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We Didn’t Start The Fire – CUE Blog

Byryan May 20, 2016May 20, 2016

I’m the music teacher at our school. I’m also the resident Nerd Supreme, whose recent rabbit hole has been physical computing: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, sensors, boxes of electronics, and soldering. Meet Alex. He’s a second grader at my school who was born without eyes. Oh, and he’s autistic. He’s funny and smart and he loves music. Really loves music – of all sorts – with that encyclopedic obsession of many autistic kids. Naturally, he and I get along.

Alex’s parents want him to be more independent. I know Alex loves music. Our principal knows I like to make things and write grants. Ideas started brewing. How can we help Alex?

Source: We Didn’t Start The Fire – CUE Blog

What an amazing project!

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Sharing videos without Youtube by using Google Drive

Byryan March 10, 2016March 10, 2016

When it comes to sharing videos, Youtube is one of the best solutions. You don’t have to worry about video codecs or audio encoding, if Youtube can understand the video it will be converted to a format that can be viewed on just about everything. But, what about when Youtube is not an option? There…

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4 ways to use the hidden power of the shift key

Byryan March 3, 2016March 3, 2016

Your shift key is a super hero in disguise. During the day, it has the mundane job of making letters upper case, and allowing you to prefix your hashtags with the # sign, but it can do more… A lot more. Presenting: The hidden power of the shift key! Power 1: Adding blank lines in…

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Screencasting tools for teachers, free and non-free

Byryan October 11, 2016October 12, 2016

There are many tools out there to help with creating screencasts. Some are free while others have a cost associated with them. Here are some of the screencasting tools that I use. When looking at screencasting tools, pay special attention to the work flow. If creating screencasts is too cumbersome, then you won’t want to…

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ⓔ Two screens in the classroom

Byryan April 20, 2016

I’ve been experimenting this year with a two screen setup, one projector and one 70″ LCD TV. Instead of having the same content on both screens, I use a Chromecast in the TV along with the Chromecast extension in Google Chrome. Send one tab By default, the Chromecast extension wants to send one tab to…

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Comic, animal sounds, and free clip-art – Top 3 of the Week

Byryan August 4, 2019August 4, 2019

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Together… Let’s Make a Google Form – Teacher Tech

Byryan June 3, 2016June 3, 2016

Use this spreadsheet Add-on to allow multiple people to collaboratively create multiple choice questions in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Once the questions are designed, press a button in the sidebar to create a Google Form from the questions in the spreadsheet. Source: Together… Let’s Make a Google Form – Teacher Tech What a great add-on!…

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