A Cartoon Explanation and Game About International Trade

The multimedia library on The Economist contains a set of cartoon videos explaining some big concepts in economics. Of the six cartoon the ...

How Many Countries Are There? - Borders and More Explained

CGPGrey recently released a new video tackling the question, "how many countries are there?" In the video he explains how countri...

The Right to Food - An Interactive Story About Hunger

The Right to Food is an interactive story about the challenges of feeding the world's people. The story, produced by feedingminds.org, ...

Video - Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think is a film that I shared a couple of years ago when it was featured on Snag Learning. Snag...

Discovering the World's News in Pictures

One of my favorite features on the BBC New website is the Day in  the  Day in Pictures . The Day in Pictures displays a small collection of ...

Twtbase - A Directory of Twitter Apps

Earlier this week while searching a tool to make word clouds out of Twitter hashtags, I discovered Twtbase . I never did find the tool I was...

Using Pictures for Current Events Lessons

Everyday the  BBC  runs a feature called the  Day in Pictures  that displays a small collection of photographs from around the world. For ye...

This is Real Democracy - A Music Video of Sorts

Ophir Kutiel , better known as Kutiman , is Internet-famous for his remixes of YouTube videos. His latest remix, titled  This is Real Democr...

Unrest in the Arab World - Map and Timeline

Unrest in the Arab World is an interactive map and timeline from CNN. The timeline begins in December of 2010 and continues through August ...

Can Your Classmates Learn from Your Work?

This week the students in my global studies course finished up the short informational videos that they were creating about Egypt and Libya....

Libyan Civil War - Interactive Map and Videos

Last week the students in my Global Studies course began creating short videos to inform their classmates about current events in Egypt and ...

Middle East Protests - Country by Country

Middle East Protests Country by Country is a clickable map of the middle east produced by the BBC. Click on any of countries on the map to ...

TED Talk - Inside the Egyptian Revolution

Wael Ghonim is the Google executive in Egypt who was detained for twelve days by the Egyptian government for his actions in organizing voice...

Real-time Map of Emergency Events Around the World

Through Tekzilla I've learned about a neat use of Google Maps to display real-time information about emergency events around the world....

There Must 50 Ways To Spell Gadhafi or Qadhafi or...

Image Credit Note for first time visitors: this style of post is a bit different than what you will typically find here on Free Technology f...

Protests Across the Middle East on a Google Map

Through the Google Lat Long blog I discovered a site called Storyful that is producing maps of the protests  in the Middle East and North ...

American Experience - Nixon Visits China

Yesterday, while planning a unit about China-US relations for my global studies class I rediscovered the American Experience videos about R...

A Collaborative, On-going Writing Project

In my last post I briefly mentioned a collaborative project that my Global Studies students are working on. As promised, here's the fol...

A Lesson in Propaganda Through Protests in Egypt

I have to credit one of the students (Brandon) in my Global Studies class for finding this video today. We had our fourth class meeting tod...

The Week in Rap - Rain, Sleet, and Snow

This morning Flocabularly released another edition of The Week in Rap . This week's news rap covers stories about snow across the US, fl...