My Most Popular Ed Tech Posts of the Month

Good morning from rainy Maine where the cold, rain, and colorful leaves remove all doubt about which season we're in. It's the last ...

iBrainstorm - Shared Brainstorming on iPads

I was recently going through my archives looking for some brainstorming and mind mapping apps when I "rediscovered" iBrainstorm.  ...

Jump Share - Simple Drag and Drop File Sharing

Jumpshare is a free service that anyone can use to quickly send files to another person. To use Jumpshare just visit the site and drag a fi...

Blog Under Maintenance

If you're visiting Free Technology for Teachers between 2:00am and 6am Eastern Time the blog might look a little out of sorts. I'm w...

Silk Slides - An Easy Way to Share & Discuss Slides

Silk Slides is a new service for easily sharing and discussing slideshows. It is very easy to use the service. To get started just upload y...

Weekend Project - Apply for the Google Teacher Academy

The deadline to apply for the next Google Teacher Academy is on October 4 next week. I'm sure that there are people who will be working...

Week in Review - 50,000 Subscribers!

Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters on Alcohol Mary Road in Greenwood, Maine. My road is a small dirt roa...

ScootPad - Students Practice Skills from Any Device and Teachers Get Instant Feedback Too

ScootPad is a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers. ScootPad ...

State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet

NASA's State of Flux image collection features before and after pictures  of more than 200 locations worldwide. The satellite images sh...

Is Mozilla Persona the Universal Sign-in Schools Have Been Waiting For?

Many services that we all like have the option to sign-in with Facebook and Twitter profiles. While these options are convenient (people rar...

A Student Presidential Debate Contest

The National Forensic League has launched a presidential debate contest for students. The contest asks students to submit five minute video...

Thinglink Adds a New Commenting Option

Thinglink , the interactive and collaborative image creation tool that I've covered a lot, recently introduced a new option for commenti...

ClassDoJo Adds Bulk Report Downloads

Yesterday, I received this email from ClassDoJo and probably many of you got the same one. The email announced some new features for Class...

Pin-a-Tale - A Map of British Literature

The British Library recently started a crowd-sourced mapping project. Pin-a-Tale is a map of places that have influenced British literatur...

United Classrooms - Connect Your Classroom With the World

United Classrooms is a service connecting classrooms across the world. The service allows teachers to create classroom profile pages. On th...

My Link Cloud - A Beautiful iGoogle Alternative

My Link Cloud is a new service that could fill the space being left behind by the impending closure of iGoogle. My Link Cloud allows you to...

Explore the Ocean With Google Maps

Google Earth has had ocean imagery and tours for a while now. You can see a list of ocean tours here . Now you can see underwater ocean imag...

Pinside - Collaborative Sticky Notes

Pinside is a free online sticky note service. Pinside can be used to create boards of notes for yourself or boards to share with others. Yo...

Use Box to Share Files and Folders

About a month ago I posted an informal Twitter survey asking people if they preferred Dropbox or Box for file storage and sharing. Quite a...

A Digital Citizenship Guide from Edmodo and Common Sense Media

Edmodo and Common Sense Media have partnered to create a digital citizenship starter kit . This seven page PDF contains a three part lesson ...

Tag My Doc - Adds Dropbox and Box Integration

Tag My Doc is a neat service that allows you to put QR codes on any of your documents. I initially tried it out and reviewed it here last ...

Wikispaces Introduces a Nice New Website Style

One of the questions that I am often asked is, "should I create a wiki or a website?" For a while my answer has often been to use ...

Problem Attic - Quickly Create Practice Assessments

Problem Attic is a free service that allows you to quickly create practice tests and flashcards for social studies, language arts, mathemat...

Historical Thinking Matters - Multimedia Investigations in U.S. History

Historical Thinking Matters features four fantastic historical thinking investigation activities for students. Through the investigations s...

Organize and Share Lesson Resources on Claco

Back in March I wrote about a new social network for teachers called Class Connect . Since then Class Connect's founder Eric Simons has ...

Google Books for Android Gets Handy Updates

Google Books for Android has become my go-to reading app on my Nexus 7 and on my Galaxy Tablets over the last year. The wealth of free publi...

7 Places to Find & Watch Documentaries Online

It was in the fifth grade while watching a film (yes, a film with two reels) about Plymouth Plantation that I first realized I enjoy watchin...

Play the Election - Games for Learning About the U.S. Presidential Election

Play the Election from Rand McNally is a collection of games and lessons for learning and teaching about the 2012 U.S. Presidential Electio...

Study Champs Offers Math, English, and Science Practice Activities

Study Champs is a free service offering online practice quizzes in mathematics, language arts, and science. The online quizzes are essentia...