5 Ways to Blow the Top Off of Rubrics

This is a guest post from Shawn McCusker of EdTechTeacher.org which is an advertiser on this blog.  Do you have a rubric for that? Rubrics...

The land of the free apps...and the home of the confused? - Guest Post

So many apps, so little time to go through them and see if they’re useful. We’re busy writing lesson plans that connect to and support the ...

Using Class Dojo to Motivate Your Students - Guest Post

I teach gifted students in grades K-5, and many of them, believe it or not, can be prone to avoiding challenging tasks. I recently posted a...

Finding great Google Apps information but, no time to research it? - Guest Post

If you are a Google Apps Newbie like me you are both excited and overwhelmed by all the amazing and free Google Apps for Education tools tha...

Video Games and Language Learning

When I was a child, most video games were in English, which was a foreign language for me, growing up in Germany. I remember one game in par...

Guest Post - Student Accountability Program in Google Spreadsheets

Several years ago, we decided to design a more comprehensive way of evaluating our students' success in our middle school. We acknowled...

PixnTell in the Third Grade - Guest Post

Digital Storytelling is a great way to explain and/or assess a new concept with students. When I taught 3rd grade, we used the PixnTell app...

Using Photo Scavenger Hunts in the Classroom

As a Technology Resource Specialist, it is my job to provide the faculty at my school with new, relevant options for technology integration ...

How to Teach Fourth Grade: Technology in Today's Classroom

This is a guest post from Barry Mernin. When Free Technology for Teachers founder, Richard Byrne , sent a shout out for guest bloggers, I...

Using teacher inquiry to integrate thinking, collaboration, differentiation AND e-learning

This is a guest post from Claire Amos.  In 2011 I wrote a post entitled Using Teaching as inquiry to guide an elearning action plan , lookin...

Programming is not just for Programmers - Guest Post

One of the big elephants (and there are lots) in education is the misuse of technology. We can do so much better. Take for instance the rol...

Promoting Visual Literacy with Haiku Deck - Guest Post

Update: Haiku Deck is now available as a web app and as an iPad app.   “We live and work in a visually sophisticated world, so we must be so...

You Can Never Be The Expert in Your Own Backyard - Guest Post

This is a guest post from Alicia Roberts . Alicia invited me to her school last year and I finally got to visit last week. This is what she ...

Guest Bloggers Wanted

In a couple of weeks I will be going away to Moosehead Lake, Maine for my annual ice fishing trip. It's the one time each year that I tr...

Guest Post - Are We Outsourcing Our Memories?

From time to time I give people a chance to guest post on Free Technology for Teachers . I put out a call for guest posts back in June and t...