More About Vokle's Free Web Conferencing Service

Last week I wrote a post about a new web conferencing service called Vokle . Today, I found a video on Building 43 in which Vokle's Ch...

Month in Review - December's Most Popular Items

It's the last day of the month and, as I do every month, I've compiled a list of the ten most popular items from the past 30 days. B...

The Things We Learned About in 2009

Ten days ago I posted a survey asking you to share what you learned about in 2009 and what you're looking forward to in 2010. In the sl...

The 15 Most Popular Posts on Free Tech 4 Teachers

Here are the most popular posts in the history of Free Technology for Teachers . 1. 30+ Alternatives to YouTube 2. Twelve Essentials for Te...

Keep Track of Browser Tabs by Coloring Them

If you're a heavy Internet user like me, you probably have a lot of browser tabs open all the time. I have thirteen open as I write this...

Google SketchUp Education Uses and Tutorials

One of the Google applications that I wish I had had more time to explore at the Google Teacher Academy is Google SketchUp . GTA Lead Learne...

Understanding Search Engines

Many students and adults do not understand how search engines rank results. Some of my students get to high school without understanding the...

365 Days in 30 Seconds

This year CNN iReport issued an interesting challenge to amateur video artists, sum-up your year in thirty seconds. The deadline for submis...

Scitable Adds Content

In April I wrote a short post about Scitable . Since then Scitable has added some content that is worth noting. Scitable's networking op...

iCyte - Highlight and Currate Web Research

iCyte is a fantastic browser extension available for Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. iCyte gives you the ability to highlight and...

Intute - Virtual Trainings on Web Research Strategies

Intute is a free online service designed to help students find and use the best academic web resources. Intute is a product of the collabo...

Teaching US History with Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States is frequently used by US History teachers in my school and in schools around the country because...

LoudLit - Listen to Books and Read Along

LoudLit.org is a good place to find free audio recordings of famous works of literature. Many websites do this, but what makes LoudLit uniq...

NY Times - Picturing the Past 10 Years

Picturing the Past 10 Years is a neat "opinion chart" created by Phillip Niemeyer at The New York Times . Picturing the Past 10 Y...

15 Tools To Help Students Get Organized

After the holiday vacation some students will return to school determined to get organized and improve their grades. The following fifteen r...

Kideos - Educational Videos for Kids

Kideos is a video website designed with kids under ten years old in mind. Videos on Kideos are categorized by age appropriateness as well ...

20 Things That Happen in a Minute

20 Things That Happen in 1 Minute is a graphic that illustrates twenty common things that occur every minute in the United States and aroun...

Squareleaf - Your Online Sticky Note System

Squareleaf is a simple system for creating and managing online sticky notes. To use Squareleaf just register for an account and begin crea...

Week in Review - Most Popular Items

I hope that all of the teachers reading this week-in-review are enjoying a relaxing holiday break from school. Judging by the traffic on the...

Learn About Mount Everest

Tonight on Discovery the third season of Everest: Beyond the Limit begins. The series chronicles the efforts of amateur mountain climbers a...

Battle of Trenton Prisoners & Images of Revolution

On Thursday I ran a post about a great site called History Animated which features animations of Revolutionary War battles including the B...

Holiday Edition: 10 Places to Make and Find Flashcards

Believe it or not, I'm actually taking a couple of days off from going online. I know that not everyone celebrates the same holidays tha...

Holiday Edition: Least Restrictive Environment for Educators

Believe it or not, I'm actually taking a couple of days off from going online. I know that not everyone celebrates the same holidays tha...

Holiday Edition: Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration

Believe it or not, I'm actually taking a couple of days off from going online. I know that not everyone celebrates the same holidays tha...

Holiday Edition: Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter

Believe it or not, I'm actually taking a couple of days off from going online. I know that not everyone celebrates the same holidays tha...

Merry Christmas!

Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to all of you who are celebrating Christmas today. I hope you all have a great time with your loved...

Battles of Trenton and Princeton Animated

233 years ago George Washington led his men across the Delaware River to a decisive victory against Hessian soldiers in Trenton, New Jersey....

Holiday Edition: How to Build a PLN

Believe it or not, I'm actually taking a couple of days off from going online. I know that not everyone celebrates the same holidays tha...

2009 In Review - The Reader Edition

On Monday I posted a survey asking you what you what you learned about in 2009 and what you're looking forward to in 2010. Seventy peop...

Scriblink - Your Online Collaborative Whiteboard

Scriblink is essentially a whiteboard with an integrated instant messaging system. Scriblink users can draw, type, or edit images on a whit...

The History of Christmas

History.com has a series of videos, fact sheets, and quizzes about the history of Christmas . The videos cover many aspects of the history ...

Virtual Dinosaur Dig

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has three great interactive activities about dinosaurs . There is a virtual tour in whic...

Pennsylvania Civil War 150 Interactive Soldier

I've mentioned Teaching the Civil War with Technology a couple of times in the past because it is an excellent blog that every US Histo...

NORAD Tracks Santa on Google Earth

Those of you who have young children that still believe in Santa may be interested in this. NORAD and Google have again partnered to track S...

Screenpresso Looks Promising for Screen Captures

Screenpresso is a new screen capture program for Windows. Screenpresso has all of the features such as image resizing, annotation options,...