The Month in Review - January's Most Popular Posts

It's hard to believe it, but the first month of 2012 is just about over (or is over depending on when and where you are reading this). 2...

An Animated Guide to Electric Circuits

The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is a neat series of interactive animations designed to help students of elementary and middle school a...

Announcify - A Great Text to Speech App

Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension and as an Android app . With Announcify in...

What is a Tsunami? A Video Explanation

Explania is a good place to find video explanations and interactive images that explain all kinds of things from the worlds of science, tec...

Meet and Learn About Maine's Black Bears

This morning I received an email from Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The email, which I'm sure every person wh...

Classroom 2.0 Fifth Anniversary Book - Call for Submissions

Like many of you, I am a member Classroom 2.0 . While I'm not as active in it as I would like to be (a man only has so many hours in a d...

Novels on Location

Novels on Location is neat use of Google Maps designed to help you find fiction works according to their geographical settings. When you vi...

Moglue - A Platform for Building Interactive eBooks

Moglue is a platform for creating interactive ebooks that can be viewed on iPads and soon will be available for viewing on Android tablets ...

You, Google, Ads, Search, and Privacy

As you probably know, Google's privacy policies were recently overhauled. The data that Google collects about your use of their services...

AudioLiterate - Stream and Download Audiobooks

AudioLiterate is a new website offering free and paid audiobooks that you can listen to online or download to listen to on your favorite de...

The Nature of Things - Man, Dog, and Genetics

The cover story of the February issue of National Geographic is all about dogs and the genetics that create so many variations of looks and ...

Seven Alternatives to Picnik

Last week Google announced another round of service and product closures. The popular image editing tool Picnik was included in the list of...

Newt Gingrich and Your Next Science Lesson

Don't worry, this is not a political editorial.  By now you've probably heard Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich's ...

Economy Map - Visualizations of the US Economy's Environmental Impact

Economy Map is an interactive visualization of the environmental impact of the U.S. economy. The visualization offers a series of graphs an...

Two Free Webinars In February

From the shameless self-promotion department: in February I will be the featured presenter for two different one webinars. The first, on Feb...

SOPA and PIPA Explained in an Infographic

SOPA and PIPA may have been tabled for now, but that doesn't mean those bills won't pop-up again in the future. If you're wonder...

The Faculty Project - Free Courses from University Professors

Udemy , an online course hosting service that I've previously written about , recently launched a new project called The Faculty Project...

Week in Review - The New Desk Edition

Good morning from Maine where I'm using the new workspace that I set up this week. The "some assembly required" aspect of the ...

Oolone - A Visual Search Engine That I Can Now Recommend

Earlier this week a few ed tech bloggers reported on a new visual search engine called Oolone . I, of course, had to check it out for myself...

Learn How to Build a Search Engine

Udacity is offering a new, free seven week Computer Science 101 course. The course promises to teach you everything you need to know to bui...

A Google Maps Lesson Idea - Seasonings Around the World

On Wednesday morning I came across a neat article on NPR titled A Trip Around the World, By Way of Seasonings . The article is part of a ser...

Alien Buddies - An iPad App for Learning Shapes, Numbers, Letters

Alien Buddies is an iPad and iPhone app designed for pre-k students to practice recognizing shapes, letters, and numbers. The app provides ...

Frozen Planet - An Interactive Exploration of the Poles

The Open University is a fantastic place to discover all kinds of valuable educational materials. From time to time I find myself getting l...

New Google in Education Ebook and Website

Yesterday, the Google Apps for Education team published a new ebook (PDF) titled A New and Open World for Learning . A New and Open World f...

New Google+ Safety Center for Teens, Parents, and Educators

Today, Google+ opened to students 13 years old or older. As ZDNet reported , in conjunction with opening Google+ to teenagers Google opened...

Five Resources for Visual Fractions Lessons

This is a list that I created in response to a request that I recently received as direct message on Twitter . A couple of these resources I...

Econ Ed Link - Economics Lessons and Games

Produced by the Council for Economic Education, Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students abo...

Check This - Quickly Build and Publish Webpages

Check This is a new service for quickly building and publishing webpages. As Robin Wauters wrote this week , Check This falls somewhere bet...

Win Technology Prizes for Your School

Full disclosure: the sponsor of this contest is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Even if they weren't an advertiser ther...

Seven Tools for Creating Data Visualizations

This morning I received an email asking me for some tools for creating data visualizations. Here are seven tools that students can use to bu...

A Great Collection of Cool Infographics on Pinterest

Cool Infographics is a great blog that I have mentioned numerous times in the past. Many of the infographics that I've shared, I discov...

Exchange Opportunities for U.S. Teachers and Administrators

The United States Department of State is currently offering a great opportunity for teachers and school administrators in the United States ...

Dozens of Examples of VoiceThread in Education

Earlier today, in a post about the California Gold Rush , I mentioned using VoiceThread in a lesson. In writing that post I neglected to me...

Building a Gold Mine

Last week I shared a list of lesson plans for teaching about historical gold rushes in North America. Yesterday, the National Archives'...

New Drag and Drop File Uploads in Wikispaces

The popular wiki-building service Wikispaces recently made an handy enhancement to their user interface. The new feature is the option to u...

State of the Union Address - Behind the Scenes and More

Last night President Obama delivered his 2012 State of the Union Address . Every US-based news website has coverage of the event. If you'...

Learn About Physics Through the Circus

In 2010 PBS aired a short series called Circus. Circus was a documentary about the Big Apple Circus. The show took viewers behind the scenes...