Good morning from Maine where the heat, humidity, and rain combined to cancel our morning plans. Mason doesn’t even want to go outside. In the picture to the left he had just looked at me as if to say, “I’m not leaving the air conditioning?” Hopefully, we can all get outside to play a bit later. Wherever you are this weekend, I hope that you can get outside to play too.

Back to school season is almost here. I’m going to prepare for it by taking a few days off (completely offline) next week. Next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I’ll be re-running some of the most popular posts of the year so far. But just before that little break I’m hosting a webinar titled 5 Ways to Blend Technology Into Outdoor Lessons.

Here are this week’s most popular posts:
1. A New Grammar Checker is Coming to Google Docs
2. Say Goodbye to Old Google Forms
3. More Than 5,000 Historical Maps for Teachers and Students
4. How to Create an Animated GIF
5. Promethean Grant – Win an Interactive Whiteboard for Your Classroom
6. Editing PDFs and Nine Other Microsoft Word Tutorials
7. How to Annotate Your Google Slides

I’ve given keynotes at conferences from Australia to Alaska for groups of all sizes from 50 to 2,000+. My keynotes focus on providing teachers and school administrators with practical ways to use technology to create better learning experiences for all students. I like to shine the light on others and so I often share examples of great work done by others as well as my own. Send an email to richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com book me today.

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