This excellent article looks at how educational institutions seem to be moving away from Second Life to create virtual worlds that focus on the specific needs of teaching and learning. The article suggests that there is still a long way …
How To Open Microsoft Word 2007 docx Files
Have you ever received one of those files with the .docx extension and wondered what to do with it ? It can’t be viewed in older Word versions, so how can you open a docx file then? Well I have …
An Awesome Free Guide to Digital Storytelling
Silvia Tolisano, author of the excellent Langwitches blog, has an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators is a 120 page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for …
Using Technology to Find Students
Using technology tools with high school students is always a good idea. Okay, maybe that statement is a bit bold, but let’s face the truth. High school students are more connected to online forums, Facebook accounts, and cell phones than …
Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online
Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to …
Word It Out – Creating Word Clouds With More Options
Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the …
10 Outstanding Sites for Downloading Lesson Plans
The following websites will help you make your planning easier and more rewarding, find online resources more quickly and easily, and engage and inspire your students.
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Google Docs Self Check Quizzes
Many of you have discovered the power of using Google forms and spreadsheets to gather data. In fact, they can be a step forward in creating paperless classrooms! For this week’s tip, I have created some templates for self-checking quizzes …
TinyPad – Replace Notepad With Automatic Syncing & Sharing Built In
If you are thinking just how interesting an application to replace Notepad can be, you could start off by downloading TinyPad. The 1.34MB free download packages some features that are part and parcel for a typical Notepad replacement and some …
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: A Resource for History and Fine Arts Teachers
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. The Metropolitan Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff research …
Happy 5th Birthday, YouTube!
It’s hard to believe that YouTube, which serves more than 1 billion videos per day, is a mere five years old today. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. The company sold to Google in October 2006 …
EyePlorer – Visually Explore Wikipedia
EyePlorer is a reference search engine that takes your original search term then displays related terms in a circle around your original search term. Clicking on each related term reveals more information from Wikipedia about that term. If the information …
LearnCentral – A Social Network for Educators
February 2009 saw the launch of the social network for educators called, “LearnCentral”. LearnCentral is a free community that allows educators to network, share and post resources and participate in a variety of discussions. Educators can create or join groups …
Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos
When I was a middle school and high school student, mathematics was the one subject for which I had to have visual demonstrations in order to comprehend its concepts. Unfortunately for me, when I was in high school I couldn’t …
Readfresh – watch your favourite websites in real-time
Readfresh watches sites for you and brings the most recently updated sites to the top, so you can see what’s new at a glance. To add a site, just type its URL into the box and click Add Site.