MindMup - A Mind Mapping Tool That Saves to Google Drive

MindMup is a free mind mapping tool that can be used online, with Google Drive, and on your desktop. MindMup works like most mind mapping t...

Tips for Securing Your WiFi Network

Google's Good to Know site hosts a lot of good information about web technology basics. Good to Know covers topics like preventing ide...

June's Ten Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

Good evening from Greenwood, Maine. This evening while sitting on my back deck enjoying the summer weather I've been thinking about the ...

Brain Stuff - Videos Answering Fun Science Questions

Brain Stuff is a new YouTube channel featuring short explanations to fun science questions like "how much oxygen does a person breath ...

Last Chance to Move Your RSS Subscriptions Out of Google Reader

The last day of Google Reader has arrived. Tomorrow, it will be shut-down by Google. If you haven't moved your RSS subscriptions to anot...

What's Inside Coffee? And How Do You Decaffeinate It? - Videos

Earlier today Open Culture shared a video titled What's Actually Inside an Average Cup of Coffee? The video, produced by Wired, gives ...

Google+ Is Two, Have You Tried It Yet? You Should

Google+ turned two this week. Many teachers (and many others) have ignored it even though it has some great features. I outlined my favorite...

Instagram, Food, and Regional Differences

I'm not likely to be accused of being a hipster anytime soon, but this evening I did Instagram a picture of part of my dinner. Brown b...

Digg Reader - Another New Google Reader Alternative

This weekend is the last weekend that Google Reader will work. If you haven't found a replacement for Google Reader yet, here's anot...

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from rainy Maine. This week I had the privilege of speaking at the University of Maine at Fort Kent and at the AAFCS conferenc...

Snap! - Drag and Drop Coding for Kids

Snap! is a drag and drop programming interface designed to help students learn to program. Snap! uses a visual interface that works in your...

Join Me in Sunny Arizona for 3 Days of Learning Fun

For the second year in a row, Pearson Online Learning Exchange has invited me to speak at their Authentic Learning Workshop in Scottsdale, ...

40 Free and Open Course for Learning a New Language

When I was in high school we had the choice of studying Spanish or French to meet our foreign language requirement. I distinctly remember te...

Fair Use, Copyright, and Educational Blogging

Last night someone on Twitter asked me for advice about how to respond to discovering that his blog posts were being re-used without permiss...

Google Alerts and Your Organization's Digital Reputation

Earlier this week I facilitated a workshop about social media for leaders of schools and organizations. Two of the questions that I posed to...

Digital Explorer - Follow Expeditions and Learn About Science

Digital Explorer is an organization that helps students learn about science and geography through the study of expeditions around the world...

TED-Ed Lesson - How Big Is the Ocean?

Anyone who has stood on a beach looking out on the ocean has probably wondered, how big is the ocean? The TED-Ed lesson How Big Is the Ocean...

Three Google Sheets Scripts That Help Teachers Save Time

One of the great things about technology is that it can help use do things more efficiently which in turn means we get to spend more time on...

Social Media in 2013 - Questions for School Leaders to Consider

This morning at the AAFCS conference in Houston, Texas I facilitated a workshop about social media for leaders of organizations. We started...

More Ideas for Using ThinkLink In Your Classroom

Last week I shared Donna Baumbach's great Google Presentation of 65+ ways to use ThingLink in your classroom . This spring ThingLink ran...

K-5 Rocks - Lessons About Fossils and Rocks

The American Geosciences Institute produces K-5 GeoSource which is a site that hosts lesson plans and other educational resources for teac...

EldonReader - Another Google Reader Alternative

The space created closure of Google Reader (just five days left before it's gone for good) is quickly being filled by lots of companies ...

Math Chimp Presents Freddy's Fractions - A Fractions Game for Kids

Math Chimp is a free site full of math games, videos, and other math review materials for elementary school and middle school students. Rec...

Free Tiiu Pix - Hundreds of Free Pictures for Student Use

Free Tiiu Pix is a site maintained by a retired teacher, Tiiu Roiser. The purpose of the site is to provide students with hundreds of free,...

Learn a Language On the Go With Duolingo Mobile Apps

On the first day of the year I reviewed the free language learning service Duolingo . To learn a new language on Duolingo you read, listen ...

Search Tips & Strategies Tip Sheet

On Friday I shared my strategy of using images as question prompts to teach Google search strategies . In that post I mentioned that the str...

Learn Art History With Smarthistory

One of the most popular posts of the last week was 372 Free Art History Books . Writing that post reminded me of a resource that I reviewed ...

Week in Review - Home Again

Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Greenwood, Maine. I'm home after 11 days on the road during wh...

Short Lessons On the Reason for Seasons

Good evening from Maine where I just watched the sunset on the longest day of the year (in terms of amount of sunlight). Earlier today on Go...

MyPermissions - Keep Track of the Apps That Access Your Online Accounts

Many services allow you to register and use their services by logging-in with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google credentials. If you use that...

Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies

Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the pi...

Two Fun Ways to Learn About Cows

I like to end my Best of the Web presentations with fun sites. Lately, I've been ending my Best of the Web presentations with Who Poope...

18 Google Earth & Maps Lessons for K-12

This afternoon in Kettering, Ohio I gave a short presentation on using Google Maps and Google Earth across multiple grades and content areas...

Places We Can Connect

Over the last two weeks I've given four presentations about building personal learning networks online. In all of those presentations I...

65+ Ways to Use ThingLink In Your Classroom

Last year Donna Baumbach created a Google Slides presentation titled 26+ Ways to Use ThingLink In the Classroom . Yesterday, I received an ...

372 Free Art History Books

Over the weekend I shared 25,000 free images of art that anyone can download. In that post I suggested that the images may be useful in art...