My Curation & Sharing Strategies

Over the last month I’ve been a guest on a couple of Google+ Hangouts and podcasts in which I’ve been asked about my process for curating an...

Conversations About Curating the Web

On Tuesday evening I was a guest on Open Online Experience's Google+ Hangout about curating the web. The Hangout began with a short pre...

The One Activity I Recommend for Every Teacher

The only technology-related activity that I recommend to every teacher is blogging. A blog can be used for a lot of things in your classroom...

Edublogs Users Get Updated to WordPress 3.8

If you're an Edublogs user, the next time you sign into your dashboard you will notice a new look. That new look is WordPress version 3....

A Twenty Day Blogging Challenge for Teachers via @kellyhines

Last week on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I shared the twenty day blogging challenge created by Kelly Hines . I decided ...

Who Is Behind Free Technology for Teachers?

Image credit: Jen Deyenberg Over the last month there has been a big spike in new visitors and new likes on the Free Technology for Teachers...

Chart - A Comparison of Educational Blogging Platforms

I'm often asked for advice about picking the best blogging service for classroom use. Every school's and classroom's situation i...

How to Limit Access to Blogger, WordPress, Kidblog, and Edublogs Blog Posts

This post is a response to a question that I received on Twitter about restricting access to students' blog posts.  While I prefer to gu...

How to Automatically Send Diigo Links to Your Blog - H/T @CoolCatTeacher

Last night on Twitter Rick Burkett asked me for a suggestion on how to efficiently share with his faculty members the apps and sites he dis...

Rubrics for Blogging and Multimedia Projects

Assessment is one of the things that I'm often asked about in my blogging and website creation workshops . One of the assessment resourc...

Practical Ed Tech Webinar - Blogging for Teachers and School Leaders

Over the last five years I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to facilitate many workshops on creating and using blogs in school. A...

Student Blogging Activities That Don't Rely On Text

When we think about blogging we often think about writing. But the great thing about blogging is that it doesn’t have to be limited to writt...

Medium - A New, Simple Option for Blogging

Medium is a newer blogging service that I tried earlier this summer when it was in a closed beta. Last week Medium opened to everyone who h...

How to Apply Custom Sizes to Images in Blogger Posts

One of the questions that I often receive from new users of Blogger is, "how do I make my images fit in my blog post?" Blogger pro...

Mobile Blogging With Edublogs

Edublogs has offered iOS apps for quite a while now. Yesterday, they released an official Android app too. To support your use of the Edubl...

Postach.io Makes It Easy to Blog Through Your Evernote Account

Postach.io is a slick blogging tool that recently won Evernote's Devcup . Postach.io allows you to blog from your Evernote account. To ...

How to Enable or Disable Google+ Settings in Blogger

If you use Blogger and or your students use Blogger, you may have noticed that Blogger is now automatically posting to Google+ whenever you ...

A Short Guide to Creating and Sharing Google Calendars

Creating a public Google Calendar and embedding it into your classroom blog is a great way to keep your students and their parents informed ...

How to Add RSS Feeds and A Blog Roll to Your Blogger Blog

Earlier this week someone asked me how she could display all of her students' blogs on her classroom blog. The person who asked is using...

Three Mobile Blogging Activities for Students

One of my favorite uses of iPads, Android tablets, and cell phones is mobile blogging. Blogging apps make it possible for students to record...