Cookie Offers Excellent Educational Games

Cookie is a site offering dozens of excellent educational games for pre-K and elementary school students. The games that I tried all featur...

7 Resources for Developing Typing Skills

This morning my friend Ken Shelton asked me via Twitter if I had any resources for online keyboards. Of course I do, I just need to find th...

Peep and the Big Wide World - Educational Games for Children

Peep and the Big Wide World is a nice resource for pre-K and early elementary school that I learned about through Kevin Jarrett's most ...

Math Chimp - Math Games for Elementary School

There is certainly not any shortage of free mathematics games on the web, but sorting through them all to find the ones that address your cu...

Youngzine - News & More for Young Students

Youngzine is an online source of news, sports, and entertainment stories for elementary school students. Students will find stories to read...

Sponsor Spotlight - ABCya.com

From time to time I like to highlight the people and companies that help me pay the bills. This post is about one of the advertisers here on...

Go Go News - Big News for Little People

Go Go News is a news website designed for elementary school students. The site features many short news stories that can be read and listen...

Minyan Land - A Virtual World for Teaching Kids About Money

Minyan Land is a free virtual world environment designed to teach kids about budgeting their money. Each player starts out in Minyan Land w...

A Tale of Two Stories: Storyline Online & Storybird (Guest Post)

Richard asked me to be a guest blogger today. As a frequent reader of Free Technology for Teachers, I consider it quite an honor to contribu...

5 Good Resources for Learning and Teaching About Dinosaurs

As an elementary school student I loved reading books about dinosaurs and I especially enjoyed a field trip to a local museum where we co...

Pet Fundango - Make Pets a Part of Your Lessons

When I was in the sixth grade we had guinea pigs (named Chubby and Checkers) and hamsters in our classroom. It was great fun and a good le...

Woodlands Games - Games for Elementary School

Yesterday, I set out to find some educational games that are appropriate for elementary school students and well-suited to use on a touch sc...

Grammaropolis - Fun Grammar Games & Videos

Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech. Grammaropolis features cartoon characters ...

Two Examples of Backchannels in Elementary School

Yesterday, during my Reform Symposium presentation on the use of backchannels in the classroom there were some questions about the appropri...