Playing with Media

Edit a Multi-Part Podcast in Audacity

Wesley Fryer — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 03:10:47 +0000

This is a 27.5 minute video tutorial demonstrating the steps I use to edit and publish a multi-part podcast using free (open source) Audacity software. More information about the Family Oral History Interview Project discussed in this video is available, as well as example student audio interviews. More information and resources are available on the “Audio Interviews” page of ShowWithMedia.com.

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How To Build Sunday School Lesson Slides

Wesley Fryer — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:58:00 +0000

A 43 minute screencast demonstrating how I (Wes Fryer) build my lesson slides, using Google Slides, Skitch software, The Noun Project website, and other tools for our adult Sunday School class at First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma.

Setup a WordPress Recipe Website

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:34:00 +0000

This 15.5 minute video is a tutorial screencast sharing how I used a WordPress website and the plugin “WP Recipe Maker” to create a searchable web repository for our favorite family recipes. The recipe website I created is: food.wesfryer.com.

Learn more about this website and process on my blog post, “The Story of our Family Recipe Sharing WordPress Website.”

Referenced websites, services and tools in this video include:

Liquid Web for web hosting
GoDaddy for domain registration
Setting Up Your CNAME with cPanel-Based Hosts
WP Recipe Maker plugin
WP Recipe Maker Bundles (pricing – I went with ‘premium’):
Food Recipes WordPress theme by FasterThemes
BackupBuddy for WordPress by iThemes
Follow me (Wes Fryer) on Twitter: @wfryer
My cooking videos on YouTube are included in this playlist

Embed a YouTube Playlist on a Google Site

Wesley Fryer — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:04:00 +0000

A 9.5 minute video tutorial by Dr. Wes Fryer demonstrating how to use customized HTML embed code and add a YOUTUBE PLAYLIST to a Google Site. Instructions and sample code for doing this are available on this Google support article.

Some of the Google Sites maintained by Wes and shared during this video include:

Wes’ presentation handouts website is also a Google Site, and includes links to all of Wes’ presentations since 2010: wiki.wesfryer.com

Create Kindle Quotes on an iPad

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:44:00 +0000

This is a 5 minute video screencast demonstrating how to create and share “Kindle quotations” on an iPad using the Kindle iOS app by Amazon.

Digital and Media Literacy for Middle School

Wesley Fryer — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:17:00 +0000

This is a ‘rehearsal recording” (20.5 minutes) of Dr. Wes Fryer’s “Lightning Talk” on the ISTE 2020 virtual main stage on December 3, 2020, on the topic, “Digital and Media Literacy for Middle School.” Referenced slides are available on: http://wfryer.me/iste2020. Access Wes’ aggregated Media Literacy resources on: medialiteracy.wesfryer.com.

Privacy Settings ADVICE with Jumbo

Wesley Fryer — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:21:00 +0000

Jumbo is an iOS and Android app which provides users ADVICE about privacy and security settings on websites like Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and more. There is a free tier and several paid tiers. There are so many different privacy settings to potentially change… It can be helpful to get some guidance and advice about what settings to consider changing and why. In this 5 minute screencast Dr. Wes Fryer provides an overview of Jumbo, how to set it up, and why you might want to pay for a subscription tier of its services.

Learn more about Jumbo on www.jumboprivacy.com.

Combine PDFs & Batch Save as JPG Images

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:56:00 +0000

In this 14 minute tutorial video, Dr. Wesley Fryer demonstrates a workflow for taking Google Slideshows (created by students, in this case) and quickly editing as well as combining their pages using the MacOS app PREVIEW. Then use the website PDFcandy to convert the merged PDF into separate JPG images.

How CUSTOMIZED are YouTube Search Results?

Wesley Fryer — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:57:00 +0000

A video (6 min) created for a media literacy lesson, “Fact or Fiction: Apollo Moon Landings?” by Brian Turnbaugh (@wegotwits) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer). Access the lesson on medialiteracy.wesfryer.com/lessons/apollo.

Beware of Modified iPad Chrome Links

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:10:00 +0000

In this 3 minute video, I share some strange, extra links in a news article I found in June 2020 on my iPad using the Google Chrome browser, which are NOT present in Safari where I have an ad blocker installed.

Convert Minecraft Portfolio PDFs into Images

Wesley Fryer — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:17:00 +0000

A 10 minute screencast by Dr. Wesley Fryer, following 2 virtual Minecraft Camps for elementary and middle school students in June 2020.

Also shared in the blog post, “Quickly Convert Minecraft EE Portfolio PDFs into JPG Images.”

Save iPad Minecraft EE World to Google Drive

Wesley Fryer — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:33:00 +0000

A 4 minute screencast demonstrating how to save a Minecraft Education world created on an iPad to Google Drive.