Month in Review - August's Most Popular Posts

Morrison waiting for the school bus. Well it's the end of August and by now almost everyone is back in school. I hope that this year ...

11 Resources for Teaching and Learning About the Forces of Nature

After last weekend's visit from Hurricane Irene I have forces of nature on my brain. I guess there is something about seeing a giant tre...

Hurricane Irene Before and After in Google Earth

Although not as strong as predicted, Hurricane Irene came and went leaving a path of destruction in its wake (some of my colleagues are stil...

A Simple App for Learning to Read Music

Music Notation Training is a simple website on which students can practice recognizing music notes. The offers practice for both bass and t...

Autodesk Homestyler - Design a Room or a House

Autodesk Homestyler is a good website for designing the interior of a room or of an entire house. The service is free and can be used witho...

Google Voice on My Syllabus - Texting Encouraged

Tomorrow, after two days of canceled classes, I am finally going to meet my new students. The first day always has me handing out my syllabu...

Finally! Page Numbers in Google Documents

I don't know why it took them so long to do this, but Google has finally added an easy way to insert page numbers into documents in Goog...

Watch2gether - Watch Videos and Discuss Them at the Same Time

Watch2gether is a neat site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. It is really quite ...

How To Do Research - An Interactive Map

One of the challenges that every student faces at one time or another is conducting focused and efficient research. The folks at the Kentuck...

K12 Online Conference - Call for Submissions

The K12 Online Conference is an annual free event featuring some of the best presentations you'll find anywhere in the K-12 world. This...

Pegby - A Free Task Management Tool for Teachers and Students

Since I started writing this blog almost four years ago I have reviewed dozens of task management tools and personal organizers. So last Jun...

Short and Sweet Presentation Advice

This year, as I do every year, I plan to help my students develop the life-long skill of delivering good presentations to an audience. To th...

Katrina's Children - The Hurricane Through Children's Eyes

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Katrina's Children . Six years ago Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Gul...

More Than 100 Tips and Tricks for New Teachers

Last fall I asked readers to contribute to a list of tips for new teachers. I compiled that list and put it together as a Google Docs prese...

Unrest in the Arab World - Map and Timeline

Unrest in the Arab World is an interactive map and timeline from CNN. The timeline begins in December of 2010 and continues through August ...

Outbreak - Deadliest Pandemics Infographic

I have started to get a little leery of infographics lately in part because some of them don't seem to be much more than SEO efforts by...

How to Embed Videos into Microsoft Office Documents

I haven't created a document using a Microsoft product in years. Because of that, I did not know, and perhaps you didn't know either...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine. As I look out my window and see some leaves changing color, it's almost hard to believe that autumn is just aro...

Create Word Clouds in Poll Everywhere

Here is a neat feature of Poll Everywhere that I just learned about this week, word clouds. The word cloud feature has been there for a whi...

Made in the Cloud Video Contest Winners Selected

On Monday the finalists for the Next Vista / Free Technology for Teachers Made in the Cloud video contest were announced . Yesterday, the ...

Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Over the last week or so I've shared a handful of resources related to September 11, 2001. Today, I think I've found the most extens...

Free Stuff Friday - Tee Shirts from Edublogs

It's Friday morning and as I have done for every Friday this month, I've lined up some free stuff to give away. This week I have fiv...

Hurricane Irene and Hurricanes Past

Hurricane Irene is heading up the east coast of the US with more force than we've seen in quite a while. Today's episode of CNN Stud...

All Kinds of Minds - A Nice TED Talks Playlist

I have my first day of school today (yes, on a Friday) and my students return next Tuesday. Just as I was scanning my RSS reader for the las...

SchoolTube 9/11 Memoriam Video Contest

SchoolTube, one of my favorite alternatives to YouTube , is currently hosting a student video contest . The contest asks students to produce...

Thinking About QR Codes and How to Make Them

QR Code for this blog Today while I was driving from my old house to my new house (something I've done at least ten times this week i...

Great Interview Questions List Generator

Last night I had the pleasure of interview Wesley Fryer about his new ebook Playing With Media (full disclosure he gave me free access for ...

Classtools Fakebook - Create a Fictitious Facebook Page

Last month I shared a post about three ways students can create fake Facebook profiles for historical characters. Here's another way t...

Remembering September 11 - Resources from Pearson

Last week I highlighted some National Geographic resources about September 11. Yesterday, I learned about some free lesson resources from P...

Some Fun and Handy Chemistry Resources

This post is completely inspired by my brother in-law Dr. Nathan Hnatiuk who teaches Organic Chemistry at Cedarville University . Nate just...

Activities for Introducing Google Tools to Teachers and Students

I've mentioned my favorite resources PD site in the past. This evening I would like to point out that this month I added some new resour...

Bad News - The Week in Rap Is No Longer a Free Service

For the last couple of years I have promoted Flocabulary's weekly video series  The Week in Rap as a nice little resource for current e...

Conceptboard - A Collaborative Whiteboard Space

There are many ways for teams of students to collaborate online and here's another promising one. Conceptboard is a service that provid...

ScreenChomp - Create & Share Tutorials on Your iPad

ScreenChomp is a free app for creating and sharing short tutorials or lessons on your iPad. ScreenChomp provides a whiteboard on which you ...

Raindrops Over Rwanda

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Raindrops Over Rwanda . Raindrops Over Rwanda is a twenty film documenting the causes and...