Week in Review - The Knuckle Hopping Edition

Good morning from the Toronto International Airport where I am waiting for my flight home to Portland, Maine. This week I had the privilege ...

What Is Money? - A Short Economics Lesson

The Atlantic's new series Economics In Plain English is a good resource for social studies teachers to bookmark and share with their st...

Updated - A Search Engine for Videos Not On YouTube

A few weeks ago I created a Google Custom Search Engine for videos that are not hosted on YouTube. You can find the search engine on this pa...

Web Rangers Offers a Fun Way to Learn About U.S. National Parks

Web Rangers offers seven categories of games about different subjects related to the National Parks. The game categories are people, anima...

How to Create Image-Based Quizzes in Google Forms

Today, in Grande Prairie, Alberta I wrapped-up the second day of a Google Apps workshop. Creating image-based quizzes in Google Forms was on...

40+ Examples of Classroom & School Blogs

Last Friday I set up a Google Form to collect examples of classroom and school blogs. This evening I put together a Google Slides presentati...

How to Develop Web Search Challenges for Students

I spent the last two days working with teachers in Grande Prairie, Alberta. One of the activities that we did yesterday was develop our own ...

Dispelling Myths About Web Filtering Requirements

There are very few things as frustrating as excessive Internet filtering when you're trying to integrate technology into classroom. Some...

Huzzaz - Create and Discuss Collections of Educational Videos

Huzzaz is a new site (still in private beta although you can request an invitation) for organizing and sharing collections of educational v...

C-SPAN Classroom Releases an Improved Lesson Plan Collection

C-SPAN Classroom offers a lot of excellent resources for U.S. Government and History teachers. In the past I've featured their interacti...

A Street View Corn Maze

There are lots of great places that students can explore in Google Maps, the new Google Maps Views is a great place to find things like vir...

Live Lessons from Epic Failures

This afternoon at 1pm ET National Geographic is hosting a Google+ Hangout On Air with three adventurers and scientists who will share their...

Search 80,000 Media History Digital Library Artifacts

The Media History Digital Library is a massive archive of documents about the history film, television, and radio. The library can now be s...

Updated - 86 Page Guide to Using Blogger in School

Last week I published a free PDF, A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School . Today, I added a new section to the end of it. The new secti...

How to Enable Offline Use of Google Documents

Just a few minutes after I published my post about writing blog posts while offline I received an email from someone needing assistance usi...

A Tip About Drafting Posts Outside of Your Blog Post Editor

I create nearly all of my blog posts within the Blogger (for FreeTech4Teachers.com ) or WordPress (for iPadApps4School.com and Android4Scho...

How Google+ Has Brought Meaning Back to My PLN Experience

Twitter is great for link sharing, but I've always felt like any conversation that I was having on Twitter was a race to get a word in r...

Two Easy Tools Teachers Can Use to Coordinate Parent Volunteers

The beginning of the new school year is a time when some parents like to get involved and volunteer their time in schools. This is great, bu...

ExamTime Adds Groups for Resource Sharing

ExamTime is a service that middle school, high school, and college students can use to prepare for tests. When I tried the service earlier ...

Lingualy Helps You Learn a Language While Browsing the Web

Lingualy is a free Google Chrome extension designed to help you learn a new language while browsing the web. With Lingualy installed anytim...

Rewordify Helps Students Read Complex Passages

Rewordify is a free site that was developed by a special education teacher and former computer programmer for the purpose of helping studen...

How to Create a Website With Weebly

This morning on Google+ Larry Ferlazzo shared a TechCrunch story about Weebly expanding. As I wrote in response to Larry's post, it is...

The Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers This Week

Good morning from sunny Greenwood, Maine. I know that for a lot of you this may be the last weekend of the summer before school starts. I ho...

5 Free iPad Apps Students Can Use to Take Notes

Cross-posted from iPadApps4School.com One of the things that I love about the start of the new school year is that so many students have go...

Fun DIY Projects for Kids

Thanks to Patty Eyer for reminding me about this great resource. DIY.org is a neat website on which kids can find dozens of DIY projects ...

The Science of Macaroni Salad

The Science of Macaroni Salad is a fun two-part TED-Ed lesson through which students can learn about chemical mixtures, solutions, and bond...

Collecting & Sharing Examples of Classroom Blogs

In just two days A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School has been downloaded nearly 3600 times. In those two days I've had quite a ...

A Lesson In Overcoming Obstacles

There's No Dishonor In Having a Disability is a new TED-Ed lesson that offers a great message to share with students as the new school ...

Why I Occasionally Use Box Instead of Google Drive

Yesterday, after posting A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School I received a couple of questions about why I am hosting it on Box.com ...

Visit Zoos and Animal Parks Through Google Street View

Google Maps Street View imagery just keeps getting better. Recently, Google introduced Google Maps Views which is a collection of the galle...

Shirts and Ties and the New School Year

(This post is mostly just for fun).  If it's not here yet, the new school year will be here soon for most of us. And for many of us that...

Helpful New Poll Everywhere Features

Poll Everywhere is one of the services that I often recommend to use to gather feedback from students. This week some helpful new features...

15 Things You Can Do With Edmodo & How To Get Started

This morning on Twitter Steven Anderson shared a link to Edmodo's getting started guide . That guide provides a short run-down of the s...

Inspire Students to Read and Travel With The Global Bookshelf

The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine that was started by my friend Gillian Duffy . The purpose of The Global Boo...

By Request - A Primer on Creative Commons

This morning on Twitter I was asked for a suggestion for a primer on Creative Commons. My first thought was this resource from Common Craft ...

A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School - 81 Page Free PDF

Since 2006 I have used Blogger for many blogging projects including this blog and many classroom blogs. Over the years I've introduced m...

How to Introduce EduClipper to Teachers and Students

Since eduClipper launched back in May I have shared it in many of my workshops and presentations. I know that some people will be introduci...

Active Textbook - Turn PDFs Into Multimedia Documents

Active Textbook is an interesting service that you can use to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service i...

Unsplash - Another Good Source of Free Images

Earlier this month I shared five good places to find public domain images . Today, I found another good source of free images. Unsplash is ...

Submrge - Ideas for Teaching With Games

Submrge is a new site created for the purpose of promoting the use of games in education. On Submrge you will find short reviews of a wide ...

How to Identify Individual Elephants - An Activity In Observing Differences

A couple of months ago I shared some information about Elephant Voices . I revisited Elephant Voices this morning after the Google Science F...