Month in Review - May's Most Popular Posts

A baby bird I tried to help today.  The baby birds are chirping, my lawn is out of control, and card aisle in the grocery store is stocked w...

Edublogs Gets an iPad App

The popular student blog provider Edublogs released a new free iPad and iPhone app today. The free Edublogs app will allow you to write new...

The World Wonders Project is a Must-Bookmark Site

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo  for alerting me to an awesome new resource from Google called the World Wonders Project . The World Wonders Projec...

U.S. Elections for Dummies 1960-1992

Take Khan Academy for social studies, use better graphics, put an engaging speaker who is actually a social studies teacher in front of the ...

100+ Registration Free Tools for Students

One of the common obstacles to using many Web 2.0 tools in elementary school and middle school classrooms is the registration requirement th...

10 Things You Can Do To Make Yourself an Ed Tech Star This Summer

Credit: Sunset from Longniddry Bents Richard Webb As I watch Twitter at this time of year I see a mix of sadness, relief, and excitement tha...

Buying a New Laptop Soon? Read This First

Make Use Of publishes a lot of useful free guides in PDF and ePub format. The latest guide that they've released is Buying Laptop Compu...

Shared Copy - Collaborate and Annotate on Any Webpage

Last night I Tweeted a link to three tools for marking and sharing websites . Nathan Hall replied with the suggestion of looking at Shared ...

Ten Game Templates to use in MS Office

This morning I received an email from someone who had seen me present at the NCTIES Conference in March. The email shared some information ...

Coding Practice with Instant Feedback

Mozilla Thimble App is a free tool that allows you to write and test HTML and instantly see how your new code will look on the web. On one ...

Bitly Introduces New Bookmark Options

Bitly is the URL shortener that I have been using for years. It's simple to use, especially if you use the bookmarklet, allows you to c...

Interactive Illimitably - Collaborative Drawing

Interactive Illimitably is a free collaborative drawing tool that I learned about through a comment on my post of 11 collaborative drawing ...

Create Webpages in Minutes With Pagefin

Pagefin is a free service for creating simple webpages without the need to register for an account. To create a webpage with Pagefin just c...

Turn Your Students into Solar Storm Watchers

Solar Storm Watch is a website on which anyone can become a solar storm watcher. The site uses imagery from STEREO Spacecraft to present u...

A Quick Review of the New Chromebooks and Chrome OS

I realize that Chromebooks aren't free, but I think that a good chunk of my readers will be interested in this information anyway.  This...

Infographic - The History of Memorial Day

This is a day late, but I still want to share it. On Cool Infographics I found The History of Memorial Day which is an infographic outlini...

Simple Sticky Notes in Google Chrome

I love sticky notes. I have them all over the desktops of my computers and tablets. I also love Google Chrome. Therefore, I was happy to dis...

Transfer Files With Just a Bump

Bump is a free app for Android and iOS devices that makes it very easy to transfer pictures and contacts between devices. Bump can also b...

ScienceFix - Videos of Middle School Science Lessons

In March I shared 7 Useful YouTube Channels for Science Students and Teachers . This morning as I browsed YouTube I found ScienceFix . Scien...

7 Tools for Collaboratively Creating Image Galleries

This morning I received an email from a reader who had taken a group on a tour of historic places in Boston and was looking for some suggest...

Historypin Presents Pinning the Queen's History

This year marks Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. To mark the occasion Historypin has created a map of the Queen's official visi...

Go On a Virtual Journey with Charles Darwin

Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage is an outstanding virtual tour of Charles Darwin's nearly five year journey on the Beagle . Darwin, A...

The Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75

As some readers know, I don't have a television at home (I do have four computer screens though) so this morning when I woke up in a hot...

Who Pooped? - Identify Animals by Scat/ Dung

Even if it is slightly gross Who Pooped? is a fun and educational site through which students try to identify animals by their scat or dung....

Week in Review - Happy Memorial Day!

Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Greenwood, Maine. Happy Memorial Day weekend to all of my American...

Dozens of Physics Games for Your Blog

Physics Games.net , as the name implies, is a website of games based on simple physics concepts.  Physic Games  offers dozens of games based...

26+ Ways to Use Thinglink in the Classroom

Thinglink is a tool for creating interactive images. I've written about it quite a bit in the last few months ( click here to learn ho...

Video - Maximizing Museum Field Trips

Through the Teaching Palette , I discovered this video from the Art Institute of Chicago . The video was created as a resource to help teac...

Set Location-based Reminders for Yourself

Geo Notepad is a Chrome application that offers a different take on reminders and notes. While most note-taking and reminder services are b...

GeoBee Challenge - Test Your Geography Knowledge

This week the 2012 National Geographic Bee champion was crowned. To help your students prepare for next year's National Geographic Bee,...

Meograph - Four Dimensional Storytelling

Meograph is a new digital storytelling tool that you should put on your list of things to try this summer. Meograph, which I learned about ...

Vocabulary Spelling City

This week Free Technology for Teachers welcomed Vocabulary Spelling City as a new advertiser. Vocabulary Spelling City offers a database ...

Corkboard Me - Another Nice Sticky Note Service

Last week I published a short post with ideas for using seven sticky note services in schools . This week I found another good sticky note s...

Preview YouTube Videos Without a Click

Today's episode of Tekzilla Daily has a quick overview of a handy little tool for previewing YouTube videos without loading them in a n...

Use the Remind 101 iPhone App to Keep Students and Parents Informed

I'm about a week late on this but it's still worth sharing the news that Remind 101 has released a free iPhone app . Remind 101 is ...

Visualizing the World's 50 Most Prominent Peaks

The Guardian recently published an excellent interactive data visualization of the world's 50 most prominent peaks . The visualization o...

Waiting for InstaGrok

InstaGrok is a promising new academic search engine and bookmarking service that I've written about twice this spring ( here and here ...

Page-level Permissions and Digital Portfolios in Google Sites

This morning I received an email from a reader who needed some advice about having his students use Google Sites as digital portfolios. His...

Learnist is Like Pinterest for Learning

Learnist is a new site (still in beta) that aims to be like Pinterest but for sharing learning resources. On Learnist you can create pinboa...

Decode QR Codes Without a Camera

I've written about QR codes a bunch of times in the past, most recently in this post . The problem with all of those posts is that they ...

Learners TV Offers a Big Collection of Science Animations

There isn't any shortage of sites attempting to organize academic videos, I shared a nice one yesterday, but there aren't too many ...