The Power of Technology For...

This morning in Salt Lake City  I gave a presentation at the Literacy Promise Conference. These are the slides from that presentation. T...

Canva - Create Beautiful Slides, Posters, and Infographics

Canva is a new service that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these gra...

Three Tools for Commenting on PDFs

In history classes I have often had students read primary source documents or copies of them in PDF format. For many students the challenge ...

Active Textbook - Turn PDFs Into Multimedia Documents

Active Textbook is an interesting service that you can use to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service i...

PDF Mergy Makes It Easy To Merge PDFs

PDF Mergy is a free tool for combining PDFs. The service does not require you to register unless you want to select files from your Google ...

Upload Your Own PDFs and EPUBs to Google Play Books

This evening Google announced a great update to Google Play Books. You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Up...

Collaboratively Comment on PDFs with Marqueed

Back in July I tried out a service called Marqueed that allows users to create and discuss collections of images. This morning I gave the s...

Three Dozen Graphic Organizers for Students

Thanks to Terri Eichholz I learned that The Learning Curve has a great collection of more than three dozen graphic organizers for students ...

Use Your Webcam to Sign PDFs

If you have ever received a PDF attachment that needs to be signed, you've probably gone through the hassle of printing it, signing it, ...

Try Crocodoc for Collaboratively Annotating PDFs

Yesterday, I received an email from a reader who was looking for a free tool that she and her students could use to collaboratively annotate...

77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer

The school year is either over or almost over for the majority of readers of Free Technology for Teachers . The summer is a good time to exp...

Flip Snack - Add Page Turning Effects to Your PDFs

Flip Snack is a free tool for turning your PDFs into ebooks with page turning effects. To use Flip Snack you have to create an account. On...

7 Visually Appealing Ways to Publish Documents Online

Last week after I and ten others released The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators I received a handful of emails asking either how I buil...

An Easy Way to Make Online Booklets

There are some good services on the web that will turn PDFs into books and booklets and some services that will even allow you to create emb...

Scribd and Apture Make PDFs Interactive

Scribd , a PDF publishing service, has now integrated Apture search technology to make PDFs interactive. Now anytime you're reading a d...

How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year

Earlier this week I published a list of 11 Techy Things for Teachers To Try This Year . As promised at the end of that post, I have created ...

Free PDF to Word Converter

Here's a little tool that I never thought I'd need until I actually needed it today. PDF to Word is simple tool that extracts the t...