Month in Review - June's Most Popular Posts

It's hard to believe that it will be July in a few hours (is already July for my friends in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia). I hope...

Many Books - 29,000 Free eBooks

Many Books is a service that has indexed more than 29,000 free ebooks that are available in a variety of formats for a variety of devices. ...

Animaps - Create Animated Google Maps

Animaps is a new service that was built for the purpose of allowing users to create animated Google Maps. The basics of creating maps in An...

Create Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

Earlier this week I was one of the instructors at the Ed Tech Teacher Teaching History With Technology workshop. Through one of the other i...

Socrative Student Response System

My name is Dennis Villano and I am the Director of Technology Integration for Burlington (MA) Public Schools. Thank you to Richard for this ...

7 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online

Yesterday, I gave a short presentation on digital storytelling to the folks in attendance at the Ed Tech Teacher Teaching History With Tech...

Weaving History - Create Timelines with Maps to Match

Weaving History is a promising website for history students and teachers. The purpose of Weaving History is to enable users to create timel...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Disconnected

How long could your students go without going online? In 2008 three Carleton College students tested that question on themselves. Disconnec...

Tools for Creating Strong Passwords

As more and more of the important information in our lives moves online it becomes more and more important to use strong passwords. In addit...

BBC Witness Podcasts - History Told By Those Who Experienced It

Earlier today I asked my Twitter network to share some of their favorite history podcasts. One of the podcasts that was mentioned over and ...

Tildee - Create, Share, and Find Tech Tutorials

Tildee is a good site for creating, sharing, and locating tutorials for all kinds of technology-related things. Tildee provides a template ...

Cite Bite - Link Directly to Quotes in Webpages

Cite Bite is a simple tool for creating a direct link to a passage of text on a webpage. It's a simple process to create a direct link ...

9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images

When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see. But as...

Notes.io - Quickly Take and Share Notes

Notes.io is a new service that offers a simple platform for taking and sharing notes. To use Notes.io just go to the site and start typing...

Show Me App Now Available - Create & Share Lessons on an iPad

Show Me is an iPad app that I initially wrote about in April. At that time the app wasn't available to everyone, today it is. Show Me i...

Desmos - A Graphing Calculator in Your Browser

Desmos is a new company that has created a fully functional, browser-based   graphing calculator . The calculator performs all of the funct...

Common Core Standards on Your Mobile Device

Mastery Connect recently launched a free app for Android and iOS that is designed to help educators quickly locate the common core standard...

Experience Some of ISTE Without Being There

If, like me, you're not attending the annual ISTE Conference this year you can still experience and participate in some of it through I...

Video - Man as Industrial Palace

In Man as Industrial Palace Henning Lederer brings this famous drawing to life. In the two minute video viewers will see how the human bod...

Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus is a narrated and illustrated explanation of the Stuxnet virus. The does a good job of explaining how ...

From the Tallest Mountains to the Deepest Ocean Trenches

Our Amazing Planet recently published a large infographic featuring the highest and lowest places on Earth. The infographic shows the heig...

Juice Defender - A Battery Preservation App

Between yesterday and today I spent nineteen hours in airplanes and airports (that's why no new blog posts appeared yesterday). During t...

7 Tips for ISTE Newbies

A couple of years ago I received the good fortune to attend NECC (now called ISTE) as the NECC Newbie. NECC/ISTE Newbie was an experiment in...

How to Use Google Bookmarks

One of the parts of the Google Across the Curriculum workshop that I ran today was about using Google Bookmarks . For most of the participan...

Folder Boy - Capture, Share, and Organize Ideas

Folder Boy is a new service for recording, sharing, and organizing ideas with a team. At its most basic Folder Boy helps you organize your ...

Cleopatra's Alexandria an Interactive Map

This month's National Geographic cover story is all about Cleopatra . This month NGM.com has some nice resources to support the print ...

Mr. Printables - Flashcards and More for K-2

Mr. Printables is a nice little resource for locating printable flashcards, games, puzzles, coloring pages, calendars, and more. The flashc...

What an Astronaut's Camera Sees

What an Astronaut's Camera Sees is an impressive narrated video of images of Earth as captured from space. The video is narrated by Dr....

Visions of Students Today - A Video Collage

Over the weekend Michael Wesch and his students launched Visions of Students Today . Many of you may be familiar with A Vision of Students T...

Ten Marks Summer Mathematics Learning

Last fall I wrote about  Ten Marks ' launch of a free program for teachers  called  Ten Marks for Educators . Ten Marks for Educators pr...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Lakshmi and Me

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Lakshmi and Me . Lakshmi and Me takes a look at India's ancient caste system through a...

Free Math Lessons at Free Math Help

Free Math Help , as the name implies, offers students free mathematics tutorials. Tutorials are available as text based lessons or narrate...

Best of 2011 So Far - Flubaroo

Now that my school year is over I'm taking a short fly fishing vacation. The posts for the rest of the week highlight my favorite resour...