The Month In Review - The Most Popular Posts

When in London... Good evening from Woodstock, Maine where it is a balmy 19F. It's hard to believe that the first month of the year is a...

Learning Pod - Practice, Create, and Distribute Quizzes

Learning Pod is a free service through which students can review thousands of practice questions on a wide variety of topics. Teachers can ...

60 Second Civics Offers Great Civics Lessons Starters

60 Second Civics is one of my favorite resources for lessons on U.S. civics and government. 60 Second Civics is a daily podcast produced by...

Videos - The TVA, the Hoover Dam, and More Stories of the Great Depression

After watching some of the Great Depression stories mentioned in my previous post I jumped into a set of videos from the US National Archive...

Watch and Listen to First Person Accounts of the Great Depression

When I taught units on the Great Depression I liked to use video and audio clips of first person accounts of the effects of the Great Depres...

How Electronics Work

A few years ago  Gizmodo ran a series of mostly video posts about the inner workings of electronics. The series of four posts featured vide...

Build Flow Charts With Connect-a-Sketch

Connect a Sketch is a free service intended to help people take their existing sketches and images and arrange them into an online flowchar...

Play Financial Football to Learn Some Money Management Skills

Practical Money Skills hosts a series of eight online games designed to teach students some money management skills. One of the games that ...

The Science of American Football

The Super Bowl is just a few days away. Take advantage of your students' interest in the big game and introduce some math and science co...

Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum

Six months ago I shared with you the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 400 free art history books . Now the Getty Museum...

Learn Spanish With Spanish Is Your Amigo

Spanish Is Your Amigo is a series of video lessons taught by YouTube EDU Guru Kristen Williams. The lessons are designed for beginner and i...

Linking Projects, Ideas, and Concepts with Popplet

This is a guest post from Beth Holland at EdTechTeacher.org which is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Recently, when looking...

Find a Slew of Cyber Safety Tips for Kids and Adults on Cyber Streetwise

As I was riding a train in London over the weekend I noticed an advertisement for Cyber Streetwise . I quickly punched it into my phone and ...

QuizBean Offers a New Option for Distributing Online Quizzes to Students

QuizBean is a nice platform for creating simple image-based quizzes that your students can complete online. The service allows you to assig...

New Text Formatting and Color Options Added to WeVideo

My favorite online video creation tool, WeVideo , has added some nice new text options for users. WeVideo has long offered tools for adding ...

TouchDevelop Helps Students Understand Programming

TouchDevelop is a great platform through which students can learn to program simple animations and games. Miles Berry gave an entertaining...

Remind 101 Adds Support for Sending Text Messages to Subgroups

Remind 101 has been busy to start 2014. Earlier this month they introduced the option to download your message history as a PDF . This week...

A Great Message from a Student About Autism Awareness

My friend Rushton Hurley recently sent me a video that a student had posted on Next Vista for Learning . The video , embedded below, feature...

Nature Sound Map - Listen to the Sounds of Nature All Over the World

Nature Sound Map provides a wonderful way to explore the soundscape of the natural world. On the Nature Sound Map you will find placemarks ...

In Praise of Instagram

One of the benefits of Instagram that I think gets overlooked by students and teachers is that by Instagramming you're building a libra...

Easyclass - A Free Multilingual Online Course Management System

Easyclass is a newer entry into the online course management market. When it comes to user interface, Easyclass lives up to its name by bei...

The Week In Review - Lost In London

Good morning from London where I have spent the last two days at BETT and TeachMeet BETT. The TeachMeet event was the highlight of the two d...

A Quick Way to See If a Website Is Down For Others or Just You

Down - get it?  A brief Twitter exchange that I had this afternoon with Mark Barnes reminded me of a handy site that I use on a fairly regu...

Get a Summary of Information About Sites in Google Search Results

Through Dan Russell's excellent Search ReSearch blog I learned that Google has recently added a potentially helpful new aspect to the s...

QuickCast Arrives in the Mac App Store

QuickCast is a free screencasting tool that I initially tried a few months ago. This week QuickCast became an official Mac app that you can...

Use Aurasma to Create Augmented Reality Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Activities

Aurasma is a free app for iPads, iPhones, and most Android devices. Using Aurasma you can create augmented reality layers, Aurasma calls th...

What a Cloakroom Can Teach Students About Web Search Strategies

I’m currently in London, England for the BETT Show and TeachMeet BETT 2014. As is the case with most flights going to Europe from the east ...

Teachit Timer - A Slick Classroom Activity Timer

I've tried a bunch of online timers in the past. Until now Online-Stopwatch.com was my favorite. Yesterday, Peter Vogel introduced me t...

Untangle the Web With Me, Adam Bellow, and Steve Dembo

Last year Adam Bellow and Steve Dembo published a book titled Untangling the Web . Next week I am going to join them for a Google+ Hangout o...

Now You Can Download Your Remind 101 Messages

This week the popular text messaging service Remind 101 introduced a new option to download all or part of your message history. To downloa...

What an Insect Can Teach Students About Search Strategies

Last week in my house I found an insect that I had never seen before. I tried to get the clearest picture I could of it before settling on t...

Wellcome Images Releases 100,000 Images Under Creative Commons Licensing

The Wellcome Library recently made more than 100,000 drawings, photographs, paintings, and advertisements available to the world under Crea...

Activities for Practicing Listening and Speaking Skills

The BBC's Skillswise website offers lots of good activities for learning and practicing skills in language arts and mathematics. A sect...

A Helpful TED-Ed Lesson for Aspiring Novelists

How To Build A Fictional World is a TED-Ed lesson that I recently watched on Open Culture . In the lesson Kate Messner explains the key ele...

Bitly's Real-Time Media Map Shows the Media Outlets States Prefer

Bitly's real-time media map is an interesting display of which major media outlets are most popular in which U.S. states. There are fou...

Show Your Students How Far Their Blogs Can Reach

Last week during a presentation that I gave about Google Apps I mentioned that the Goo.gl URL shortening tool will show you where in the wo...

Word Dynamo - More Than Just Vocabulary Games

Word Dynamo is an academic review exercises site hosted by Dictionary.com. The Word Dynamo name might make you think that it only offers vo...

GE Teach Version 5 - A Good Resource for Teaching With Google Earth

A couple of years ago I introduced some of you to GE Teach developed by Josh Williams. Recently, GE Teach was updated again. The latest ver...

Read Write Think Timeline - A Timeline Tool for Almost All Devices

Read Write Think offers a bunch of great web, iOS, and Android applications for students. One of those that I recently learned about from D...

New Newsletter Option - The Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week

This weekend I finally set-up a newsletter option that many people have asked for over the years, a once-per-week email with a list of the m...

How to Create Contact Groups to Make Sharing Google Documents Easier

A couple of days ago I received a question about sharing Google Drive files. The person who emailed me wanted to know if there is an easier ...