Double Your Productivity with Radical Co-location

Hall.com is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers. This is their sponsored post. Ever wonder how software companies like Facebook a...

Meritful - A Network Connecting Students with Mentors

Meritful is a new network that aims to help students connect with mentors. On Meritful students will be able to find mentors who can advise...

Learnist Launches iPad and iPhone Apps

Back in May I wrote about Learnist being " Pinterest for Learning ." I still think that's a fair assessment of what Learnist ...

Piazza - Not Just Another Message Board System

Over the years I've reviewed quite a few services that offer teachers the ability to create private message boards for use in their cour...

Podio - Task Management, Collaboration, and More for Higher Ed

Podio is a service designed for businesses to use as a company intranet. Recently, Podio announced that they are making their services avai...

What I'm Doing With Google+ Now

Since I was asked earlier today about my Google+ postings, I think I should share with you how I'm currently using it and what I plan to...

Google+ Pages - Use Google+ to Connect With Your Community

Today, Google launched Google+ Pages. I created a Google+ Page for Free Technology for Teachers . If you're inclined to, I'd love t...

Are You On Google+

Earlier this week Google opened up Google+ to the world . I've been on it since late July but now that it's really open, I plan to s...

Convofy - A Private Social Network for Your Organization

Convofy is a new service that provides private social networks for organizations. The purpose of Convofy is to provide a centralized locati...

YapTime - A Place to Share, Collaborate, and Organize

YapTime is a new entry into the "create your own social network" market. YapTime offers a free service for creating and hosting ...

Everloop - A Monitored Social Network for Tweens

Everloop is a social networking site designed for use by tweens and their parents. Everloop provides tweens with a closed network in which ...

Fridge - Create Cool Private Social Networks

In the past I've written about some good services teachers can use to create private social networks for their classrooms and schools. ...

My Fake Wall - Create a Fake Facebook Wall

My Fakewall is no longer functioning. Last summer I shared with you a Google Docs template for creating fake Facebook profiles. That templa...

Toonti - Create Your Own Social Network

Toonti is a new free service for creating your own small social network. Using Toonti you can create a private or public social network. If...

Edmodo Webinars for Parents & Teachers

Last week Edmodo , a service I've reviewed a few times since its launch,   introduced accounts for parents . This new option allows tea...

7 Tools to Build a Social Network for Your School

Yesterday, I wrote a post containing resources to help schools understand social media . Hopefully, you've passed that post along to the...

Connect Safely - A Parents' Guide to Facebook

Connect Safely, a resource reviewed last year on Free Technology for Teachers , has just released a new 32 page guide to Facebook for parent...

Twiducate - Social Networking for Schools

Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private ...

Wack Wall is now Wall.FM

WackWall , a free service for creating your own social networks, has changed its name to Wall.fm . Wall.fm offers all of the same great feat...

Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN

Earlier today Kyle Pace shared a link on Twitter with the phrase "great video to share, Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN." I j...