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Rock Star Teachers for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices!

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Black History Month Resources (Feb 2010)

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Beautiful story with photos

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Life Stories of Incredible People

Compelling stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Stories of our lives.

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Arts and Culture

Stories which capture, explore, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity in various forms.

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Public Service Announcements

PSAs are teachable moments for the public about health, safety, and life choices.

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Every Place Has a Story

These are stories about places and events connected to locations.

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Workshop Facilitators

This group is for COV facilitators, as well as past COV participants who would like to become facilitators.

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Rock Star Teachers for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices!

As part of our 2009 annual report for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project, AT&T asked our Storychasers leadership team to identify exemplary teachers and school districts who have participated in COV.We've ide…

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Rock Star Teachers for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices!

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Wesley Fryer and Bianca Ferguson are now friends

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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 I'm Affiliated with:

PK-20 Schools and Colleges throughout Oklahoma

Website: (personal website or blog)

http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Website: (school 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 Project 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

Interview with Paul Goodyear, USS Oklahoma veteran and survivor

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Computers - Changing Lives and The World

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Facilitator Update (20 Apr 09)

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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 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 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?

At 11:44am on January 14, 2009, Toby Coble said…: Wesley, When are you going to do another COV workshop?

At 9:58pm on November 15, 2008, Susan Stansberry said…: A Gage Tiger for sure! My Mom lives in Mooreland now, but I do get back to Gage once in awhile. I just submitted a grant with Gage involved, and I'm hoping we'll do some digital storytelling with that.