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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YouTube is the giant that we all think of when it is time to publish our videos or those of our students. And while it can be an appropriate choice for publishing your videos and your students' …
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For the last few years WriteReader has been one of my go-to recommendation for making ebooks with elementary school and middle school students. Last week WriteReader made an update that now makes it a …
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Flipgrid is one of the most popular ed tech tools of the last few years. It is packed with lots of features that you can use to facilitate conversation and learning through video. One of the new …
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Twelve years ago I had student come up to me in the library and declare, "Mr. Byrne, Google has nothing on this!" Her topic was the Civil War. It was then that I realized my students needed a bit more …
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Social media networks are intentionally engineered to keep you looking at them for as long as possible as often as possible. This is what makes it hard to "just check in for a few minutes." And that's …
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