Videos - Origins of WWI

In my US History we're wrapping-up our unit on World War I and wrapping-up the grading period. At the end of each unit I like to post su...

Month in Review - March's Ten Most Popular Posts

March was a very busy month for me and for Free Technology for Teachers . This month I had a great trip to Alberta, Canada to lead six works...

Free Sets of "A People's History of the United States"

The Zinn Education Project , named after the noted historian Howard Zinn, is giving away twenty classroom sets of Zinn's A People's ...

Tagul - Like Wordle With Hyperlinks

Tagul is a free word cloud generator that offers one clear difference compared to other word cloud generators like Wordle . The difference ...

Arounder - 360 Degree Tours of Cities and the Moon

Arounder is a free site that offers 3D views of famous places in European cities, North American locations, and the Moon. The imagery is ve...

Social Media Explained Visually

Social Media is the current buzz phrase of business and the online world. TEDxNYED was organized around the idea of social media and new me...

JayCut Launches New Video Editing Platform

I first learned about JayCut last summer and was actually excited about using it in my classroom as a lightweight web-based video editor, b...

Freeology - Free Printables for Teachers

Freeology is a site that provides dozens of printable forms teachers. Freeology offers dozens of free graphic organizer forms, calendars,...

Interactive Bills and the History of the US Mint

The US Mint has some good online games and activities for young students (elementary grades). Two of the resources that stand out are an int...

Live Webinar Tonight with Sir Ken Robinson

Just a quick reminder, tonight at 8pm EST, 5pm PST The Future of Education is hosting a free webinar with Sir Ken Robinson . Here's a p...

Tour the Sistine Chapel Online

Most of my students will not visit the Sistine Chapel anytime in the foreseeable future, but that doesn't mean they can't explore t...

Udemy - Free Platform for Teaching Courses Online

Udemy is a new free platform for teaching courses online. Anyone can sign-up for Udemy and start creating courses in minutes. Udemy offers...

Infographic for Understanding Credit Scores

Your Wealth Puzzle is currently featuring a neat infographic that could be useful in a consumer education course. The infographic uses a bo...

Financial Fitness for Teens

Today's episode of CNN Student News is very timely for me as the seniors at my school are missing classes this morning to attend a ...

Free 33 Page Guide - Google for Teachers

Google offers some wonderful tools for teachers, but I've learned over the last couple of weeks that while teachers are aware of many of...

What 2 Learn - Create and Play Educational Games

What 2 Learn is a website offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and high school age students. What makes What...

Week in Review - New Page Views Record!

It's Saturday morning in Maine and time for another look back at the most popular posts of the week. This week Free Technology for Teach...

Kids' Vid - Video Production Tips for Kids

Kids' Vid has been around for a while, but it's worth revisiting. Kids' Vid provides great information and ideas about how stu...

Free Royalty Free Music for Education

When creating an audio podcast or a video that uses music tracks, the sure way to avoid any worries about copyright infringement is to use m...

Learn Internet Safety With Garfield

The Virginia Department of Education has produced an engaging and useful site for teaching students web safety lessons. Internet Safety Wit...

Listhings - Your Sticky Notes on the Web

Listhings is a fairly new web-based sticky note service. Like other services in its market, Listhings provides user with an online space t...

LEGO Education Lesson Plans

LEGOs were one of my favorite toys as a kid. In fact, I will still play with them if they're plopped down in front of me. Earlier this ...

Animated Web Search Tutorials

Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts four free animated tutorials designed to teach lessons on web research strategies. The ...

Living Climate Change - Video Challenge

International design firm IDEO is hosting a video competition centered around the idea of living with climate change. IDEO is actually ho...

Webinar - Google Apps Lessons from the Classroom

Yesterday, Google Certified Teacher Henry Thiele conducted a webinar in which he shared examples of how his school district uses Google App...

Four Places to Watch Wildlife Live on the Web

Earlier today I saw someone Tweet a link to the CBC British Columbia Eagle Cam (sorry I forgot to note who it was, if it was you, please le...

Search 137 Years of Popular Science

Popular Science has recently made available online every issue of its 137 year history. The archived issues are hosted by Google Books. U...

That's Not Cool - Learn About Cyber Stalking

That's Not Cool is a website designed to teach young adults that online and mobile phone behavior is real behavior with real consequenc...

Free DVD - America, The Story of Us

On April 25th the History Channel is premiering a twelve hour mini-series title America, The Story of US . History Channel is offering scho...

Google Bookmarks Gets Collaborative & How to do it

Earlier today Google introduced a new collaborative feature for Google Bookmarks . Now in your Google Bookmarks you can create lists that ...

Remix for Personalized Learning

Last week I gave a presentation ( slides here ) about free video creation tools that students and teachers can use in their classrooms. As a...

Docs Pal - Quick and Free File Conversion

Receiving an email attachment in a file format that is not supported on your operating system can be a frustrating experience for you and th...

Learning Media - Online Math and Science Games

Learning Media is a New Zealand based company that produces curriculum materials for schools. A lot of their products are only available by...

Save the Date for a Webinar With Sir Ken Robinson

Next Tuesday, March 30, The Future of Education is hosting a free webinar with Sir Ken Robinson . The webinar will be held in Elluminate at...

Print Your Own Wall Size Poster

If you've ever created an image or found an image that you thought would make a great poster, but you weren't sure how to go about c...

The Waterkeepers

I missed the boat on World Water Day yesterday (insert groan here), but I still want to share a video from Snag Films that might be useful...

NASA Space Place - Where Science is Fun!

NASA Space Place is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playin...

Go Paperless for Earth Day

Earth Day is exactly one month away which makes today a good day to tell you about Shelly Blake-Plock's Earth Day Paperless Classroom ...

Signed Stories - Video Stories in Sign Language

I've seen Signed Stories bouncing around the blogosphere and Twittersphere for a few weeks now, but only recently have I had time to ex...

Register Soon for Free Bowling All Summer

Just as they did last summer , bowling centers around the country are offering students two free games every day. To bowl for free students ...

Debunking Census Myths and Census History

Debunking Census Myths is a short clip from CNN in which common misunderstandings about the US census are clarified. The clip address questi...