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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We had a gorgeous summer weekend complete with an excursion to pick wild strawberries. It was while picking strawberries with my daughters that I got the inspiration for the topic of this week's …
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A couple of weeks ago I explained five features of YouTube that teachers should know how to use. Since then a bunch of people have asked me about ways to host and share their instructional videos …
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There are lots of neat things that you can do with Google Sheets if you know how to get started. Getting started is often the hardest part. Fortunately, there are sites like Flippity that …
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Are you making some this summer or helping others make and publish videos this summer? If so, here are some YouTube settings that you should know and or pass along to your colleagues. Privacy and …
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This week on Free Technology for Teachers I published a series of posts featuring videos that demonstrated need-to-know features of Google Slides. The posts covered what you need to know about using …
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Whenever I talk to teachers or students about research strategies, the first thing that I say is "ask your teacher-librarian for help." I say that because librarians can help students access academic …
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