How to Hyperlink PowerPoint Slides for Choose-Your-Own Adventure Stories
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I shared five uses for PowerPoint and Google Slides besides making presentations. One of those uses is to create choose-your-own adventure stories. To do that students have to know how to link slides together. In this short tutorial I demonstrate how to do that in the Windows 10 […]
Ten Workshops Ideas for Your Next PD Day
Over the last ten years I’ve had the good fortune to run workshops and give presentations at hundreds of schools and conferences. I’m frequently asked what I cover in my workshops and keynotes. Some of the outlines and slides from those presentations have appeared in blog posts in the past. But my list of workshops […]
Built to Last – A Look at What Works in Ed Tech
This morning I had the honor of giving the opening keynote at the SET-BC District Partner Conference in Vancouver. The title of my talk was Built to Last – What Works in Educational Technology. The purpose of the talk is to provide an overview of what makes some ed tech tools last for many years […]
How to Use Keynote to Create Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
Last week I published a video about using Google Slides to create choose your own adventure stories. That prompted a couple of people to ask if Keynote and or PowerPoint can be used in the same manner. The answer to that question is yes. In the following video I demonstrate how you can use Keynote […]
The Places Where I Will Be Presenting This Fall
I am fortunate to be invited to speak at many conferences and schools every year. In the last couple of years since my first daughter was born I have had to alter my travel schedule. I still speak at a couple of events every month and work with a school or two every month. The […]
How to Embed Your Slideshows Into Your Blog
Yesterday’s post about Speaker Deck prompted a few readers to ask me about other options for embedding slideshows into blog posts. The options are different depending upon which slideshow tool you like to use. Therefore, I’m sharing methods for embedding slideshows made with the three most popular presentation tools. Google Slides Follow these steps to […]
The Value of Paper In a Digital World
One of the things that I mention in my keynote Leading Students In a Hyper-connected World is the need to teach students the value of occasionally disconnecting from the web to focus on the completion of a task. A few years ago I heard Chris Brogan sum this up nicely by saying “paper doesn’t have a new browser […]
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities With Me
As you may know, part of the funding to keep Free Technology for Teachers running comes from speaking fees and registration fees for my online courses. For 2018 I have some new online course offerings, new on-site workshops, and new keynotes. You can learn more about these offerings through the links and descriptions below. 2018 […]
5 Ways Students Can Earn Money Without Flipping Burgers
One of the talks that I give from time to time is titled Preparing Students to Work and Learn Independently. The focus of the talk is to help people understand the learning and employment opportunities that exist today that didn’t exist 10-15 years ago. One part of the talk includes examples of the kinds of […]
Slides from #TETC16
Earlier today I had the honor of giving the luncheon keynote at the TETC 16 conference in Tennessee. The some folks asked me for a copy of the slides. While the slides aren’t as meaningful without my words, they still convey some of my message. The slides are embedded below. By the way, I still […]
SIDLIT Slides – Leading Students #SIDLIT2016
This morning in Kansas I spoke at the SIDLIT Colleague to Colleague conference. The title of my keynote was Leading Students in a Hyper-connected World. The slides for my talk are embedded below.
5 Things We Can Do to Help Students Learn & Work Independently
This morning I gave the opening keynote for the Collaborate2Create conference in Glendale, Arizona. The title of my talk was Preparing Students to Work Independently. The slides from that talk are embedded below. If you would like to have me speak at your school or conference, please send me an email at richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com […]
Slides From My Presentations at PSLA 2016
One of my favorite things to do professionally is speak at conferences because I get to meet so many passionate educators. This week I had the privilege to give the opening keynote at the PSLA 2016 conference on Thursday evening. On Friday morning I gave another presentation. The slides from both of my presentations are […]
Join Me at a Free PD & Networking Event in Chicago
A few months ago the folks at Otus reached out to me about speaking at a professional development and networking event in Chicago. I’m happy to announce that everything has come together nicely and on April 29th I’ll be speaking in Chicago at the Aloft hotel. I will be speaking about how we can help […]