Resources

These are additional resources and websites I recommend related to Common Core and Media Creation / Sharing. Note some resource categories are linked to separate pages.

Digital Portfolios

QR Codes

1. Free website for QR code creation
2. iOS apps
   1. i-Nigma (free, fastest scanning)
   2. QR Code Beamer (free, can CREATE QR codes as well as scan)
   3. Qrafter (free, does batch-scanning, paid-upgrade required to create codes)

eBooks & eReports

1. “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” by Wesley Fryer (2011)
2. “What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media” by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann  (2011)
3. “The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture” by Jackie Gerstein (2012)
4. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning (on Scribd)
5. “Digitally Speaking” by Erik Palmer (2012)

Books (not available digitally)

1. “The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer” by  Seymour Papert
   

iPad in Education

1. iPad Media Camp (@ipadmediacamp)
2. iPad Resources (from July 2012 iPad Media Camp)
3. iPad With Wes (@ipadwithwes)
4. The Padagogy Wheel (@AllanADL)
5. I Want My Students to…. (@EdTechTeacher21)
6. Mirror iPad, iPhone, iPod to Your Screen for Free by Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent)
7. Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent)
8. Using iPads to Enhance Teaching and Learning by Joe Dale (@joedale) on Classroom 2.0 Live (@liveclass20)

Websites by Wes

1. Student Media Examples: Showcasing Student Work
2. “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” (blog of Wesley Fryer)
3. “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts” (primary educational podcast channel of Wes Fryer)
4. “Fuel for Educational Change Agents” (secondary educational podcast channel of Wes Fryer)
5. Educational blogs to which Wesley subscribes
6. Educational “Yodas” Wesley follows on Twitter

Other Websites

1. K-12 Online Conference (free annual asynchronous web conference for teachers)
2. Storychasers (empowering digital witnesses on the global stage)
3. Common Core and Educational Technology (@ccedtech)

MAKE MUSIC

More Book Reccs (some related to digital tech, some not)

Wesley’s bookshelf: favorites

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Making of History’s Greatest Map

by Toby Lester

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

by Garr Reynolds

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

by Doug Stanton

All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

by Stephen Kinzer

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

by Lawrence Lessig

The Book of Learning and Forgetting

by Frank Smith

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

by Virginia Postrel

Being Digital

by Nicholas Negroponte

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman