When I was a kid I did yard work for an elderly widow who had stacks of old newspapers magazines that she and her husband collected. Knowing that history was my strongest subject in school, she always had new, old paper (and a glass of...
A few weeks ago I published an overview of seven free tools that help students create bibliographies. Bibcitation was one of the tools in that list. This week Bibcitation introduced a new Chrome extension that makes it easier than ever for students to cite webpages...
Here’s the end of FeedBurner’s email services announcement on a Google Developers blog. What do you do now? By when? How? And what will it cost? Here are seven steps to help you work it all out – with minimal disruption and without forcing your subscribers...
Here’s the end of FeedBurner’s email services announcement on a Google Developers blog. What do you do now? By when? How? And what will it cost? Here are seven steps to help you work it all out – with minimal disruption and without forcing your subscribers...
Disclosure: TeacherMade is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comAs I wrote last week, TeacherMade recently introduced a bunch of new features for turning your PDFs and Word documents into online activities for your students. When I looked at the list of new features the two that stood...
I've been using Canva to make all kinds of graphics and presentations almost since the day it was first available to the public. Over the years I've used to make greeting cards, videos, infographics, presentations, posters, timelines, comics, and many other graphics. And, at one...
This Tool Will Help You Improve Your Critical Thinking is a new TED-Ed lesson that provides viewers with an introduction to the Socratic method. The video has two main purposes. The first is to explain what the Socratic method is. The second is to explain...
The next session of my popular Teaching History With Technology course begins tomorrow. There is still time to register right here. There are ten big topics that will be covered in the course. All of the lessons in the course can be applied to elementary, middle,...
I originally shared this video on my Ed Tech Fitness blog. The reaction there has been good so I thought that I should give it a bigger audience by posting it on Free Technology for Teachers. Outdoor Bingo is exactly what the name implies. Kids are...
Sometimes it is easier, faster, and more effective to record a video or audio reply to an email than it is to type a response. For example, when I get asked for technical help it is often faster and more effective to create a screencast...
