Month in Review - November's Most Popular Posts

Here are the ten most popular posts from the month of November, 2010. The list is based on the number of clicks and unique views of each pos...

Firefox Add-on - Simple Timer + Clocks

Simple Timer + Clocks is a Firefox add-on that offers count down timers, stop watch settings, and a clock reminder. Simple Timer + Clocks ...

Tours from Above - Aerial Views of Cities

Tours from Above hosts panoramic aerial imagery of cities and landmarks around the world. In all there are 49 panoramic aerial views of pla...

GeoGebra Help for Beginners

This post was inspired by a request for help from one of my colleagues. My colleague wanted to know more about how to use GeoGebra in his c...

Wylio - Creative Commons Images for Bloggers

Wylio is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. Wylio r...

Data Masher - State Data Mash-ups

Data Masher is a neat tool for creating visual comparisons of data sets about the United States. Data Masher displays data comparisons on m...

Google Apps for Education Webinar Recordings

Last week I posted the announcement about some Google Apps for Education webinars that are being held in December. If you miss those webina...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Immersion

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Immersion . Immersion is a short film (12 minutes) that illustrates the challenges ESL/EL...

A Benefit of Collecting Students' Work Online

One of the tasks of teaching that I've always struggled with is returning graded student work consistently on-time. Evaluating and assig...

CNN Student News - Tensions in Korean Peninsula

This morning's episode of CNN Student News leads off with a segment about the latest tensions between North Korea and South Korea. The ...

Why Can't We Walk in Straight Lines?

Last week on my way to school I heard an interesting story on NPR. The story, A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? examines an excerp...

3 Years, 3800 Posts, And A Lot of Learning

Image Credit: robokow Three years ago today I started Free Technology for Teachers . I didn't know much about blogging then, in fact I k...

North Korea v. South Korea Incident Map

The Guardian's Data Blog has created a map of every incidence of diplomatic or armed hostilities between North Korea and South Korea o...

Week in Review - Thanksgiving Edition

Greetings from Maine where winter has arrived in the form of snow and sleet turning my driveway into a skating rink. I hope everyone who cel...

Browse the Web Using Gestures

Four really smart guys in the Fluid Group at the MIT Media Lab have come up with a new way to browse the web that doesn't require a mou...

Save Paper - Reprint Me Calendars

If your school is anything like mine, when you go to a network printer you probably find quite a bit of wasted misprinted papers. Rather tha...

Enter the Group - Collaborative Project Management

Enter the Group is a new free service offering collaborative project management for groups. Enter the Group features a calendar, messaging...

Seven Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games

There are hundreds of places to find educational games and quizzes on the Internet. That said, sometimes you still cannot find quite what yo...

New Ways to Share Your Favorite Posts

I don't know why I've waited so long to do this, but I've finally added an Add This sharing widget to every post on Free Techno...

One Click Navigation in Street View

Google Street View has recently become easier to navigate. Until recently, moving from place to place in Street View required double-clicki...

Mark Your Calendars for Google Webinars

If you're interested in learning more about using Google Apps in the classroom, next month Google is hosting two webinars that you might...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating the holiday today! I hope everyone enjoys the day with the people they care about. For your Thank...

Put an Image Editor in Your Website

Aviary, a free image editing and sound editing service that I've featured on Free Technology for Teachers a number of times in the pas...

Create Drawings Online With Crayola

Walk into almost any elementary school classroom and Crayola products are there. For decades Crayola products have been used by children to...

The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings

Image Credit: WishUponaCupcake Yesterday, the National Archives' featured document was George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclam...

A Free Scientific Calculator for Your Website

Web2.0calc is a free online scientific calculator. While it won't replace the TI-84 Plus, it can do what your average high school stude...

Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film

Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film is an audio slideshow from The New York Times . The slideshow features the voice of George Yoshitake who is...

Google Apps Terminology Explanation

Someone asked me today for clarification on the differences between Google Apps. This is not an uncommon question because the terminology ca...

An Easy Way to Make Online Booklets

There are some good services on the web that will turn PDFs into books and booklets and some services that will even allow you to create emb...

You've Got Monkey Feet! - Fun Science Activities

Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley . Hey LHS Kids features some...

Buzz Dash Dashes Out of Business - Get Your Data

I just received an email from Buzz Dash, a polling service that has been mentioned a couple of times on Free Technology for Teachers , infor...

Synch Microsoft Office with Google Docs

If you're a Microsoft Office user who has been flirting with the idea of trying Google Docs or you've been dabbling in it but just h...

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

Absolute Zero is a NOVA program that originally aired in 2008. I recently stumbled upon it and thought it would be of interest to science t...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - The Luckiest Nut in the World

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is The Luckiest Nut in the World . The Luckiest Nut in the World is a short (8 minutes) vid...

Why I Write Free Technology for Teachers

This morning Scott McLeod posted a list of things that we would do if we were serious about educational technology. His list could be viewe...

Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos

This post was inspired by a request from a reader for a tool that can be used to mash-up YouTube clips. YouTube is full of great content tha...