Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students

This afternoon through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I received a request for some free whiteboard apps. All of the follow...

Collaboratively Create Multimedia Documents With Lucidpress

Lucidpress is a slick new service from the same team that developed Lucidchart . Lucidpress is a slick tool for collaboratively creating mu...

MindMup - A Mind Mapping Tool That Saves to Google Drive

MindMup is a free mind mapping tool that can be used online, with Google Drive, and on your desktop. MindMup works like most mind mapping t...

How to Embed Interactive ThingLink Images Into a Blog Post

Yesterday, in Four Good Ways to Use Media In Your Classroom Blog I mentioned embedding ThingLink images into your posts. Tara Weegar just...

VoiceThread - One of My All-Time Favorite Tools

This afternoon after my Best of the Web presentation at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference I had a nice conversation with a a teac...

Collaboratively Comment on PDFs with Marqueed

Back in July I tried out a service called Marqueed that allows users to create and discuss collections of images. This morning I gave the s...

7 Tools for Collaboratively Creating Image Galleries

This morning I received an email from a reader who had taken a group on a tour of historic places in Boston and was looking for some suggest...

Try Crocodoc for Collaboratively Annotating PDFs

Yesterday, I received an email from a reader who was looking for a free tool that she and her students could use to collaboratively annotate...

Use Slideshare in Google+ Hangouts

I've been a fan of Slideshare for years now. Slideshare makes it very easy to upload and share presentations. A couple of years ago Sli...

Zopler - Collaborative Storytelling

Zopler is an interesting free service for collaboratively writing stories. The basic idea behind Zopler is to enable the creation of commun...

Schedule Project Due Dates in Wikispaces

If you assign wiki editing due dates to your students' wiki projects, Wikispaces has just launched a new feature just for you. Events i...

Hackpad - A Simple Wiki Platform

Hackpad is a new, simple wiki service that I learned about from one of Jackie Gerstein's Tweets earlier this week. People who have use...

New Discussion Option for Google Docs Presentations

Last March Google introduced threaded discussion comments to Google Documents. That feature is great for suggestion edits or asking questio...

Web 2.0 Collaborative Projects in the Middle School

I am the library media specialist for my school and part of my job is to assist my faculty with the integration of technology in the curri...

7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects

Any teacher who has assigned group projects to students has at some point had to help those students organize and equitably distribute work....

Think Binder - A Place to Share Notes and Chat

Think Binder is a new website that gives students a place to create online study groups. In each group students can share files, share link...

5 Free Tools for Quickly Hosting Online Brainstorming Sessions

There are a lot of great tools online that can be used for collaborating on documents, developing sketches, or constructing outlines. Many o...