The Week and Month in Review

Morrison is tired after eating turkey. Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers World Headquarters in Woodstock, Maine. I hope th...

Wikihood World Browser - Part Map, Part Wikipedia

Wikihood World Browser is a neat combination of Google Maps and Wikipedia. The goal of Wikihood World Browser is to provide visual, geo-loc...

SummarizeThis Quickly Summarizes Long Passages of Text

SummarizeThis is a free tool that summarizes the main point(s) of long articles that you find on the web. To use SummarizeThis you just cop...

A Quick Tip for Shooting Better Video With Mobile Phones and Tablets

This morning on Google+ Tony Cacaccio shared a picture that offers a great tip for shooting better videos with your mobile phone or tablet....

A Simple Trick to Save You and Your Students Lots of Classroom Time

I've shared this advice in the past, but I recently shared it again during a workshop where it was a big hit. That experience reminded m...

iChrome - An iGoogle-like Option for Chrome Users

Many iGoogle alternatives have popped-up on the web over the last eighteen months or so. I was never a big iGoogle user so I didn't mis...

Two Survey / Polling Tools That Don't Require Registration

This evening I received an email from a teacher that was looking for a survey / poll creation tool that her students can use without having ...

eduCanon - Create, Assign, and Track Flipped Lesson Progress

eduCanon is a free service for creating, assigning, and tracking your students' progress on flipped lessons. eduCanon allows teachers t...

Energy Defined, the Making of Clouds, and More from NOVA Labs

The science course that enjoyed the most as an undergraduate was Meteorology so this evening when I discovered the NOVA Labs YouTube channe...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Good morning from my hometown of Manchester, Connecticut. This morning I'm going to watch the Manchester Road Race with the same childho...

Tutorial - How To Use the New Haiku Deck Web App

Over the weekend I shared my review and my first presentation created with the new Haiku Deck web app. I have received a handful of questi...

Class Central - Find the MOOC for You

It seems like every week a new MOOC is launched. It can be difficult to keep track of them all and or find one that addresses a subject of ...

Plural Words, A Silent "B," and the History of English

English is a tricky language. Silent letters and quirky rules about plural and possessive words will trip up native speakers as well as ESL ...

A Brief History of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Tomorrow morning one of the traditions that millions of Americans will participate in is watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. If you...

That Was History - A Good Series for Middle & High School Students

That Was History is a YouTube channel that I recently started following. Every week That Was History releases a video about interesting eve...

A Last Minute Thanksgiving Activity for Elementary School Students

If your school is not one that has given students this week off, these last two days before the Thanksgiving holiday can be tough. Here'...

The Science of American Football

Later this week after eating the Thanksgiving turkey many Americans will sit down to nap in front of watch football games. Your students co...

Free Digital Photos and a Guide to Citing Them

FreeDigitalPhotos.net is a new-to-me place to find digital images to re-use for free. FreeDigitalPhotos.net allows you download and re-use ...

How and Why You Might Want to Return to Classic Google Maps

About six months ago Google unveiled a new version of Google Maps and made it the default for people visiting maps.google.com. The new versi...

Healthline Body Maps - A Good Resource for Anatomy Lessons

Healthline Body Maps features interactive 3D models for learning about human anatomy. Body Maps allows you to zoom-in on specific parts of ...

Sanderling - Your Field Journal of Professional Development

Sanderling is a new community and Android app developed by An Estuary . Sanderling is part social network and part blogging tool. On Sander...

Create a Library of Google Scholar Search Results

As I mentioned last month in my post about creating Google Scholar alerts , Google Scholar is one of the research tools that high school stu...

The Edublog Awards - My Nomination - Vote for Larry

For the tenth year in a row Edublogs is hosting their annual celebration of teachers and school leaders. The Edublogs Awards nomination pro...

Math@Work - Discover Math Where You Might Not Expect It

Math@Work is a new video series from Scholastic. The seven part series features Project Runway's Tim Gunn showing students how math is ...

Paleontology 101 - Putting Together a Dinosaur Skeleton

Untamed Science and Pearson OLE recently published an extensive blog post about how dinosaurs are discovered and named. The full post inclu...

Practical Ed Tech Webinar - Blogging for Teachers and School Leaders

Over the last five years I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to facilitate many workshops on creating and using blogs in school. A...

The Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good evening from the Free Technology for Teachers World Headquarters in Woodstock, Maine. My dogs and I spent the day walking and enjoying...

MasteryConnect Adds Support for Google Drive and Dropbox Import

One of the many tools that MasteryConnect offers to teachers is a curriculum mapping tool that allows you to easily connect your current le...

Two Free Webinars on Video Creation

Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. On December 3rd Wideo is hosting two ...

Haiku Deck on the Web Might Make You Forget About All Other Slideshow Tools

This week the popular iPad app, Haiku Deck , became available as a web app too. The new web version of Haiku Deck brings all of the awesome ...

Smithsonian X 3D - Explore and Print 3D Models of Smithsonian Artifacts

Smithsonian X 3D offers a neat way for students to learn about artifacts from the Smithsonian museums. The site is the result of a collabor...

Azendoo - Organize Group Projects Through Documents and Skype Chats

Azendoo is a nice service designed to help teams divide and track project responsibilities. When I tried the service a few months ago the o...

ReadWorks Navigation Update

Earlier this week I shared some information about new content added to ReadWorks . In that post I included a video that tour of the website...

What Does John Locke Say? - A Fun Way to Learn About Locke

Like many high school Civics and Government teachers, when I taught Civics I started out with lessons on the works of John Locke. This morni...

Now You Can Domain-restrict Access to Your YouTube Videos

Google Apps for Education users who have Google+ enabled have a new privacy option available to them. The new option allows you to restrict ...

Two Fun Videos to End Geography Awareness Week

Today is the last day of Geography Awareness Week. As a fun conclusion to the week here are two classic geography videos courtesy of the Ani...

Before Plymouth, a History of Thanksgiving, and Thanksgivings Compared

By this time next Thursday many Americans will be plopped in front of a television, watching football, and or napping after eating Thanksgiv...

Student Blogging Activities That Don't Rely On Text

When we think about blogging we often think about writing. But the great thing about blogging is that it doesn’t have to be limited to writt...

PresentationTube Offers New Options for Recording and Sharing Presentations

PresentationTube is a free service that teachers can add narration to their PowerPoint presentations. When the service launched last winter...

How Pain Relievers Work - A TED-Ed Lesson

I can lose track of time jumping from one TED-Ed lesson to another. I was doing that last night when I came across How Do Pain Relievers Wor...

Presentation.io - Use Your Phone to Control Presentations and Share With Your Audience

Presentation.io is a service that helps your audience follow along with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by allowing the membe...