Famigo - Find Family-Friendly Apps for Your Phone

If your child can't wait to grab the iPad or Android tablet out of your hands, Famigo is a website that you need to check out. Famigo ...

A Horse Connection

This week's Snag Learning film of the week is A Horse Connection . A Horse Connection is a short documentary about Nancy King, her equi...

YouTube Policy Myths Clarified

This morning on their official blog YouTube posted a list of nine common myths about YouTube policies . It's an informative list that I...

Speak It - Text to Speech in Google Chrome

Speak It is a Google Chrome extension that enables you to have the text on most webpages read to you. With Speak It installed just highligh...

My American Farms - Games for Learning About Agriculture

My American Farm is a website produced in part by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture. The purpose of the site is to help s...

Youngzine - News & More for Young Students

Youngzine is an online source of news, sports, and entertainment stories for elementary school students. Students will find stories to read...

Interactive Shaded Relief Map of the World

Google is continuously working to improve Google Maps, but there are still some things that it lacks. For those times when I want more detai...

QRPedia - QR Codes for Wikipedia Entries

QRPedia is a neat website that was featured on Read Write Web this morning. RWW called it "the coolest QR thingy ever made." I d...

Add Data Visualizations to Your Google Site

If you're a Google Docs users, and especially if you're a user of spreadsheets in Google Docs, you probably know that Google Docs ha...

What is CNG? An Animated Explanation

If your any part of your science or social studies curriculum deals with alternative fuel sources, Explania has a short video that may be o...

7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers

Introducing new technology tools to your students or to your colleagues can become a frustrating exercise if you end up repeating the same s...

File Info - What Kind of File Are You Receiving?

If you're in the habit of collecting assignments via email or in a Dropbox through a service like DropItToMe you've probably receiv...

Avoiding Burn-out - What's Your Advice?

The pay is low. The hours are long. You're almost guaranteed to catch the "cold of century" every year. We welcome new people ...

Doodlers Unite! The Positives in Doodling

In the TED Talk embedded below Sunni Brown , author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers , presents th...

Google Search Lesson Plans and Webinars

Give your students any kind of research assignment and for better or worse the first place they're likely to turn to is Google. As educa...

What's Delicious Doing Now? Making Stacks

Delicious , the popular social bookmarking site whose future has been in limbo since last December , just relaunched with a new feature they...

"Classic" Educational Videos

As I mentioned on Google+ this morning, even old videos can be informative sometimes. This morning my students were working on a quick in-c...

Vocalyze - Listen to the Web

Vocalyze is a free service that reads the content of popular websites to you. You can subscribe to popular sites across twelve different ca...

Aww App - A Collaborative Whiteboard that You Can Add to Your Site

Aww App is a super simple browser-based application for creating drawings. To get started just go to AwwApp.com and click on "start d...

TenMarks - A Free Math Program for Your Class

Disclosure: TenMarks recently became an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Prior to that I wrote about it a couple of times with...

JavaScript for Teachers - A Free Webinar

This is kind of late notice, but I just learned about this promising webinar and have to pass it along. Today, at 2pm PT, 5pm ET Google is h...

GeoGebraTube - Shared Resources for GeoGebra Users

GeoGebraTube is a community site for teachers who teach with GeoGebra to share and find a wide range free resources. On GeoGebraTube visit...

Concept Board Comes to Google+

Concept Board , a collaborative online whiteboard that I reviewed in August , recently released a Google Chrome App that integrates with Go...

Pronunciator - Lessons for Learning 60 Languages

Pronunciator is a free service offering self-paced lessons for sixty languages. Each lesson is comprised of flashcards that are read to vie...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine, USA where I'll be spending the morning on all of those housekeeping tasks that seem to slip through the cracks ...

Video - The Last U.S. Veteran of WWI

Frank W. Buckles was the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. He passed away in February of 2011 at age 110. In the video below, whic...

The Nature of Things: Man and Dog

I'm a little late this week in posting it, but here it is. This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is The Nature of Things: Man ...

Food for Thought - Schools for Tomorrow

Yesterday, The New York Times hosted their Schools for Tomorrow Conference. I'll admit that I don't know as much about it as I prob...

Are You On Google+

Earlier this week Google opened up Google+ to the world . I've been on it since late July but now that it's really open, I plan to s...

Reel App - Share Your Slides and Get Feedback Online

Reel App provides a nice service for sharing your PPT, PDF, and image files with the world. A lot of other services do the same. What Reel ...

We Video - Collaborative Online Video Editor

For the last two months since my favorite online video editing service JayCut got bought out by Blackberry , I've been looking for a new...

Vimeo Music Store - Find Free Music for Your Videos

I always encourage people to use their own music creations in the videos they produce, but I recognize that that is not always possible or p...

Beautiful Teenage Brains

The cover story on this month's issue of National Geographic is all about the brains of teenagers. As usual the National Geographic web...

The Aurora Borealis Explained in Five Minutes

Image Credit: Mabufeu One of the truly great displays of nature that I hope to see in person some day is the Aurora Borealis . A Google Imag...

Convert and Resize Images With Just One Click

Today's episode of Tekzilla Daily features a useful little program called Sage Thumbs . With Sage Thumbs installed on your Windows-base...

Vocabulary Widgets for Your Blog or Website

Last week, in response to one of my new teaching assignments, I posted a list of seven resources for teaching and learning vocabulary . Toda...

My Open Letter - A Simple Way to Share Letters to the World

Last month I wrote about five ways students can publish online in less than a minute . Today, I discovered another service that allows stude...

YouTube Teachers - Ideas for Using Videos in Your Classroom

YouTube Teachers is a new YouTube channel launched today by YouTube itself. The purpose of YouTube Teachers is to inform teachers about th...

Simple Meet Me - A Simple Way to Chat Online

Simple Meet Me is a free service for quickly creating an online chat room with anyone you like. To use the service just go to SimpleMeet.Me...

This is Real Democracy - A Music Video of Sorts

Ophir Kutiel , better known as Kutiman , is Internet-famous for his remixes of YouTube videos. His latest remix, titled  This is Real Democr...

Three Good Sites Where Teachers Can Learn Tech Skills

One of the obstacles that some teachers face when trying to use technology in their classrooms for the first time is lack of comfort and or ...

Google+ Adds Screen Sharing, Google Docs, and More!

Google+ , you know, that new social network that everyone is talking about but not everyone understands yet, has just added some awesome new...