Month in Review - October's Most Popular Posts

It's the end of the month and as I do every month I've gone through and made a list of the most popular posts of the month. The mont...

Where Are You In the 7 Billion? Find Out Here

Earlier today, I posted a couple of resources from NPR and National Geographic for teaching students how the world's population grew to...

Visualizing How We Reached 7 Billion

This morning NPR had a story about the world's population reaching 7 billion . Then this afternoon Ronald Ho posted a link to the follo...

Moredays - A Multimedia Personal Planner

Do a quick search for online task management or personal planners and you're bound to come back with many options to pick from. Most of ...

Last Minute Halloween Resources for Teachers

I ran this post last Monday, but just in case you missed it here are some last minute Halloween resources. And below is the Google Doodle vi...

Identify the Stars and Planets Using Your iPhone

Through my friend Angela Maiers I recently learned about a neat augmented reality iPhone app that helps users identify the stars and planet...

Projeqt - Create Visual Stories from Your Digital Content

There doesn't seem to be any shortage of services for collating and displaying the content you find online. One popular example of that ...

Have You Checked Your Facebook Apps Recently?

I couple of days ago I highlighted Google Good to Know which explains a lot of what you need to know about how Google and other companies c...

Week in Review - Here Comes the Snow

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine where we're getting ready for the first snow storm of the year. Before I went searching for a snow sh...

Add Custom Maps to Your Android Phone

Here's a neat application that I stumbled upon this afternoon. Custom Maps for Android allows you to use .jpeg and .png images of any ...

Royal Society Journal Archives Made Available Online

Royal Society Publishing recently announced that it has made the archives of its journals available online for the world to search and read...

Three Vocabulary Apps for Android That I'm Testing

This morning I had the opportunity to run a couple of short workshops at my own school. Other than the initial oddness of being "the co...

9 Sources for Historical Images, Documents, Videos, and Audio

Earlier this week I had the privilege to work with teachers from the Florida Virtual School at a conference sponsored by the National Counci...

Whatfolio - Publish Your Digital Portfolio

Whatfolio is a free service for creating online displays of your digital works.   Whatfolio is essentially a homepage to show off what you ...

Google Good to Know - Tips for Online Safety and More

Have you ever wondered what Google and other websites do with the data they collect from visitors? Have you wondered how they collect data f...

Google Apps Status Dashboard

On Monday morning I was preparing to give a presentation using Google Docs, Google Docs went down. As my friend Greg Kulowiec noted, "...

Virtual Keyboards for Typing Special Characters

This post was prompted by one of my colleagues who asked for help with typing special characters on his keyboard. Type It is a free online ...

Being an American Essay Contest and Lesson Plan

The Bill of Rights Institute is currently hosting an essay contest for high school students. The contest asks students to write an essay (10...

In 60 Seconds on the Web

In 60 Seconds on the Web is a neat infographic displaying approximations of how much new stuff appears on the web every sixty seconds. The ...

Warm Up Activities for Brainstorming

If you've ever jumped into a brainstorming session with your students or colleagues and found it wasn't going as well as you hoped, ...

SideVibe - Turning Websites into Lesson Plans

Over the last few months I have had a lot of people tell me that I should give SideVibe a try. This evening I finally took some time to see...

Textbooks, Wikipedia, and Primary Sources Comparison

I posted this yesterday on Google+ and it seems to have been well-received so I thought I'd share it again. In February of 2010 I design...

Gandhi - Full Length Movie Online

I don't know how long this will stay up, but I just learned via Twitter that the full-length version of the 1982 film Gandhi is availabl...

Tracks - Make Stories On Your iPhone

Tracks is an iPhone app for creating short photo stories with your friends on the go. Using the app you can create a sequence of images you...

Free Common Core Webinar Series for Educators

ASCD has just announced a new series of free webinars for educators . The three part series will cover topics related to the implementation ...

Apps for Autism - A 60 Minutes Story

Last night on 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl reported on how iPads are being used by teachers, parents, and therapists to assist students who have...

Bloomin' Android - Android Apps to Match Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Last winter (in the Northern Hemisphere) Kathy Schrock  published a great interactive display of Google products that can be used to addres...

Political Cartoons in the Classroom

This morning I am in Fort Myers, Florida for a conference with the National Council for History Education. One of the activities that one of...

All About Pumpkins and Halloween

Halloween is just one week away. This morning on History.com I found a few Halloween-themed resources that you might want to put on your cl...

3 Interesting Services to Help Students Study Together

One of the true powers of the modern web is the power to collaborate with others. A couple of days ago I wrote a review of a service called ...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Boston's Logan International Airport. This month I have had the good fortune to be able to accept invitations to speak...

Friends With Brainefits - Study With Your Facebook Friends

Study Blue , a collaborative studying tool that I reviewed a couple of years ago, recently launched a new service called Friends with Braine...

Buzz Years - Websites, Gradebooks, and More for Schools

Buzz Years is a new set of digital services for schools that I learned about this week. Buzz Years offers tools for creating class websites...

Picfull - Free and Easy Online Image Editing

Picfull is a free online photo editing service that I just learned about last night. To use the service just upload a picture and select an...