October's Most Popular Ed Tech Posts

Happy Halloween! It's almost hard to believe that the end of October is already here. This month I had the pleasure and privilege of pre...

Quickly Find Images for Google Presentations

Back in May Google added an integrated research tool to Google Docs. The research tool allows you to quickly find images, quotes, and links ...

theLearnia - Video Lessons with a Social Network

theLearnia is a new website that is organizing video lessons into collections. The service calls the videos "lessons" and appears...

Chromebooks in the 7th Grade Classroom

Gene Tognetti is a 7th grade Social Studies teacher and vice-principal at St. Leo the Great in San Jose, California. This is Gene's acco...

One Nexus 10 Feature That Could Make It a Great Classroom Tablet

The big Google press event in New York City was canceled today, but Google still officially unveiled three new Nexus devices on their offici...

Chrome Remote Desktop Leaves Beta to Allow You to Offer Tech Help Remotely

I've written about the Chrome Remote Desktop App a couple of times this year because I think that it can be very helpful to people who ...

Creative Commons in Plain English

I just published a post about creating attributions for Creative Commons licensed images. Writing that post reminded me that Creative Comm...

A Handy Attribution Helper for Flickr Images

Correctly formatting Creative Commons image attributions can be a little tricky. Alan Levine (Cog Dog Blog) has developed a Chrome extensio...

Double Your Productivity with Radical Co-location

Hall.com is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers. This is their sponsored post. Ever wonder how software companies like Facebook a...

Bibliography Templates for Google Documents

Tools like EasyBib , refDot , and Citelighter can help students format their bibliographies. One problem with those tools is that students ...

Activities for Learning 60 Languages

Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning sixty different languages. Most of the games are de...

Make Your Own PBS Cyberchase SMART Board Game Show

PBS Kids Cyberchase website offers dozens of  educational games for students in grades three through five. The games are intended to help...

Spend Four Weeks in D.C. as a C-SPAN Fellow

I recently 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 su...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Near the Bob Marshall Wilderness, MT. Last Saturday I had the honor of delivering the kick-off presentation from a hotel room in Missoula, M...

MIT + K12 = Educational Videos for K-12 Students

MIT + K12 is a new MIT project that features MIT students explaining math and science concepts for K-12 students. The website isn't a c...

Use Studeous to Create a Discussion Forum for Your Class

Studeous is a new service that teachers can use to create online discussion forums for their courses. In your Studeous account you can crea...

New and Better Views of Natural Geography on Google Maps

Today, Google released new visual improvements to the base maps in Google Maps. The improvements include new representations of terrain, v...

140 WWII Aircraft Discovered In Burmese Jungle

This isn't a technology story, but I think it will be of interest to history teachers and history geeks like me. This morning The Advent...

Discover 60 New Web and iOS Apps Here

Last week Ray Birks sent me an email about a presentation that he and his colleague Aaron Hansen gave at the Washington Association of Educa...

The 25 Worst Passwords of the Year and How to Create Better Passwords

The CNN Tech blog recently published a list of the worst passwords of 2012 . The top of the list includes all of the things that you might e...

One Hundred Free Books for Your Kindle

One Hundred Free Books is a website that offers free Kindle books on a daily basis. On One Hundred Free Books you can browse for free Kind...

EduCam Classroom - Share Your Document Camera Images

EduCam is a new Android and iPad app that users of Flexcam an Ken-A-Vision document cameras may find useful. The EduCam app allows your stu...

Three Free Halloween iPad Apps

Halloween is less than one week away. This afternoon I spent some time trying out a variety of Halloween-themed iPad apps. I found a lot of ...

Video Projects and Common Core Standards

Last week I ran two workshops on video creation in the classroom . A part of that workshop was a discussion of Common Core standards that ca...

Google Street View Heads to the Grand Canyon

Earlier today Google announced their next off-road Google Maps project. A team of Googlers is setting off to capture Street View imagery of...

PenPal News - Connecting Classes to Discuss News

PenPal News is a neat service that I learned about from David Kapuler . As the name implies, PenPal News connects classrooms across the U.S...

Symbolab - A Scientific Equation Search Engine

Symbolab is a new search engine designed for mathematicians and scientists. The search engine is a semantic search engine which means that ...

Creating Awesome Assessments - Free Webinar

Disclosure: Mastery Connect is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers. Last month Mastery Connect offered a free webinar about creati...

uSpeak HD - A Nice App for Learning Spanish

uSpeak HD is a free iPad app designed to help beginners learn Spanish. The app matches you with word lists and learning activities based on...

Access Google Docs With One Click Even When You're Offline

Today, Google released three new Chrome apps that allow you to access Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations in one click. I'm ac...

Interactive Infographic - Tracking American Poverty

Tracking American Poverty is an informative infographic that I found on Cool Infographics . The infographic has six screens that you can mo...

What Happened to Qwiki? It's Going Mobile

When it launched in 2011 I was impressed by the multimedia reference site Qwiki. Then when they launched a creation tool earlier this year, ...

Halloween and SMART Boards

Image Credit: Elizabeth Thomsen Halloween is just over one week away. If you're a SMART Board user who would like some new Halloween-the...

Creative Uses for iPads in the Classroom

This afternoon I Stumbled Upon a good Slideshare presentation from Mike Amante who I had the pleasure of meeting during ISTE 2010. Mike...