Professional Development With Richard Byrne
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Every month I publish a dozen or so new tutorial videos on my YouTube channel. Some are popular and some are not, but I hope that they're all helpful. Most of them I make to answer questions that …
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Earlier this week Zoom introduced a new meeting display format called Immersive View. Zoom's immersive view displays all meeting participants in neat virtual backgrounds like art galleries, fireside …
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Bitly and TinyURL are popular URL shortening tools for good reason. Registered users can create shortened URLs that people can actually spell to use in place of unwieldly URLs. I often use Bitly to …
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After years of saying that support for the old version of Google Sites would be ending "soon," this week Google sent a notice to domain administrators that on May 15th the option to use the old …
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For many years teachers from all over the world came to Maine join me for the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp. Last year I had to shift to a virtual model. While I was hoping to return to an in-person …
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Last fall Google announced that Expeditions and Tour Creator would be shut down at the end of June, 2021. Last week they sent out reminders of those impending closures. If you're looking for some …
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