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September's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for TeachersGood evening from Maine where the sun has set on the week and on the month of September, 2022. I don't know about you, but for me the month seemed to come and go in the blink of an eye. My oldest daughter started Kindergarten, I hosted a bunch of webinars, and tried to enjoy some cool autumn evenings. I hope that the first full month of the 2022-23 school year went well for you. As I mentioned above, I hosted a bunch of professional development webinars in September. I'd be happy to host one for your school or library. I'm also have some limited availability for in-person events this year. Please send me an email at richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com to learn more about those opportunities. At the end of every month I take a look at my Google Analytics account to find the most popular posts of the month. Take a look and see if there's something interesting that you missed in September. These were the month's most popular posts:1. A Great Alternative to Quizlet 2. My Top Ten Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students 3. Quizalize Games - Turn Any Quiz Into an Epic Game 4. A Great Place to Find Free Images for School Projects 5. Two Tips to Make Chrome Run a Little Faster 6. A Free STEM Toolkit for Librarians 7. A Short Overview of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine - And How I Use It 8. 5 Little Things You Can Do To Improve Your Videos 9. How to Create PDFs in Google Classroom 10. The Physics of Soccer Kicks I'll Come You! If you'd like me to come to your school or conference, please send me an email at richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com or fill out the form on this page. 50 Tech Tuesday Tips! 50 Tech Tuesday Tips is an eBook that I created with busy tech coaches, tech integrators, and media specialists in mind. In it you'll find 50 ideas and tutorials that you can use as the basis of your own short PD sessions. Get a copy today! Other Places to Follow Me:
Significant Changes to Screencastify's Free Plan Take Effect on MondayThose of us who are using Screencastify's free plan will have some choices to make on Monday when the changes that Screencastify announced back in August take effect. What's Changing? Starting on Monday, October 3rd Screencastify's free plan will limit you to having just ten videos in your account at a time. Previously, you could have as many videos as you wanted in your account as long as they were each less than five minutes. The new free plan limits you to ten videos, but the videos can now be up to 30 minutes. You can still export your videos, but not as MP4 files in the free plan which limits what you can do with the exported video file. So if you find that you bump up against the ten video limit, you can export one or delete one to get back under that limit. But bear in mind that Screencastify is also now limiting you to 30 minutes of export time in the free plan. That's a change from the previous unlimited export time. Screencastify vs. Chrome OS Screencasting Screencastify built its reputation by being one of the first companies to offer a screencasting tool for Chromebooks. Then in June of this year Google added a screencasting tool to the Chrome operating system. In doing so it appears that Google is going after some of Screencastify's market share. The free version Screencastify still has more editing options than the Chrome OS screencasting tool. That said, if you don't need all of those options and just need some basic editing functions, the Chrome OS screencasting tool is probably going to be your better choice now because it offers unlimited video storage (via Google Drive). Five Ways to Use Screencastify in Your Classroom More Recent Articles |
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