The History and the Purpose of the US Census

This year a census of the United States is being taken. The CBS Fast Draw team has produced a short video that outlines the history and the...

Mark Your Calendars - Google Apps Webinar

If your school has been considering switching over to Google Apps for Education, on February 10 Google is hosting a webinar you should cons...

Time to Update the Browsers on School Computers

"We can't do that because we're not allowed to update the browsers or install anything." This is a comment I hear from tea...

Three Places to Find Country Profiles

Comparing countries is a common assignment given to elementary, middle, and high school social studies students. Obviously, the required dep...

Week in Review - New Page View Records!

Every weekend I like to publish a list of the most popular items of the week. I also like to take this time to say thank you to everyone tha...

How to Publish a Quiz Using Google Docs

This is a post born out of a few conversations that I had this week with a few of my colleagues. All of the conversations centered around th...

Follow EduCon 2.2 In Elluminate

EduCon is an education conference being held for the third year in a row, this weekend, at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia....

Find Great Children's Literature

The Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature is a searchable database of more than 7,000 award-winning books for children. DAWCL...

Shift Your Perceptions

Every weekday the TED Blog features a new video from their catalog. Today's video features Derek Sivers , founder of CD Baby, reminding...

Support ISTE Newbie 2010 by Buying a Book

Last year because of the efforts of many of you, Beth Still , and VoiceThread I was able to attend the NECC/ ISTE conference for the first ...

JD Salinger Resources

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, passed away today at the age of 91. The AP released a short video about his life. The BBC...

Google Books Adds Shelving Options

Google recently announced two new enhancement to Google Books . You can now browse through many of the Google Books categories using a hori...

Win a Free Video Capture System from Simple K12

Simple K12 is holding a blog contest to give away two of their video capture and presentation systems . The systems, known as Simple Worksh...

State of the Union - Video, Transcript, and Wordle

Last night President Obama gave his State of the Union Address. (Did you submit your questions to him?) For those of you who would like to ...

Howard Zinn Resources

Noted author and historian Howard Zinn passed away yesterday. Democracy Now has produced a tribute video about Zinn . One of my students su...

Thinklinkr - Collaborative Outline Creator

Thinklinkr is a free service for collaboratively creating outlines. Users can invite collaborators to join into the outlining process at an...

Free Prezi Templates

On Sunday Prezi announced new free accounts for teachers and students. Judging by the traffic to that post and a previous post about using...

Read Write Think - Profile Publisher

A couple of years ago one of my colleagues developed a lesson for The Great Gatsby in which he had students create fake Facebook profiles....

Create an RSS Feed for Any Website

Earlier this week Google announced an enhancement to Google Reader that allows you to subscribe to updates to any website regardless of wh...

NBC News Time Capsule

One of the features of Hulu is a collection of old news segments and entire news programs from NBC. Hulu calls this collection of segments ...

Vocab Ahead Adds Self-Assessment Quizzes

Vocab Ahead , formerly Word Ahead, announced a new study feature today. Now students can use the Vocab Ahead study rooms to take practice ...

Add Real-time Search Results to Your Blog

Real-time search engine Collecta has just released a customizable widget for putting real-time search results on your blog or website. Crea...

The Decade Ahead In Jobs

NPR has an interesting infographic predicting the growth and decline of various industries in the United States over the next decade. The D...

YouTube Offers "Ask President Obama"

Tomorrow night President Obama will be giving his State of the Union address. YouTube will be broadcasting the address live through its Citi...

How I Pick Blog Topics

This post is in part a follow-up to some of things I discussed on the Seedlings podcast a couple of weeks ago and is in part a response to ...

Stimulus Spending in Historical Context

Today's episode of CNN Student News contains two segments about US stimulus spending. The first segment outlines the intent of the stim...

MOOM - Museum of Online Museums

MOOM , the Museum of Online Museums, is a list of museums that offer online exhibitions. In some cases the museums include virtual tours and...

Scribble Maps Adds More Map Editing Features

Scribble Maps , a great tool for editing maps, has recently added some excellent features that they're calling Scribble Maps Pro . Usual...

Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments

IRIS , Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, has compiled some good resources for teaching about the science of the earthquake...

Pay Attention! - Teaching Digital Learners

I watched this video twice over the weekend and although, like most of you, I've seen many like it, this one still captivated my attent...

A Great Wiki - How to Make a VoiceThread

Over the weekend I stumbled across a great wiki dedicated to the use of VoiceThread in education. The wiki is appropriately titled, How to ...

A Must-See Timeline for US History Teachers

Over the weekend, through Larry Ferlazzo's blog , I learned about a great resource that every US History teacher should bookmark. The Am...

Prezi Announces New, Free Education Licenses

Prezi , a great service for taking presentations beyond bullets and pictures, has just announced that they're offering a free education ...

Google Apps for Education - Security Whitepaper

Security and protection from lawsuits are two of the most common concerns that school administrators have regarding student use of cloud-bas...

Digital Directors Guild - Digital Storytelling Lessons

The Digital Directors Guild is a project designed to help teachers develop digital storytelling projects for their classrooms. The Digi...

Audio Owl - Hundreds of Free Audio Books

Audio Owl is a great service for locating and listening to free audio books. Audio Owl catalogs public domain recordings of books that are...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Items

It's Friday evening in Maine which means I'm ready to watch the Celtics , but first I'll share this week in review post. Here ar...

Google Adds Answer Highlighting

Earlier today Google announced a new enhancement to the way it displays search results. Now when you search using a fact searching phrase s...

Seven Places to Find Free eBooks

Every year schools around the world spend thousands of dollars on textbooks that are often outdated by the end of their first year in the cl...

Find Free, Local Books on Your iPhone

I've never written about iPhone apps on this blog, in part because in my part of the world an iPhone is about as useful as a cup and str...

Edit the Size of Videos Embedded in Your Blog

From time to time I'll visit a blog and see an embedded video that spills over the parameters of the blog's main column and or shows...

Volunteer Spot - Schedule Volunteers

Volunteer Spot is a free scheduling service that teachers, coaches, and others and use to coordinate volunteers. Volunteer Spot gives you ...