The Traveling Salesman Problem is a website developed by William Cook at the University of Waterloo. The site features interactive maps that chart the short distance between a series of places. One of those maps is of all of the places in the United States...
Tools like Adobe Spark, Typito, Shadow Puppet Edu, and old-standby Animoto make it easy for students to quickly create videos. I often use these tools when introducing video production projects to teachers or students who have never attempted make videos in their classrooms. Here are three types of assignments...
Historical photographs, paintings, sketches, and maps can inspire all kinds of history questions. That is why for more than a decade I’ve used and recommended images from Today’s Document from the National Archives to prompt classroom discussion as the introduction to U.S. and World History...
Disclosure: Kdan Mobile is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. This post was written by me, Richard Byrne. Kdan Mobile makes a suite of useful mobile and desktop products for teachers and students. I’ve used two of them, Animation Desk and NoteLedge fairly extensively....
During the pandemic we donned our superhero capes and finally put computers and Internet access in the hands of our students. Then most of us took our capes off and gave kids digital worksheets. Related Posts Education in a digital world [VIDEO] The problem with ‘any time, any...
During the pandemic we donned our superhero capes and finally put computers and Internet access in the hands of our students. Then most of us took our capes off and gave kids digital worksheets. Related Posts Education in a digital world [VIDEO] The problem with ‘any time, any...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jennifer Brinkmeyer. How we start the school year communicates who we expect students are and how we expect students will act. Informed by our prior experiences in the classroom, these expectations become a form of bias that...
Making online educational games used to be the domain of those with specialized coding and programming skills. Today, there are free tools that anyone can use to create their own educational games for students. Likewise, there are now some excellent free tools for creating online...
Throughout the 2020-21 school year Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I hosted a series of webinars titled Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff. We're going to do it again this year! We've settled on hosting the webinars on...
