Speech to Text in Evernote

Over the last six months Evernote has become my favorite tool for bookmarking my online discoveries, saving pictures that I take on my phone...

Week in Review - The Swiss Chocolate Edition

Good morning from Maine where Morrison is happy to have me home after a week spent traveling to Lugano, Switzerland and back. I had the wond...

Kikutext - Keep Parents Updated About Your School Through Text Messages

Kikutext is a new service for keeping parents informed about your classroom and or school through text messages. The service is an opt-in s...

Win a $3000 Scholarship from Shmoop and Zinch

Shmoop and Zinch have combined to offer a $3000 scholarship to US students. To enter the contest students simply need to complete this for...

Seven Resources for Teaching & Learning About Electricity

Last night I came home and discovered that my furnace had died. My house was about 45F so I got out my down-filled sleeping bag and my elect...

Make Interactive Images on ThingLink Education

Last month I published a short tutorial on creating interactive images by using ThingLink . That is one of the most popular posts of the fir...

Unseen Titanic - An Interactive Image Gallery

Next month will mark 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic. That's why National Geographic is featuring the Titanic this month. One...

North America's Biggest Things

Pinto MacBean Last week in Alberta I learned that Canadian towns have a fascination with having the World's biggest things (Canadian fri...

Video - Why Frustration Aids Creativity

Want to get stronger? Do 100 push-ups everyday. Want to learn Italian? Throw yourself into an immersive experience and try not to default to...

Youngzine Presents Wide World Science Lizards

Last fall I wrote a short review of an online news magazine for kids called Youngzine . Youngzine has a new feature running right now that i...

Still Crazy After All These Years - Crazy About RSS

I still remember the first time I saw Google Reader in action. I was instantly in love it! Without a doubt RSS feeds and Google Reader are t...

Shaq The Lifelong Learner

Last night before bed here in Lugano, Switzerland I wanted to a watch a bit of television but there was one small problem, every station was...

Wikipedia Maze - A Wikipedia Game

If you have ever found yourself or your students jumping from one link the next in Wikipedia and gotten so lost that you forgot where you st...

ChronoZoom - A Timeline of Almost Everything

ChronoZoom is a new timeline project from Microsoft Research. The primary goal of ChronoZoom is to provide a multimedia timeline of the his...

Add Multimedia Timelines to Your Website

Verite Timeline is an open source project that allows you to add multimedia timelines to your website. Before you read any further I want t...

Take a Virtual Tour of the Swiss Alps

This week I'm in Lugano, Switzerland to speak with teachers at the American School here. Completely coincidentally on Tuesday Google rel...

Thanks to Ken Shelton My Slides Have Improved

Ken Shelton surrounded by kids after his NCTIES keynote. I have given dozens of presentations over the last year, thank you to everyone that...

ACMI Storyboard Generator

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has a nice resource for creating storyboards. The ACMI Storyboard Generator provides templates w...

Explore Nelson Mandela's Archives Online

The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive is a new collection from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. The archive is a collection on images and ...

A Gopher Guesses Your Number - A Math Game

Image credit: Doug Greenberg The British Council's Learn English site has a fun little mathematics game that I just learned about from ...

A Humongous Infographic About Our Solar System

Through Larry Ferlazzo I learned about a very very big infographic about our solar system. The BBC Future section recently published an inf...

Free Website Builder Wix Goes HTML5, iPad Users Rejoice!

Wix is a free service for creating and hosting beautiful websites. There is just one problem, it's Flash-based which means the sites ar...

Google Sightseeing - See the World on Your Desktop

Browsing Google Maps you can see lots of interesting landmarks and fun occurrences captured by the Streetview cameras. Finding all of those ...

Digitize Student Work With the Three Ring App

Three Ring is a new free service offering free Android and iPhone apps for digitizing and organizing student work. Using the app teachers c...

What Did Shakespeare Really Sound Like?

For much longer than I've been alive Shakespeare's works have been read and performed in schools. But do we don't really know ho...

Videos - What is Fracking? What is its Impact?

Fracking to access natural gas seems to be in the news frequently these days. So this morning when I was on Explania and saw the video What...

Automatically Improve the Quality of Your Videos

If you're shaky like me when capturing video on a cell phone or handheld video camera, YouTube has help for you. Last week YouTube relea...

What About Me? - Create an Infographic About Yourself

What About Me? is a free infographic generator from Intel. The purpose of What About Me? is to create infographics based on your Facebook, ...

Videos - Why Do We Dream?

My dog dreaming As some of you know, I don't have a television at home. That means my screen entertainment comes in the form of watching...

US National Archives Gallery of The Way We Worked

The Way We Worked is a small collection of images from the U.S. National Archives. The collection is designed to show the way that work evo...

Great Free Summer PD from C-SPAN Classroom

I just received an email from C-SPAN reminding me of a great free PD opportunity that they offer for teachers in the U.S. during the summer....

3 Places to Find Online Talking Children's Storybooks

This post is born out of a request for help from someone that I met at the Teacher 2 Teacher conference in Bow Island, Alberta. She was look...

The Week in Review Featuring the World's Biggest Pinto Bean

Good morning from Calgary where I'm getting ready to head home after a great week during which I attended Discovery's Beyond the Tex...

Podcast and Reflections on Beyond the Textbook

On Monday I was fortunate to participate in Discovery's Beyond the Textbook Forum. After the formal part of the day was complete some of...

Google Maps for Educators - How to Get Started

This morning I ran a short workshop on Google Maps for educators. As I do for most workshops, I promised to post the how-to slides here. Her...

Best of the Web - Again

This week I'm at the Teacher 2 Teacher conference in Bow Island, Alberta. I'm giving my best of the web talk twice (once yesterday, ...

Poll Everywhere Introduces Voting on Images

Earlier this week the popular survey service Poll Everywhere released a very nice update, support for images and equations. Now you can pu...

InstaGrok - A New Way to Search and Pin Information

instaGrok is a very promising new search service that I learned about from Joyce Valenza during my time at Discovery's Beyond the Text...

Twtbase - A Directory of Twitter Apps

Earlier this week while searching a tool to make word clouds out of Twitter hashtags, I discovered Twtbase . I never did find the tool I was...

Vifinition - Videos Defining Words

Update: As of February 2013 Vifinition is offline.  Vifinition is a fun site featuring videos that define words. The site matches YouTube v...

3D Buildings and Tours of the Amazon in Google Maps

In the last two days while I was busy traveling and hiking in Alberta (hike pictures to come on Saturday) Google released two great updates ...

7 Good Resources for Art Teachers and Students

I was recently contacted by a reader who wanted to know what I had in my archives for art lessons and digital art galleries that students ca...