September's Ten Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

The end of September has arrived and I hope that everyone has settled into the routine of the new school year. As I do at the end of every m...

Build HTML5 Sites and More With Google Web Designer

Earlier today Google launched the public beta of Google Web Designer . Web Designer is a desktop application for creating interactive HTML5...

How to Receive an Email Alert When a Google Form Is Updated

This morning I answered an email from a reader who was looking for a way to be alerted whenever a student entered new information into the G...

Quickly Compare Two or More Things in Wolfram Alpha

In their 15th anniversary blog post last week, Google mentioned that you can now compare things by simply typing "compare" betwee...

The Shape of Life - Dozens of Biology Videos and Other Lesson Materials

The Shape of Life was an eight part television series developed by the Sea Studios Foundation, National Geographic, and PBS. The Shape of Li...

Using Google Image Search to Solve a Flea Market Mystery

Image credit: Becky White. This afternoon my friend Becky White posted on Facebook some pictures of the tea set that she found at a flea ma...

America's Credit History and a Credit Card Debt Story

Earlier this week I was having a conversation with a friend of mine when somehow our conversation turned to the topic of credit cards. She w...

The Week In Review - Apple Picking

Good morning from Maine where we have reached the prime apple-picking season. I going to pick some myself and perhaps make a pie (yes Mom, I...

Word Sense - See the Connections Between Words

Word Sense is a neat little service that is one part dictionary and one part thesaurus. When you enter a word into Word Sense it will show ...

Explain 3D - 3D Animations of Simple Machines

Explain 3D is a free site that offers a small of collection of 3D animations of simple machines. While the animations are free to view, you...

Seven Alternatives to iGoogle

As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, on November 1st Google will be discontinuing the iGoogle service. I was never a frequent user of...

The Sights and Sounds of Autumn

Earlier this month I shared a collection of resources for teaching about the changes in the seasons and the reason for leaves changing colo...

The Right to Food - An Interactive Story About Hunger

The Right to Food is an interactive story about the challenges of feeding the world's people. The story, produced by feedingminds.org, ...

Science Take - Short Science Videos from The New York Times

Thanks to Peter Vogel I recently learned about Science Take from The New York Times . Science Take is a new series of videos short (60-90 s...

Video - Wikispaces Online Workshop

Last Friday I shared a idea for collaboratively creating a book review site with your students. On Monday Jenny Murphy Tweeted me to share ...

On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use

For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects. Now YouTube is offering the same t...

How to Enable or Disable Google+ Settings in Blogger

If you use Blogger and or your students use Blogger, you may have noticed that Blogger is now automatically posting to Google+ whenever you ...

Ten Educational Games from Taking IT Global

Taking IT Global is an organization with a mission to empower youth to understand and act on the world's greatest challenges. I've w...

What Colors Communicate - A Visual Guide

Whenever I talk to students or teachers about slide design, digital portfolio design, or any other visual project one of the things that I t...

123D Circuits - Collaboratively Design Electronic Circuits

123D Circuits is a free tool from Autodesk and Circuits.io ( reviewed here ) for collaboratively designing electronic circuits online. On 1...

Problem Attic Expands Again - Quickly Create Practice Assessments

Problem Attic is a service that I reviewed when it launched last year. Since then it has continually expanded to the point that you can now...

Start Me - A Clean Start Page to Replace iGoogle

If you have been searching for a service to replace iGoogle (it will be shut down on November 1), you might not have to look any farther tha...

5 Warm-Up Exercises for Brainstorming

Before your next brainstorming session with students or colleagues try one of the warm-up activities suggested in this slideshow from Ethos...

The Halloween Tooth and Other Halloween-themed Resources from Scholastic

The chill in the air and the shorter days means that autumn is here and before too long kids will be thinking about Halloween costumes. Scho...

Videos - What If You Stopped Sleeping or Going Outside?

AsapScience recently released a couple of short videos that could fit well in middle school and high school health courses. What If You Sto...

Constitute - Search, Read, and Compare Constitutions

Google and the Comparative Constitution Project have launched a new site called Constitute . The site hosts the constitutions of 160 countr...

Six Resources to Help Students See the Effects of Climate Change

This month's issue of National Geographic includes a feature on glacial meltdown. Part of the online complement to that article is the i...

Learn Anatomy & Physiology With Study Jams

Earlier today on iPad Apps for School I reviewed an app that teaches children about human anatomy and physiology. If your students don'...

A Short Guide to Creating and Sharing Google Calendars

Creating a public Google Calendar and embedding it into your classroom blog is a great way to keep your students and their parents informed ...