Come Work With Me This Summer

This summer on the campus of Harvard University on July 25 and 26 I will be co-teaching with Tom Daccord Best Web 2.0 Tools & Apps for T...

Vyew - Host Online Conferences for Free

Last week I wrote about four ways to give short presentations online . This morning, through Kevin Jarrett's excellent blog , I learned ...

Class Blogs - Blogs for Classrooms

There is no shortage of blogging services available for free to teachers and school administrators. Some free services offer more features t...

Vocab Genii - Challenging Vocabulary Games

Vocab Genii is a new site offering challenging vocabulary games. The basic purpose of Vocab Genii  is to offer games that require players t...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Last Voyage of the Lusitania

The last US Veteran of WWI died yesterday at 110 years old. One of the events of WWI that is often included in lessons about WWI is the sin...

Study Boost - Study Through IM and Text

Students use instant messaging and text messaging to communicate with each other all day long. Study Boost knows this and is trying to leve...

Skype in the Classroom is Now Open

At the end of 2010 Skype announced that they were creating a directory of classrooms that want to connect with each other through Skype. Thi...

The Week in Review - Nebraska to Alaska

This week I had the great opportunity to work with teachers in Nebraska and Alaska. On Monday I was in Scottsbluff, Nebraska working with th...

Graph Google Books Over Time

A couple of months ago Google launched a new application in Google Labs (the experimental section of Google products) called the Books Ngram...

Protests Across the Middle East on a Google Map

Through the Google Lat Long blog I discovered a site called Storyful that is producing maps of the protests  in the Middle East and North ...

Hearing Loss - Causes and Prevention

You Want to Lose Your Ears? is an infographic produced by Big Oak for the Ear Plug Superstore . As you can see in the image below, the inf...

Advice and Instruction for Teaching Online

This is a bit of repost from December. I'm doing this for the great folks who were in attendance at the Alaska's Learning Network...

Twitter: Keeping Up With It All

Update for clarification: In this post Steven mentions Read It Later. Read It Later is now called Pocket. Thanks to Richard for allowing me ...

Video Guide to Conference Awesomeness

Earlier this month I shared with you Sacha Chua's great guide to conference awesomeness (her word choice). That guide is designed to he...

View All Microsoft Formats in Google Docs

Somehow I missed Google's announcement last Friday that the Google Docs viewer now supports all Microsoft Office file types. The viewer...

Customer Service and the Services We Choose

Image Credit: RW PhotoBug This is a guest post from Harold Shaw, Jr. Harold and I got started in the ed tech blog-o-sphere about the same a...

Maps Compare - Four Maps on One Page

Maps Compare is a site that allows you to compare Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Bing Maps, and Google Earth browser plug-in on one page. To use ...

Daqri - Build Your Own Augmented Reality

Daqri is a new service for creating augmented reality layers for your mobile devices. Daqri will enable users to create augmented reality p...

Wikispaces Now Offers Free Wikis to Higher Ed

To date, Wikispaces has given away more than 980,000 free advertising-free wikis to K-12 classrooms. Wikispaces has the stated goal of givi...

Teachers Interviewing Teachers - Reflective Practice

Image Credit: Rusty Sheriff In the last week I've been interviewed for two different blogs, Hack Education and Against the Wind . Last ...

Snag Learning Film - Going Hollywood: The War Years

This week's Snag Learning film of the week is Going Hollywood: The War Years . Using clips of films made in Hollywood studios during Wor...

Interactive Comic - The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allen Poe's T he Pit and the Pendulum (click link for free copy) was one of my favorite required readings when I was a middle sch...

Grammaropolis - Fun Grammar Games & Videos

Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech. Grammaropolis features cartoon characters ...

History of the U.S. Flag - Images and Video

This afternoon I found on Larry Ferlazzo's blog a neat little resource for US History teachers. US Flag: Its Meaning, Design, and Histo...

What We Pay For - Where Your Tax Dollars Go

In case you haven't seen the barrage of HR Block and Turbo Tax commercials on TV lately, tax season is upon us in the United States. For...

Library of Congress Virtual Tour

While perusing the app store yesterday I came across a wonderful, free app from the Library of Congress. It is a multi-faceted app that prov...

Listening to Our Students

Thank you Richard for inviting me to guest post at Free Tech 4 Teachers . Thank you for all you do every single day to share with teachers a...

My PD Resources Site - My Favorite Resources

It's 5:30am and I'm wide awake in Nebraska getting ready to give two presentations today for Nebraska ESU 13. While I was tweaking m...

A Fun Overview of the US Presidents

Many schools in the US are closed today for President's Day. For those who are in school today, here's a fun overview of the US Pre...

ISTE Newbie Project

My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent . I am passionate about helping teachers connect to one another and learn how to ...

My Interview on Hack Education and a FAQ

Audrey Watters who writes for Read Write Web and Hack Education recently asked to interview me for Hack Education. Audrey's write-up of ...

Four Ways to Give Short Presentations Online

Earlier this month I published a review of seven free services teachers can use to create and conduct online courses. Those services are go...

The US Presidents in Google Earth

Monday is President's Day in the United States. In celebration of that day, Google has published a new kmz file containing images and l...

VuSafe - A Safe Way to View YouTube in Schools

Whenever I go to a conference I like to take an informal poll about access to YouTube. I've never had much more than half of the respond...

Think Tutorial Now Offers More Than 1000 Tutorials

Think Tutorial is a site providing free, easy to follow tutorials on a variety of web services, software, and mobile applications. When I o...

Week in Review - North to Alaska

Good morning from Maine where after a brief thaw we're headed back into regular winter temperatures. And because I love the cold, I'...

The Awesome Library

The Awesome Library is a collection of more than 37,000 educational resources organized by academic category and sub-categories. For ex...