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Roy Francis

@mrfrancis.bsky.social

I'm a music teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada. Interested in how we use Edtech to help students own their learning. Father, sometimes long distance runner and southern BBQ fan.

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This is the do not miss PD series of the year!

16.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 Announcing: The Ditch Summit speaker lineup!

It's our 10th year for this free online conference for teachers.

Dates: Dec. 15, 2025, to Jan. 11, 2026.

FREE PD certificates, too!

Register for free: DitchSummit.com

16.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks for coming to the session. I’m glad you found it useful. Have a great rest of the summer and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. It was great to meet you!

01.08.2025 22:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ep. 246 | What Would Peter Rackham Do? Roy Francis’ First Ever FETC Podcast Episode · EdTech Bites Podcast · 2025-01-17 · 21m

My first ever podcast dropped today. Thanks @edtechbites.bsky.social for inviting me onto your show. Appreciate all your advice on my first conference. It’s been a great week at #FETC. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

18.01.2025 01:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You may even see a video of me in their socials soon. lol.

18.01.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@edtechbites.bsky.social great meeting you this week. Now that the conference is coming to a close if you ever want to do a first post conference podcast let me know! #FETC

17.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A great keynote and strategies for creating AI Literacies with our students and teachers! @tilthrce.bsky.social #FETC

17.01.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@mrhennigar.com I met the team over at @schoolai.com @teacherkaseyc.bsky.social what a great bunch of people with some cool new features coming very soon to school ai!

17.01.2025 01:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Check out the music and coding session from the 1230 sessions today. The pictures are from today’s session and build on things that I have been doing in my classes. Happy to send some info when I get back to Canada.

17.01.2025 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@tilthrce.bsky.social I’ve got some great new ways to combine music and coding. #FETC

16.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I’ll explain when I see you.

16.01.2025 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

See and I had a good chat this afternoon as he demoed a new product that Samsung is developing. Too hard to explain here but very promising convergence of tools about to happen.

15.01.2025 23:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes. I have a presenter and topic wish list.

15.01.2025 22:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t miss it #FETC peeps!

15.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey Laura! Look who I found! @lkennedy37.bsky.social

15.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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First up. Beyond Devices: 5 Transformative Edtech Policies for Equity and Inclusion with @kshelton.bsky.social #FETC2025

15.01.2025 14:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ready for day 2! Today’s the day I get to meet some of my EDU hero’s. finally get to learn from them in person. #FETC

15.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@tilthrce.bsky.social great first day at #FETC so many great ideas to think about.

14.01.2025 20:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These are great ways to think about the problems with AI Detectors.

14.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@ipswichtown.bsky.social A real premiership team and everyone’s favourite fictional premiership team. #FETC

14.01.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She reminds me of you! Full of energy and has ideas for everything!

14.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Look who I met this am! A great way to start #FETC2025 @lkennedy37.bsky.social @themerrillsedu.com

14.01.2025 14:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

After a day of teaching and a flight from Halifax, I am currently at the airport in Montreal waiting for my connecting flight to Orlando. #FETC here I come! Looking forward to attending for the first time.

14.01.2025 00:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks. I’ll keep tweaking it!

11.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah. I tried out the template but couldn’t figure out the super hero generation. Must be the way I write the prompt. Mine was … interesting.

11.01.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How did you make your superhero?

11.01.2025 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

First time going to #FETC. I am travelling from Canada and don't have a US Data/voice package. What is the public WIFI access like in Orlando? should I get an e-sim card or will it be okay. Probably don't need to make any phone calls bit need facetime to talk with my kids at night.

11.01.2025 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How did you make your superhero? I can open the remix link and edit other parts but can't figure this one out. Thanks.

11.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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One Word of the Year Activity - www.controlaltachieve.com/2025/01/one-...

🔗 Free Google Slides "Photo Word" template
▶️ Demo video with directions
🧒 Great for students & educators
🧭 Set a goal or focus for the year

#EduSky #EdTech #GoogleEDU #OneWord

05.01.2025 19:39 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Are you attending FETC on Jan 14-17? Add to the shared resource doc here: bit.ly/fetc25-share

You can include information for:
🧑 Attendee Information
🗣️ Promote Your Sessions
🎉 Mixers
🍽️ Restaurants
✋ Questions
🧰 Learning Resources
💬 Other Comments

#EduSky #EdTech #FETC @jenwomble.bsky.social

30.12.2024 17:05 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0