Month in Review - February's Most Popular Items

At the end of every month I like to list the ten most popular items of the month. This month I took almost a week-off and let some guest blo...

Stop Publishing Your Email Address in Your RSS Feed

Everyday I see Blogger users publish their full email addresses with "@" symbols in their blogs' RSS feed. While there is not...

Running for Office - A Political Cartoon Exhibit

Running for Office is an online exhibit of the political cartoons of Clifford Berryman . Berryman is probably best known for his cartoon f...

Wordle Goes Offline, Seeks Legal Advice

Update: Wordle is back online! I just learned from Larry Ferlazzo that Wordle has gone offline indefinitely. A visit to Wordle.net reveals...

Record-Setting Earthquakes: Interactive Map

By now you've probably heard that a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake shook Chile this morning. CNN News has many stories and videos pos...

Using Maps in an Elementary School Math Lesson

When it comes to creative uses of Google tools, Tom Barrett is certainly a leader that we can all learn from. A great example of this can be...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Items

It's Saturday morning and time to take a look back at the most popular items of the week. I write these week-in-review posts for two rea...

Big, Huge, Free US Presidents Timeline Poster

C-Span Classroom is giving away a really neat gift to teachers who register for a free C-Span Classroom account . The gift is a six foot lo...

Forvo - All the Words in the World Pronounced

Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not ...

Explore More Street View Imagery than Ever Before

Today, on the Google LatLong Blog I learned about a feature of Google Maps Street View that I hadn't noticed before. In Street View you...

Captains of Industry - Economics Simulation Game

Captains of Industry is an economics simulation activity that I used in my US History class this week. Original version of this activity wa...

Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching is a book, authored by Jeff Stanford, that I've been slowly working my way through since the be...

How Millennial Are You? Take the Quiz

How Millennial Are You? is a quiz developed by the Pew Research Center. The fourteen question quiz is designed to assess how much you are o...

Use Drop.io's Upload Widget to Collect Student Work

If your students are in the habit of emailing essays, slideshows, and other creations to you, you know how quickly your inbox can get crowde...

TED Talk - The World Needs All Kinds of Minds

In this TED Talk recorded just a few weeks ago at TED 2010, Temple Grandin explains how people with autism view the world. Temple Grandin, ...

UNEP Geo Data Posters

The United Nations Environment Program has developed a series of free posters based on data from the UNEP's Geo Data Portal . These pos...

The Map as History - Animated Historical Maps

The Map as History is a neat resource for history teachers. The Map as History provides teachers and students with animated, narrated hist...

A Win a Trip to ISTE 2010 Courtesy of netTrekker

If you've been considering going to ISTE 2010, but if money is tight and your school can't afford to send you, netTrekker has an opp...

YouTube 101 - Privacy Settings, Sharing, and More

As was mentioned on their blog today, YouTube recently added a bunch of new informational videos to the official YouTube channel . The new ...

The Awesome Highlighter is Awesome

The Awesome Highlighter is an easy-to-use tool for highlighting, clipping, saving, and sharing interesting things you find on the web. Usin...

Stat Planet - Data Visualization

Stat Planet is a thematic mapping website. Stat Planet relies on data from UNESCO is a project of SACMEQ . Stat Planet can be used to c...

SortFix - Visually Sort and Modify Search Terms

SortFix is a neat tool for sorting and modifying the key terms in your Internet searches. To use SortFix enter your search just as you wou...

Historical Scene Investigation

Historical Scene Investigation is a fun way for students to investigate history through primary documents and images. Historical Scene Inve...

An Awesome Free Guide to Digital Storytelling

Silvia Tolisano , author of the excellent Langwitches blog , has an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tool...

Flixtime - Quickly Create Short Videos

Flixtime is a new video creation service that is quite similar to Animoto and Stupeflix . Flixtime gives users the ability to create 60 s...

Ten Interactive Geography Games and Maps

Interactive games and maps can be good tools for students to use in developing their knowledge of geography. The following ten websites are ...

Neat Chat - Quickly Create an Ad-free Chatroom

Neat Chat is a free chatroom service that could be a very good alternative to Chatzy and Tiny Chat . Neat Chat allows anyone to create a c...

NASA Lunar Simulator on iPhone and iPod Touch

I don't often write posts about iPhone apps or iPod Touch apps, but today I learned about one that I had to pass along. NASA recently re...

NY Times - Inside the Olympic Action

The New York Times has good collection of videos and audio slideshows designed to take you "inside the action" of Winter Olympi...

Could Aviary Challenge Photoshop in K-12 Settings?

For the last couple of years Aviary has been steadily rolling out a slew of web-based image editing tools. With only a handful of exception...

National Geographic - Return of the Wolves

The cover story of this month's National Geographic magazine is about the return of wolves to the Western United States. The article, a...

NASA eClips - Educational Videos for K-12 Students

NASA offers numerous educational resources for students and teachers. One of those resources that I recently rediscovered is NASA's eCli...

Create Simple Animated Movies with Zimmer Twins

The Zimmer Twins is a neat site for introducing elementary school students to making simple animated video stories. On the Zimmer Twins si...

Week in Review - Most Popular Items

I have to start this week in review post by once again thanking everyone who guest posted earlier this week. It was great to read all of you...

32 Puzzles and Logic Games

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of thirty-two puzzles and logic games. The games and puzzles can be played on...