Keynotes

Wesley Fryer at eTechOhio 2009Dr. Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) presents keynote addresses on a variety of topics for different educational conferences, K12 school district and college events. The list of keynote address titles and descriptions below includes accompanying resource pages with slides and referenced resources. Wesley customizes workshops for the needs and audiences of different groups.

To inquire about availability and booking, please contact Wes directly using this electronic contact form. Reach Wes by phone at 405.562.6175.

 

 

Mapping Media to the Common Core
Digital literacy today means much more than searching the Internet and using Microsoft Office. To be digitally literate, teachers as well as students need to be able to create and share online a variety of different multimedia products. These media products can be “mapped” to your curriculum, and if you’re in a Common Core state in the United States, to the Common Core State Standards. Interactive Writing, Narrated Art, 5 Photo Stories, Narrated Slideshows, Screencasts, Quick Edit Videos, and eBooks are a few of the media products learners should be able to create and safely share online. In this session, we’ll view different examples of student media products and learn about tools and strategies for helping teachers become digitally literate as “media mappers.” We’ll also explore how librarians and instructional coaches can use the “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” website as a roadmap to help teachers and students create media products as assignments for class and as artifacts in digital portfolios. Learn more and access session resources on maps.playingwithmedia.com. http://wfryer.me/mmc
Crafting Your Professional Digital Footprint
Your digital footprint is visible when someone searches Google for your name. What are the top search results? As faculty members we need to maintain up-to-date websites reflecting our publications, research and academic activities. These sites can become cornerstones of our professional “digital footprints.” In this nuts-and-bolts session, we’ll analyze several exemplary faculty websites to identify both important content as well as effective designs for sharing it. We will specifically explore WordPress (a free content management system) and learn how to use it to build an effective, online information portal as a faculty member. We will also explore ways our professional social media profiles on websites like Twitter, Facebook. Google+, and LinkedIn can be integrated with our primary professional website. Learn to take charge of your digital footprint and advance your academic career. http://wfryer.me/footprint
We Must Share
As educators in 2013 we have moral obligations to digitally share our ideas and work on the open web. Following the advice of David Wiley, we must overcome our ‘inner two year old’ and stop hiding our best ideas and resources from the rest of the world. Let’s explore together ways educators in higher education are openly sharing ideas digitally, as well as tools and websites which can facilitate that process along with intellectual property respect. This session will inspire and equip you to become a more creative and effective teacher and learner in the 21st century, which means (among other things) acting as a generous, digital sharer. http://wfryer.me/share
Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media
Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media” to become more effective communicators and improve our media literacy skills as both learners and citizens. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Author and educator Wesley Fryer will inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator! Learn more, order Wesley’s eBook, and access session resources on www.playingwithmedia.com. http://wfryer.me/improve
Roadmap to Blended Learning
What is blended learning and why should educators embrace it? How can we move towards a vision of blended learning in our schools? This session presents an OVERVIEW, WAYPOINTS, and DIRECTIONS for the Roadmap to Blended Learning. http://wfryer.me/roadmap

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