Women At The Well"'

GREAT job on this video, Edna! Nice modeling of credits too at the end! I posted about this over on Eyes Right.

August 26

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One Day on Earth: Help Storychase the World's Story on 10.10.10

If you've heard of projects like the Millennium Photo Project and 24 Hours of Flickr, you'll readily understand the basic idea behind the "One Day on Earth" video documentary project. In one twenty-four hour period of time, 10.10.10 or October 10, 2…

August 24

Bob-RJ Burkhart replied to Wesley Fryer's discussion 'Present at OSSBA in August 2010'

Bob-RJ’s answer :: Are thoughts truly thiings? Do thoughts have power? Helping transform thoughts into memes influences "near peers" who may choose to invest "social capital" in expanding that meme's global reach ... Links: * http://www.smartmeme…

August 23

Wesley Fryer commented on Rosalynn Wade's video 'Silver Spoon - A Legacy of Integrity and Compassion'

On May 21, 2009, I had an opportunity to visit Bridge Creek Elementary School in Oklahoma when students interviewed Mr Lynch. A Flickr set of photos from that day is available. What a GREAT learning opportunity for these students! I need to find out…

August 5

Joanie Gaskins joined Wesley Fryer's group

Service Learning Activities

Stories of service learning projects that schools provide to serve the local community. (Examples: Canned Food Drives, Community CleanUps, Senior Citizen Visits, JumpRope for Life, Paper Recycling, etc.)

July 16

Joanie Gaskins joined Wesley Fryer's group

Veteran Stories

These are interviews and narrated documentaries about the experiences of military service personnel.

July 16

Joanie Gaskins joined Wesley Fryer's group

OKC Bombing

A group for sharing videos, curriculum links, and learning ideas related to the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.

July 16

Wesley Fryer commented on Rachael's video 'My Dotty's Gone'

Wow, this is a very powerful video and story. How tragic. Thank you for sharing this. I hope more students and others in Oklahoma affected by child abuse will be willing to talk about their experiences as a result of seeing your video. Thank you fo…

June 24

Profile Information

Hometown: (where you grew up)

Manhattan, Kansas

Current home: (where you live now)

Edmond, Oklahoma

About Me:

I'm a husband, father, educator, digital storyteller, and catalyst for constructive educational change. I'm the executive director for Story Chasers, Inc. I love working with new media including blogs, podcasts, and digital video, and especially love helping other people become more empowered to realize and share their own creativity.

School / Organization I'm Affiliated with:

PK-20 Schools and Colleges throughout Oklahoma

Website: (professional educator site)

http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Website: (school / organization website)

http://handouts.wesfryer.com

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I'm a higher education professor/instructor, I'm a lifetime learner

Main interests in the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Project:

Helping others learn to create and share digital stories, especially those involving oral history.

What is your Twitter ID? (if you're on Twitter - add your twitter URL. Example: http://twitter.com/storychasers)

http://twitter.com/wfryer

Wesley Fryer's Videos

Fair Use Explained via Disney - A Fair(y) Use Tale

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Copyright, What's Copyright?

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Interview with Paul Goodyear, USS Oklahoma veteran and survivor

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Wesley Fryer's Blog

What is COV in a few sentences?

Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. COV is presented by a collaborative partnership of Oklahoma schools, non-profit groups, and other organizations. Our current focus is providing 2.5 day workshops for Oklahoma educators focused on digital storytelling. The project learning community currently (as of January 2009) has… Continue

Posted on January 22, 2009 at 10:40am —

Starbucks Run for Feb 21st

Educators participating in our Feb 20-22 workshop: Please leave your Starbucks order as a comment here, with you first name. (Sorry, if you are not enrolled in our workshop, we will not be able to fill your order.)

Posted on February 20, 2008 at 3:53pm — 9 Comments

Centennial videos, photos, podcasts and more

Newsok.com has a page of links to videos, images, and podcasts related to Statehood day last Friday:

http://www.newsok.com/centennial/statehood

We have had over 170 pictures added to our Digital Centennial Flickr group since last Friday! We now have over 500 images in our pool:

http://flickr.com/groups/ok100/

Posted on November 22, 2007 at 3:15pm —

Please join these other social networks for teachers

These are excellent social networks on Ning for teachers, consider joining them! (It's free!)

The Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai, China (Sept 2007)

Classroom 2.0 Ning

Posted on September 20, 2007 at 5:49pm —

Links from September 20th workshop

Here are the links from our workshop in Mid-Del Schools on September 20th. A link to recorded audio will also be provided!

Posted on September 20, 2007 at 4:42pm —

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At 5:19pm on June 9, 2010, Joanie Gaskins said…: I went back and looked, and his doesn't have the "add a friend" the 5th link down on his is "block message" or something like that :) I think he has gotten rid of his add friend link LOL!! Let me know if I am crazy or what, but I can't find it! :)

At 5:15pm on June 9, 2010, Joanie Gaskins said…: You know, I looked for that there because that is where it is always at...but I just couldn't find it...I will go back again and look...I know it will be there now :) Thanks Wes!!

At 3:14am on December 9, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: >>"In Pursuit of a Dream." That activity with students acting as summer storychasers sounds exactly like the type of PD experience I'd love to see us help do with Story Chasers Inc. involving both students and teachers.

Wes - This scenario resonates with our MentorshipART of Peace LLCrew's mission to co-create engaging Place-Based "consequential learning" experience (PBcle) courseware that adapts Pathfinder Passports(cc) "virtual team tactics" ...

[A] Multi-Agency partnership funding
[B] Multi-Cultural participants ...
[C] Multi-Disciplinary challenges
[D] Multi-Generational stakeholders

At 5:58am on November 21, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Wikipedia Attribution: fleur-de-lis positioned on a trefoil, in the original Scouting colors chosen by Lord Baden-Powell. To be considered for use as a non-trademark Scouting logo where questions of legality are involved.

At 5:36am on November 21, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Future thought leaders (geoWIZards) are guided by four principles ... Integrity · Responsibility · Compassion · Forgiveness ... to co-create highly effective organizations characterized by PURPOSE, TRUST & CAMARADERIE:
http://www.moralcompass.com/

At 5:48am on November 18, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Mahalo Wes - After a 2003 Minnesota Valley (Viking Council BSA) National Eagle Scout Association (NESA) after-dinner briefing about Venturing BSA, I volunteered to guide our local "Dan Patch District" in co-creating a Hornaday Award BSA Eco-Challenge course.

Mutually beneficial results of our collaborative BIOneering effort became Chapter 7: Leave No Trace in 2009 Edition of The Boy Scout Handbook (SKU 34554) with support from Professional Scouters Johnathan Bonness, Bob Thielen and Jim Terry.

I engaged OCTA-Trails Executive Director (Travis Boley) in a multi-year MentorshipART mapXchange (Trails-n-Tales) Eco-Challenge during Aug-2005. I agreed to help the Partnership for National Trails System (PNTS) adapt the USNPS Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IATR) as "No Child Left Inside" by working with Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance.

At 9:33pm on August 30, 2009, Anne Nelson said…: Thanks so much for a great workshop!! It opens the door for so many possibilities for both students and adults to share their stories about Oklahoma and beyond, whether fact or fiction. Your ideas for sharing are contagious!

At 8:43am on June 25, 2009, Janice Wilkerson said…: Just wanted to thank you for the time you spent working with us this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop! I haven't been this interested in a project in a while.
Thanks, too, for lunch both days. The time shared visiting with other participants over lunch was educational as well.

At 7:08pm on February 18, 2009, Sherri Pankhurst said…: Wesley,

Thank you for allowing me to facilitate the workshop in Burns Flat with the Cordell group. I would love to do more. This is too much fun!

Sherri

At 12:23am on January 16, 2009, BR Stover said…: Will photos on Flickr be applicable for the workshop or should I download the photos to a thumb drive?