Cargo Bot - An iPad Game About Logic

Cargo Bot is a fun and challenging game that students can play to learn some principles of logic and programming. The object of the game is...

November's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

Morrison and his toy duck. Good evening from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Greenwood, Maine. The days are shorter ...

Take a Narrated Tour of the Solar System

3D Solar System Web is a neat website that I discovered through the Chrome web store . 3D Solar System Web features a narrated tour of the ...

NASA Kids' Club - Games and More for K-4

NASA Kids' Club is a new offering from NASA that features games, interactive activities, and images for students to explore, play, and ...

VoiceThread - One of My All-Time Favorite Tools

This afternoon after my Best of the Web presentation at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference I had a nice conversation with a a teac...

60 of the Best Websites and Apps for Teachers

Today, at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire I gave my Best of the Web presentation to a packed room...

How to Search Gmail by Attachment Size and Date

Yesterday, I shared the Gmail+1 "hack." Today, I have another handy Gmail trick for you. In Gmail you can search for attachments ...

The Differences Between Projects and Project Based Learning

Amy Mayer recently published a nice chart that breaks down the differences between "doing projects" and "project based learn...

5 Years and 52,000 Subscribers Later...

Image Source This post is straight out of the navel gazing department. Five years ago today Free Technology for Teachers got started with t...

How to Create PDFs in Google Drive in Three Steps

This morning I received a question from a reader who wanted to know if it is possible to create PDFs in Google Documents and if so how can i...

Gmail+1 = Student Email Addresses to Register for Online Services

The Gmail+1"hack" isn't a new trick and I can't remember when I first tried it, but it still works and it still provides a...

Collaboratively Comment on PDFs with Marqueed

Back in July I tried out a service called Marqueed that allows users to create and discuss collections of images. This morning I gave the s...

Insert Google Drive Files Into Your Gmail Messages

If you're a person who like me uses Gmail for the bulk of your email, Google has just made an announcement that you're sure to like...

Create Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional Characters - The Web Version

Yesterday, I wrote a post about Read Write Think's Trading Cards iPad App . That post got reTweeted like crazy and this morning I had a ...

Muzy Offers a Neat Way to Blog With Pictures

Muzy is a neat blogging service that offers a neat way to blog with pictures and text. Muzy offers more than two dozen apps for manipulatin...

myHomework Helps Students Keep Track of Assignments

myHomework is a free app that students can use on the web on iPads, on  iPhones, on Android devices, and on Windows 8 devices to keep track...

Woven Together - An Interactive Story About Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Woven Together is an interactive story that students can work through to learn about the history and culture of the Nuu-chah-nulth people o...

The U.S. Electoral Compass

The U.S. Electoral Compass is an interactive infographic from The Guardian. The infographic breaks down which political policy issues are m...

Aesop's Fables on the Web, iPad, and Android

One of the neat resources that I just plucked from Open Culture's new collection of K-12 resources is the Aesop's Fables interactiv...

200+ Free Video Lessons, Apps, and eBooks for K-12

One of my favorite blogs, Open Culture, has long cataloged free and open resources for post-secondary education. Today, they launched a new ...

Create Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional People, Places, and Events

Through one of Tony Vincent's Tweets I learned about a wonderful free iPad app from Read Write Think. Read Write Think Trading Cards a...

Wunderlist - To-do Lists Synced Across All Devices

Wunderlist is a free task management service that syncs across all of the devices that you use. If you're like me and you use an iPad, ...

Khan Academy iOS App Updated for iPhone

Earlier this year Khan Academy released an iPad app that allows students to download videos to watch offline as well as sign into their acco...

New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core

Over the last few months I have had the good fortune to introduce many educators to using Google Drive to help their students meet Common Co...

Manifest Destiny in 141 Interactive Maps

Manifest Destiny - The Story of The U.S. Told in 141 Maps is a fantastic website developed by Michael Porath . As the title implies the sit...

Turn Pictures Into Stories With Fotobabble

This morning I shared an old post about Fotobabble on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page . In response to that post Stewart Whit...