Using Backchannels in Your Classroom

Earlier this evening I gave a presentation for the 2010 Reform Symposium. The topic of the presentation was using backchannels in your clas...

Week in Review - Blocked from my Google Account

This week I was at the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine for MLTI's Summer Institute . I was there to talk about Google Maps, Bl...

Infographic - College Drinking, More than a Problem

Degree Scout has recently published an infographic illustrating the problems that are caused by college students' drinking behaviors. ...

Good Resources for Geography Teachers

My Wonderful World is an excellent resource for geography teachers and geography students. My Wonderful World provides a host of gr...

A Simple Explanation of Geocaching

Geocaching can be a fun and educational outdoor activity. The video below from Geocaching.com explains in simple terms what geocaching is a...

Math in Outdoor Recreation

The Math of Rock Climbing is a video that I discovered through the Open Culture blog. I have done some rock climbing so I was interested j...

Cloud Canvas - Edit and Create Images Online

Cloud Canvas is a free online image editing and image creation tool. Cloud Canvas fits in a niche somewhere between a simple drawing tool ...

How to Choose a Safe Password

How to Choose a Safe Password is an educational video produced by Animated Explanations . The video does a nice job of explaining the commo...

Why Pay for a Free Video?

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the three Common Craft videos that should be in every technology integrator's training library . In that...

A Great Alternative to Traditional Book Reports

Book Trailers for Readers is a student/ teacher wiki that was recently featured on the Wikispaces blog. Book Trailers for Readers was sta...

3 Common Craft Videos That Should Be In Your Training Library

I've spent the last couple of days with Alice Barr, Sarah Sutter, and Thomas Cooper at MLTI's summer conference working with teacher...

Video ANT - Discuss and Annotate Videos

Video ANT is a free tool developed by Brad Hosack at the University of Minnesota for the purpose of providing a platform on which students ...

Knotebooks - Create Multimedia Math & Science Articles

Knotebooks is a neat service that allows users to create, customize, and share lessons composed of videos, images, and texts from all over ...

One Click Document Translation in Google Docs

Google Docs has had a translation option for quite a while, but until now you had to copy and paste your text in order to create a new tran...

Flisti - Quickly Create and Share a Poll

Flisti is a free and easy-to-use polling tool. Registration is not required in order to create a poll with Flisti . In fact, registering do...

What You Wanted to Know About Blogging

Sue Waters has written another follow-up post from the questions and comments generated by our ISTE Unplugged session on blogging. In What...

Wolfram Alpha Launches a Custom Widget Builder

Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha has just launched a new widget building tool. The Wolfram Alpha widget builder will allow anyone ...

Copyright Office Clarifies Fair-Use Rules

Yesterday, the US Library of Congress which oversees the Copyright Office handed down some decisions in favor of the Electronic Frontier Fo...

Learn Boost - Free Online Gradebook

Learn Boost is a new free gradebook system that looks promising. Learn Boost is still in a closed testing mode, but according to their pro...

Music from North Korea & Around the Globe

The BBC Radio World Music Archive is comprised of music recordings gathered over the course of ten years from countries all over the globe....

Search Credible - 26 Search Engines in One

Search Credible is a search service that allows you to access 26 different search engines from one location. Included in the list of search...

Learn It in 5 - Tech How-to Videos for Teachers

Learn It In 5 is a relatively new site that features short how-to videos for teachers. The videos are intended to help teachers quickly lea...

Google Compass - Plot and Record Routes

The Barcelona Field Studies Centre has developed a neat little compass tool that works with Google Maps. Google Compass overlays a compass...

MicroPoll - Web Polls Made Easy

Yesterday, I gave a run-down of nine survey tools that teachers and students can use . Today, I came across another survey tool that should ...

Mapped Bird Migration Patterns & Habitat Ranges

Project FeederWatch is a project administered by the Cornell Ornithology Lab and Bird Studies Canada . Project FeederWatch collects data ...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

It's Saturday morning in Maine and I just came inside from some bug collecting and soccer playing with my neighbor's six year old. B...

Nine Survey Tools for Teachers and Students

On many occasions in the past I've written here and shared on other forums that I think placing a survey or poll on your classroom blog...

How to Use Drop.io for Free

Earlier today I posted a list of ten ways that teachers can use Drop.io . There was some confusion about whether or not Drop.io is free. Dr...

Weekly Video Tip - Cheap Whiteboards

In this week's video I share a resource that isn't free, but could save you or your school some money when purchasing whiteboards. W...

Ten Uses for Drop.io in Education

More than two years after its initial launch, Drop.io is still one of my favorite all-around web-based tools for teachers. Here are ten way...

Impress Your Boss (and Colleagues) With Wikis

Here's another of the cartoon slideshows that I made a couple of years ago. It's still very relevant in many schools. The only thing...

Benefits of Cloud Computing for Students

Here's the third in the series of cartoon slideshows I made a couple of years ago. It's amazing to me that in the world of an ever-e...

Every Teacher Should Have a Blog & How to Create One

A few days ago I was reminded of a cartoon slideshow that I created a couple of years ago. The purpose of the slideshow was to demonstrate o...

Gone Fishin' for the Day

Just a quick note: I'm taking the day off from the online world to relax and fish before a stretch of five workshops and presentations i...

Yale Open Course - Civil War & Reconstruction

Here's another great example of the kind of free education that can be found on the web today. Yale University has published all of the ...

Screenjelly - Quick and Easy Screencasting

Screenjelly is a free web-based tool that allows anyone to quickly create a screencast video. To use Screenjelly all you need to do is go ...

Great Video - Study Like a Scholar, Scholar

Thanks to Janet Kenney for alerting me to the following funny and relevant to education video. Applications for Education Why isn't thi...

TinEye - Reverse Image Search

Yesterday, Google announced that they were completely revamping the way that image search results were displayed. It's a neat new displ...

User Policy Management Added to Google Apps

Google made a significant addition to Google Apps for Education in the form of a user policy management tool. The user policy management too...

USGS Multimedia Gallery

In the past I've written about Google Earth files and some other educational media from produced by the USGS ( here and here ). Today,...