EverySlide - Share Your Slides and Run Polls At the Same Time

EverySlide is a free ( for educators and students ) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebook...

OpenStudy Launches a Mobile App for Making Studying Social

OpenStudy is a free service that allows students to create online study groups. Students can create groups to share notes and ask each othe...

Multilingual Lessons for Pre-K through Second Grade Students

The Early Childhood Education Network's Literacy Center provides young students with online learning activities in four languages. The ...

An Interactive Atlas of the Valley of the Kings

Atlas of the Valley of the Kings is an interactive atlas developed through the Theban Mapping Project . The atlas contains more than 2000 i...

Critter Cams Provide Students With an Opportunity to See Wildlife Live

It has been a long winter here in Maine, but soon we will start to hear spring peepers in the evening. That sound is a sure sign that other...

Booktrack - Create and Listen to Soundtracks for Books

Booktrack is an interesting service that I recently tried after reading about it on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Booktrack allows you to add...

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 ...

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...

Spacehopper - Challenge Students With Geography Puzzles Based on Street View

Spacehoppe r is a new geography game that I recently tried on the recommendations of Keir Clarke and Larry Ferlazzo . Spacehopper features ...

Studygeek - A Math Glossary and a Collection of Free Math Tutorials

Studygeek is a free service offering hundreds of online mathematics tutorials. The site features a combination of written tutorials and vid...

Clipix - Create Portfolios of Files and Bookmarks

When we look for tools to create collections of files and bookmarks there is certainly not a shortage of options. Clipix is one such tool t...

5 Tools That Help Students Organize Research and Create Bibliographies

Organizing and writing a bibliography can feel like the most tedious part of writing a research paper. The following five tools can help stu...

By Request - Ten Good Tools for Editing Images Online

Earlier today I received a request, via the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page , for suggestions for online image editing tools. My ...

Populr - Create Stylish PDFs from Elements of Your Digital Portfolio

Earlier this week I included Populr in my list of five good ways for students to showcase their best work . Populr is a service for creatin...

ShareDrop Offers Any Easy Way to Transfer Files Between Devices

ShareDrop is a free service that makes it easy to transfer files between devices without creating any kind of account. To use the service j...

How to Record Audio Interviews With Skype and QuickTime

Last week someone asked me if it was possible to record the audio portion of a Skype call. The answer is yes, you can. There is software des...

5 Ways for Students to Showcase Their Best Work

As the end of the school year approaches you may be looking for a good way for students to organize and share examples of their best work of...

A Handy New Tool for Giving Proper Attribution When Using Flickr Images

A couple of years ago Alan Levine published a Chrome extension that correctly formatted the attribution of Creative Commons licensed images...

Science Games and an Interactive Periodic Table

Glaxo Smith Kline's Active Science offers fifteen interactive games covering a range of science topics. There are games appropriate for...

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...