Professional Development With Richard Byrne
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Every year for the last five years I've published a free ebook that is simply titled The Practical Ed Tech Handbook. This week I finished creating the updated version for the 2019-20 school …
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Presenter Coach is a great service that is available in the online version of PowerPoint. It gives students instant feedback on the pacing of their presentations, their use of filler words like "umm," …
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The slideshows I use in my classroom and those that I use for conference keynotes include some interactive components. I do this in my classroom as a means to quickly gauge my students' understanding …
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A good video clip mixed into a presentation can be helpful in emphasizing a point, illustrating a concept, or just providing a quick comedic moment. If you use Google Slides, you have a few ways to …
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This year, thanks in part to my friend Beth Holland, I’ve started turning on the captions when playing videos in my classroom. I’ve also been using the auto-captioning tool in Google Slides since that …
I'm trying something new. I'm organizing a free online event for teachers by teachers. Technology today empowers our students to create all kinds of interesting things from entertaining videos to …
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Creating a mobile app can be a great way to get students interested in learning programming concepts. It's also a good way to get them to dive into researching a topic so that they can build the best …
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