Make PicMonkey Collages to Pique Kids' Interest in Books

This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a...

Connecting as a New Principal

This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a...

The Week in Review - A Day Early

Good evening from Boston, Massachusetts where I'm waiting for a flight to jet me away on a mountain biking vacation. Since I committed t...

How to Use Google Docs Offline in Two Steps

Earlier this evening I mentioned the new iPad apps for Google Drive and for Chrome. Another, and perhaps more important, announcement from G...

Chrome Comes to iPads

In more big news from Google that I missed earlier today while I was teaching. Chrome is now available on the iPad . This means that you can...

Google Drive Comes to iOS

While I was teaching at Ed Tech Teacher's summer workshop today big news came from Google today . You can now install Google Drive on yo...

Animated Video - What is a Flame?

I'm on a bit of an animated explanatory video kick this evening. This marks the third mention of an animated video in a post today. What...

Virtually Cycle the Tour de France

The Tour de France kicks-off on Saturday. This year you and your students can virtually cycle along with the world's best cyclists. Cyc...

PowToon Looks Like a Great Tool for Creating Explanatory Videos

PowToon is a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawin...

What Are Cookies? And What Do They Do?

Image Credit:   No, this is not about those delicious-looking cookies to the left. This is about the kind of cookies that are captured when ...

Use Instagram Images in Animoto Videos

This afternoon I gave a brief demonstration of Animoto to a wonderful group of educators in an Ed Tech Teacher workshop. It was the first ...

12 Tools for Quickly Gathering Informal Feedback from Students

This morning I'm again facilitating a workshop with Greg Kulowiec . At the start of the session we introduced three tools for quickly ga...

Become a Power Google Searcher

Today, Google announced the launch of a new MOOC - Massive Open Online Course - titled Power Searching With Google . The course will contai...

ikiMap - More Than Just Custom Google Maps

ikiMap is a free service for creating custom maps online. The service allows you to build custom maps on top of Google Maps, Bing Maps, and...

Dick's Sporting Goods Offers Free Concussion Testing for U.S. Schools

This morning Drew Brees was on the Dan Patrick show to promote a new initiative from Dick's Sporting Goods. The initiative called PACE...

Vialogues - Form Discussions Around Videos

Vialogues is a website that is designed to enable users to host conversations around a video. Users can upload videos to Vialogues or use Y...

Take a Google Earth Tour of the Largest Intact Boreal Forest on Earth

This morning I went poking around the Google Earth tour showcase looking for information about hurricanes. Although I didn't find what ...

Track 2012 Hurricanes in Google Earth

The Atlantic hurricane season started this month. In past years Google added a hurricane tracking layer to Google Earth. That doesn't s...

ShowMe Announces ShowMe 3.0

Over the weekend the popular free iPad app ShowMe was upgraded to version 3.0 . The new version introduces a new three column layout, impro...

Create Thematic Maps With the National Geographic Map Maker

Recently, I published a list of 21 good map creation tools for students . This morning I read a post by Noel Jenkins that reminded me of an...

Doodle Buzz is an Interesting Way to Explore News

Doodle Buzz is an interesting way to look at the news. To find news stories enter a term in the search box, click go, then drag your cursor...

Video and Reminder - Wear Your Bike Helmet

This morning I went out for a mountain bike ride in a local state forest. We had thunderstorms last night so things we're still quite sl...

Snaggy is a Handy Screen Capture Tool

Using the print screen key on your PC or "command+shift+4" on your Mac are easy ways to create a screen capture. But if you want d...

The Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

Good morning from Maine where the hot and muggy weather confirms that summer has fully arrived. This week Free Technology for Teachers cros...

Maps of Vanishing & Endangered Languages

In the July issue of National Geographic Magazine there is a feature titled Vanishing Voices . The feature is abut languages that are in dan...

GeoGebra Releases Two Chrome Web Apps

In March GeoGebra launched a web-based version of their popular math modeling program. This week GeoGebra released  two new Chrome Web Apps...

Create Interactive Images on ImageSpike

ImageSpike is a new service for creating interactive images. The service is very similar to ThingLink which I have been a big fan of for t...