Fresh Brain - Fun Tech Projects for Students

Fresh Brain , a non-profit funded in part by Sun Microsystems, provides teachers and students with ideas for technology projects. On Fresh B...

Month in Review - July's Most Popular Posts

Well another month has come and gone in 2011. This summer I have been busier than ever traveling and speaking at conferences and at schools ...

Speech to Text in Google Chrome

Speech recognition software can be very pricey, but adding a speech recognition option to your computer doesn't have to be expensive. If...

Bears and Punnett Squares

This month's issue of National Geographic magazine features a cover story about the "Spirit Bears" of British Columbia. ...

Have You Changed Your Passwords Recently?

It's the end of the month and this is a time when I like to share simple reminders of things that we all know we should do, but often fo...

Show Me What's Wrong - Help Your Friends With Their Computer Problems

Show Me What's Wrong is a free service offered by Screencast-O-Matic . The service is designed to help you help others with their compu...

One Day on Earth - Mapped Videos of Life Around the World

One Day on Earth is a global collaborative project that launched last fall for the purpose of documenting 24 hours of life around the world...

New Geographic Features Labels in Google Earth

Earlier this week Google added some new labels to Google Earth . Now when you turn on the "Borders and Labels" in the Layers menu ...

5 Google Plus Tips from Tekzilla

Tekzilla Daily is one of my favorite web shows for learning about fun and useful apps, sites, and technology tricks. The short episodes pro...

CNN Student News Explains "Debt Ceiling"

What is a debt ceiling? This week's special summer edition of CNN Student News tackles that topic in five minutes. The episode explains...

Three Purposes for Classroom Blogs

image credit:  One of the most common requests for workshops that I receive is to help teachers create and utilize blogs in their classr...

Do You Use RSS? Where are Your Bookmarks?

This morning Tom Daccord and I are introducing a group of educators to RSS, Google Bookmarks, Diigo, and blogging. I like to start with RSS...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Home Base

This past weekend the National Baseball Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony. Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to ma...

Thinglink - Make Your Blog Images Interactive

Thinglink is a neat service that allows you to make any image on your blog an interactive image. To do this you have to install the Thingli...

Easy Notecards - Easy Flashcards

Easy Notecards is a new online flashcard service that I recently learned about through Vicki Davis's blog . Easy Notecards allows you t...

Quizlet Now Offers "Speller" Mode in 18 Languages

The popular online flashcard service Quizlet recently made two big announcements. First, they now offer text-to-speech in eighteen language...

$100 off Many Tablets at Staples

This post marks the second time I've ever written a post just to pass along savings on a product, but it just seems too good not to pass...

JayCut Bought Out by RIM (Blackberry)

I've promoted the heck out of JayCut since it launched in it's current version in early 2010. I've had my students create short...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Image Credit: Kretyen Good morning from Maine where I'm still trying to get back on a normal schedule after a good, but hectic week of t...

Image*After - More Than 27,000 Free Images

Image Source Image*After is a repository of more than 27,000 free stock images and textures that can be downloaded and reused for noncommer...

US Debt Clock

Just how quickly is the US national debt accumulating? What about state debts? Get the real-time answers to those questions and more at USDe...

7 Task Management Tools for Students

It's getting close to that time of year when teachers and students will be returning to school for the fall semester. The great thing ab...

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator

Open a magazine, a catalog, or take a look at sign in your local grocery market these days and you're likely to see a QR code. (The QR c...

Learn Boost Adds New Administrative Features to Their Gradebook Service

Learn Boost , a free online gradebook service, has recently announced a new and important option for school administrators. The new administ...

7 Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Outlines Online

One of the presentations that I made this week was about having students create videos to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic. In that pr...

NT Camp Isn't Just for New Teachers

NT Camp is a free "unconference" being held on July 30 in Philadelphia for new teachers and others interested in sharing ideas a...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - The Last Survivor

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is The Last Survivor . The Last Survivor is a film that tells the stories of four different...

Best of the Web - Updated Again

This morning I had the privilege to present at the Missouri RPDC Technology Conference. There was a full room for my Best of the Web present...

Playing With Media is a Great Blog and eBook About Remixing Media

Playing with Media is an ebook that Wesley Fryer is developing. To complement the development of that ebook, Wesley is maintaining a blog r...

Edublogs Removes Ads From All Blogs

The popular blogging platform Edublogs announced today that there will no longer be advertisements placed on Edublogs-hosted blogs. This in...

10 Common Challenges Facing Educators

Today, I had the great pleasure and honor to keynote the opening of the Arizona K12 Center's Pima County Tech Camp. Below are the slides...

Augmented Reality in Plain English

One of the aspects of the presentations that I'm giving over the next few days in Arizona and in Missouri address the question of what t...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from 33,000 feet. By the time most of you read this I'll be well on my way to Tuscon, AZ where I am speaking at the Pima Co...

BLine Test Prep Offers Free SAT Prep

BLine Test Prep is a test preparation service that is now offering a free SAT and GMAT preparation program. Both programs offer full-length...

ShowMe App Announces Outstanding ShowMe Contest

ShowMe , providers of an iPad app for creating and sharing whiteboard lessons, has announced the launch of the Outstanding ShowMe Contest . ...

CNN Student News Offers Students Job Hunting Advice

This week's special summer edition of CNN Student News features interviews with a employee recruiter and professionals at CNN offering ...

Slide Staxx - Create Slideshows of Your Web Findings

Slide Staxx is a new service that allows you to create slideshows using videos, images, and webpages that you have found or created. To cre...

Knovio - Sync Your Slides to a Video Presentation

Knovio is a new service for delivering presentations online. To use Knovio you upload your slides to the site then use your webcam to recor...

My Best Tip for Beginning Bloggers...

is to write something everyday. I've written about my "blogging secrets" in the past so I won't go down that road in this...

Name that Famous Painting - Music Video

This morning on the Open Culture blog I came across a music video that might be of interest to art teachers. The band Hold Your Horses (ye...

eEtiquette - 101 Guidelines for the Digital World

eEtiquette is a simple site that exists for the purpose of sharing electronic etiquette tips. The tips cover everything from email etiquett...