Step Into Chinese - Free Software

Step Into Chinese , a free program produced by Asymptopia Software , is designed to help students learn Chinese. Step Into Chinese provid...

Free Lesson Plans for Mouse Mischief

Yesterday I wrote a post about Microsoft's new free add-on for PowerPoint called Mouse Mischief . At the time that I wrote that post abo...

Month in Review - April's Most Popular Items

It seems like just yesterday I was posting an April Fool's joke about Magic Grade and now the end of the month is here. This month Free...

Bubba Brain - Review Games for SAT and AP Exams

Bubba Brain is a simple site packed with review games for students preparing for the SAT and AP exams. Bubba Brain also has some games for...

The Science of Music

The Science of Music , created by the folks at Exploratorium, is a fun series of lessons and activities about music. The Science of Music o...

Google Virtual Keyboard for Search

Using a QWERTY keyboard to type search terms in some foreign languages can be difficult. To alleviate this problem, Google has just launched...

Microsoft Mouse Mischief - Free PowerPoint Add-on

Microsoft Mouse Mischief is a new free add-on to Microsoft PowerPoint. Mouse Mischief is designed as an inexpensive alternative to clicker-...

Gulf Oil Spill Overview - CNN Student News

Today's episode of CNN Student News leads off with a segment about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The segment contains some aeria...

Tech Training Wheels - How-to Videos for Teachers

Tech Training Wheels is a new video sharing site designed and built by five Google Certified Teachers. The purpose of the site is to share ...

Vocab Sushi - Fresh, Bitesize Vocabulary Practice

There are a lot of flashcard websites and vocabulary practice websites on the Internet so it takes a lot for me be impressed when I see yet ...

Videos About the Hubble Telescope and More

Yesterday, I shared a video about and link to a Google Earth tour featuring imagery captured by the Hubble telescope. This evening I came a...

Congratulations to Teachers in Oregon!

Today, Google announced that the Oregon Department of Education is officially migrating to Google Apps for Education. All public schools in...

JST Virtual Science Center - Great Science Resource!

The Japanese Science and Technology Center offers nine outstanding science lessons. The list of lessons and activities covers topics in phy...

Chogger - Create a Comic Strip

Chogger is a free comic strip creation tool offering a good selection of editing tools. Chogger allows you to draw images from scratch or ...

Conjugation.com Conjugates any Verb

Conjugating verbs can be a challenge for people learning the English language. Conjugation.com aims to help those people learning English. ...

TitanPad - An EtherPad Clone

When Google purchased real-time document collaboration platform EtherPad's parent company Appjet in December, EtherPad's code was m...

Hubble Telescope Tour in Google Earth

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope Google released a new Google Earth tour of imagery captured by Hubble. The tour ...

Canvas Mol - 3D Models of Molecules

Canvas Mol is a website that provides 3D, interactive, rotating models of simple and complex molecules. There are 46 models of relatively c...

Update for Email Subscribers

Many email subscribers have reported that they are not receiving regular emails from Free Technology for Teachers . This appears to be a pro...

Supreme Court Case to Grab Your Students' Attention

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court announced that it is going to hear a case this fall regarding California's ban on the sale of violent vi...

Quick Translator - Compare Auto-Translators

Google Translate can be a good tool for translating documents, websites, and other text-based materials. However, sometimes you may want to ...

New Earth View Available in Google Maps

Earlier today Google released new imagery for Google Maps . You can now view Google Earth 3D imagery and more in Google Maps. To use Earth ...

NASA Brain Bites - Video Answers to Your Curiosities

NASA produces lots of great content for students. A teacher could spend many hours on the site and still not uncover all of the valuable con...

Past and Present Google Street View Imagery

Sepia Town is a neat website that allows you to view Google Maps Street View imagery side-by-side with historical imagery. Every image in t...

Follow the 2010 Census in Google Earth

The 2010 US Census will provide us with valuable data that can be used for a variety of academic purposes. For that data to be collected th...

Meet the Google Doodlers

The CBS Sunday Morning Show had a short segment this week about folks who create the doodles that appear on the Google homepage. The segmen...

10 Resources for Teaching & Learning Economics

As I've mentioned in the past, I really enjoy teaching economics because talking about money generally gets my students excited (if not ...

Week in Review - Most Popular Items

By the time you read this I should be sitting in a boat on Kennebago Lake in pursuit of Brook Trout. It's important for all of us to ta...

Why Kindergarten Students Out-perform MBAs

One of the things I like about TED Talks is that almost all of them pack a lot information and good messages into a small amount of time. I...

10 Resources for Teaching & Learning About WWII

Next week my US History students will be beginning their studies of World War II. I spent some time this week going through some of the reso...

Sleedo - Search the Web and Donate Rice

Most people are familiar with the word game Free Rice that donates rice to the poor for every correct response to word games. Sleedo is us...

Is It Better to Rent or Buy? Interactive Infographic

The New York Times has a new interactive infographic designed to help people determine when it makes financial sense to buy a home rather ...

Engineering Interact - Physics Games for Kids

Engineering Interact is a site for elementary school students designed by the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge . En...