July's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

It's almost hard for me to believe that July is coming to an end in just a few hours from now. I hope that all of you have had a chance ...

Websites Like - Find Related Sites and Tools

If you have ever found a website that you really like and wished that there were more like, Websites Like is a website you should try. Webs...

Website on Steroids: Creating a Powerful Blog

This is a guest post from Dan Klumper. The topic of using blogs in education is nothing new. One thing I have noticed over the years is th...

Practice Piano With JoyTunes for iPad

JoyTunes is a small collection of iPad apps that I reviewed earlier this summer . JoyTunes builds apps that you can use to practice piano a...

Try Duolingo to Learn Spanish, German, and French

Duolingo is a free site on which you can learn Spanish, German, and French. To learn on Duolingo you read, listen to, and translate words a...

Grading Made Easy with Diigo & Jing

This is a guest post from Rebecca Johnson. Both Diigo and Jing have been written about on numerous occasions here at the Free Technology ...

A Short Review of the Nexus 7

When I pulled into my driveway on Friday evening there were two boxes waiting for me. One contained new mountain biking clothing. The other ...

Exploring the Olympics on Google Earth and Google Maps

If you've been watching the Olympic Games and wondering how you might incorporate them in your classroom, here are couple of resources t...

Beyond the App - You Found an App, Now What?

This is a guest post from Sarah Emerling . With all of the technology integration and the plethora of academic apps flooding the market, t...

This Week's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

This week I was in Limestone, Maine participating and teaching during the Maine School of Science and Math's STEM conference. In the eve...

Conduct Conference Calls for Free on Speek

Speek is a free conference call service that I learned about a few weeks ago on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. When you sign-up for Speek you ...

Draw On Your Phone or Tablet to Search Google

This afternoon Google released a new way to search on your iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, and Android phone. Now instead of typing your quer...

Monosnap Is a Promising New Screen Capture Tool

There are many good screen capture tools available on the web today. Some of my favorites are listed here . Today, I found a new screen capt...

How to Make a Meerkat

National Geographic Education has a fun puppet building activity that I recently Stumbled Upon . Build a Meerkat is a lesson designed for s...

Make Fitness Fun with Google Maps

In the past I've written about using Google Maps in a physical education and or health education class to have students map walking and ...

Manage Group Tasks Online & Offline With WeDoIst

ToDoIst  and its sister service WeDoIst are task management tools that I've covered a couple of times in the past. Most recently I incl...

Bad Math in the Real World

A couple of years ago I stopped into a McDonald's restaurant to grab a quick snack. At the counter there was a sign advertising two app...

Try Pearltrees for iPhone and iPad

Pearltrees is a nice tool for visually organizing pictures, links, and videos that you find on the web. Pearltrees are webs of the links, i...

A New Tool for Choosing a Creative Commons License

Creative Commons licensing can be a good way to explicitly state the terms by which people can use and re-use your creative written, audio, ...

Eating Crow... Or the Speed of Wikipedia Editing

This morning at the Maine School of Science and Math my Google workshop went off the rails a bit when the topic of Wikipedia reliability cam...

Use the YouTube Upload Widget to Collect Videos from Students

Last week YouTube released two new tools that you can put into your website or blog to collect video feedback from visitors. The YouTube Up...

Two Days of Learning With Dan Meyer

As I mentioned yesterday , this week I'm facilitating some workshops at the Maine School of Science and Math. Last night's keynote w...

Meograph Opens Four Dimensional Storytelling to Everyone

Meograph is a new digital storytelling tool that I wrote about in the spring. At the time it was in a closed beta period. Over the weekend ...

101 Math Questions

This evening I had the pleasure of hearing Dan Meyer give the keynote at the Maine School of Science and Math's Educator Summer Camp. I...

Aviary to Close Their Advanced Suite

For the last two years I've been a big fan of Aviary's advanced suite of online image editing and sound editing tools. Aviary's...

Five Tools for Modern Postcard Lessons

Yesterday, I found a postcard creation tool and lesson on Read Write Think. The RWT Postcard Creator walks students through the process of ...

This Week's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

Good morning from Maine where I am home and relaxing after a week of workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Ed Tech Teacher . Thank you ...

5 Ways to Use Google Sites in Schools

Over the last two weeks I've had five occasions to work with teachers to either develop new websites or improve existing websites in Go...

BoomWriter Offers Collaborative Publishing for Kids

This week I had the opportunity to have dinner with Ken Haynes, one of the co-founders of BoomWriter , to talk about what his service offers...

MIT Video - More Than 10,000 Educational Videos

Last night I stumbled upon this video of David Breashears presenting at the Cambridge Science Festival. The video is hosted by MIT Video ...

We Choose the Moon and Other Apollo 11 Resources

Today is the 43rd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepping onto the moon. Here are some resources for teaching and learning ab...