How to Create Self-Graded Quizzes in Google Docs

In my free ebook Google for Teachers I included directions for creating and publishing a quiz using Google Documents forms. Recently, Dr. M...

Download TED Talks

TED hosts hundreds of thought-provoking and entertaining videos. Just last week I played this one in one of my classes as part of conversa...

Google Instant Updates - Navigate Without a Mouse

Yesterday, Google announced some useful enhancements to Google Instant search. First, you can now navigate through Google Instant's sea...

Worried About Students Being Off-task? Watch This

I've seen Alfie Kohn vs. Dwight Schrute floating around the edu-blog-o-sphere for the last few weeks, but I finally took a few minutes ...

Five Free Resources for Developing Typing Skills

A lot of readers might be surprised to learn that I have very poor typing technique. In fact, this post is being written primarily without t...

World Mapper - Mapped Displays of World Data

World Mapper hosts nearly 700 informative maps and posters. The maps are based on economic, scientific, and demographic data sets. The maps...

A Fun Offline Activity - Making Your Own Paper

Yesterday, as part of his textbook challenge Scott McLeod posted a list of resources that were very comparable to the content and activiti...

Considering Google Apps for Education? Read This

Whenever I talk about Google Apps for Education or Google Apps in general at a school or conference there is almost always someone who tells...

Word Stash - Dictionary and Vocabulary Study Tool

Word Stash is a free service that describes itself as "half vocabulary builder, half dictionary, and full awesome." Word Stash is...

10 US History Google Earth Tours

America, A Narrative History is a text published by WW Norton. As a free supplement to the book, Norton has published ten Google Earth tours...

3 Registration-free Tools for Collaborative Writing

Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and other online word processing services are great tools for collaboratively writing with others. But to use thos...

Good Typing - Free Typing Lessons

Good Typing is a free online typing skill development program. Good Typing provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn t...

Neotake - An Ebook Search Engine

There are plenty of search engines on the web for ebooks. Neotake is a search engine for ebooks that offers a couple of extras. Neotake pro...

Internet Filtering - Does It Work?

Today, while looking for an image of an Internet filtering company's logo (for a presentation I'm giving in about a month) I came ac...

Plus Maths Challenging Mathematics Puzzles

Plus Magazine is a free online publication dedicated to introducing readers to practical applications of mathematics. Plus Magazine strives...

Watch WatchKnow Without YouTube

One of the great things about the Internet is that new services are always appearing and existing services are always trying to improve. Try...

Take the Dangerously Irrelevant Textbook Challenge

Dr. Scott McLeod has issued an interesting challenge to teachers and school administrators. The textbook challenge is based the idea that, ...

Ask 60 Minutes

The popular CBS News program 60 Minutes has partnered with YouTube to create Ask 60 Minutes . Ask 60 Minutes gives viewers the opportunity...

How's Your New School Year Going?

In late August 140 of you shared the new things that you planned to try this year. I'm curious, how are you doing with the new things y...

Deviant Art Muro - A Free Drawing Tool

Deviant Art is known as a huge community of artists who share their work with each other and the world. What you might not know is that Devi...

Full Video of 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debate

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first televised debate between presidential candidates. The debate marked a significant change i...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

It's Saturday morning in Maine, it feels like fall, and it's time for another week in review. At this time next week I'll be on ...

What Makes Leaves Change Color? Video & Graphic

We're starting to approach the peak foliage peeping season here in northern New England. To help students understand why the leaves chan...

BBC Dimensions - How Big Is It Really?

BBC Dimensions , located at HowBigReally.com , is a neat tool for quickly comparing the size of famous objects and events to the size of you...

Progressive Phonics - Free Reading Program

Progressive Phonics is a free series of ebooks that teachers and parents can use to help their students learn to read and write. Progressiv...

How to Craft Clear Explanations - A Podcast With Lee LeFever

Common Craf t videos are world renowned for their clear explanations of often complex topics. The clarity of explanation is why I use some o...

A Follow-Up to Five Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports

Yesterday, I ran a post titled Five Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports . I ran that post without including much in the way of explanat...

The Week in Rap

The Week in Rap is back again today with another short lyrical overview of the week's news. If you can't view it online, you can do...

Five Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports

On Tuesday evening I gave a presentation in Second Life for school librarians and media specialists. One of the topics that I talked about w...

Sweet Search 2Day - Best of the Web for Students

Dulcinea Media , host of the academic search engine Sweet Search , has a new free offering for teachers and students called Sweet Search 2 D...

One Week Left to Apply for PolarTREC 2011/2012

Are you an adventurous teacher? Do you prefer cold weather over hot weather? Do you blog or are you willing to start blogging? If you said y...

Google New - Find the Newest Google Offerings

Google maintains blogs for all of their various products and services. I subscribe to many of those blogs to stay up to date on the latest e...

Wikispaces PD Training Wiki

Today, on their blog Wikispaces introduced a new resource for professional development facilitators. Wikispaces's PD Presenter Toolkit...

Win $100,000 for Your School from Bing Education

Bing Education (a division of Microsoft) is currently holding a contest which will award $100,000 dollars to the winning school and $50,000...

Overhauled & Improved Edublogs Help Center

If you use Edublogs to introduce your students or other educators to blogging, the recently overhauled Edublogs help center is a helpful r...

Tips for Teaching Online

My ISTE 2010 roommate Cory Plough teaches all of his high school social studies courses online. If you're just starting out teaching on...

Google Docs Adds More Font Styles

One of the complaints that I occasionally hear about Google Docs is the lack of font choices. Yesterday, Google took some steps to offer mor...

Just Paste It - A Simple Way to Share Notes

JustPaste.It is a free, simple note sharing service. At its most basic Just Paste It provides an online word processor for writing notes an...