Tag Archives: FreeTech4Teachers.com

Capture the school year in review on video

Sticking to the scriptWhat better way to sum up the school year than with an interactive video summary? Lucky for us Richard Byrne of FreeTech4Teachers.com wrote about and created a how-to video to show us how!

In the blog post, Byrne mentions that you can use YouTube’s photo slideshow tool, Stupeflix or Animoto to create audio slideshow videos. But Byrne seems most excited about Wideo. With that tool, you can insert interactive buttons into each frame of your video and the buttons can link to any webpage allowing users to click on them when watching your video.

Check out the video below or read the whole blog post now:

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Three ways to share your screen and offer tech help

Do you need a quick and easy way to share your screen? Maybe you find yourself needing to show students, or present, or even helping someone with tech support. Well, leave it to Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers.com to give us a list of some of the best options for sharing your screen. All three options are free and require little to no technical knowledge. Check out the whole article now for all the details or use the quick links below to jump right in!

Embed TodaysMeet into your blog

todaysmeetIf you’re not using TodaysMeet, you should be! “TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no sign up, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.”

And thanks to Richard Byrne from FreeTech4Teachers.com, you can now embed them into your blog. Check out the how-to below: