Art Babble - Videos About Art

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art . The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place ...

60+ Virtual Tours & Webcams for Social Studies

Angela Cunningham is a high school school Social Studies teacher in Kentucky that I've had the pleasure of meeting at the last two ISTE...

Student Blogging Challenge

Disclosure: Edublogs is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Edublogs is once again hosting a student blogging challenge. The S...

7 Places & Ways to Find Copyright-friendly Images

Yesterday, I published a post about NASA contributing images to Flickr's Commons collection. The Commons is a great place to find image...

Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research

As we know, the Internet is a great place to find information on anything that sparks your curiosity. Likewise, the web is a great resource ...

Find Images from NASA in The Commons on Flickr

The Commons on Flickr is a good place to find public domain images from archiving institutions around the world. Today, NASA joined The Co...

Inspirational & Historic Moments on YouTube

YouTube can be a good source of material for lessons and activities in many content areas. This is particularly true for Social Studies teac...

BlogBooker - Turn Your Blog into a PDF Book

Last month when I wrote about Anthologize which turns WordPress blogs into PDF books or ebooks, Blogger users felt left out. Today I have g...

Katrina - Then and Now

Today's episode of CNN Student News begins with segment about the effects of Hurricane Katrina still felt in New Orleans. The segment i...

What's Your Best Advice for New Teachers?

Ten days ago I asked you to share the new thing(s) you're planning to do in the new school year. In 72 hours 140 of you responded and I...

Back to School Tech with CNN & Mario Armstrong

As I shared yesterday, the highlight of my weekend was being mentioned by Mario Armstrong during his Saturday morning CNN segment. Yesterda...

One Principal's Approach to Cell Phones in Classrooms

Last week I posted a video about two approaches to dealing with cell phones in schools. In short, the video featured a school with a zero-u...

Welcome CNN Viewers!

Welcome to those arriving after hearing about Free Technology for Teachers on CNN. Below are some of the most popular resources you will fi...

Week in Review - A Mention on National TV

The big news for this week's week-in-review post was going be the news that twice this week Free Technology for Teachers reached new re...

7 Organization Tools for Students

The beginning of the school year is when many students (and some teachers) make the resolution to improve their organization skills. The web...

Snag Learning is Snag Films for Schools

Snag Films, a provider of high quality documentaries for online viewing, has now launched Snag Learning . Snag Learning offers access to mos...

Teaching With Infographics - Many Good Resources

Earlier this week I learned from Larry Ferlazzo that The New York Times Learning Network was doing a series of posts about teaching with i...

11 Operas in 10 Minutes

Operas don't appeal to the typical high school student. Nonetheless, teachers of music theory and music appreciation classes do try to e...

TED Talk - The Beauty of Data Visualization

I spent a fair amount of time this summer exploring the idea of using more infographics, sketches, and mind maps in my classroom. As a part ...

How Students Can Blog Without An Email Address

Disclosure: Edublogs is an advertiser on this blog . Earlier today Edublogs announced that students can now blog on Edublogs even if they ...

Google Launches a Realtime Search Engine... Again

Last December Google launched a realtime search element that displayed realtime updates within standard search results. Today, Google launc...

Read Print - 8,000+ Free Books & Essays Online

Read Print is a free service providing access to more than 8,000 free books and essays written by more than 3,500 authors. The titles avail...

Two Approaches to Cell Phones in Schools - Pick One

Through Wes Fryer's excellent blog I learned about the following video from CNN. The video is a report on two different approaches to d...

Blog, Wiki, or Doc? Which Is Right for You?

Earlier today someone (sorry, I forgot to note who) posted a link on Twitter to this chart made in Google Documents. I did a little digging...

Chatterous - Create Private or Public Chat Rooms

Chatterous is a free platform for creating your own private or public chat rooms. Many other services also allow you to create your chat r...

Video - My Plan for Teaching Without Tech This Week

My students return to school this week, but the netbooks that we issue them for our 1:1 program won't be ready until the second week of ...

A Don't Miss Event for Math Teachers

Last week when I posted 38 Weeks of Algebra Lessons I raved about Dan Meyer . When I wrote about Math Class Needs a Makeover , I raved abou...

One of My Favorite US History Resources

Last summer I learned about History Animated from the excellent blog Teaching the Civil War With Technology . I thought the animations might...

iSearchNotes - Note Sharing for Students

iSearchNotes is a free service designed for college students to record and share notes in a searchable database. Students can take their no...

Are You and Your Students Getting Enough Sleep?

We all know that sleep is important and that there is a correlation between the amount of sleep students get and how the perform in the clas...

How Learn Boost Plans to be Here for the Long Run

Earlier this month I wrote a post containing my initial impressions of a new free online gradebook system called Learn Boost . Recently, on...