A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 3

In part one of this series I shared some resources for creating a gallery of media to use in your classroom blog. In part two I shared som...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 2

In part one of this series I shared some ideas for creating a gallery of media to use in your classroom blog posts. If you don't have t...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 1

A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored...

Mission Map Quest - Create Your Own Geography Games

Russel Tarr is on a roll this month. Earlier this month he released a great tool for creating fake text message exchanges between historica...

The Week in Review - It's Mud Season!

Good morning from muddy Greenwood, Maine. The spring thaw has started and that means it is mud season. Along with the mud we have the return...

The NanoSpace Molecularium - A Virtual Amusement Park About Molecules

The NanoSpace Molecularium is a nice web resource produced by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The purpose of the site is to provide eleme...

Conservation Connection - A Game for Learning About Conservation

Nature Works Everywhere is an excellent site presented by The Nature Conservancy. One of the features Nature Works Everywhere designed for s...

A Good Collection of 13 Digital Citizenship Resources

Jen Deyenberg at Northern Gateway Public Schools has created a nice collection of digital citizenship resources for teachers and parents ....

Google Maps Engine Lite - Create Advanced Custom Google Maps

For years Google Maps had the option for creating custom placemarks and basic shapes in the "my maps" option in your account. But ...

A Short Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students and Teachers

One of the blogging activities that I often suggest in my workshops is having students record and share on-the-spot observations during fie...

What Is Beyond Textbooks?

For the next two days I’ll be at Discovery Education’s Beyond the Textbook forum. The purpose of the forum is to bring together a couple of...

Quizdini - Create Online Quizzes That Give Students Instant Feedback

Quizdini is a free tool for creating online quizzes. The best feature of Quizdini is that you can create explanations of the correct answer...

ThingLink Remix - Share One Image and Let Your Whole Class Make It Interactive

ThingLink is my favorite tool for making images interactive. I've written about it many times in the past including this post that has ...

ClassBadges Partners With Edublogs to Recognize Students' Blogging Achievements

ClassBadges and Edublogs have announced a partnership designed to recognize your students' blogging achievements. ClassBadges is a fre...

myHistro Offers New Ways to Share Mapped Timelines

myHistro is a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a...

Get Students Thinking About Programming - Create Entries for the Blockly Turtle Graphics Contest

Blockly is Google's web-based, graphical programming tool. Blockly is designed to get people developing small programs by dragging and ...

Students Will Enjoy Creating Fiction Stories With These Story Starters

Scholastic Story Starters is a great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories. Scholastic Story Starte...

An Interactive History of NASA Space Suits

This afternoon I stumbled upon a neat NASA resource that elementary school and middle school students might like. This interactive display ...

Readium - Read ePub Documents in Your Browser

Readium is a free Chrome extension that enables you to view ePub files in your browser. To read an ePub in Readium you can import the file ...

A Short Guide to Terms Commonly Used in Blogging

I'm currently in the process of developing new digital handouts for my blogging workshops . One of the items that I'm adding to my h...

One Week Until EdCamp Maine - And a Big List of Other EdCamps

Next Saturday I'll be attending EdCamp Maine for the second year in a row. It's a great day of informal presentations and conversat...

A Simple Yet Powerful Student Blogging Activity

One of the questions that often comes up in my workshops about blogging is, "what should I have the students write about?" There ...

The Week In Review - Time To Go Fishing...Almost

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine USA where winter doesn't want to quit. There's some light snow falling this morning as I get read...

Moonberri - Quickly and Privately Transfer Files

Have a file that you need to send to colleague or to a student, but is too big to attach to an email? If so, give Moonberri a try. Moonberr...

MapStory - Create a Story With Mapped Data

MapStory is a free tool for creating mapped displays of data sets. Data sets that are time based, the travels of Genghis Khan for example, ...

Friday Afternoon Fun Facts

If you've had a long week the following fun video from Buzz Feed will put a little smile on your face. The Happiest Facts To Make You Sm...

Monosnap - A Screen Capture Tool for Mac, Windows, iOS and Chrome

Last summer I started using a new, free screen capture tool called Monosnap . At that time Monosnap was only available for Mac users. Monosn...

Acceleration and Skydiving

Untamed Science is a neat, educational YouTube channel that I just learned about through the Pearson OLE blog . One of the videos that I wa...

Findery - Share A Story on Google Maps

Findery is a community site on which anyone can share a short story about any location on the globe. Findery uses Google Maps as its base s...

Edcanvas Now Supports Audio Comments

Edcanvas is a free service that makes it easy for teachers to organize and share educational materials in a visually pleasing format. I...

Studies of iPad Use in Education

Cross posted from iPad Apps for School .  This week I got the itch to go beyond anecdotal stories about iPads in the classroom and look for ...

Now You Can Export Padlet (Wallwisher) Walls as PDFs and Images

For the last couple of months Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher) has been steadily adding new features. First, the moderation options wer...

Google Launches "Keep" For Note Taking on Android and in Drive

After accidentally leaking the news yesterday, Google officially launched the new note taking app Keep today. Keep is an Android app (avai...

Develop Math Skills With Beluga Learning for iPads

Beluga Learning is a free iPad app that my friend Rod Berger recommended to me a couple of weeks ago. Beluga Learning provides a game based...

Explain It Like I'm Five - Cute Explanatory Videos from Reddit and Donors Choose

Reddit has started to produce a new series of cute explanatory videos sponsored by Donors Choose . The videos feature two adults trying to...

National Geographic Explains Fracking

Last fall I drove across North Dakota and I'm going back next month to deliver a keynote for NDATL's annual conference . Because Nor...

Three Quick Resources About How Maple Syrup Is Made

Today is the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. That means that here in Maine Maple Syrup Sunday isn't too far away (March...