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BetterLesson provides free lesson plans and also offers PD opportunities

Byryan December 26, 2018December 26, 2018

Their mission:

To support every teacher in the world in developing the next generation of compassionate, resourceful, and iterative learners.

Source: BetterLesson | Professional Learning Reimagined

BetterLesson provides access to thousands of free lesson plans and resources. These lesson plans are groups by subject, grade level and standard.

Beyond the lesson plans is a thorough and comprehensive professional development, offering several different workshops and other opportunities for your school district. Unfortunately the site breaks my number 1 rule for vendor sites and lacks any sort of pricing information. I assume if the pricing isn’t listed, we can’t afford it. If you have experience with their workshops, please let me know!

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Google Calendar changes for showing short meetings

Byryan July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Better visualize shorter meetings in Google Calendar Nice usability feature for Google Calendar. Any meeting scheduled for less than 25 minutes will show the length in the calendar event.

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Create an Excel spreadsheet from a picture with your smartphone

Byryan June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

This looks really cool, I’m hoping that Google adds something like this to Google Sheets!

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Vivaldi – Adding a Web Panel

Byryan December 4, 2018December 4, 2018

Vivaldi – Adding a Web Panel. Another great feature of Vivaldi is the ability to add a web panel to the side of the browser.This panel will load the mobile version of a website which works a lot better in the narrow window than the full website. You can use the web panel to show…

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Quickly create short urls to anything without an account using the Amazon URL Shortner

Byryan December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

Source: Amazon URL Shortner – Chrome Web Store One of the most well known URL shortners is the one at Bitly. Unfortunately, the Bitly Chrome extension requires you to create a Bitly account and sign in. That’s all well and good, but most of the time, you just want to quickly make a short URL….

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Full page capture in Chrome

Byryan January 19, 2021January 20, 2021

Source: GoFullPage – Full Page Screen Capture – Chrome Web Store There are times when it would be nice to share a picture of a web page with your students, but the page is too long to capture at once. That’s where GoFullPage for Chrome1 comes in. After you install the extension, click on the…

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Instead of wirelessly projecting your mobile device, use Chrome Remote Desktop to control your computer

Byryan September 19, 2019September 18, 2019

Source: Chrome Remote Desktop Hat tip to Lance Yoder over at Edgaged.net for this tip. In his district, instead of trying to wirelessly display a mobile teacher device, he flipped it. Instead, the teacher uses Chrome Remote Desktop to control a PC hooked up to the TV. This set up bypasses most of the issues…

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