Good afternoon from Maine where it is a gorgeous late summer day. I started the day with a fun hike with my daughter and dogs. These days my hikes are little slower than they used to be, a 30lb child on your back will do that, but they are sweeter because I enjoy them with my daughter.

This week was a stressful week here at the Byrne Instructional Media, LLC office (AKA a room in my barn). It was stressful because I spent nearly 20 hours trying to get one website to stop republishing all of my blog posts without permission. And as soon as I thought that issue was resolved, another website doing the same thing popped-up. Dealing with these issues costs me lots of time that could be used for better things like producing better and new content for this blog, for teaching, or for finally finishing that book I’ve been working on. Furthermore, it’s just discouraging to see so many people in education who don’t understand copyright basics. If you know someone who needs a refresher, please have him or her read this.

Here are this week’s most popular posts:
1. Kahoot Launches a New Mobile App – Play Games in Classroom or at Home
2. Constitution Day Virtual Field Trip to the U.S. Senate
3. Fraction Math – A Neat App for Elementary School Math Lessons
4. How to Create a QR Code for a Google Form
5. Citations for Beginners
6. Six Ways to Create Screencasts on Chromebooks
7. ClassClimate – Know How Your Students Feel During the Day

My calendar for 2017 is almost full and 2018 is starting to fill in. I’d love to add your school to my schedule. Send me an email at richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com and let’s talk about how we can work together.

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