Professional Development With Richard Byrne
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At the start of every school year I publish an updated version of the Practical Ed Tech Handbook. What started out as a 30 page document in 2015 is now a 64 page PDF. This year's Practical Ed …
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This week's topic choice was inspired by a reader's question that I received last week. He wanted some suggestions for alternatives to Audacity that his students can use to record and edit podcasts. …
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A few weeks ago during an episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff I shared a little story from earlier that day in my classroom. The story provides a good reminder of why we …
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Like many of you, I have to teach students who are online and students who are in my classroom. Sometimes I have to do both at the same time! Getting students to interact and getting a sense of …
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The last couple of years I've been fortunate that I don't have "wanderers" who leave my classroom for the bathroom and never return. That's largely due to the fact that my classes are electives that …
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Now that October is here I’m starting to see that people are getting somewhat comfortable with the logistics of conducting online and hybrid classes. Evidence of that has come to me in the form of …
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A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a few of my students about TikTok's possible sale and or possible ban in the U.S. The course of the conversation brought up a lot of "I've heard X" and "I've …
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