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- November 17th, 2008
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The Wild Classroom - Science Videos and Podcasts
The Wild Classroom is a website that I found through Untamed Science. The Wild Classroom features a collection of podcasts and videos for science classrooms. One aspect of The Wild Classroom that impr…
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Math A Tube - Video Math Help
Math A Tube is a video website that I included in my list of 20+ Educational Alternatives to YouTube. Math A Tube is a compilation of videos from a variety of users and other websites. Videos are cate…
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Finding and Teaching With Historical Maps
This morning, as I was looking for some maps to use in one of my classes I found two great resources that should be of interest to history and geography teachers. The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Colle…
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The College Credit Crunch
In today's CNN Student News video there is a segment about how the current economic situation in the United States is affecting colleges and their students. If you don't want to watch the whole video,…
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Geography Awareness Week - Geographers on the Job
Last week I posted some resources for teachers about Geography Awareness Week. Now that Geography Awareness Week is here, the Google Earth Blog has posted some good KMZ files to use in your classroom.…
- November 16th, 2008
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Fast Draw - Obama's Promises
Now that the election is behind us, it's time to look at the challenges facing President-Elect Barack Obama. In this video the CBS Fast Draw team takes a look at campaign promises made by Barack Obama…
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Wipee List - A Simple To Do List Manager
Wipee List is a simple list making and to-do list management tool. I took Wipee List for a test drive this evening and found it to be one of the easiest to use websites of its kind. Here's how Wipee L…
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Online Science Fair at Test Toob
Test Toob is a free website where science teachers and science students can share videos of the experiments they conduct. The service is designed for use by middle schools and high schools. The differ…
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Climbing Kilimanjaro - Inspiring Participation in Phys Ed
Last month I posted a short list of lesson plans and activities based on exploring Mount Everest. Some of those lessons and activities are designed for physical education classes. As a follow-up to th…
- November 15th, 2008
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Truevert - The Green Search Engine
Truevert is a new search that was featured on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitch Friday. Truevert is a search engine that prioritizes search results by their greenness. For example, as the Truevert founder e…
- November 14th, 2008
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rbyrnetech has posted a new entry on: Free Technology For Teachers
Want to Go to Antarctica With Me?
I found out today that my trip to China as part of a teacher exchange program was officially canceled due to severe budget issues that my school district is facing. I still would love to go to China s…
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The Friday Five - Week in Review
This week was an exciting week for Free Technology for Teachers. On Tuesday, Larry Ferlazzo nominated this blog for an Edublog Eddy Award. Then on Thursday, Free Technology for Teachers surpassed the…
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Geo Greeting - A Fun Way to Introduce Google Maps
Geo Greeting is a simple and fun way to send a message to your favorite geography buff. Here's what it does, it spells out your greetings using satellite images of buildings found in the Google Maps s…
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Search Cube - Six Sided Visual Search
Search Cube is a search engine that displays results as a cube of screen shots that can be enlarged for a preview before visiting each website returned by your search query. The general concept is sim…
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One Riot - Find What's Relevant Now
I am frequently asked about how I find so many resources for teachers to use in the classroom. Besides scanning through thousands of RSS feeds each week, one of the things I do is search through socia…
- November 13th, 2008
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rbyrnetech has posted a new entry on: Free Technology For Teachers
20+ Educational Alternatives to YouTube
Earlier today, because of their new monetization scheme, I said goodbye to YouTube. Therefore, I thought it would appropriate to share some alternatives to YouTube that teachers and students might wa…
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Twingr - Create Your Own Microblogging Community
Twingr is a new service that allows you to create your own microblogging service. Think of it as creating your own private Twitter service. Much like Twitter, messages on Twingr are limited to 140 cha…
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Goodbye YouTube - It Was Nice Knowing You
Yesterday, YouTube announced that they are now selling video placements in search results. They call it "sponsoring" a video. What it means is that if you want to promote your video to as many people…
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OLPC Give One Get One - And a Look at the Technology
The OLPC "get one, give one" program is restarting on Monday, November 17. Last year the program was successful in generating the production of 150,000 XO Laptops. This year the G1G1 program is being…
- November 12th, 2008
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rbyrnetech has posted a new entry on: Free Technology For Teachers
Email Delivery Problems Resolved
I just realized that some subscribers to the Free Technology for Teachers email may not have received today's or yesterday's email. FeedBurner, the service I use to delivery the email, has been experi…
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Tagedu - Human Edited Search Engine for Lesson Plans
Tagedu is a new search engine dedicated to helping teachers find resources to use in the classroom. Tagedu searches tags associated with websites rather than the text of a website. The idea is the tag…
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34 Ways to Use RSS
Louis Gray is a tech blogger that I've been following for about six month now. One of the topics that he often explores is the myriad of way in which RSS feeds and readers can be used. On Monday, he h…
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Freshman Fund - Give the Gift of Education
Freshman Fund is a fairly new service that I learned about through Center Networks. Freshman Fund is essentially a gift registry for 529 college savings plans. Users can register on the website to rec…
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Lesson Plans for Geography Awareness Week
Next week, November 16-22, is Geography Awareness Week. In preparation for Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic has published a good list of free lesson plans and activities. The lesson plans…
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View Ancient Rome in Google Earth... A Chance to Win Stuff Too
I'll start this blog post by stating the obvious, I love Google Earth and Google Maps. Today, Google gave me another reason to love Google Earth. Starting today, the public gallery of layers now inclu…
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Code of Best Practices... Media Literacy Education
Fair use practices with regard to using copyrighted materials in the classroom can be a complicated and confusing topic for educators. The Center for Social Media at American University has published…
- November 11th, 2008
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Track This Now - News Stories from Global Perspectives
Track This Now is a fun way and an interesting way to look at news stories from a variety of perspectives. Track This Now is basically a new story search engine attached to a Google Map. Type a search…
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Ref Seek - Academic Search Engine Filters Advertising
Ref Seek is a new search engine designed for academic use. Ref Seek seems to eliminate the advertising and paid links found on Google, Ask, Yahoo, and other commercial search engines. Ref Seek's inten…
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My Nominations for the 2008 Edublog Awards
It's time to make nominations for the 2008 Edublog Awards. I am flattered and humbled that Larry Ferlazzo nominated Free Technology for Teachers in the Best Resource Sharing Blog category. To make you…
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Growing Up in the White House - Part II
The video embedded below, from CNN Student News, includes a segment about life in the White House. The segment which includes the code names assigned to the Obama children makes a good companion to th…
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An Oral History Project for Veterans Day
Yesterday, I Tweeted that my students were using Archives.gov and Loc.gov to locate primary source documents and images for a project that they're working on. While I was helping one of my students we…
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Google Reader Now Translates RSS Feeds
As I've written before, the Google Translate application can be useful for ESL/EFL students as well as for native English speakers trying to learn a new language. I've personally been using Google Tra…
- November 10th, 2008
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rbyrnetech has posted a new entry on: Free Technology For Teachers
Group Table - Group Academic Planner
Group Table is a new collaboration tool designed for students. Group Table can be used by students to plan group projects, share resources, store files, and email each other. I gave Group Table a test…
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Funding Mount Education
This video from the CBS Fast Draw team illustrates and explains the costs of higher education in the United States. The video shares some ideas about finding the funds necessary for paying tuition and…
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Growing Up in the White House
Over the weekend I saw a few segments on the news shows about children growing up in the White House. One segment I watched was on CBS and the other was on NBC's morning show. You can view the slide s…
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Five Online Drawing Tools
As long as there has been a mouse connected to a computer there have tools for making drawings on a computer. Here are five drawing tools that you might consider the next time you or your students nee…
- November 9th, 2008
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rbyrnetech has posted a new entry on: Free Technology For Teachers
Middle Spot - Visualize and Share Search Results
Middle Spot is a new service that combines a visual search engine with a social bookmarking utility. The search engine aspect of Middle Spot displays your search results as a series of screen shots of…
- November 7th, 2008
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Five for Friday - The Week's Most Popular Content
It's Friday afternoon here in Maine and as I've done every Friday afternoon for the last month, I'll share this week's most read content. Stay tuned over the weekend for a new podcast episode and new…
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Create a National Parks Virtual Tour
For years National Geographic has fueled my wanderlust. The images and stories in National Geographic still set my imagination on fire today just as they did 25 years ago. On the National Geographic A…
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An Interesting Look at the Way We Search
I'm not sure what the greater implications of this video are for education, but it is interesting. In this video the red dots and red lines represent the eye movements of the average Internet user whe…
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The Tell Tale Heart Narrated by James Mason
Yesterday, I shared two videos based on the short story The Most Dangerous Game. Today, I found a good video based on Edgar Allen Poe's work The Tell Tale Heart.Applications for EducationAnyone that t…
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The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
The Avalon Project is a free resource that my honors level US History students have been taking advantage of for last couple of weeks. The Avalon Project, produced by Yale University, provides digita…
- November 6th, 2008
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The Most Dangerous Game in Video
The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell is a popular short story taught in schools around the country. In fact, as I was supervising the lunch room today, I saw a student reading it for a l…
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Detecting Phishing Scams
From time to time I am asked to help members of the "older generation" learn how to use email and navigate the Internet. One of the concerns this group typically expresses is fear of identity theft an…
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Five Great Grammar Resources
Online games can be a fun way for students to practice and develop specific skills sets and content knowledge. This is particularly true when students are developing content knowledge and skills that…
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Google Earth as an Almanac
One of the things that I enjoy about Google Earth is the myriad of creative files that people have developed and shared on the Internet. Today, I found a useful file on the Google Earth Blog that is e…
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Geography and Science Lesson Plans Using Google Earth
Google Earth and Google Maps are two of the free resources that I enjoy using with my students because they learn by creating when using Google Earth and Google Maps. Right now four of my students are…
- November 5th, 2008
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Give an Old Lesson New Tricks
Diane Krause's blog is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs because of the great things she shares. One of the resources Diane shared yesterday is a wiki called "Googlize a lesson." This wiki, bu…
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Vizzual Forms - Collect Feedback From Students
Vizzual Forms provides an easy to use tool for creating online forms. The forms can have multiple choice, open ended responses, or a combination of both. The free version of Vizzual Forms only allows…
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Free Stuff for New Teachers
The Discovery Education Network has many good resources for new educators and veteran educators. Visitors will find tutorials/ suggestions for improving teaching practices, lesson plans, and links to…
