FlockDraw - Simple, Collaborative Drawing

FlockDraw is a new, simple, service that allows people to quickly and easily collaborate on the creation of a drawing. To use FlockDraw si...

November's Most Popular Content

The month of November saw Free Technology for Teachers receive more visits and more page views than in any of the previous twenty-three mon...

Most Teachers Have or Will Download YouTube Videos

Last Friday I posted a survey asking for feedback about how teachers respond to YouTube being blocked by school district filters. As of 6pm...

3 Great Common Craft-style Videos Made by Kids

As many readers know, I'm a big proponent of having students create videos to demonstrate their understanding of a topic. I am also a hu...

Free Webinar - Tour of FRONTLINE's Digital Nation

Via the Infinite Thinking Machine , I've learned that next Tuesday, December 8th at 8pm EST, PBS and Classroom 2.0 will be hosting a fre...

Did Negroponte Predict This in 1984?

This morning Mashable and other tech blogs reported that Amazon set a new sales record for the Kindle in November. Interestingly, this morn...

Cyber Monday, Debt in Dubai, and Christmas Trees

Today's episode of CNN Student News covers a wide assortment of topics including the anticipated announcement on Tuesday from President...

Six Easy Ways for Students to Create Videos Online

YouTube claims that twenty hours of video is uploaded to its site every minute. Much of this video is created by amateur video producers. ...

European Virtual Museum - 3D, Interactive Artifacts

The European Virtual Museum is the product of collaboration between twenty-seven European museums. The European Virtual Museum makes artif...

Safer Stoning at Hajj

Yesterday, Reuters published a short video outlining changes made in Mecca to ensure a higher level of safety during the Hajj . The video i...

Buffalo Bill Cody - Video, Documents, and Lessons

Buffalo Bill Cody is one of the most iconic figures of the American West. American Experience, produced by PBS, has an excellent one hour ...

Week in Review - Blog Birthday #2!

It's hard for me to believe, but today is the second anniversary of Free Technology for Teachers . Without much of a clue as to what I w...

The Teacher Chronicles - Web of Web 2.0 for Schools

The Teacher Chronicles is an excellent blog that I recently discovered through the Delicious most popular links feed . The Teacher Chronicl...

Video - What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media

Thanks to a recommendation by Kevin Jarrett , I spent an hour this morning watching this excellent video of a webinar conducted by the MacA...

Twitter Lists Enable Me to Follow More People

I've been on Twitter for two years and almost since day one, I've subscribed to the belief that the more people I followed, the mor...

K12 Online Conference Starts on Monday

The K12 Online Conference begins on Monday, November 30 with a pre-conference keynote to be given by Kim Coffino . The following two weeks ...

Celestia - Explore Space on Your Computer

Celestia is a free space exploration simulation program. Celestia is a free download that works on Mac, PC, and Linux systems. The advantag...

National Geographic Video - The Human Footprint

The Human Footprint is a National Geographic film hosted for free by Snag Films . The Human Footprint uses statistics and great visual ai...

Survey - How to Respond to YouTube Being Blocked?

Yesterday, Miguel Guhlin had an interesting post addressing a question that has popped-up in the comments here in the past. Miguel's po...

Buying a Netbook or Laptop on Black Friday?

There are many excellent deals to be had on netbooks and laptops during tomorrow's Black Friday sales. If you're not sure which dea...

Tech I'm Thankful for: RSS, Twitter

I'm often asked how I find so many educational technology resources to write about. The short answer is I subscribe to nearly 300 blogs ...

My Great World - Geolocate Images of the World

My Great World is a free photo sharing service with an emphasis on geography. My Great World categorizes images by the country in which the...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who are celebrating the holiday today. It's been a great year for me and I hope it has been great for y...

One Last Thanksgiving Resource

If you're looking for an educational activity to do with the children in your life on Thanksgiving, National Geographic Kids offers a M...

Stupeflix Wows the Crowd

This morning in one of my classes, my students shared short presentations about reform movements of the 19th century with those of the 20th ...

America's Wild Spaces

The National Geographic Channel is running a Thanksgiving Day marathon of shows exploring America's Wild Spaces . The day will feature s...

Documenting the American South

Documenting the American South is a collection of texts, images, and audio files documenting the history and culture of the southern United...

Memoov Looks Promising for Digital Storytelling

Memoov is a free service for creating animated videos. Without downloading any software or having any special skills, Memoov allows users ...

My Nominations for 2009 Edublog Awards (So Far)

Here are my nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards . Best individual tweeter: Steven Anderson @web20classroom Best resource sharing blog: ...

Behind the Scenes of Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

On Thursday, as it has for decades, the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade will be blaring on millions of, largely ignored, televisions in livi...

The 2009 Edublog Awards Nominations Now Open

Last year, because of you, I was awarded the 2008 Edublog Award for Best Resource Sharing Blog. You can find the list of all of last year...

Earth Pulse 2010 - Vital Statistics Interactive Map

National Geographic recently released their Earth Pulse State of the Earth 2010 features . Earth Pulse is comprised of essays, photo galleri...

NASA Images - Embed Galleries of Images & Videos

The Internet Archive has created a comprehensive collection of images, videos, and audio recordings from NASA . The collection is divided in...

Time Lapse Videos from Common Craft

If you've ever wondered what goes into the making of Common Craft's awesome In Plain English videos, check out these two time laps...

Mugurdy - Visual Search Engine

Mugurdy is a visual search that I learned about late last week from Larry Ferlazzo (seriously, you should subscribe to his blog if you are...

CNN Student News - The Health Care Debate

If your students are anything like most Americans, they probably have plenty of questions and confusion about the on-going health care refor...

12 Ways for Students to Publish Slideshows Online

Creating slideshows can be an excellent way for students to summarize their learning, share their what they've learned, and to share the...