Four Good Alternatives to Clicker Systems

One of the benefits of allowing students to bring their cell phones into your classroom is that they can use them to give you anonymous feed...

Tips for a Successful Google Apps Training Session

This evening I wrapped-up the final section of my Google Drive and the Common Core webinar series. (I'll be offering it again in March)...

Put the Reading Rockets Reading Tip of the Day on Your Blog

This afternoon I was a panelist on a webinar hosted by AdLit and Reading Rockets . My contribution to the panel was to talk about using tec...

Try Wistia for Video Hosting and Conversion

Wistia is a video hosting company that I wrote about back in June when they launched their free hosting plan. Until this week I never need...

Is There an Organization App Better Than Evernote?

This morning I was interviewed by some high school students who are researching uses for iPads in high school education. Their school is con...

Chromebooks in the 7th Grade Classroom

Gene Tognetti is a 7th grade Social Studies teacher and vice-principal at St. Leo the Great in San Jose, California. This is Gene's acco...

One Nexus 10 Feature That Could Make It a Great Classroom Tablet

The big Google press event in New York City was canceled today, but Google still officially unveiled three new Nexus devices on their offici...

Chrome Remote Desktop Leaves Beta to Allow You to Offer Tech Help Remotely

I've written about the Chrome Remote Desktop App a couple of times this year because I think that it can be very helpful to people who ...

Remind 101 Launches an Android App

Back in May Remind 101 released a free iPhone app that can be used to send text messages to groups of students and parents. Today, Remind 10...

Which Would You Rather Have?

Chrome Books for every student or iPads for half of your students?With the current pricing structure of the two devices I think that is a qu...

JumpRope - A Free Online Gradebook for Teachers

JumpRope is a new service offering teachers a free standards-based gradebook. I signed up and gave it a try this morning. My initial impres...

SendHub - Text Parents, Students, and Colleagues for Free

This month Free Technology for Teachers welcomes SendHub as a new advertiser. SendHub is a service that allows you to send text messages t...

Google Course Builder Opened to the World

Course Builder is the code that powered Google's first MOOC Power Searching With Google . Yesterday, Google made Course Builder availab...

Now You Can Use ClassDojo on Your iPad

If you  signed into your ClassDojo account this morning you may have noticed a new mobile option is now available to you. Today, ClassDojo ...

Conduct Conference Calls for Free on Speek

Speek is a free conference call service that I learned about a few weeks ago on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. When you sign-up for Speek you ...

5 Ways to Use Google Sites in Schools

Over the last two weeks I've had five occasions to work with teachers to either develop new websites or improve existing websites in Go...

How to Easily Blur Faces from YouTube Videos

The concern about sharing students' videos on YouTube that I hear most frequently is about privacy. Many teachers and school administrat...

A Quick Review of the New Chromebooks and Chrome OS

I realize that Chromebooks aren't free, but I think that a good chunk of my readers will be interested in this information anyway.  This...

Use the Remind 101 iPhone App to Keep Students and Parents Informed

I'm about a week late on this but it's still worth sharing the news that Remind 101 has released a free iPhone app . Remind 101 is ...

My Favorite Online File Conversion Tool

I'm frequently asked for recommendations for free file conversion tools. Often the request is for a tool that can handle video and audio...