Smithsonian & ePals Present the 2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge

ePals and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage are hosting the 2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge . The challenge asks ...

Poetica - Edit Documents Online as if You Were Writing on Paper

Poetica is a neat new service for collaborative editing of documents. The best feature of Poetica is its similarity to writing on a paper ...

Three Good Resources for Helping Students Learn About and Write Poetry

In my previous post I shared Haiku Deck's list of ideas for teaching poetry with the Haiku Deck web and iPad apps. If Haiku Deck isn...

Poetry Projects With Haiku Deck

April is poetry month. Haiku Deck has published a list of twelve ideas for using Haiku Deck in poetry lessons . While I wasn't crazy abo...

Developing Literacy Skills Through Comics & Graphic Novels

Over the last few months I've shared an ebook about digital storytelling with comics and a list of tools for digital storytelling with ...

A Crash Course on Hamlet

Last month John Green started a new Crash Course series on classic literature. The first installment was about The Odyssey . The latest inst...

Check Out the Education Templates in Stormboard - A New Collaborative Planning Tool

Stormboard is a slick new service designed for hosting collaborative online brainstorming activities. Stormboard allows you to create an un...

Reading Bear Offers Fun Online Reading Lessons for Kids

Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons o...

5 Ideas for Teaching With Comics and 5 Free Online Tools for Creating Them

I've been thinking about comic strip creation tools quite a bit lately so I decided to share a handful of ideas for teaching with comics...

Google, Video, and Maps in Common Core-aligned ELA & Social Studies Lessons

Earlier this week I conducted a workshop on using Google tools, video tools, and Google Maps Engine Lite in Common Core-aligned ELA & So...

Glove and Boots Fix Your Grammar

Thanks to Denise Blain I have been sucked into the web series Glove and Boots . The video that Denise shared with me is all about grammar. ...

Teaching Literary Terms With Comics

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.  One of my favorite ways to get students interested in the cre...

Kids Can Create Alphabet Books With Alphabet Organizer

Alphabet Organizer is a great little tool from Read Write Think that students can use to create alphabet charts and books. The idea behind ...

Create Trending Vocabulary Lessons

Merriam-Webster's website has a neat feature called Trend Watch that highlights words that are trending in news and popular culture. Tr...

The Week In Review - Winter Fun!

Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Woodstock, Maine. By the time that many of you read this I will on...

Hemingway Helps You Analyze Your Writing

In my previous post about curating the web I mentioned that I rarely Google to find new-to-me sites and apps. One of the places that I do se...

AirPano - Gorgeous 360 Degree Virtual Tours of the World

AirPano is a fantastic site for viewing gorgeous 360 degree imagery of dozens of famous landmarks and cities all over the world. I initiall...

Visit The Morgan Library Online to See the Notes & Sketches of Famous Authors and Artists

The Morgan Library & Museum's online offerings include more than 30 collections of sketches, notes, and photographs from famous aut...

Gooru Adds Helpful New Narration and Comment Options

Gooru is a great service for creating and sharing collections of educational videos, texts, and images. Gooru currently offers materials in...

Activities for Practicing Listening and Speaking Skills

The BBC's Skillswise website offers lots of good activities for learning and practicing skills in language arts and mathematics. A sect...