A New Crash Course in U.S. History

At about this time last year John Green launched Crash Course World History. That video series now contains 42 short video lessons on World ...

A Simple Tool for Cleaning Up Your YouTube Viewing Experience

Today, I spent the day running workshops in Springfield, Massachusetts. In a few of my workshops the question of how to go about safely show...

Virtually Hike the Grand Canyon in Google Maps

Last fall Google announced that it had a team setting out to capture "street view" imagery of trails through the Grand Canyon. Tod...

A New Collaboration Option in Google Forms

From creating short surveys to delivering multiple choice quizzes Google Forms is a great tool for teachers. Today, Google announced the a...

Five Good Feeds for ELA and ELL Teachers

Earlier this week I shared five good feeds for mathematics teachers and five good feeds for history teachers . These lists were born out of...

Google Wants to Hear from Teenage Scientists

Google has just opened their third annual science fair for teenagers. This year the Google Science Fair will accept entries in thirteen dif...

How to Password Protect Posts and Pages in WordPress Blogs (Including Edublogs) In Two Steps

On Monday I published directions for enabling limited access to Blogger blogs . Today, by request, I'm publishing directions on how to l...

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools

Later this week I'm running a workshop on the use of backchannels, polling services, and informal assessment tools. In preparation for ...

5 Good Mathematics Feeds for Teachers

I subscribe to roughly 300 blogs (honestly, I stopped keeping track a while ago). Usually, when I say that at conference or workshop the f...

How to Limit Access to Blogger Blog Posts

A question that I often get when I work with elementary school teachers to help them get on the road to blogging goes like this, "can I...

This Link Will Self Destruct - Create Links to Share for a Limited Period of Time

This Link Will Self Destruct is a free service for sharing links that are accessible for a finite period of time. This Link Will Self Destr...

Visit the Wistia Learning Center for Professional Video Production Tips

Wistia is a video hosting service that I am currently using to host some of my videos. Recently, Wistia launched a Learning Center to teach...

Five Good Feeds for U.S. History Teachers

I subscribe to roughly 300 blogs (honestly, I stopped keeping track a while ago). Usually, when I say that at conference or workshop the fol...

How to Manage 3rd Party Apps Accessing Your Google Account

On Friday I published a review of an online lesson planning service called Teaching Objects . One of the nice features of Teaching Objects i...

The Week in Review - Freezin' for a Reason

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine where it is a balmy 4F outside. This is actually the warmest morning we've had this week. Despite the...

Use Evernote and StudyBlue to Create Online Flashcards

This morning on iPad Apps for School I wrote a review of the StudyBlue iPad app. That app allows students to create and share flashcards o...

Teaching Objects - A Lesson Planner That Integrates Google Drive

Teaching Objects is an online lesson planner that I stumbled upon today and that I think has great potential. The first thing that you'...

The Science Behind the Bike

The Science Behind the Bike is a four part video series from The Open University. The series has a total running length of 33 minutes and i...

The Hero's Journey - A Lesson in Writing Myths

The Hero's Journey is an online writing activity produced by Read Write Think. The Hero's Journey is an interactive resource that t...

How to Set Expiration Dates for Shared Google Drive Folders

The ability to share folders is one of the many useful features of Google Drive. Sometimes you don't want to share a folder indefinitely...

Tips for a Successful Google Apps Training Session

This evening I wrapped-up the final section of my Google Drive and the Common Core webinar series. (I'll be offering it again in March)...

Put the Reading Rockets Reading Tip of the Day on Your Blog

This afternoon I was a panelist on a webinar hosted by AdLit and Reading Rockets . My contribution to the panel was to talk about using tec...

Use Edcanvas in Edmodo for Visual Organization and Sharing of Resources

Edcanvas is a well-designed service for organizing and sharing digital materials with your colleagues and students. I was impressed by the s...

The Importance of Data Portability in Web Services

Image Credit: Thomas Hawk All week I've been writing blog posts about downloading the content from your blogs in order to have an offlin...

Listen to Nearly 9,000 Bird Calls and See Where They Were Recorded

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently published more than 7,500 hours of bird calls from nearly 9,000 birds . The recordings are publishe...

Sweet! Now You Can Use Google Slides Offline

Google Chrome users have been able to use Google Documents offline for quite a while now. Today, Google announced that you can now use Goog...

How to Back-up Weebly Sites

On Monday I shared how to back-up Posterous Spaces blogs and yesterday I shared how to back-up Blogger, WordPress, and Edublogs blogs . Thi...

How to Export Your Blogger and WordPress Posts

Image credit: Martin_Duggan Yesterday, I shared directions on how to download the content that is on a Posterous Spaces blog . I shared thos...