How to Create Google Scholar Alerts

Google Scholar , like Google Books, is one of the research tools that high school students often overlook. Searching on Google Scholar is no...

Mentimeter Adds Open-ended Responses to Online Feedback Tool

Mentimeter is a free service that allows you to pose a question to your audience and get instant feedback on that question through cell pho...

Curriki Presents Six PBL Geometry Projects

Of all of the math courses that I took in high school and college, geometry was the only one that I enjoyed and aced (the others were a mass...

Populr - A Nice Tool for Building Simple Webpages

Populr is a service for creating simple webpages to advertise events and promotions. The service reminds me a bit of the popular Smore pla...

A Short Guide to Using Google Books for Research

Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students...

Why With Nye - Bill Nye Explains Jupiter and More

Why With Nye is a series of nine videos featuring Bill Nye. This series is based around NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter. In the series B...

Nanoogo - A Fun Creative Writing Platform for Kids

Nanoogo is a newer site designed to get kids interested in creative writing projects. At first glance Nanoogo reminded me a bit of Glogster...

QuizBean - Quickly Create and Distribute Online Quizzes

QuizBean (formerly known as QuizPoo) is nice platform for creating simple image-based quizzes that your students can complete online. The s...

Wikispaces Adds GeoGebraTube to Their Widget Library

Math teachers who use Wikispaces may be happy to learn that Wikispaces has just added GeoGebraTube to their education widget library. GeoGe...

Calendly - Conveniently Schedule Meetings Through Google Calendar

Last week I shared directions for creating and scheduling appointment slots in Google Calendar . Today, I discovered a tool that makes it ea...

5 Fantastic Apps for Digital Storytelling on iPads

This is a guest post from Samantha Morra of EdTechTeacher.org Computers, and the digital tools on those computers, brought video editing to ...

CK-12 Adds Group Q&A Options

CK-12 recently added a new Q&A feature that you can use in your class groups. The new feature allows you to post questions and answer q...

The Pit and the Pendulum Rap

With Halloween just a few days away a lot of students may be getting acquainted with Edgar Allan Poe's classic The Pit and the Pendulum ...

EDPuzzle - Add Your Voice and Text Questions to Educational Videos

EdPuzzle is a neat tool that I recently learned about from David Kapuler . EdPuzzle allows you to add your voice and questions to education...

Do You Have a Google Jockey in Your Classroom?

Two weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at WLMA 2013  in Yakima, WA. During my keynote I mentioned the term "Google Jockey." It g...

Form+ Adds More Flexibility to Your Google Forms

Google Forms has received some nice enhancements over the last few months. Still there are times when I've wished that Google Forms coul...

Packrati.us Lets You Tweet and Bookmark Simultaneously

One of the great things about Twitter is the wealth of links that teachers share with each other. Packrati.us is a service that makes it ea...

Bulb - Create and Share Collections of Educational Media

Bulb is a new service through which you can create, share, and browse through collections of educational materials. On Bulb you can create ...

Huzzaz - Embed Galleries of Educational Videos Into Your Blog

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

Week in Review - The Part Where I Become a Professional Athlete

Good morning from the Toronto International Airport. I'm currently on my way home from another great visit to the Grande Prairie, Albert...

Figure This - Math Challenges for Families

Figure This is a website produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics . The site presents viewers with a series of math prob...

Create and Reserve Appointment Slots in Google Calendar

One of the advantages of using Google Apps for Education rather than a generic, commercial Google account is that GAFE users have access to ...

Add Voice Comments to Google Documents With Kaizena

Back in May I shared a handy tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents. That tool was called 121 Writing. Over the summer 121 Writi...

Notegraphy - Write, Style, and Share Text

Notegraphy is a new service that was described on Lifehacker as " the Instagram of words ." Notegraphy is a free service for styl...

Create Virtual Chemical Reactions on Your iPad or Android Tablet

goREACT is a free iPad and Android app from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. This free iPad app allows students to virtually c...

Shutterbugs Wiggle & Stomp - A Smithsonian Game for Kids

Shutterbugs Wiggle and Stomp is a new educational game produced by the Smithsonian. The purpose of the game is to help children recognize t...

A Search Engine for SMART Notebook Files

Google Custom Search allows anyone to create his or her own search engine. The benefit of this is that you can create a very subject specif...

A Fun Twist On Name Tags - Ice Breaker Tags

Ice Breaker Tags is a neat service for designing simple yet unique name tags. To use the service just enter your desired display name, uplo...

Space Math - Math Lessons from NASA

Space Math is a NASA website containing space-themed math lessons for students in elementary school through high school. You can search for...

How to Automatically Close Google Forms at Specified Times

Google Forms can be very useful for collecting all kinds of information from students and others. Two of the more common uses of Google Form...