6 Things to Do
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
2d ago
In today’s fast-paced world, it feels almost impossible to tune into any news—whether it’s from broadcast television or social media—without feeling overwhelmed. As of early February 2025, the sheer volume and intensity of current events have many people feeling either elated or deeply troubled. Regardless of where we fall on the political spectrum, navigating this ..read more
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Sharing Mastodon Lists
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1w ago
I am a BIG fan of the federated social media platform Mastodon, and this evening I used Claude.ai to generate code in an HTML file which allows me to quickly share my LISTS on Mastodon with others. Unlike Twitter, lists on Mastodon are PRIVATE and not directly sharable with others. I spent some time both ..read more
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Host an Astronomy Night
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1w ago
These are my notes from the SPACE 2024 presentation, “How to Host an Astronomy Night: Astronomy in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms” by Peter Tlusty (Mr. T) NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador / Richmond Astronomical Society Member. Links about Peter: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ambassadors/2159 “Tech teacher honored for out-of-this world lessons” (March 2023) I’m an amateur astronomer! Now teaching ..read more
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NFC Sticker Automation
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1w ago
Here’s a geeky tale for you. We have an old Bluetooth stereo in our car that does not support CarPlay, and it irritatingly connects automatically to my iPhone in the mornings before school when I start the vehicle to warm it up. This evening I successfully configured a NFC sticker (37 cents each in a ..read more
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Dynamic Audio Waveform Videos
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
2w ago
Have you seen audio podcast “highlight videos” as reels on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or other social media websites which include an audio waveform animation that is synchronized to the podcast? Today I explored a few tools, with help from ChatGPT recommendations, to create my own “dynamic audio waveform video.” Here is the 12 minute video ..read more
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NotebookLM Introduces Me
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
2w ago
Tonight’s Jason Neiffer #edtechSR inspired AI experiment: I asked Google’s NotebookLM AI model to take my bio, resume, vitae, portfolios, etc and create a “deep dive” podcast, sharing an audio introduction of me for a diverse audience. It’s 12.5 minutes long, and surprisingly insightful. I added it to my “About” page and posted it to ..read more
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Packet Defender 1.0
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1M ago
Today was the first day of our spring semester, and I’m teaching middle school web design again. As part of our introductory class, we watched the video, “The Internet: IP Addresses & DNS” from Code.org and then played a Kahoot I made with AI about it, using the video transcript. As we learn to create ..read more
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TIP Teachers: Jan 2025
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1M ago
This evening I was able to join the monthly evening Zoom meeting of TIP Teachers, which is “Teachers for an Informed Public” in the state of Washington. As usual, a wealth of helpful media literacy resources were shared in the session, and I’ll attempt to highlight several of them in this post. First of all ..read more
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Multi-dimensional Digital Identity
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1M ago
This is a comment and reflection I shared on this blog post by Allysia Doratti, one of Dean Shareski‘s EC&I 832 graduate students in fall 2024: Mirror, Mirror, On My Feed: Exploring Identity in a Digital World. Hi Allysia- Thanks so much for this thoughtful post and especially for the reflections on digital identity and ..read more
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AI Created Video Clips
Moving at the Speed of Creativity By Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
by Wesley Fryer
1M ago
One of the powerful ways artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be used by media creators is to identify short clips in longer videos which are potentially engaging for audience members, and then facilitating the process of making those clips into shorter videos that can be shared on social media. In this post I’ll highlight how ..read more
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