An Updated Practical Ed Tech Webinar Course - How To Use Google Drive In School

Over the last few months Google has rolled-out new features in Google Drive. Accordingly, I've revamped much of material in my Practical...

Doctopus Is Now Easier to Use Than Ever Before - Automate Workflow in Google Drive

The new version of Google Sheets has brought with it a new way of using Scripts. All of my favorite scripts are now located through the Add-...

How to Open and Edit Word Files in Google Drive

Every now and then I will receive a Word (Docx) file as an email attachment. I have configured my Google Account to allow me to open these f...

How to Find and Use Report Card Templates in Google Drive

Earlier today through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I was asked for a recommendation for a free tool for creating report c...

Two Free Google Apps that Bring Out the Best In an iPad

This is a guest post from Samantha Morra of EdTechTeacher.org , an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers .  Many of us using technology...

By Request - A Video Guide to Using the Google Drive iPad App

Cross-posted from one of my other blogs, iPadApps4School.com Last Friday I was asked if I could share instructions for teachers and students...

Google Drive Add-ons for GAFE Domains

Last month Google released a new Google Drive feature in the form of Add-ons for Google Documents and Sheets . Those features were initially...

This Month's Ten Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

The old weather lore of "March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb" has not held true here in Maine this year. We'...

TwistedWave - Create Audio Recordings and Save Them in Google Drive

TwistedWave is a new audio recording and editing tool that is now included in Next Vista's list of recommended tools. Through TwistedW...

A Handful of Helpful Google Forms Tutorials for Teachers

Google Forms and Google Sheets can be very useful for collecting all kinds of information from students and others. Three of the most common...

Now You Can Edit Images In Google Slides

Google Slides has come a long way since its early days of offering very basic collaborative slideshow creation. Today, Google released a new...

Three Mind Mapping Tools That Save to Google Drive

One of my favorite aspects of Google Drive is the option to create content with third party services and save that content in your Google Dr...

How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents

One of the most useful new Add-ons for Google Documents is the EasyBib Bibliography Creator. The EasyBib Bibliography Creator makes it easy ...

New Features Come to Google Documents in the Form of Add-ons

Google Drive has supported 3rd party apps for quite a while now and many of those apps are quite helpful to students. Beginning today Google...

Use Google Drawings to Start Image-based Conversations

One of the lesser-known features of Google Drive is the collaborative aspect of Drawings. Drawings in Google Drive allows you to collaborat...

How to Create Google Documents With a Landscape Orientation

Earlier today on Twitter I answered a fairly common questions about Google Documents. That question is, "can you create a document with...

How to Add Voice Comments to Your Google Documents

In an earlier post I featured a free tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents. That tool is called Kaizena . In the video below I ...

Kaizena Improves Workflow for Voice Commenting on Google Documents

Kaizena is a free tool that you can integrate with your Google Drive account to leave voice comments on the the documents that your student...

Group Reading With Google Documents

Using the commenting feature of Google Documents is a good way to create a record of classroom conversations about an article that you have ...

How to Add 450+ Fonts to Your Google Documents & Slides

Earlier today I posted the picture you see to the left on my Google+ page with the comment "I decided to play with some new fonts foun...