Good morning from Maine where the 50F air and the appearance of red leaves makes it feels like the end of summer is near. This always leaves me feeling conflicted as I don’t want summer to end, but I also love the arrival of autumn. I’m looking forward to getting outside this weekend and I hope that you also have something you’re looking forward to this weekend.
This week I hosted the third of four Practical Ed Tech professional development webinars that I’m offering in August. By September we’ll all be too busy to commit to a specific time for a webinar so I’m offering an on-demand PD course in September.
These were the week’s most popular posts:
1. Quizizz Adds Three New Features Including Tools for Making Math Problems
2. How to Add New Fonts to Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
3. How to Extract Audio from a Video
4. EDpuzzle Live Mode – Turn Video Lessons Into Group Activities
5. 8 Epic Tools to Try This School Year – A Podcast With Vicki Davis
6. How to Use Socratic by Google
7. Bad News – Interactive Simulation Shows Students How Misinformation is Spread
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- My YouTube Channel – More than 15,000 are subscribed to my YouTube channel for my regular series of tutorial videos including more than 300 Google tools tutorials.
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- Twitter – I’ve been Tweeting away for the last twelve years at twitter.com/rmbyrne
- Instagram – this is mostly pictures of my kids, my dogs, my bikes, my skis, and fly fishing.