ArcGIS Explorer Online - Explore GIS Layers

ArcGIS recently launched a new free web application called ArcGIS Explorer Online . ArcGIS Explorer Online allows users to create mash-ups o...

Lots of Great Links from ISTE 2010

The ISTE 2010 conference just wrapped-up a couple of hours ago. I had a great time reconnecting with folks that I met last year, meeting ne...

Put YoLink In Your Blog

Yesterday, I published a post about YoLink . Today, I had the opportunity to meet with Brian Cheek from YoLink. Brian told me that they have...

Google Earth Skills Quiz and Tutorials

This afternoon while trying to remember how to perform a small task in Google Earth I was forced to admit defeat and consult the Google Ear...

YoLink - Search Refinement and Bookmarking

YoLink is a free service that helps students refine their web searches and easily bookmark their findings in Diigo and EasyBib. YoLink als...

Talking Blogging With Sue Waters from Edublogs

Tomorrow at 12:30pm (Mountain Time) Sue Waters from Edublogs and I will be hosting an ISTE Unplugged session. The topic of the session is...

Large Collection of Word Games & Typing Games

Word Games is a provider of a large collection of online word games and typing games. The word games range from simple word searches and cr...

3 New Ways to Find Free Technology for Teachers

One of the things that has always confused some folks when I or others give them the url for this blog is the fact that I used the number 4 ...

Interview with Rushton Hurley from Next Vista

This morning I sat down with Rushton Hurley to talk about his non-profit video service, Next Vista . I've written about Next Vista in t...

Fighting the Locked Net Monster

Today, during Mario Armstrong's presentation at ISTE 2010 he introduced four challenges facing teachers and their use of technology in ...

327,534 Free Wikis! 5 Questions With Wikispaces

I just had a great meeting with Adam Frey and James Byers from Wikispaces . For those that aren't familiar with Wikispaces , they've...

Educational Change Challenge

Here's a good video that would be appropriate to share at the beginning of a workshop/ presentation/ conference about teaching with tec...

Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try

Today at Edubloggercon the post-lunch session was labeled as a technology apps smackdown. A smackdown is organized as a fast-paced presentat...

Aviary for Education Launches in Beta

Over the last year Aviary's suite of tools has become one of my favorite free resources on the web. This week Aviary took another step u...

Animated Explanations

Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of health, technology, and work. ...

Pullfolio - Portfolio Service for Flickr Photos

If you're a Flickr user, at one point or another you may have wished for a better way to display your photo sets. If that's the case...

Bounce - Share and Collaborate on Screen Captures

Bounce is a neat application that not only allows you to make annotated screen captures of websites but also allows you to instantly share ...

VidMe - Truly Private Sharing of Videos

VidMe is a new service for privately sharing videos. Unlike YouTube's private sharing option, the videos you post on VidMe cannot be f...

How Do Americans Save Money? Infographic

Visual Economics designs infographics to educate people about various topics in economics. Their latest infographic is How Do Americans Save...

Roller Coaster Simulator - Design Your Coaster

Funderstanding, a learning systems design firm, offers a free roller coaster design activity. The object of the Roller Coaster Simulator ac...

All National Anthems

All National Anthems is a map, built on Yahoo Maps, that makes it easy to find the national anthem of almost every country in the wo...

TED Talk - Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs

Cameron Herald certainly puts forward some interesting ideas in this TED Talk from TEDxEdmonton.

Design a Wind Turbine

National Geographic has a neat little interactive activity designed to help people understand how wind turbines generate power. Harness the...

Google Voice Opens to Everyone in the US

Today, Google announced that they are making their free Google Voice service available to everyone in the US. Google Voice provides you w...

EcoKids - Environmental Science Games & Activities

EcoKids is a Canadian-based organization providing free resources for teaching and learning about topics in environmental science. The reso...

9 Resources for Learning About US Presidents

Here's a short list of resources for teaching and learning about US Presidents and the office itself. Electing a President The Livin...

Zoho Challenge Adds Comprehensive Questions

Zoho Challenge is a part of the Zoho suite of document, presentation, and office productivity tools. Zoho Challenge is a tool that allows ...

An Immersive Virtual Tour of the Grand Canyon

This spring Thomas Hayden , one of the original producers of Google Streetview Imagery, recorded a trip through the Grand Canyon . Hayden re...

TimeMaps - A Journey Through History

TimeMaps is best described as a mash-up of encyclopedia, timeline, and map elements. TimeMaps' world map is designed as an overview of...

Measure the Impact of Asteroids & Atomic Bombs

Carlos Labs , a data architecture and data integration firm in Australia, has developed two Google Maps-based widgets that demonstrate the r...

Vodburner - Free Skype Call Recording

Vodburner is a free service for recording and editing Skype calls. To use Vodburner you need to download and install the free Vodburner ...

Page Easy - Quickly and Easily Build Web Pages

Page Easy is a free service for quickly and easily building simple web pages. Page Easy isn't intended be used for creating full-featu...