A Tale of Two Stories: Storyline Online & Storybird (Guest Post)

Richard asked me to be a guest blogger today. As a frequent reader of Free Technology for Teachers, I consider it quite an honor to contribu...

The Long and Winding Road

Motivating others to integrate technology ... What began almost four years ago, after attending in an in-district workshop on wikis, is f...

Guest Post - End of the school year approaches - lesson ideas and reflection

By David Andrade,  http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy We are quickly approaching the  end of the school year . Advanced Placement Exams start next...

Tearing Down Your Classroom Walls

Kara Cornejo-5 th grade teacher at Zion Lutheran School in St. Charles, Missouri.  Twitter: @karacornejo Skype: karacornejo Classr...

Crowd Sourcing Solutions to Teen Pregnancy - Guest Post

This is a guest post from Jim Sill. Jim is a Google Certified Teacher and all around good guy that I had the pleasure of meeting at ISTE las...

Using teaching as inquiry to guide an eLearning action plan

My name is Claire Amos and I am the Director of eLearning at Epsom Girls Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. I lead our ICT Professio...

Month in Review - April's Most Popular Posts

Greetings from Omaha, Nebraska where I've just finished a full day of presentations at the Nebraska Educational Technology Association...

EconStories.tv - Music Videos About Economics

Econ Stories is a great website that I just learned about through Lee Lefever's post on the Common Craft Blog . Econ Stories produces v...

A Brief History of Royal Weddings

When I turned on the television this morning, all I could find was coverage of the Royal Wedding and the NFL Draft. I can't make much of...

Resources for NETA Attendees and Those Who Wanted to Attend

I'm spending the day in Omaha, Nebraska presenting at NETA's annual conference. Below are links to the resources mentioned in my pre...

7 Simple To-do List Services for Students

Creating to-do lists and knocking off tasks one by one can help students not only prioritize and track tasks, it can also help them feel lik...

Lesson Plan - Develop a Business Plan for Yourself

This post is another follow-up to something I mentioned on Twitter today. Today, the students in my Global Identity and Interaction class (...

Cell Phones in Schools - My Experiences and More

This afternoon I Tweeted that I was thankful that my school allows teachers and students to use cell phones and social media in the classro...

Who Am I? A History Mystery

Who Am I? A History Mystery is a fun and challenging activity from the Smithsonian's The Price of Freedom online exhibit. Who Am I? pr...

Hunting for Oil - Snag Learning Film of the Week

This month marked one year from the beginning of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A year later people in the Gulf Coa...

Squrl - Collect Videos and Build Playlists from Many Sources

YouTube playlists are great, but if you want to organize a playlist of videos from multiple websites you might want to give Squrl a try. Sq...

Strike App - Set Up Tasks and Knock Them Down

Strike App is a simple to-do list creation and management tool. To use Strike App just title your list of things to do and start typing you...

Updated Google Tutorials Page

Readers who primarily read Free Technology for Teachers in RSS or email, may have forgotten that I have some static pages listed at the top...

ZangZing - Group Sharing of Photos from Many Sources

ZangZing is a new service, currently in an invite-only beta, that will allow you to collaborate on the creation of an online photo album. T...

iPad - Yes or No?

When Apple introduced the iPad, I sat back and watched as people lined-up to buy what appeared to me to be an over-sized iPod Touch. Despite...

Kwik Surveys - Create Surveys With Respondent Tracking

Kwik Surveys is a free survey tool that offers a bunch of excellent options. Kwik Surveys gives you the option to mix and match eleven dif...