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Instructify
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Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom. And it’s a fun place to spend your planning period.
Recent Posts
Try yWriter for long writing projects
BY BILL FERRIS As you know, November was National Novel Writing Month. I decided to participate this year, and while I didn’t reach 50,000 words in 30 days (I made it to 35,000), I still plan on finishing the book in the next week or two. To wr...
Find kid-friendly videos at ZuiTube
BY REBECCAH HAINES Let’s say you’ve just begun a multimedia project in your techno-savvy classroom. You want your kids to use the latest tech tools to create a wonderfully creative product. Inevitably, this involves adding video clips to whatever...
Instructify’s nominations for the Edublog Awards 2009
BY BILL FERRIS It’s time for the 2009 Edublog Awards. Below are Instructify’s nominations. I’ve undoubtedly forgotten some of your favorites. If you’d like to nominate some deserving educators yourself, head to the Edublog Aw...
Build Flash-based websites for free with Wix
BY BILL FERRIS Just because you don’t know web design doesn’t mean you can’t have a nice-looking website. Wix lets you create a Flash-based website from one of their many templates, or build a site from scratch. Here’s a sampl...
Create and share rubrics online with iRubric
BY BILL FERRIS iRubric is a slick way to create and share rubrics for assignments. Like Rubric Machine, you can create a rubric for an assignment in minutes. The interface is fairly intuitive, and made more so by a helpful series of how-to videos pos...
TWIRP: The week-in-review post
Learn to type at TypingWeb If there’s one foundation skill kids need for the 21st century, it’s typing. It only makes sense that kids develop a good working knowledge of the keyboard beyond the hunt-and-peck method. They can do that without signi...

