YTTM - Search for Videos by Year

YTTM (which we're led to believe means YouTube Time Machine) is a new service that allows you to search for videos by year and genre. T...

Adobe's Project ROME Looks Promising

Last Monday I bookmarked an article on ZDNet  about Adobe's new Project ROME for Education  to read later. I now wish I hadn't waite...

Augmented Reality Art

The Getty Museum has introduced a new way to view art, augmented reality. As employed by The Getty , augmented reality creates 3D displays ...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine where the weather is reminding me that winter is quickly approaching. I hope everyone had a great week and will have...

Drop.io Acquired by Facebook - Get Your Data

I've been a huge fan and advocate for Drop.io since the first month of their launch (this blog and Drop.io started about the same time)...

Looking for Lesson Materials? Try OER Commons

Earlier this week I mentioned on Twitter that I had introduced a couple of my colleagues to the Open Educational Resources Commons . They to...

Best Professional Development Meeting in Years!

Today was a staff development day at my school. For the first time in years we had nearly the whole day to talk with our departmental collea...

Resources About the Great Depression

Today marks the 81st anniversary of Black Tuesday , the day that the stock market crashed triggering the Great Depression . Below you will f...

New Underwater Images from Panoramio

Panoramio recently made an announcement that should be of interest teachers using Google Earth in their classrooms. Panoramio is now accept...

Learnopia - A Place for Hosting Online Courses

Learnopia is a new service that offers hosting for online courses. Learnopia is also a place to find and take online courses. If course cr...

Add Some Oomph to PowerPoint Slides

oomfo (yes, they spell it in all lowercase letters) is a free add-on to Microsoft PowerPoint. The purpose of oomfo is to enable users to i...

A GIMP Halloween Project

Since tomorrow is the last school day before Halloween, I thought I should post at least one thing related to Halloween. Through Make Use Of...

JayCut to Add Drawing Tools & More Languages

I've been talking about JayCut quite a bit this year because I think that it is a great free alternative to iMovie and Movie Maker. In ...

Knowcase - Quickly & Collaboratively Create Outlines

Knowcase is a free tool for recording ideas and creating outlines. To get started using Knowcase just click create then start typing. Each...

Math Open Reference - Online Geometry Reference

Math Open Reference is a free online reference for geometry teachers and students. Math Open Reference features animated and interactive d...

Useful YouTube Channels for Educators

I usually don't write posts about the lists that other people have made, but I'm making an exception for a list written by Online Co...

Need Primary Documents? Try the Avalon Project

The Avalon Project is a free resource that I use on a regular basis with a couple of my US History classes. The Avalon Project, produced ...

New Visualization Charts in Google Docs

Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets are great tools for collecting and manipulating data sets. Today, Google announced some new enhancemen...

iPhone & iPad Apps for Special Education

Whether they're owned by students or provided by schools iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches are increasingly being used for academic purpo...

Teaching Collaborative Revision Using Google Docs

Earlier this evening Kyle Pace called my attention to a nice free publication from Google and Weekly Reader . Through Google for Educators ...

Strip Generator - Drag & Drop Comic Creation

Strip Generator is a free tool for quickly creating comic strips that was recently featured on Mashable . Strip Generator allows anyone, e...

My Brainshark - Easily Narrate and Share Presentations

My Brainshark is a free service offered by Brainshark for easily narrating and sharing slide presentations online. Here's how it works...

Twiducate - Social Networking for Schools

Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private ...

Khan Instant - Instant Search for Khan Academy

Khan Academy is famous for the fantastic educational videos produced by Salman Khan. Khan's mathematics and science videos are available...

Everything's Free, Now What

This morning I presented at the NHSTA conference. Slideshare is giving me a hard time right at the moment, but I promised to get the slides ...

5 Good Resources for Learning the Periodic Table

I am at a science conference this weekend which got me thinking about some of the neat resources I've found over the last few years for ...

North Korea's Military Parade in Slow Motion

When North Korea recently held a military parade to introduce Kim Jong-il's youngest son as his successor, international media was allow...

Listen to the Small School Big Tech Podcast

Earlier this week I had the privilege to join Danny Silva and Andrew Schwab on their podcast Small Tech Big School . Also joining the podc...

One Word - Sixty Second Writing Prompts

One Word is a simple writing prompt generator. The way it works is the user clicks "go" on the One Word homepage and they are pr...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine where winter is quickly approaching. I hope the weekend brings everyone the rest and relaxation they deserve. Sunday...

Get Yourself Some Free PD This Weekend

Has your school cut the budget for conferences and professional development? Would you like some excellent free professional development tha...

More Historical Imagery Available in Google Earth

Back in February Google released historical imagery in Google Earth of 35 European cities as they looked during WWII. Today, Google announc...

Voki for Classrooms

Through a Tweet by Vicki Davis I have learned that Voki is offering an ad-free version for educators. Voki is a service that allows users...

Infographic - Who Wants to Be President?

Who Wants to be President? is an infographic containing the names and salaries of the presidents of twenty-one countries. The infographic a...

Fat World - A Video Game About Nutrition

Fat World is an educational video game funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting . The game isn't designed to tell stud...

Shmoop Adds 33 New Titles

Online study guide provider Shmoop recently announced the addition of 33 more titles to their offerings. Shmoop added 15 new literature ti...

Infographic - The Most Expensive Places to Live

Through the Cool Infographics blog I discovered a neat infographic about the ten most expensive cities to live in in 2010 . The infographic...

Open Study - Create or Join Online Study Groups

Open Study is a new collaborative study service developed and funded in part by Georgia Tech, Emory University, and the National Science Fo...

Scribd and Apture Make PDFs Interactive

Scribd , a PDF publishing service, has now integrated Apture search technology to make PDFs interactive. Now anytime you're reading a d...

Google Demo Slam - Short Tech Demos

Google Demo Slam is a new Google site featuring short tech demonstrations. The idea of the site is to have people compete to make the best ...