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Wesley Fryer commented on Wesley Fryer's event 'Fall 2009 COV Facilitators Retreat'

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Fall 2009 COV Facilitators Retreat at The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative

November 7, 2009 from 10am to 3pm

Current COV facilitators are invited to our first annual, fall facilitator retreat on Saturday, November 7th, from 10 am to 3 pm. Lunch will be provided. The focus for the meeting will be threefold: Addressing administrative paperwork needs, revie...

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Wesley Fryer commented on Wesley Fryer's event 'Fall 2009 COV Facilitators Retreat'

Agenda for Nov 7th I. Discuss Participant Follow Up Action Plan 1. completed personal project 2. ask for 1 facilitated student project 3. ask to share 1 more videos for local community meeting II. Review Facilitator Handbook Draft (Dawn will star...

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Wesley Fryer replied to Lance Ford's discussion 'OKC3'

The deadline for submission has been extended to November 15th for OKC3. Please contact me directly if you'd like assistance applying and participating in this project. More info is available on our Storychasers blog.

October 26

Wesley Fryer commented on Susan Russell Rose's video 'THE HISTORY OF HARTSHORNE'

Good work. You really did your homework and research in writing your script! You might consider changing the title and description of this video to use both lower and upper case, since all caps usually connotates "shouting" online. :-) Very inter...

October 26

Wesley Fryer commented on Cynthia Munn's video 'Fannie's Legacy'

What a wonderful tribute video for your grandmother. You did such a great job finding and syncing older photographs as well as newer ones to your script. Great job.

October 26

Wesley Fryer replied to Lance Ford's discussion 'OKC3'

Lance: Thanks for posting this. I am so sorry I didn't cross-link this from my blog and elsewhere with Storychasers to share this announcement. I hope you all get some good entries this year. This is such a great project - I wish my schedule had n...

October 26

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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

Select all that apply:: 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

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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 —

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

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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 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.

At 11:38am on November 12, 2008, Ernie Easter said…: We are currently having an issue with the Swedish Colony section of the MaineMemory.net website. As soon as it is resolved I'll give you the link.

My students and I have spent time at the New Sweden museum digitizing artifacts. These were uploaded to www.mainememory.net and placed in their collection, but we retain ownership. My students also worked to catalogue many of the artifacts. As part of my local history curriculum I have had them research aspects of the Swedish Colony, write and illustrate an exhibit. Some of the stories have been wonderful. Many of my students have roots here in town and this is their family's history.

We still celebrate Midsommar and St. Lucia in town as part of our heritage with students participating in the pageantry during both celebrations.

I am very interested in learning from your experiences and looking at what might work in Maine.

At 2:11pm on October 30, 2008, Gabe Huffstutler said…: Thanks for having me, very excited to see how educators in the state are working on things like this. Keep it up!