Two Books to Read Before School Starts

Occasionally I stray from my mission of sharing free tools here on Free Technology for Teachers. This afternoon I was reminded of a couple o...

Widbook - Collaborative Creation of Multimedia Books

Widbook is a new service that is part multimedia book authoring tool and part social network. On Widbook you can create a digital book that...

Great Interview Questions List Generator

Last night I had the pleasure of interview Wesley Fryer about his new ebook Playing With Media (full disclosure he gave me free access for ...

10 Common Challenges We'll Face This Fall - Challenge #1: Access

One of my most popular presentations, the one that I'm most frequently asked to give , is 10 Common Challenges Facing Educators . When g...

Playing With Media is a Great Blog and eBook About Remixing Media

Playing with Media is an ebook that Wesley Fryer is developing. To complement the development of that ebook, Wesley is maintaining a blog r...

Two Approaches to Cell Phones in Schools - Pick One

Through Wes Fryer's excellent blog I learned about the following video from CNN. The video is a report on two different approaches to d...

Guest Post on Speed of Creativity

Today, I wrote a guest post for Wes Fryer's blog Speed of Creativity . The post deals with the two ways we, as teachers, can respond to ...

iMovie Quickstart Guide from Story Chasers

Wesley Fryer , executive director of Story Chasers Inc and all-around great guy, has recently published a quickstart guide for using iMovie...

Incentives, Rewards, and Motivation

Read Write Web and Wes Fryer both posted an interesting video in which RSAnimate animates a talk given by Daniel Pink . In the talk Pink s...

Remix for Personalized Learning

Last week I gave a presentation ( slides here ) about free video creation tools that students and teachers can use in their classrooms. As a...

Six Resources for Learning About Fair Use

Earlier today a group of us had a great dialogue about fair-use and copyright. The conversation got started when I posted the question, ...

Obama's Speech in Student Terms

Today's episode of CNN Student News covers President Obama's speech from last night in student-friendly terms. The episode covers th...