by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 25, 2021 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the humidity is making everything feel wet. That’s okay because I’m going fishing and will get wet anyway. It’s the last weekend of the fishing season on my favorite river and I’m hoping to catch a few landlocked...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 25, 2021 | Academic Technology
My daughters ask me lots of questions that I haven’t thought about since I was their age (4 and 5). Many of those questions I write in a list titled Questions from My Daughters that I have saved on my phone via Google Keep. “Why do we sneeze?” is one...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 24, 2021 | Academic Technology
YouTube offers a bunch of features that are sometimes overlooked or under-utilized despite being quite helpful when sharing videos in your classroom. In this new video I demonstrate five of those features. PlaylistsBy default your Google/ YouTube account has a...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 24, 2021 | Academic Technology
WriteReader, one of my favorite tools for telling stories with pictures, recently launched four new features for teachers and students. One of the new features improves the usability of WriteReader while the other three enhance the overall experience for teachers...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 23, 2021 | Academic Technology
Long-time followers of my blog have probably noticed that I really like the videos produced by SciShow Kids. Their videos cover a wide range of science topics and almost all of them answer questions that elementary school students are apt to ask. For example, one of...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 23, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Breakout EDU is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comA week ago I shared a handful of fun Breakout EDU games for in-person and online classrooms. A couple of those games were actually designed, built, and shared by teachers and not by Breakout...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 22, 2021 | Academic Technology
There are plenty of places on the Internet to find free outline maps of states, provinces, countries, and regions of the world. Finding blank outline maps of cities, small towns, or neighborhoods is a little harder to do. If you’re looking for a blank map of a...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 22, 2021 | Academic Technology
ClassHook is a service that I’ve been using and recommending for the last few years. It provides a good way to find clips from movies and television shows to use in your lessons. You can search it according Common Core standard, recommended grade level, and...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 22, 2021 | Academic Technology
Tomorrow at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I are hosting the second episode of the second season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff! We’d love to have you join us! You can register for the session right...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 21, 2021 | Academic Technology
Recording short video clips and posting them on your classroom or school website is a great way for parents and other community members to learn about the great things that are happening in your classroom and school. When you do that you wan to make sure that...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 21, 2021 | Academic Technology
On Sunday evening a reader of my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter replied with a question about creating timelines. She was looking for suggestions for a timeline tool that her tenth grade students can use to create a timeline based on books they’ve read. This is...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 20, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comTract is a new service that offers fun lessons for elementary school and middle school students taught by high school and college students. The lessons and corresponding activities cover a wide array of fun...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 20, 2021 | Academic Technology
Earlier this year Mote emerged as one of my favorite new tools of the year. Mote is a Chrome extension that works with all of the core products in Google Workspace. With it you can add voice comments to Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Slides. You can also use it to...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 20, 2021 | Academic Technology
C-SPAN Classroom offers some fantastic resources for teachers of U.S. History, civics, and government. One of those resources that has been offered in the past and is available again this year is a free poster depicting a timeline of American presidents. The poster...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 19, 2021 | Academic Technology
About a month ago I shared a list of resources for helping students learn to recognize logical fallacies and cognitive biases. One of the resources in that list is Your Logical Fallacy Is. The people who produce that website, School of Thought, recently launched a...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 18, 2021 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where it is going to be a great early fall weekend for apple picking, bike riding, and enjoying the great outdoors. I hope that wherever you are this weekend that you also have some fun things planned. This week I hosted a webinar all about...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 18, 2021 | Academic Technology
Last week Rushton Hurley and I resumed our regular series of free webinars plainly titled Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. If you missed it, you can watch the recording right here and view all of the associated resources here. The next live...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 17, 2021 | Academic Technology
Ziplet is a service for gathering feedback from your students in a variety of ways. The simplest way is to create an exit ticket by using one of the dozens of pre-written questions provided by Ziplet. Back in July I published a video about how to use Ziplet. Since...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 17, 2021 | Academic Technology
Google Keep is a great tool for middle school and high school students to use to create assignment reminders, bookmark important research findings, organize information, save images, and re-use notes in their research documents. All of those features and more are...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
Great Reads from Great Places is an interactive map produced by the Library of Congress for the National Book Festival. The purpose of the map is twofold. First, to help visitors find National Book Festival-related events in their states. Second, to help visitors find...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
I get a lot of questions sent to me throughout the week. Some of them are very specific and the answers only apply to one person. Others have the potential for a broader appeal. One of those came to me earlier this week when a reader asked, “What’s the best...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 15, 2021 | Academic Technology
More than a decade ago Weebly was one of the first DIY website builders that recommended to teachers. I helped countless teachers and their students create classroom websites with Weebly for Education. This morning I got the news via email that Weebly (now owned by...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 15, 2021 | Academic Technology
Monday’s featured artifact on Today’s Document from the National Archives was “Nurse wearing a mask as protection against influenza. September 13, 1918.” As is often the case with items in the daily feed there was a link to additional...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 15, 2021 | Academic Technology
About a month ago I published a collection of resources for teaching students about logical fallacies and cognitive biases. Since then TED-Ed published another good video to add to that collection. The video is Can You Outsmart the Slippery Slope Fallacy?Can You...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Sep 14, 2021 | Academic Technology
A couple of weeks ago I picked up an interesting book at my local library. It’s titled The Way of a Ship and it follows the journey of Benjamin Lundy as he sails around Cape Horn in 1885 in one of the last square-rigged commercial sailing boats. The Way of a...
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