How Not to Cite an Image

This morning one of my Facebook friends posted one of those "ten signs you're from..." Buzzfeed-like articles that sucked me i...

A Simple and Helpful Google Search Strategy for Students

A few times in the past I've mentioned the value of having students use Google Image search in the quest to find the answers to their qu...

What a Cloakroom Can Teach Students About Web Search Strategies

I’m currently in London, England for the BETT Show and TeachMeet BETT 2014. As is the case with most flights going to Europe from the east ...

All About Explorers - Challenge Your Students' Historical Thinking

All About Explorers is a site that Russel Tarr tipped me off to this morning. The site, developed by Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker, was ...

Telepathwords from Microsoft Research Shows You the Weakness of Your Password

Telepathwords from Microsoft Research is a simple site designed to show you the strength or weakness of your passwords. As you type a passw...

Build HTML5 Sites and More With Google Web Designer

Earlier today Google launched the public beta of Google Web Designer . Web Designer is a desktop application for creating interactive HTML5...

Have You Googled Yourself Lately?

A few years ago one of my homeroom students blurted out,"hey did you know you're on Google?" I responded, "yes, if you Go...

Tools for Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos

This evening I received a question from a reader who was wondering what I use to create the annotated screen capture images that you see in ...

Snap! - Drag and Drop Coding for Kids

Snap! is a drag and drop programming interface designed to help students learn to program. Snap! uses a visual interface that works in your...

Fair Use, Copyright, and Educational Blogging

Last night someone on Twitter asked me for advice about how to respond to discovering that his blog posts were being re-used without permiss...

Search Tips & Strategies Tip Sheet

On Friday I shared my strategy of using images as question prompts to teach Google search strategies . In that post I mentioned that the str...

Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies

Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the pi...

Coffee Time Edu - Good Ed Tech Tutorial Videos

Tim Childers is a middle school teacher in Tennessee that took a course with me and Angela Maiers last year. Since then Tim has been steadi...

How to Screencast On a Chromebook

I've reviewed a lot of screencasting tools over the years (a list of seventeen can be found here ). The problem with most screencasting ...

5 Good Lesson Plans for Teaching Copyright

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright . Te...

Tips for Leading Google Apps Trainings - Part 3

Yesterday, I shared a couple of tips for leading successful Google Apps training activities. Here's the third installment in my series o...

Typing Club Helps Students Learn to Type

This month Typing Club became a financial supporter of Free Technology for Teachers. As I do with any new supporter I like to share a quick ...

10 Time-saving Tech Tips from David Pogue

This is certainly not an inspirational TED Talk. That said, I bet that this video will provide a trick or two that you or someone you know i...

Three Minutes to Understanding Windows 8 Shortcuts

Every week I hear from people about their struggles to get accustomed to Windows 8. And I struggled a bit with the first day or two that I u...

Try Using Google+ Hangouts for Providing Tech Help Remotely

This afternoon I read a short article on Life Hacker about adding a remote desktop application to Google+ Hangouts. The article suggested t...