YapTime - A Place to Share, Collaborate, and Organize

YapTime is a new entry into the "create your own social network" market. YapTime offers a free service for creating and hosting ...

Zapd - Create Websites from Your iPhone

Zapd is a new free iPhone application for creating websites on the go. Zapd is designed to allow you to create a mobile-optimized website f...

SMART Notebook Search Engine

Google Custom Search allows anyone to create his or her own search engine. The benefit of this is that you can create a very subject specif...

Catch - Capture Notes from Almost Anywhere

Catch is a service that allows you to create bookmarks, text notes, voice notes, and images anytime you're on the web. Catch offers br...

Online Music Lessons, Quizzes, and Games

Image Credit: Jazzmanian Music Tech Teacher is a site developed by a music technology teacher, Ms. Karen Garrett, in Birmingham, Alabama. On...

Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Over the years I've written about many different ways that Google tools can be used in the classroom. In fact, there are so many Google ...

What Would Darwin Think? Man Versus the Galapagos

This week's Snag Learning film of the week is What Would Darwin Think? Man Versus the Galapagos . This 25 minute film provides an overv...

Google +1 Adds Recommendations to Search Results

Google has had a real-time search option for quite a while now. Real-time search pulls in results from social media sites. Results from soci...

New Street View Imagery of Historic Sites in Italy & France

For more than a year now Google has been going off road with motorized tricycles and snowmobiles to capture imagery for Google Maps Street ...

Twitter and Twitter Search in Plain English

I was recently hired to facilitate a short workshop about using social media in high school social studies courses. One of the elements of t...

Zendo - Take Notes and Create Flashcards at the Same Time

Zen.do is a new service that aims to help students develop study materials while taking lecture notes. The basic idea behind Zen.do is this...

Infographic - The Cost of Dropping Out

The school district I work in has a stated goal of having 80% of graduate go on to pursue post-secondary education.We (my school district) h...

What's New In Firefox 4

Last week Firefox 4 was released and I downloaded it on all of the computers that I use. After a day of using it exclusively, I Tweeted tha...

3 Ways to Privately Share Videos

Videos are great for sharing the highlights of school events. That said, there are some parents who don't want videos of their children ...

Scrumblr - Simple Online Sticky Note Sharing

Scrumblr is a new site that provides an online space to create and share sticky notes with a group. Scrumblr can be used by anyone to quick...

Excellent Free Ebook - How the Internet Works

So you and your students use the Internet everyday, but are you fluent in its language? Perhaps you've found yourself listening to a ...

If It Were My Home - Quick Comparisons of Countries

If It Were My Home is a neat site that I mentioned last June in reference to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. At that time If It Were My H...

What's a Motel Kid? Do You Have One in Your Classroom?

Last night I stumbled across a CNN video titled What's a Motel Kid ? The short video is in part about families who live in motel rooms b...

Video - Tony Gwynn and the Dangers of Tobacco

The lead story on this morning's episode of ESPN's Outside the Lines was about Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn's struggle wit...

A Nice Online Catalog of New Resources

Two of my favorite Google Certified Teachers, Joyce Valenza and Kristen Swanson , have assembled a good collection of Web 2.0 tools and gui...

Lots of Great Public Domain Images of Nature

See that beautiful bald eagle image to the left? I found it on the site of Ken Thomas . That image and dozens of other great images of anima...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Items

Good morning from Maine where it is feeling like spring again. Blue jays are buzzing around making "Window TV" much more entertain...

Three New Ways to Create Videos in YouTube

Last June YouTube launched a video editor for creating mash-ups of your video clips or editing raw video footage. This week YouTube introdu...

Friendly Reminder: Back-up Your Files

Earlier today I saw a look of panic and horror on the face of one of my colleagues when he realized that he couldn't find his 8gb flash ...

Goodbye Instructify, We'll Miss You

I just read the news, Instructify is signing off . For more than three years Instructify has been one of the first blogs I read in my RSS re...

The Week in Rap

It has been a while since I've posted The Week in Rap . For those that haven't seen it before, The Week in Rap is a short overview ...

CNN Student News - Gas, Cars, and Peanuts

This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a couple of stories that students could find relevant to their lives and enjoy a lively ...

Update Your Old Google Documents

Last year Google introduced a new editor for Google Documents. The new editor included a bunch of new formatting and collaboration features....

Thought Boxes - Organize Your Thoughts

Thought Boxes is a task management service with a hint of mind mapping in its user interface. At its most basic Thought Boxes is a place t...

Manga High - Math Games Teachers Can Monitor

Manga High has been online since 2009, but I haven't written about it before because they charged for many of their features. That has c...

New York Philharmonic Archives Are Now Online

The New York Philharmonic is putting its archives online. While the entire collection is not yet digitized and online, there is a lot of go...

Two Simple Tools To Help Teachers and Students

Image Credit: Chris Gebert Think about the last time you tried to get all of the students in your classroom on the same webpage at the same ...

Webinar - Connecting Classrooms

Tomorrow at 3:15pm EST and again at 7:15pm EST MLTI technology integration mentor Jim Wells will be hosting a webinar about connecting cla...

Quickly Grade Quizzes With Flubaroo

Two of the most popular posts of 2010 dealt with creating quizzes in Google Docs. Last March in Google for Teachers I provided directions f...

Lego City Comic Builder

Like a lot of people, as a kid I loved playing with Legos. So when I learned that Lego offers a comic creator I had to try it out. At Lego C...

Infographic - Statistics About Japan

The damage from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11 is astounding. Although it will be a long time before a final statistical an...

Can Your Classmates Learn from Your Work?

This week the students in my global studies course finished up the short informational videos that they were creating about Egypt and Libya....

Finding Cool Places in Google Earth and Maps

You can look at all kinds of interesting places in Google Earth and Maps if you search correctly and long enough. But if you're searchin...

Peru's Puzzling Lines

The cover story on this month's issue of National Geographic is The Genius of the Inca . Throughout the issue there are stories, images,...

Kids Bowl Free Again This Summer

For the last couple of years bowling alleys across the US have given away hundreds of thousands of games of bowling to students. Kids Bowl F...

National Geographic Video - Tsunamis 101

Violent Earth , produced by National Geographic , is a film about the causes of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and hurricanes. I...

Lendle, A Kindle Lending Service, Shuts Down

One of February's more popular posts was about the Kindle book lending service Lendle. In a legal move that doesn't make a ton of se...

Tour CERN's Large Hadron Collider

360 Cities hosts 360 degree panoramas of landmarks around the world. (Turn on the 360 Cities layer in Google Earth for some great imagery)....

Touching Lives Through Theatre Grants

As school budgets continue to shrink across the country it is often extracurricular programs like drama clubs that see their funding disappe...

Learn Eight Languages in One Place

There are a lot of places on the web where you can find flashcards, games, and quizzes designed to help you learn a new language, I featured...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Aquafinito

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Aquafinito . Aquafinito is a short (8 minutes) film about bottled water. The film examin...