Every Third Bite - A Video All About Bees

Every Third Bite is a short (9 minutes) video all about the rapid disappearance of millions bees. The video, hosted on Snag Learning , exam...

CNN Student News - Protests in Egypt

Over the last few days I've had a lot of people ask me for resources about Egypt. The last 72 hours have been kind of hectic for me and ...

Blogging Challenge - Widgets, Widgets, & Widgets

Today, activity 7 was posted on the Edublogs Kickstart Your Blogging Challenge . Activity 7 is all about widgets and sidebar content for yo...

The Story of Bottled Water

A recent post on the Environmental Graffiti blog, Where Does Drinking Water Get Its Taste? reminded me of the Story of Bottled Water video...

Book Lamp - A Book Recommendation Engine

Book Lamp is a new service that aims to help readers find new books that they might enjoy. Once you've registered on Book Lamp you can...

My Fake Wall - Create a Fake Facebook Wall

My Fakewall is no longer functioning. Last summer I shared with you a Google Docs template for creating fake Facebook profiles. That templa...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

The weekend is here and as I do every weekend, I've compiled a list of the most popular posts of the week. If you've had a busy week...

11 Resources for Teaching & Learning Web Safety

Over the last three plus years I've reviewed a lot of resources related to web safety. Here are some of my favorite resources for teachi...

Quicklyst - A Quick Way to Create Outlines

Quicklyst is a nice tool for taking notes and creating outlines. Quicklyst provides a simple outline template that you can use to take not...

Remembering the Challenger 25 Years Later

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion CNN Student News has included a segment about how Christa McAuliffe is still inspi...

What Was There? - Mapped Historical Images

What Was There is a good example of using Google Maps to show the way places used to look. What Was There allows registered users to uploa...

Meet Me At Midnight - A Smithsonian Art Adventure

Meet Me At Midnight is an online art adventure produced by the Smithsonian. The purpose of Meet Me At Midnight is to introduce students in...

Surfboard - Display Any Website In a Flippable Style

Surfboard is a neat little service that displays any website in a flippable newspaper-like display. To use Surfboard all you have to do is...

Video - A Time Lapse Tour of Yosemite

Larry Ferlazzo's recent post about a Yosemite Park slideshow reminded me of some neat videos that I came across a couple of weeks ago. ...

Wow! Qwiki is Engaging

In the last 48 hours since they opened up to the world, I've had numerous people tell me that I had to check out Qwiki . I finally did c...

3 Clutter-free Ways to Display YouTube Videos

I'm slowly starting to hear more instances of schools allowing teachers and students to access YouTube in their classrooms. Last week a ...

Rethinking Education - Do You Want to be a Part?

Rethinking Education is a new video from Dr. Michael Wesch . I saw the video on Dr. Scott McLeod's blog yesterday and have since watch...

The State of the Union - Video & Text

Last night President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union Address. In addition to all of the usual major media outlets, the address...

Google Adds an Education Category to the Apps Marketplace

The Google Apps Marketplace has had some good education applications since its launch last year. At that time I showed you how to add servic...

A Good List of Google Search Tricks

In late 2009 I published a short ebook containing 15 tips and tools for helping students improve their Internet search results. Then in lat...

Zoom.it - Display Large Images in Small Spaces

Zoom.it is a neat application for displaying large images in blogs, wikis, and websites. Zoom.it creates a display of your images in a for...

By the Numbers - Small Business in the US & Abroad

Almost without fail if you listen to any American politician talk for a while, you will eventually hear him or her talk about the importance...

10,000 Newspapers On Google Maps

Newspaper Map is a new tool for locating and reading newspapers from locations all around the world. Newspaper Map claims to have geolocate...

Ten Years of Wikipedia Animated

Wikipedia turned ten years old this month. Like anything that lives for ten years, Wikipedia has changed over those years. The State of Wiki...

Planet Orange - Money Lessons for K-6 Students

Planet Orange is a website developed by ING Direct for the purpose of helping elementary school students learn some basic money skills. Th...

Clorox Offers Free Lesson Plans About Germs

In an effort to help elementary school teachers educate their students about germs and disease prevention (and to sell disinfectant) Clorox ...

Backchan.nl - A Backchannel With Voting Features

Backchan.nl is an open-source backchannel tool developed at the MIT Media Lab. Using Backchan.nl you can create an online forum through w...

Kippt - Share Bookmarks Across Devices and Networks

Kippt is a free service designed to enable sharing of bookmarks and notes between devices and social networks. On your computer and on your...

Easel - Algebra & SAT Tutoring on Your iPad

Easel is an educational iPad App that was recently recognized at TechCrunch's Crunchies Awards . Easel provides a canvas for working o...

What's in a Surname? - A Map of Names

The February issue of National Geographic includes a neat mapped display of surnames across the United States. Titled What's in a Surna...

Week in Review - Math Remains on Top

A good Saturday morning (day, evening) to you from snowy and cold Maine. This week in Maine we had the trifecta of snow-related alterations ...

Good Guides to Understanding Your PC Inside & Out

Make Use Of is one of my favorite tech sites because almost every day I find something useful on it. Yesterday, I discovered Your PC Inside...

YouTube Invites You to Ask President Obama

Next week on January 27 at 2:30pm (EST) President Obama will respond, in a live interview, to questions asked by citizens through YouTube. S...

What is the Flu? What is a Cold?

If the pharmaceutical commercials on television are any indication, we're right in the middle of cold and flu season. What is the differ...