Month In Review - The Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

Good evening from hot and steamy Greenwood, Maine. Earlier this week I had the heat on in my house and this afternoon I was outside in short...

Host and Document Collaborative Brainstorming Sessions With Realtime Board

Realtime Board is a nice tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions. I've featured the service a couple of times sin...

Making Videos In the Common Craft Style - Rubric Included

A couple of years ago I had students in one of my classes create Common Craft -style videos to tell the story of Lewis and Clark. I was remi...

How to Screencast On a Chromebook

I've reviewed a lot of screencasting tools over the years (a list of seventeen can be found here ). The problem with most screencasting ...

Flask - Quickly Create and Share To-do Lists

There is no shortage of to-do list tools available on the web today. Some are parts of larger services (see Gmail and Evernote) while others...

90 Videos That Will Help You Make Better Videos

Last week I featured the Vimeo Video School's series about stillmotion video creation. YouTube also has an extensive collection of vide...

Create Slowmotion Videos Using the YouTube Video Editor

Want to understand why my dogs make such a mess when they drink water? Watch a slow motion video of the process and you'll see why right...

PDF Mergy Makes It Easy To Merge PDFs

PDF Mergy is a free tool for combining PDFs. The service does not require you to register unless you want to select files from your Google ...

Create Infographics With Piktochart

It seems like every day I find a new infographic on at least one of the blogs that I follow. This is because a good infographic can deliver ...

Room Recess - Educational Games for Kids

Room Recess is a free and advertising-free educational games sites developed by an elementary school teacher. The site currently features f...

Go On a Virtual Trek to Everest and Learn About Glaciers

Glacier Works, Microsoft, and David Breashears have collaborated to develop a great new site called Everest: Rivers of Ice . Everest: Rivers...

Gooru Adds a Common Core Standards-Based Search Tool

This morning I was a guest on NCompass Live . During my appearance I talked about Gooru . Gooru is a great place to find and or create colle...

22 Frames - News Videos for ESL Students

Last week I published 5 Good Places for Students To Learn About the News . In response to that post I received a few emails from people look...

A Free Two Week Course on Google Maps and Earth

Earlier this month Google announced that a new version of Google Maps is coming. Some of us have been lucky enough to get invitations to u...

ThingLink Launches a Free iPad App

Cross posted from iPad Apps for School .  ThingLink is one of my favorite tools that I've reviewed on Free Technology for Teachers . Th...

Scrible - Bookmark, Annotate, and Create Bibliographies

Scrible is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scrible offers browser boo...

Tropical Ice - A Climate Change Story

When we think of climate change we often think about the shrinking polar glaciers. There are other places in the world that have glaciers to...

Under H20 - A Nice Video Series from PBS Digital Studios

This morning on Google+ the Google Science Fair page shared a neat series of  videos from PBS Digital Studios. Under H20 is a series of t...

5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports

This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last...

Make Beliefs Comix Offers 300+ Printable Comic Templates

Make Beliefs Comix , a multilingual comic strip creation service that I've featured in the past, recently released some new printable co...

Problem Attic Expands Again - More Practice Problems Than Ever

Problem Attic is a free service that allows you to quickly create practice tests and flashcards for social studies, language arts, mathema...

The Week in Review - Learning About Sea Turtles

Good evening from San Jose, Costa Rica where I've just wrapped a week in which I was able to observe students learning about sea turtle ...

Every Stock Photo - A Search Engine for Free Images

The next time that you need to find some high resolution images for a slideshow skip the Google Image search and head over to Every Stock Ph...

Get Help With Name Pronunciation from Hear Names

Hear Names provides guides for pronouncing names. On Hear Names you will find recordings of native speakers pronouncing given names and s...

5 Good Places for Kids to Learn About the News

When I was a student in Mrs. Simmons's second grade classroom one of the things that I looked forward to every week was the arrival of t...

FatURL - Share Bundles of Links

FatURL is a handy little tool to use when you need to share a group of links to someone. To share a group of links through FatURL just copy...

Harvest of History Helps Students Understand Farms

Harvest of History is a website produced by the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York (also the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame )....

5 Good Resources for Teaching & Learning About Shakespeare

Last week I shared Shakespeare Uncovered from PBS Learning Media. That is a nice resource for helping students understand the things that i...

5 Great Activities from Read Write Think

If you're an elementary school teacher who has not bookmarked Read Write Think, you absolutely should do that today. Read Write Think pr...

Kids Can Bowl for Free This Summer

Just as they have for the last few summers, bowling centers around the U.S. and Canada are offering students two free games every day. To ...

Five Ways to Digitally Celebrate Your Students' Year

The end of the school year is here or soon to be here which means it's a great time to reflect on what your students have done this year...

The Dictionary of Numbers - Putting Numbers in Human Terms

Dictionary of Numbers is a neat Chrome extension that "translates" large numbers into terms that are easy to visualize. When you ...

Get Creative Commons Savvy With These Activities

Yesterday, I shared the EFF's lesson plans for teaching copyright. After using those plans you may want to move your students on to unde...

How to Use eduClipper

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a long review of the visual bookmarking service, eduClipper . eduClipper is a great place for teachers and st...

5 Good Lesson Plans for Teaching Copyright

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright . Te...

Teacher Turned Entrepreneur - An Interview With Adam Bellow

Two weeks ago Adam Bellow relaunched eduClipper . Unlike a lot of new ed tech services, Adam comes from a teaching background not a tech dev...