Visualizing Early Washington, DC

The I maging Research Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore County has undertaken a project to visually and virtually recreate th...

View Mark Twain's Sketches and More at The Morgan Library & Museum

This afternoon I went on a long session of link chasing that started at this article on Read Write Web and ended at The Morgan Library &...

Free eBook for Learning the Basics of xHTML

Make Use Of recently released another good free ebook for folks interested in learning all things techy. How to Speak "Internet" ...

Register Your Class for Scholastic's Summer Reading Challenge

For the fifth year in a row Scholastic is holding a summer reading challenge for students. By joining the summer reading challenge students...

Month in Review - May's Most Popular Posts

Greetings from Maine where the weather has finally turned for the better.  The picture to the left will attest to that. That's the head ...

The Science of Hitting a Baseball or a Softball

Sport Science on ESPN.com has couple of videos that are relevant as school winds-down and kids turn their attention to Little League baseba...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - The Kartal

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is The Kartal . The Kartal, produced by Explore.org , is a short video featuring the traditi...

What Else Should I Read This Summer?

Yesterday, I met my mother and step-father in Portland for lunch (I had meatloaf, it was delicious). Since I was in the big city, I took som...

Boom Writer - Collaborative Publishing for Kids

Boom Writer is a service designed to encourage kids to do their best writing and share it with each other to create a small book. Boom Writ...

Guest Post - Sources of Funding and Free Stuff for Teachers

  by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Teachers have always had to scrounge for funding and the current economic situation only ...

Zondle - Games to Support Learning

Zondle is a provider of free games designed to help students practice recalling information. Zondle offers hundreds of combinations of topi...

America The Story of Us - Lesson Resources & More

This morning I turned on the television and saw that the History Channel was running a marathon presentation of their documentary series Ame...

Week in Review - A Big Thank You

I have to start this week in review by saying thank you to everyone that emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, and commented in support of my effort...

A Technology Integration Matrix with Video Examples

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology has a fantastic technology integration matrix for teachers. The matrix, which I learned ab...

EasyBib Comes to the iPhone and iPad

The popular citation generation tool EasyBib recently released a free iPhone and iPad application . Probably the neatest aspect of the Easy...

Stop Blaming the Technology

Warning, this is an editorial rant about plagiarism in response to the dealings I've had this week with a person who has been stealing b...

How to Create a Movie Using JayCut

Yesterday I announced that Free Technology for Teachers and Next Vista for Learning had partnered to create the first Made in the Cloud V...

We Choose the Moon - 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago today President Kennedy announced to Congress that the United States would put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960&...

Compare & Contrast Map - A Writing Template

Read Write Think is a good source of interactive writing templates. I've previously featured a handful of their templates including thi...

Videographics - Short Modern History Videos

The Economist is a magazine that I enjoy reading when I have the time to sit down and fully digest an issue. Recently, I was exploring thei...

ESOL Courses - Free Online English Lesson Activities

ESOL Courses is a good source of free online activities for English language learners. ESOL Courses provides activities for everyone from ...

Made in the Cloud - A Video Contest for Teachers and Students

Image Credit: Capt. Kodak Lights, Camera, Action! It's time to start creating videos for the Made in the Cloud Video Contest! In collabo...

Two from the Archive - So Your Content Got Stolen, Now What?

I see some of my individual blog posts re-used improperly at least once a week. At this point I've kind of come to expect that and don&#...

ISS Astro Viewer - Track the International Space Station

ISS Astro Viewer is a neat little use of Google Maps to track the position of the International Space Station. The ISS Astro Viewer shows v...

Dozens of SMART Board Tutorial Videos

Fusion Universal produces short instructional videos about a wide range of technology topics. A subscription is required for viewing most o...

Great Wall Across the Yangtze - Snag Learning Film of the Week

China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The completion of the dam is regarded by Chinese officials as a...