Explain 3D - Machines and Systems Explained With 3D Animations

Explain 3D is a site that offers a collection of 3D animations of simple machines. The animations use the Unity web player which enables vi...

How to Create Appointment Slots in Google Apps Calendars

One of the handy features of Google Calendar within a Google Apps domain is appointment slots. In Google Calendar, Google Apps for Education...

A Crash Course on The Odyssey

John Green is back with a new Crash Course on literature. The first installment in the new course is A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Od...

Create Public Courses on OpenEd

Since it was launched six months OpenEd.io has seen a steady stream of updates. The latest update offers support for public courses. Any co...

You Can Build Your Own Search Engine

Earlier this week I received an email from someone who had found the custom video search engine that I built last summer. The person who em...

Webinar Recording - Digital Storytelling With Comics

Last night I hosted a free webinar about digital storytelling with comics. The webinar was sponsored by Storyboard That . In the webinar we ...

SpeakPipe - Receive Voicemail Through Your Blog

SpeakPipe is a neat little service that allows visitors to your blog to leave you voice messages without picking up a phone. I had it insta...

How to Add Voice Comments to Your Google Documents

In an earlier post I featured a free tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents. That tool is called Kaizena . In the video below I ...

Knowmia Introduces Personalized URLs for Sharing Flipped Lessons With Your Students

Knowmia is a great website and an iPad app for creating, sharing, and viewing video lessons. Today, they introduced the option to choose yo...

Kaizena Improves Workflow for Voice Commenting on Google Documents

Kaizena is a free tool that you can integrate with your Google Drive account to leave voice comments on the the documents that your student...

Free Webinar Tonight - Digital Storytelling With Comics

Just a reminder that tonight at 7pm Eastern I'll be hosting a free webinar on digital storytelling with comics. You can  register for th...

How Wikipedia Works

On Saturday evening while I was out having dinner I overheard a conversation that sounded like a father telling his daughter (I can't co...

Purpose Games - Create Online Review Games

Purpose Games  is a free service that allows users to create custom games, share games, and play games. There are two styles of games that y...

A Quick Comparison of Five Popular Backchannel and Informal Assessment Tools

During yesterday's webinar on backchannels and informal assessment tools Poida suggested that I create a chart comparing the key featur...

Free Copyright and Creative Commons Courses for Educators

Peer 2 Peer University is again offering some free courses on Copyright and Creative Commons for educators. Copyright for Educators and Cre...

Webinar Recording - A Teacher's Guide to Backchannels & Informal Assessments

Earlier this evening I hosted a free webinar on using backchannel and informal assessment tools. In the recording embedding below I demonstr...

Glove and Boots Fix Your Grammar

Thanks to Denise Blain I have been sucked into the web series Glove and Boots . The video that Denise shared with me is all about grammar. ...

Group Reading With Google Documents

Using the commenting feature of Google Documents is a good way to create a record of classroom conversations about an article that you have ...

The Week In Review - Signs of Spring

Good morning from Maine where one of my favorite signs of spring has returned, the Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim to Win contest. This annual ...

How to Add 450+ Fonts to Your Google Documents & Slides

Earlier today I posted the picture you see to the left on my Google+ page with the comment "I decided to play with some new fonts foun...

Online and Offline Fun With the Science of Pickles

Exploratorium is one of my favorite places to look for interesting science lessons, activities, and iPad apps. If you head to the Explore se...

Frame Bench - Host Online Discussions Around PDFs and More

Frame Bench is a nice service for sharing PDFs, images, videos, and other files with colleagues and students. Within Frame Bench you can cr...

Two Sites for Safely Experimenting with Electric Circuits

Earlier this week I shared a short video explanation of how light bulbs work . To extend that lesson you might want to take a look at Electr...

Have You Tried the New Google Maps?

Last spring Google announced the availability of a new desktop version of Google Maps for those who wanted to try it out. I've been usin...

How to Use Google Slides to Organize Research

Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating ...

Browse Hundreds of Old Newspapers in the Google News Newspaper Archive

Google Books is a great place to find books and old magazines, but if it is newspapers you're after then check out the Google News Newsp...

The Global Screencasting Project with Explain Everything & Knowmia Teach

This is a guest post from Greg Kulowiec of EdTechTeacher.org, an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.  One of the most powerful capab...

How to Add Free Apps to Your Edmodo Group

I recently received an email from a someone who has just started to explore possibly using Edmodo with her students next fall. One of the a...

Road Salt and Salt Sculptures

Like many other towns and cities in North America, my town's maintenance crews are pouring road salt and sand at a seemingly frenetic pa...

How Light Bulbs Work and Activities for Learning About Electricity

Minute Physics recently releases a short video that features an explanation of how modern light bulbs work and how light bulb design has ch...

Teaching Literary Terms With Comics

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.  One of my favorite ways to get students interested in the cre...

Kids Can Create Alphabet Books With Alphabet Organizer

Alphabet Organizer is a great little tool from Read Write Think that students can use to create alphabet charts and books. The idea behind ...

Students Learn About the Science of Hearing on The Interactive Ear

The Interactive Ear is a neat website through which students can learn about how the human ear works. The site has three sections; the oute...

Your Next Read Helps You Find Books You Might Like

Your Next Read is a neat little site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. ...