This Month's Ten Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

The old weather lore of "March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb" has not held true here in Maine this year. We'...

Access and Use More Than 20,000 Historical Maps from the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library recently released more than 20,000 historical maps through NYPL Digital Collections . These maps can be download...

Learn With Coursera on Your iPad or Android Tablet

Coursera is a great place to find free online open courses for personal and professional learning. Coursera currently has more than 600 cou...

Browse Data Sets and Data Visualizations on Visualizing.org

Visualizing.org is a community site for sharing data visualizations. Anyone can upload their data visualizations to the public gallery. The...

Sports and Data Visualizations

The World Series champion Boston Red Sox begin a new season today. Baseball players and their fans are fanatical about statistics. The same ...

Ten Seats Left at the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp

Last summer I hosted the first Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp at Sunday River Resort and Conference Center in beautiful Newry, Maine. The re...

TwistedWave - Create Audio Recordings and Save Them in Google Drive

TwistedWave is a new audio recording and editing tool that is now included in Next Vista's list of recommended tools. Through TwistedW...

Haiku Deck to PowerPoint & PowerPoint to Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is a fantastic tool for designing slideshow presentations. The best aspect of Haiku Deck is the built-in Creative Commons image s...

Four Sources of Print-on-demand Graph Paper

Every mathematics teacher I know needs graph paper. If you're a mathematics teacher and find yourself running short on graph paper or yo...

Two Activities to Help Students Learn About the Cost of Living

Spent is an online game designed to teach players about the challenges of living on minimum wage (or slightly higher) employment. Players b...

60 Second Lessons on Economics, Philosophy, and Religion

60 second videos are clearly not a replacement for actual lessons, but they could be great introductions to larger lessons. They also provid...

The Week In Review - The Ski-a-thon Edition

Good evening from Maine where I'm late with the week-in-review for a good reason. Today, I participated in a ski-a-thon to raise money f...

The Strength of Simple Videos

Over the last month I've facilitated a handful of workshops on the topic of video creation in the classroom. One of the points that I al...

A Handful of Google Calendar Tutorials for Teachers

From simply keeping track of personal appointments to sharing important information with students, Google Calendar is a versatile tool for t...

Gooru Adds a Collaboration Option for Building Resource Collections With Your Colleagues

Gooru is a service designed to help teachers create and share collections of educational videos, texts, and images. This week Gooru release...

Free iBook - 16 Online Resources & Ideas for Teaching Geography

Online Resources for Teaching IB DP Geography is a free iBook published by Richard Allaway. The free iBook contains sixteen chapters addres...

Learn Computer Science and Coding With This edX Course

Through edX Harvard has made an updated version of their popular CS50 course available to everyone. The twelve week course is designed for...

ClassDojo Launches a Messaging Service to Help Teachers Keep Parents Informed

ClassDojo , a popular student behavior recording service, has launched an excellent new messaging feature in their Android and iOS apps . ...

By Request - Seven Tools for Building and Sharing Online Quizzes

Earlier today, through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page, I was asked for suggestions for tools for creating and sharing online...

Did You Know This About YouTube?

YouTube Help offers three helpful playlists for learning tips and tricks about YouTube and the YouTube mobile apps. The Did You Know? playl...

An Illustrated Glossary of Genetic Terms

The National Human Genome Research Institute has a great talking glossary of genetic terms for students. The glossary is available online a...

Colds and the Flu Explained

After years of not getting sick this winter I've had the flu and caught a few colds. My latest cold has knocked me back this week. The o...

A Handful of Helpful Google Forms Tutorials for Teachers

Google Forms and Google Sheets can be very useful for collecting all kinds of information from students and others. Three of the most common...

Map of Life - The Distribution of Animals Around the World

Map of Life is a mapping project sponsored in part by Yale and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The map offers the option to see distri...

Now You Can Edit Images In Google Slides

Google Slides has come a long way since its early days of offering very basic collaborative slideshow creation. Today, Google released a new...

Sports Science - Baseball

Spring will be here soon. With spring comes the beginning of a new baseball season for Little Leaguers, high school players, and pros. This ...

Common Craft Explains Primary and Secondary Sources

Understanding the differences between primary and secondary sources can be a challenge to some middle school and high school students. Under...

A Small Collection of Resources for Learning About Mount Everest

The Himalaya climbing season is just beginning. This is a good time for lessons about Mount Everest and the Himalaya in general. Concepts in...

Analyzing Shakespeare With Storyboards

Creating a storyboard can be a good way to organize a story and plan a video project. As Rebecca Ray shares in the slides below, creating st...

Three Mind Mapping Tools That Save to Google Drive

One of my favorite aspects of Google Drive is the option to create content with third party services and save that content in your Google Dr...