Get Your JayCut Videos Before They're Gone

Last July one of my favorite online video creation tools, JayCut, was bought out by RIM (BlackBerry) . At the time JayCut stopped accepting ...

Does Cell Phone Use Lead to More Time Spent Studying?

StudyBlue , a mobile flashcard/ studying app that I've reviewed in the past , has released an infographic based on data about student u...

Jimmy V Week - Laugh, Think, Cry

Tonight, Jimmy V Week started on ESPN. This annual event celebrates the life of Jim Valvano and raises money for the Jimmy V Foundation for...

Bay Files - A Quick Way to Move Large Files

In my never-ending quest to reduce email inbox clutter, I like to try out various file transfer services. One that I recently tried with a c...

My Apologies

Yesterday, I wrote a short post about a video on John Locke that I had watched the previous night. In my haste to write and publish the post...

11 Infographics and Videos for Teaching Economics

One of the current trends in the blog-o-sphere is the use of infographics for sharing general information about a topic (infographics also s...

Museum of Obsolete Objects - Videos of Changes in Technology

Do remember making mix tapes in high school? If you still have one kicking around, good luck finding a cassette player to listen to it on. I...

More Free and Open Stanford Courses

Eleven days ago I mentioned a free and open Computer Science 101 course being offered through Stanford University. Today, through Open Cult...

Four Years Ago Today...

Four years ago today I wrote my first blog post on Free Technology for Teachers . This is what I wrote on November 28, 2007. I really wasn...

New Blogger Tutorial Videos

Earlier this evening I was Tweeting with a student who needed some help creating a new blog. In an effort to help her out I directed her to ...

A Nice Google Search Tips Poster

One of last week's most popular posts on Free Technology for Teachers was Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Kn...

Documentary Tube - A Good Place to Find Documentaries

Last month I published a short list of good places to find and watch documentaries online. Today, I learned about another good place to fin...

Stop and Watch This - Hard Times Generation

The leading segment on last night's edition of 60 Minutes was Hard Times Generation . The story features the children of homeless famil...

Stop, Think, Connect - Web Safety Resources from Microsoft

Thanks to Lee Kolbert I learned about Microsoft's Safety and Security Center . The Safety and Security Center contains many videos , PD...

Video - How to Sit at Your Computer

Here's a short video reminder of something that I'm guilty of forgetting, how to properly sit in front of a computer. If you're...

Read Cube - A Desktop Tool for Organizing Research

Read Cube is a desktop application, for Windows and Mac, that is designed to help students organize their research. Read Cube provides a pl...

National Geographic Big Cats Education

One of the features in this month's issue of National Geographic is Big Cats in Danger . Next month the National Geographic Channel is r...

Week in Review - The Thanksgiving Edition

Good morning from Maine. I hope all of my friends that celebrated Thanksgiving this week have recovered from their turkey overdoses. If you...

Create Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

Last summer my colleague at Ed Tech Teacher , Greg Kulowiec , introduced me to creating choose your own adventure videos in YouTube. Back th...

Make Your Blog or Website Printer Friendly

Although I might like to see the whole world go paperless, I also know that my blog posts are often printed by readers to give to their coll...

Tag My Doc - Assign QR Codes to Your Documents

One of the things that I really like about QR codes is that they make it very easy to put useful information on your phone or tablet. Rather...

Podio - Task Management, Collaboration, and More for Higher Ed

Podio is a service designed for businesses to use as a company intranet. Recently, Podio announced that they are making their services avai...

Update Your Browser and Browse Happy

As I wrote last spring , it is important to update your web browser when new versions become available. Using an outdated browser can not on...

Hydro to Home - A Story of Electricity

Hydro to Home is an interactive story of hydro-electric power from raindrops to homes. The story walks visitors through each step of the pr...

We Are the Solution - An Anti-bullying Pledge

We Are the Solution is an anti-bullying campaign and pledge started by students at Edward Town Middle School in Sanborn, NY. I was contact...

11 Free Online Drawing Tools

As long as there has been a mouse connected to a computer there have been tools for making drawings on a computer. Here are five drawing too...

Happy Thanksgiving!

It all started two Thanksgivings ago... Happy Thanksgiving friends. And if you're wondering about the story behind the song and why some...

A Visual History of Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

If you're one of the millions of Americans who is tuning-in to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning, this photo ess...

Simple Drawing Lessons on Your Android Device

Here's a nice little app for the aspiring artist in your life. How to Draw Cartoons Animals is a free Android app that offers seventy s...

Reading Bear - Online Reading Lessons for Kids

From the same people that brought us Watch Know Learn comes a new website designed to help kids learn to read. Reading Bear is a free serv...

Ed Tech Crew Podcast

Last week I joined Darrel Branson and Tony Richards for a chat on their podcast, The Ed Tech Crew . We had a nice chat about trends in ed te...

Google Announces the Shut-down of Seven Services

As part of their efforts to streamline their services, yesterday Google announced plans to shut-down seven services. The two services being...

Explore the American Revolution on an iPad

For the iPad-using US History teachers and students out there, here is an excellent app that I learned about through the US History Teacher...

Balancing Reform with Reality

Image Credit: John Webber This morning I had a conversation on Twitter that led me to writing a Google+ post about the need to balance our i...

Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know

I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me th...

iStoryBooks - A Great Storybook App for Tablets

iStoryBooks is a free iPad, iPhone, and Android app that offers two dozen free digital storybooks for kids ages two through eight. Most of t...

The Great Energy Challenge - Interactive Posters and Quizzes

The Great Energy Challenge is a National Geographic feature that offers some nice interactive posters for evaluating personal and global en...

My 2011 Edublog Awards Nominations

Last week the 2011 Edublog Awards nomination process opened. Thank you to everyone that has nominated Free Technology for Teachers for awa...

The K12 Online Conference - Keynote Today

The  K12 Online Conference  is a great opportunity to experience some excellent, free professional development. The conference was kicked-of...

Math in the News - Will the NBA Play This Year?

Media 4 Math has a nice regular feature called Math in the News . Math in the News offers ideas for short mathematics lessons based on curr...