Month in Review - February's Most Popular Posts

The first two months of the year have zipped along here in Maine and the year has been off to a good start for Free Technology for Teachers ...

Take Your Students On a Virtual Field Trip of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

Next week, on March 5 at 1pm ET, Scholastic is hosting a virtual field trip through the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Histo...

Watch Physics Demonstrations and More on MIT Tech TV

MIT Tech TV is a collection of thousands videos produced by students and faculty at MIT. The videos are arranged into more than 600 collect...

Resources for Lessons About the Iditarod and Dogs In General

This weekend the Iditarod sled dog race begins. If you're looking for some materials to use to teach about the Iditarod or dogs in gener...

Flashcard Stash - Create Online Vocabulary Flashcards to Share With Your Students

Flashcard Stash is a free vocabulary flashcard service for teachers and students. The service makes it easy to quickly create flashcards an...

Presentation.io - Sync Your Presentations To Your Audience's Laptops and iPads

Presentation.io is a new service that is designed to help your audience follow along with your presentations. Presentation.io does this by ...

Create an Interactive Image for a Chance to Win an iPad Mini

ThingLink and Rosen Digital have teamed up to run an interactive image contest for K-12 students. The ThingLink Interactive Image Contest fo...

Using Google Drive for Online Discussions of Primary Sources

This same information is included at the end of my slideshow on Teaching With Technology and Primary Sources , but I wanted to share it as a...

Teaching With Technology and Primary Sources

This morning I had the pleasure of giving a virtual presentation to teachers in the Christian Teacher Collaborative based in Frisco, Texas....

Why Visuals Matter In Storytelling

I've had the pleasure of seeing Ken Shelton present on a number of occasions. Each time he has had superbly designed slidedecks. I'...

Shmoop Now Offers History, Math, and Literature Videos

This evening I looked at Shmoop for the first time in quite a while and learned that they now offer videos . The videos are short summaries...

Join This Hangout to Learn More About PBL

I've just learned from Steve Dembo that on March 14th Discovery Education's Wilkes University Instructional Media Program is hostin...

Core of Education - Episode #5 - Collaboration

It had been a few weeks since our last recording so yesterday Rod Berger and I sat down to record another short episode for the Core of Educ...

By Popular Request - Another Section of How To Use Google Drive in School

When I first decided to offer some webinars on my own I was a bit nervous about how they would be received. After all, it was the first time...

5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos

Over the last few days I've featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos. In the last year I've re...

The land of the free apps...and the home of the confused? - Guest Post

So many apps, so little time to go through them and see if they’re useful. We’re busy writing lesson plans that connect to and support the ...

5 Good Services to Help Students Learn New Vocabulary Words

This morning I received an email from a reader who was looking for some recommendations for websites that her students can use to learn and ...

CK-12's "Get Real" Contest Gives Students a Chance to Win iPads and More for Their Classrooms

Last week I received an email from CK-12 that announced their new Get Real competition . The Get Real contest asks students to create presen...

76 Examples of Using Haiku Deck in School

Last weekend Kristen Swanson shared some ideas for using Haiku Deck to promote visual literacy . This morning I noticed that the Haiku Deck ...

Baby Tigers and Other Wonders on BBC Earth

This evening while some people were watching the Oscars I was watching baby tigers. Thanks to this post on The Adventure Blog I rediscovere...

wireWax - Create Interactive Videos and Play Videos Within Videos

wireWax is a new service that takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. On wireWax you can build interactive tags ...

Why Word Order Matters in Google Searches

Google's Search Anthropologist Daniel Russell recently shared a short video demonstrating why word order matters when formulating your ...

The Week in Review - Thank You Guest Bloggers

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine where it is snowing again! This week started out with some excellent guest posts from folks who filled in...

5 Tips for Writing DBQ Essays

Keith Hughes, history teacher extraordinaire and producer of the excellent Hip Hughes History videos, recently published a new video for stu...

Google Drive Videos Now Available in HTML5

Yesterday, Google announced that HTML5 support is now included for videos within Google Drive. What this means is that Flash is not needed ...

C.G.P. Grey Explains How a Pope is Chosen

C.G.P. Grey is back again with a new explanatory video. This time he explains, in his visual and fast-talking style, how a new Pope will be...

Spark Your Students' Imaginations With Wonderopolis

Wonderopolis is a fantastic site that I learned about through Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano's current series of blog posts about embedding...

Type Rocket - A Quick Game for Typing Practice

Type Rocket is a free typing game from ABCya that Joanne Villis reminded me of in one of her recent posts. Type Rocket is a sixty second g...

Questions About Changing School

This morning on Twitter I shared some questions that I have asked students in the past when trying to gather their feedback about what they ...

A Quick Guide to Using Interactive Whiteboards

Danny Nicholson runs The Whiteboard Blog where he has just posted another helpful guide for new interactive whiteboard users . Getter Starte...

Create Animated Videos With Wideo

Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on ...

Create Interactive Videos on The Mad Video

The Mad Video is a new service for creating interactive videos. The service is kind of like ThingLink for videos. Using The Mad Video you ...

Find Great Public Domain Images on Pixabay

Pixabay is a good place to find and download quality public domain images. You can search on Pixabay by using keywords or you can simply br...

A Free Dictionary of Historical Terms, People, and Events

History Today offers a nice resource for quickly looking up definitions of terms frequently used in history texts, mini-biographies, and sho...