Harnessing the Power of Wind - A National Geographic Interactive Lesson

National Geographic has a neat little interactive activity designed to help people understand how wind turbines generate power. Harness the...

Draft - A Simple Collaborative Writing Tool

Draft is a new collaborative writing tool that makes you focus on writing and revising by providing a simple user interface. In Draft you w...

Shareor - Another Social Bookmarking Site for Teachers

It seems like at least once a week there is a new social bookmarking site launched. This week's entry into that category is Shareor. Sha...

Ten Tools for Cropping, Resizing, and Enhancing Images Online

This afternoon as I worked through a backlog of email I replied to a couple of questions about resizing images to make them fit under the si...

ExamTime - Create & Share Flashcards, Mind Maps, and Quizzes

ExamTime is a new service that middle school, high school, and college students can use to prepare for tests. I tend to like any service th...

Climate Commons - An Interactive Map of Climate Change Stories

Climate Commons is an interactive map developed by the Earth Journalism Network. The map features weather data and emissions data related t...

Explore 20th Century World History Declassified

The Wilson Center Digital Archive recently published a new set of 73 collections of declassified historical documents. The documents contai...

Wonderville - Collections of Digital Materials for K-5

Wonderville.com , not to be confused with Wonderville.ca , is a new site that is organizing educational videos, ebooks, pictures, and quiz s...

New Webinar Course - Blogging for Teachers and School Leaders

Blogging isn’t new and it isn’t as flashy as say iPads in the classroom, but it is a very valuable activity for students, teachers, and scho...

A Nice Cheat Sheet for Gmail Shortcuts

If you rely on Gmail for personal or professional use (including Google Apps for Education email messages) take a look at this nice little g...

A Quick Round-up of New Google Drive Features

This week Google Drive received a few new updates. One of them is fairly obvious if you collaborated on a document this week. The others wer...

Week In Review - Deep In the Heart of Texas

Good morning from Maine where I'm home after a week of presenting at conferences in South Dakota and Texas. Thank you to all who came ou...

Reminder - Posterous Is Shutting Down - Here's What To Do Next

Like many others this morning I received a reminder from Posterous that the service will close on April 30th. If you don't export your c...

Three Good Ways to Use Socrative In Your Classroom

The last part of the short presentation about backchannels and informal assessment that I gave at the Texas Library Association's confer...

Three Good Ways to Use Padlet In Your School

This afternoon at the Texas Library Association's annual conference I gave a short presentation about backchannels and informal assessme...

Three Good Ways to Use TodaysMeet in Your Classroom

TodaysMeet.com  is a completely free service for hosting backchannel discussions. Over the years I’ve used it in a ...

I love a good keynote...but...

I love to listen to a good keynote presentation. Dan Meyer's Math Class Needs a Makeover is still one of the best I've seen in ter...

Are Your Students Standing On The Shoulders of Giants?

If you visit Google Scholar right now you will see the tagline, "stand on the shoulders of giants." This is something that I menti...

A Simple Activity to Help Students Analyze Characters in Books

Scholastic's Character Scrapbook is a nice little online activity that could help your students analyze the characters in the books tha...

Three Ways Students Can Explore Space From Their Desktops

Someone recently emailed me after reading this post about Google Sky for Android to ask if there were similar tools available for use on la...

Find Free Sound Effects on SoundGator

The next time you need common sounds like doorbells ringing, dogs barking, or car horns honking to use in a multimedia project you could try...

Persistence- The Key to Successful Classroom Blogging

My mom and brothers in 1990 I've been fortunate to have been invited to speak about blogging at a number of schools and conferences. On...

How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents

The sharing and commenting features in Google Documents are fantastic for giving students feedback about their work. Likewise, those feature...

5 Sites Students Can Explore to Learn About Career Options

One of my favorite parts of having a student advisory group of sixteen to eighteen years-old students was talking with them about their coll...

Tagboard - Organization for Following Hashtags

This morning while I was preparing to give a talk about personal learning networks at the TIE Conference in South Dakota I was watching the...

Lots of Answers to Common Google Apps Security & Privacy Questions

This morning I received an email that I get on a fairly regular basis. The question always goes something like this... "we're think...

ReadWorks Offers 1,000+ Reading Passages Aligned to Common Core Standards

ReadWorks is a free service that has cataloged hundreds of lesson plans and more than one thousand non-fiction reading passages aligned to ...

Edit and Create PowerPoint, Word, and More Inside Box.com

When I'm not saving and sharing files through Google Drive , Box.com is the tool that I use. Now Box.com has become more useful by addi...

New PDF Annotation Options in Evernote Skitch

Skitch for Mac and iOS is an excellent app that I've used for creating annotated screenshots for quite a while. In fact, I used it to c...

VideoNotes - A Great Tool for Taking Notes While Watching Academic Videos

VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of y...

5 Ways to Blow the Top Off of Rubrics

This is a guest post from Shawn McCusker of EdTechTeacher.org which is an advertiser on this blog.  Do you have a rubric for that? Rubrics...

gClassFolders Version 2 Improves Google Drive File Management

Last fall I introduced many of you to gClassFolders . gClassFolders is a Google Drive script that will create folders for you for as many c...

The Week in Review - Thinking About Summer In the Snow

Good morning from Greenwood, Maine. It has been a week like no other here in New England. In a matter of minutes on Monday I went from celeb...