Tech School For Teachers

Friday 31 December 2010

Amazon Introduces Kindle Book Lending

16:10

Earlier this week I shared some places where you can find free ebooks for your Kindle or other ereader. Yesterday, Amazon introduced lendi...

Link Within - A Related Posts Widget

Ayush Mittal

08:40

This post is more of a blogging tip than it is about a teaching resource. Some of you have noticed that for the last couple of years I'v...

Pollmo - A Quick & Easy Poll Creation Tool

Ayush Mittal

05:54

Pollmo is a free service offering an easy way to create and post simple polls online. Getting started with Pollmo is easy. Just head to th...

Thursday 30 December 2010

Sqworl - Visual Bookmarks Sharing

Ayush Mittal

19:35

Sqworl is an online bookmarking tool that saves a screen capture of each page you bookmark. To help you organize your bookmarks, you can cr...

Go to South Africa with Toyota

Ayush Mittal

14:49

Toyota's International Teacher Program is expanding in 2011. Over the last twelve years the program has sent more than 600 teachers on ...

Cartoonize Yourself with Convert to Cartoon

Ayush Mittal

05:05

Convert to Cartoon is a simple little website that takes your photos and adds cartoon effects to them. It's quite similar to service ca...

Wednesday 29 December 2010

Lucid Chart - Quick & Easy Chart Creation

Ayush Mittal

17:43

There is no shortage of tools on the web to help people create flowcharts and mind maps (find nine good ones here ), some offer more feature...

Bee PDF - Broadcast PDF Documents

Ayush Mittal

15:24

Bee PDF is a free service for hosting and sharing PDF documents. Upload your PDFs to Bee PDF to share them on their site and your own. Whe...

Xtranormal To Start Charging for Much More

Ayush Mittal

15:07

As Larry Ferlazzo reported yesterday, Xtranormal is drastically overhauling its pricing structure . Under their new policies users will no...

Getty Games - Art Games for Kids

Ayush Mittal

05:51

Getty Games is a nice collection of art-based games produced by The Getty Museum for younger students to enjoy. There are four categories ...

Tuesday 28 December 2010

National Geographic Atlas Puzzles

Ayush Mittal

18:54

National Geographic is one of my favorite sites to visit because almost every time I visit it I find something I hadn't noticed before. ...

Physical Education in the Snow

Ayush Mittal

16:03

Image Credit: Banff Lake Louise It's winter here in the northern hemisphere and for many of us that means snow. This is the time of year...

A Fun Video Explanation of Cavities

Ayush Mittal

14:34

As a kid I dreaded going to the dentist's office (as an adult I still don't love it), but love it or hate it, if you have teeth you ...

Sixty Symbols - Video Explanations of the Symbols of Physics

Ayush Mittal

13:00

From the same people that brought us the Periodic Table of Videos comes Sixty Symbols . Sixty Symbols is a collection of videos featuring ...

Monday 27 December 2010

Mapping America - Census Data by Zip Code

Ayush Mittal

14:46

The New York Times has taken US Census data and created some good mapped displays of that data. Mapping America offers four categories of ...

Audio Slideshow - We Remember... in 2010

Ayush Mittal

14:05

In what is sure to be a week in which many media outlets publish year-in-review slideshows and videos, the BBC has one that stands out. The ...

Folding Story - Collaborative Fiction Writing

Ayush Mittal

13:38

Folding Story is a relatively new website where people can collaboratively create short stories. Folding Story users can start a story fro...

Get Free Books for Your Kindle (or other ereader)

Ayush Mittal

05:00

If you or someone in your house got a new Kindle for Christmas, you're probably looking to load that thing up with good things to read ...

Sunday 26 December 2010