Sushi Monster - A Free Scholastic Math App for iPad

Sushi Monster is a new free iPad game from Scholastic. The purpose of Sushi Monster is to provide a fun environment for students to practic...

UNDP Development Data Interactive Map

Over the weekend through Noel Jenkins I learned about a neat interactive map from the UNDP. The UN Stat Planet Map allows you to create us...

Exploring the Early Americas - Library of Congress Interactives

This morning I spent a bit of time exploring the Library of Congress's education resources. One of the resources that I particularly lik...

Searchy Pants - A Safe Search Engine for Kids

EdCamp Boston was held on Saturday and even though I couldn't make it in person, I did follow along with some of the Posterous updates a...

Mathematica for Teaching and Student Use

Over the weekend I received an email from Wolfram informing me of a new free training they're offering for learning how to publish usin...

About Google Teacher Academy

This evening I had the third person in a week ask me about how to become a Google Certified Teacher. Therefore, I thought I would revive a c...

Try Crocodoc for Collaboratively Annotating PDFs

Yesterday, I received an email from a reader who was looking for a free tool that she and her students could use to collaboratively annotate...

Make Your Own Squishy Circuits

Last night on Facebook Kevin Jarrett posted a link to Sylvia's Super Awesome Maker Show . For those not familiar with the show, it feat...

Week in Review - The Snow is Back

Good morning from Maine where I'm home with my loyal four legged friend and it's snowing. I had a busy week this week that included ...

Add More to Your Images with Thinglink

Yesterday, at NETA 2012's web tools showcase session I demonstrated two tools,  ThingLink and Jellycam . During my Thinglink demonstra...

Timeline - From Civil War to Civil Rights

The cover story on the May issue of National Geographic is about the sketches of artists during the US Civil War and how those sketches hel...

The Evolution of the Zamboni

Disclaimer: it might be a stretch to call this post educational. It's more of a sports trivia post than anything else.  It's Stanley...

TEDx Bozeman - Classroom Game Design

On the heals of my slightly critical post about TED Ed, I thought it would be good to balance things out by sharing a good TEDx Talk that I ...

A Thought or Two About TED Ed

TED made headlines this week with the launch of TED Ed . TED Ed is a new platform through which teachers can build short lessons around shor...

Record MP3 - A Simple MP3 Recorder

Last year I published a short list of free and simple tools for creating MP3 recordings to post online. Record MP3 is another good tool to...

Roc Out With Aviary's Myna

Earlier today Wes Fryer asked on Twitter for help finding a web-based tool for audio editing in a manner similar to Audacity and Garage Ban...

Interactive Map of Sea Level Rise Estimates

Surging Seas , produced by ClimateCentral.org , is an interactive map of the potential impact on the United States of rising sea levels. The...

Wappwolf - Drag Files to Dropbox and Automatically Convert Them To Multiple Formats

If you're like me and you have multiple devices that you use on a frequent basis, Wappwolf is a Dropbox client that you have to check ...

Screen Draw - Draw or Type on Any Webpage

Grizzly Ape is a software development company in the U.K. that has built some handy Firefox add-ons. One of their free add-ons is Screen Dr...

Easier Location Sharing in Google Earth

Sharing your favorite locations in Google Earth recently got a lot easier than it used to be. In the past to share a Google Earth location ...

Send to Kindle Now Available for Mac Users

Back in January I shared the news about Amazon's Send to Kindle software for Windows. As I learned from CNET , Send to Kindle is now a...

Shakespeare Animated

Yesterday, I Tweeted a story from Open Culture that highlighted 12 animated Shakespeare stories. In my investigation of the video source t...

New 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps

This morning Google announced the release of a new way to view images in Google Maps. 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps is a collection of publ...

Google Drive - Store Files, Share Files, and Talk About Them

Today,  Google introduced a new service for saving, sharing, and discussing files online. The new service is called Google Drive and it co...

Listen to Dinosaurs Talk About Themselves

DinoDatabase.com has a great little feature called If Dinosaurs Could Talk . In If Dinosaurs Could Talk  you will find twenty audio recordi...

Build Your Own Video Games on Sploder

Sploder is a website that offers free tools for creating your own video games. There are four basic game templates that you can modify to y...

Cookie Offers Excellent Educational Games

Cookie is a site offering dozens of excellent educational games for pre-K and elementary school students. The games that I tried all featur...

Cartoon - Let's Flip, Think Before You Flip

On Saturday I wrote a short post containing three questions to consider before flipping your classroom. Jeff Branzburg took that post and c...

File Sharing Just Got Easier Through Dropbox

For a long time Google Documents has made it very easy to publish work to the web by simply selecting the "anyone with link" or ...

Grovo - Video Lessons on Web Apps

Grovo is a service that offers video lessons on how to use a huge array of web apps and web services. Grovo lessons on the subjects of Inte...

Don't Tell the Band... History References in Songs

L.O.C. 04402 This post will reveal a bit about my personality. As I was working through a weekend's worth of email this morning I was li...

PBS Kids Cyberchase - Dozens of Math Activities

PBS Kids Cyberchase offers dozens of online and offline mathematics games and activities for students. The collection of more than forty onl...

Come Work With Me This Summer

Over the last week or so I've been asked by a dozen or so people about where I will be presenting this summer. Here's the list and d...

Blogger Buster is Back!

One of my go-to places for learning Blogger tips, tricks, and hacks is Blogger Buster . For the last year or so it was fairly dormant. In th...

Week in Review - It Feels Like Spring

Good morning. Another week has zoomed past us, but at this point in the school year some of us may think that's a good thing. This week ...

Three Questions to Consider Before We All Flip

Pedro Moura Pinheiro  on  Flickr It seems like you can't open an education periodical these days without finding an article espousing th...

7 Resources for Teaching and Learning About Mount Everest

This is one of those posts that I write every year just because this is one of my "pet topics." Visiting the Himalayas is on my li...

Three Simple Tools for Creating Strong Passwords

Some readers may recall that last weekend I tried to explain passwords and computer viruses to my step-father . In the post about that exper...