The Web Runs on Kindness

In this TED Talk Jonathan Zittrain provides a humorous and informative talk about how the Internet works. Zittrain's premise is the Int...

Cool Food Kidz Teaches Kids About Diet & Fitness

Cool Food Kidz is a kid-friendly website about nutrition, exercise, and general health. Cool Food Kidz provides easy-to-read lists of thin...

Week In Review - The Most Popular Items

It's Friday and that means it's time for another Free Technology for Teachers week in review. As I do each Friday, I've compile...

LitCharts - 10 Page Outlines of Classic Literature

LitCharts is a service that provides condensed outlines and summaries of classic literature. The outlines and summaries are far shorter tha...

For Music Teachers - The Euphonium Gets a New Voice

Perhaps because I played both the Euphonium and the Tuba in high school (at one point I thought of majoring in music) I have listened with ...

Annenberg Offers Video-based Lesson Plans

Videos can be a good teaching resource, but they need to be used as part of lesson rather than being the lesson. Annenberg Media provides l...

American Experience - The Crash of 1929

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday . CNN Student News had a short segment about it today. Watching the CNN segment reminded...

20 Interesting Ways to Use Audio In Your Classroom

Last Friday I wrote a post about Tom Barrett's latest installments to his Interesting Ways series. At the time, one of the installment...

Significance of the 2010 Census

Say It Visually has created a new video that explains the significance and possible implications of the 2010 US Census. Applications for Ed...

Two Twitter and Email Scams to Be Aware Of

In the last 18 hours there have been two similar scams launched on Twitter and via email that you should be aware. The Twitter scam involves...

20 Ideas for Academic Halloween Costumes

Shmoop , a great publisher of online study guides, recently posted a list of twenty history and literature themed Halloween costumes . On th...

Illinois State Museum Offers Good Lesson Plans

The Illinois State Museum's website offers a sizable collection of online activities, online exhibits, and downloadable lesson plans. Mo...

African Parks and Wildlife Preserves in Google Earth

This week Google launched a series of videos celebrating the Heros of Google Earth . These videos and associated links tell the stories of n...

Galapagos Rap

This video, 3.5* til Infinity, was created by some Stanford students on their trip to the Galapagos Islands. While some people may not agree...

CNN Student News - A Degree in Hip Hop?

Today's episode of CNN Student News concludes with a segment about McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota. McNally Smith...

PBS Activity Pack - Music in Every Classroom

PBS Teachers has a relatively new set of features called Activity Packs . Activity Packs are widgets containing links to online and offline...

A Cute Lesson About Lions

The Telegraph recently posted this short video of three rare white lion cubs. The video could make a cute introduction to a lesson on genet...

National Geographic Halloween Quizzes and Games

National Geographic Kids is currently offering some games, quizzes, and offline activity suggestions for Halloween-themed fun. All of the a...

Live Binders Improves for Educational Use

Live Binders , a good digital portfolio service I reviewed in August , recently added some improved features that will be of interest to edu...

The Net(book) Effect on Professional Learning

As some readers know, my school recently deployed nearly 1300 ASUS Eee PC netbooks to our students. This is an exciting time at our school ...

Texas Instruments - Algebra & Geometry Webinars

Texas Instruments , makers of very popular graphing calculators, offers an extensive series of professional development programs . One such ...

Export Your Google Docs as a Zip File

Today, on the Google Docs Blog , Google announced a new option for saving your your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. You've ...

Interactive Timeline of Space Exploration

NASA has an excellent interactive timeline tracing the history of astronomy and space exploration from the Greek philosophers through toda...

One Click Screen Capture in Windows 7

Today on Tekzilla Daily they show us how to make screen captures in just one click on Windows 7. The video is embedded below. Applications ...

Beyond Google - Improve Your Search Results (Repost)

I originally posted this on Saturday afternoon which is typically the time when the fewest people are reading this blog. Since Saturday, I m...

20 Ways to Use Comics In Your Classroom

Through Josh Allen's Tech Fridge blog I recently learned about this slideshow created S. Hendy who writes Digital Tools for Teachers ....

A Brief History of US Bank Debates

This week my US History students will be learning about Andrew Jackson and The Bank War . This short video from the CBS Fast Draw team, prov...

Lee Lefever Explains Where Goldfish Come From

Lee Lefever, the creator of the amazing Common Craft videos, recently presented at Ignite Seattle. His talk, embedded below, explains where...

Beyond Google - Improve Your Search Results

While working with some of my colleagues in a workshop earlier this week, I was reminded that a lot of people aren't familiar with tools...

TED Talk - Don't Eat the Marshmallow

I love TED Talks because each one has something interesting, informative, and thought-provoking. Over the course of the last year I spent m...

Week In Review - The Most Popular Items

It's Friday and that means it's time for another Free Technology for Teachers week in review. As I do each Friday, I've compile...

Zero Interesting Ways to Use Audio In the Classroom?

Of course, there are interesting ways to use audio in your classroom, but Tom Barrett needs some help generating a list. You see, Tom has st...

Free LeapFrog Systems for Kindergarten Teachers

LeapFrog , the maker of learning toys like the Tag Reading System , is offering Kindergarten teachers the opportunity to get the Tag Reading...

Schoology - Online Course Management

Schoology is an online course management system for individual and school-wide use. Schoology offers an online place to create assignments...

A Vision of Students Today (Yet Again)

I'm showing a colleague how to embed a video into a blog, couldn't think of a better one than Michael Wesch's A Vision of Studen...

Every Stock Photo - Search Free Photos

Every Stock Photo is a search engine for free, high quality, images that you can use in slideshows, videos, and in blog posts. Every Stock ...

How Sound Impacts Productivity

This short TED Talk , The 4 Ways Sound Affects Us contains some interesting information about how sound affects our productivity. In the ta...

Teacher Linx - Create and Share Lesson Plans

There are many, many places on the Internet where you can find lesson plans and other resources for classroom use (you're at one of thos...

Positive Workshop Experience Today

Special Note For New Readers: If this is your first time visiting Free Technology for Teachers , please note that I rarely write posts of th...

Here Comes Everything! Google to Search Twitter

Yesterday, Google made a significant announcement , they're going to start serving up results from Twitter when you perform a Google sea...

Exploring the Rising Cost of College

Today's episode of CNN Student News concludes with a brief segment about the rising costs of attending college in the United States. If...

Purpose Games - Create and Play Games

Purpose Games is a free service that allows users to create custom games, share games, and play games. There are two styles of games that y...

Brainyflix BrainyPics Vocabulary Flashcard Contest

Just as they did earlier this year , Brainyflix is holding a student vocabulary contest. In the prior contest students were asked to create...

Find Free eBooks On BookServer

The Internet Archive is, in general, a very good place to find all manner of free information in text, audio, image, and video formats. On ...

Meatless Mondays and School Lunch Programs

Today's edition of CNN Student News has two segments that could be used in health classes and or civics classes. The middle segment is ...

Today is Wolfram Alpha's Homework Day!

Last week I posted some information about Wolfram Alpha's Homework Day . Homework Day is here. If you've been curious about how to...

35+ Educational Games and Games Resources

1. XP Math is a good place to find math games, math videos, math worksheets, and math e-books. The games section of XP Math offers games f...