Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine where I'm getting ready for two straight weeks of travel starting tomorrow with a trip to Discovery's headquarters for a forum titled Beyond the Textbook. Then I'm off to the Teacher2Teacher conference in Medicine Hat, Alberta, then to The American School in Lugano, Switzerland before coming home for EdCamp Maine. Thank you for reading, following, and sharing my blog posts. It's because of you that this blog continues to grow and provide me with these neat opportunities.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. TED Education - It's a Good Start
2. Numberphile - Videos About Curious Number Facts
3. Make Stop-Motion Movies With JellyCam 4.0
4. Mathnet on YouTube
5. Four Video Explanations of Daylight Saving Time
6. Create Study Materials from Evernote Notes
7. NCAA Geography Game


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Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In April I will be holding another free public webinar through UMBC.
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Week in Review - From Flat to Flying

Good morning from Maine where signs of spring are starting to show despite the snow that is still in my yard. I've had a busy seven days since the last week in review. It started with a flat tire in the pouring rain and ended with a flight home from North Carolina where I spent three days presenting at the NCTIES conference or as Rushton Hurley called it, the Neck Ties Conference. I had the great privilege to speak to many fantastic educators and leaders in the field of educational technology. One of the highlights of the week for me was, after years of reading their works, meeting David Warlick, Tammy Worcester, and Kathy Schrock.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. Khan Academy Videos Mapped to Common Core Standards
2. Is Khan Inherently Crap?
3. Bunsella Bedtime Stories - An App for Narrating Stories
4. Resources for Learning About the Iditarod
5. Use Custom HTML and Javascript in Google Sites
6. Audio Memos - A Voice Recorder for iPad & iPhone
7. 10 Awesome Android Uses & Apps for Education


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Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In April I will be holding another free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools.

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Developing an Online Personal Learning Network

These are the slides from the presentation about personal learning networks that I gave at NCTIES. Under the slides I have included a few of the points that stressed in the session.

• Personal learning networks aren't about one social network platform. 
• Personal learning networks take time to develop.
• Personal learning networks can be as large or small as you want them to be. 
• Your personal learning networks will change over time.
• Everyone has something to share.

Best of the Web 2012

This afternoon at NCTIES I gave my popular best of the web presentation to a packed room. The presentation covers 70 resources in 60 minutes. You can view all of the resources in the slides below. The presentation ends with this video of Matt Damon defending teachers. Matt gets my award for best rant of the year. As I warned the audience in attendance, he does use one word (s***) that would get him a PG rating at the movies.

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine where after months of people complaining about the lack of snow, we've had almost two feet fall this week with more on the way (at least in my part of the woods). But the snow won't stop me from participating in the first Ed Tech Teacher Winter Conference this morning. If you're there today, please say hello before or after my presentation with Greg Kulowiec.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. How to Create Interactive Images Using Thinglink
2. Another Great YouTube Channel for History Teachers
3. 11 Web-based Polling and Survey Services
4. Almost Everything You Need to Know About Wikispaces
5. Create a Virtual Volcanic Eruption
6. Heart Rap - A Rap Explanation of How the Heart Works
7. How War Stories Inspire Learning

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ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In April I will be holding another free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools.

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Month in Review - February's Most Popular Posts

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March has definitely come in like a lion this year as schools are closed all over Maine this morning. February was a big month for Free Technology for Teachers. In February the 44,000 subscriber mark was passed as was the 19,000 Facebook likes mark. Thank you for helping to spread the reach of Free Technology for Teachers.

These were the most popular posts in February, 2012:
1. 29 Days of Android Apps for Teachers and Students
2. 30 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
3. Gooru - Great Collections of Science and Math Resources
4. Three Browser Extensions Every Teacher Should Try
5. A Nice Primer on Google Apps for the iPad
6. Using ShowMe to Create Lessons on iPads
7. Stocks, Dividends, and Inflation Explained in Under Two Minutes
8. 7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects
9. ThinkB4U - Web Safety Tutorials from Google
10. Take an Interactive Journey Through U.S. History


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Fifty Sneakers offers a great service for creating multimedia online quizzes.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In April I will be holding another free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools.


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This weekend I will be speaking at the EdTech Teacher 2012 Winter Conference in Boston. There is still time to register. 
Next week I will be speaking at NCTIES on March 7-9, you won't want to miss the Best of the Web Smackdown I'm doing with Steven Anderson. 

Kwiqpoll - Simple Web Polls

Kwiqpoll is a simple tool for quickly creating and posting polls. To create a poll with Kwiqpoll just visit the site, type a question, type your answer choices, and go. Your poll can stay online for three or seven days. Kwiqpoll assigns a unique url to each of your polls. Give that url to the audience that you want to participate in your poll. Here's the link to a simple poll that I made.

Applications for Education
Kwiqpoll could be a good tool for quickly gathering anonymous feedback from students on things like how long it took them to complete a homework assignment or how prepared they feel for an upcoming assessment.

H/T to Larry Ferlazzo.

SpiderScribe Leaves Beta, Adds Features, Stays free for Schools

Last summer SpiderScribe was one of the most popular tools that I showed during my mind mapping workshops. At that time SpiderScribe was still in beta. Last week it left beta and announced some new features. The new features include new keyboard shortcuts, new stencil options, and the option to embed your interactive SpiderScribe mind map into your blog or website. Most importantly for teachers, SpiderScribe will remain free for schools. If you would like to see how SpiderScribe works, check out Russell Stannard's series of how-to videos or watch this two minute demo.

Applications for Education
One of the aspects of SpiderScribe that the teachers I showed it to last summer liked was the option to include images and maps within a mind map or web. One teacher that I worked with liked that her students could create webs about books they read and include images to represent important characters and places in those books.

Flipping Your Classroom With Free Web Tools - Guest Post

The Flipped Classroom is gaining steam in schools across the world. Flipped classes focus on student interaction and engagement in class and a major component is the technology that can be used to create, deliver, and collaborate. Richard has posted on many of these tools, so I’ll be sharing how I use a combination of tools in a typical unit.

Writing
GoogleDocs has been a lifesaver for me. I’m always moving between machines, so I rarely store data locally. All of my written material is done with Google. I use Docs and Presentations to create and share the content with students. I also use GoogleDocs for students to write collaborative lab reports or research presentations  to cut down on paper used in class. Last year, my AP Chemistry class wrote and edited a lab manual using only GoogleDocs.

Recording
A Flipped Classroom uses screencasting or podcasting to deliver direct instruction when appropriate. After I’ve decided what to record, I write up some notes and then make a video. There are tools available for purchase, but when money is short, there are plenty of free options available on the web. While you can record for free, many have a time limit, which is a good thing. The best videos are less than 10 minutes long.

Screencast-o-matic and Screenr are probably the best two web apps available. Screencast-o-matic has a Pro account that will host your files, while a normal Screenr account will do the same. Educreations is another, newer screen recording site that gives you a blank canvas in a browser window. You can annotate and record in one place for free. All give an option to download the videos.

Jing is a free download and runs locally on your machine rather than as a web app. With your account, TechSmith hosts all your videos on screencast.com. With YouTube blocked in many districts, this is a good alternative.

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Annotating
Typically, screencasts are composed of a PowerPoint or PDF file being annotated and narrated by the teacher as they would in class. If your school is already equipped with Promethean or SMART products, you can record and annotate using their software. If you don’t, I would recommend searching on Craigslist or eBay for a used pen tablet, similar to the ones produced by Wacom. They usually retail for $80 - $100, but I found mine on Craigslist for $30. Many teachers don’t annotate, and simply record a presentation, so a tablet isn’t vital.

To annotate a PDF for a recording, I use a program called Jarnal. It is a free download running through Java on your machine that allows you to write on top of PDF files. You can then save and export an annotated PDF for archive, printing, or sharing to the web. FormulatePro is similar to Jarnal, but runs as a standalone application on your computer.

Sharing
After everything is recorded, I share my content. I use Wordpress to run my class website. Others use GoogleSites or Moodle through their school. The important thing is to use what you already have to distribute content. A web space is important because it allows for 24/7 access by students.

Student creation is another very important part of a flipped class. Students make their own podcasts, create presentations, or even make websites with what they’ve learned. They can then share their work with people around the world. Ownership and relevance are accentuated and engagement rises. The appropriate use of technology in a flipped classroom is much more powerful than the technology alone. 


About the Guest Blogger
Brian E. Bennett is a science teacher living in Evansville, IN. He uses a Flipped Classroom with biology and chemistry students to expand their technology skills and to build global connections. He currently blogs on Educator, Learner about science, technology, education policy, and teaching. You can catch him on Twitter, @bennettscience or on Google+.

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Philadelphia where today I'll be joining my family to celebrate my grandfather's 90th birthday. He and my grandmother were teachers for their entire working lives, one of my uncles was a teacher, and now I am. Maybe there's a gene for teaching.

Monday is the start of guest writer week on Free Technology for Teachers. While I'm away on a short vacation, there will be new posts from educators Monday through Friday. I've already seen most of the posts, they're excellent. But first, let's take a look at the most popular posts of the last week.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. A Nice Primer on Google Apps for the iPad
2. Learn About Chromebooks Through Project Chromebook
3. Road to the White House Games, Maps, and Scholastic News
4. From Ideas to iBooks
5. Hello Slide - Easily Add Narration to Your Slideshows
6. Five YouTube Channels to Challenge High School Students
7. The History of Calendars, Leap Year, and Daylight Saving


Would you like to contribute to the Fifth Anniversary Classroom 2.0 Book? If so, we're still accepting contributions. Contributing to the Classroom 2.0 Fifth Anniversary Book could be an excellent way to have your ideas read by a large audience.

Please visit the official advertisers and marketing partners that help keep this blog going.
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Fifty Sneakers offers a great service for creating multimedia online quizzes.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In February I will be holding a free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools. I will be speaking at their winter conference on March 3.

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A public webinar on February 20th  for the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.

The EdTech Teacher 2012 Winter Conference on March 3. 

NCTIES March 7-9, you won't want to miss the Best of the Web Smackdown I'm doing with Steven Anderson. 

My other blog, Android 4 Schools is gaining subscribers every week. If you're an Android user, please check out Android 4 Schools and let me know what you think.

Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

My assistant tells me to write faster.

Good morning from Maine. Despite the outcome of the SuperBowl, everyone at the Free Technology for Teachers World Headquarters had a good week and I hope that the same is true for all of you. As I do every week, I've written a short list of the week's most popular posts. If your RSS reader or email inbox got too full this week, this list provides a good way for you to quickly discover some of the week's ed tech highlights.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. Three Browser Extensions Every Teacher Should Try
2. Stocks, Dividends, and Inflation Explained in Under Two Minutes
3. 30 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
4. 15 Resources for Safer Internet Day
5. 7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects
6. ThinkB4U - Web Safety Tutorials from Google
7. Gooru - Great Collections of Math and Science Resources

Would you like to contribute to the Fifth Anniversary Classroom 2.0 Book? If so, we're still accepting contributions. Contributing to the Classroom 2.0 Fifth Anniversary Book could be an excellent way to have your ideas read by a large audience.

Please visit the official advertisers and marketing partners that help keep this blog going.
LearnBoost provides a free online gradebook service for teachers.
MasteryConnect provides a network for teachers to share and discover Common Core assessments.
The Worth Ave Group offers insurance plans for school technology.
Fifty Sneakers offers a great service for creating multimedia online quizzes.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In February I will be holding a free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools. I will be speaking at their winter conference on March 3.

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Some of my upcoming presentations that are open to the public are:

A public webinar on February 20th  for the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.

The EdTech Teacher 2012 Winter Conference on March 3. 

NCTIES March 7-9, you won't want to miss the Best of the Web Smackdown I'm doing with Steven Anderson. 

My other blog, Android 4 Schools is gaining subscribers every week. If you're an Android user, please check out Android 4 Schools and let me know what you think.

30 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

Earlier today I presented a short webinar about some of my favorite Web 2.0 tools for teachers. The webinar was on behalf of Ed Tech Teacher for whom I facilitate in-person workshops from time to time. This summer I'll be working with them quite a bit. You can see the list of their summer workshops here. A recording of today's webinar will be available here shortly. If you just want to know what tools I shared in the webinar, you can view the slides below.

30 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

View more presentations from Richard Byrne

If you're interested in having me work with your staff on the use of these tools, please visit my work with me page. 

You're Invited! Do You Want to Write a Guest Post?

Update: I have taken down the submission form as I had more than 50 submissions in 13 hours. My apologies if you were not able to get your submission in. Those of you who put your submissions in will hear from me in the next 24 hours. 

At some point in each of the last three years I've opened up some time for guest bloggers to contribute to Free Technology for Teachers. Last year that time was in April. The two previous years that time was in February. This year I'm going to open up some days around President's Day (U.S. Holiday) for guest bloggers. February 20 (Monday) through 24 (Friday) will be "guest blogger week." (Yes, I realize it's not quite a week). My goal is to feature three guest bloggers each day of the week while Morrison (my dog in the picture) and I are on an ice fishing vacation.

If you would like to be a guest blogger on Free Technology for Teachers during the week of February 20-24 here are the details on what I'm looking for.

1. I'm looking for people who have not written guest posts for me before. I want to give new people a chance to have their voices heard. 

2. I'm looking for people who are willing to share examples of how they have used technology in their schools as a teacher, teacher-librarian, media specialist, or administrator. 

3. I'm not looking for list style posts like this one, I've got that covered. 

4. If you're a paid representative of a company, thank you for your interest, but this is not an opportunity for you to promote your product or service. Click here if advertising is what you're after. 

5. People who can heed this advice from Darren Rowse about guest blogging. 

What you can get out of this:

1. Exposure to an audience of more than 43,000 subscribers. Past guest bloggers have reported seeing significant upturns in visits to their blogs and or Twitter profiles after guest posting here. Even if you're just starting to blog or be active in social media, please don't let that discourage you.

2. My undying gratitude. 

3. If we meet up at a conference like EdCamp Boston or ISTE, I'll buy you the beverage of your choice. 

If you've read all of the above information and are interested in guest posting, please complete the form below. I will close this form once I have filled all of the guest posting slots. If the form is up, I'm still accepting submissions.

Update: I have taken the form down as I had more than 50 submissions in 13 hours. My apologies if you were not able to get your submission in. Those of you who put your submissions in will hear from me in the next 24 hours. 

Week in Review - A New Book Project

Good morning from Maine. I hope that everyone had a great week of teaching and learning. As I do every week I've compiled a short list of this week's most popular posts. If you're looking for some new resources to explore before watching the Super Bowl this weekend (go Pats!) check out this week's most popular posts.

Before you jump to the list, I would like to share with you the new book project that I've embarked on with Steve Hargadon and Chris Dawson. Earlier this week we announced the Classroom 2.0 Fifth Anniversary Book project. We have already had a great response from some well-known members of the educational technology community. But we'd like to emphasize that the call for submissions is open to any educator who would like to share his or her best practice with a larger audience. Contributing to the Classroom 2.0 Fifth Anniversary Book could be an excellent way to have your ideas read by a large audience.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. The Faculty Project
2. A New Google in Education Ebook and Website
3. Oolone - A Visual Search Engine that I Can Now Recommend
4. 29 Days of Android Apps for Teachers and Students
5. A New Google+ Safety Center for Teens, Parents, and Educators
6. Announcify - A Great Text to Speech App
7. Learn How to Build a Search Engine


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Fifty Sneakers offers a great service for creating multimedia online quizzes.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In February I will be holding a free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools. I will be speaking at their winter conference on March 3.

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Submit Your Technology Tutorial Requests

One of the most frequently visited pages on Free Technology for Teachers is the Google Tutorials page. I would like to build up more tutorial pages, but I need your help in choosing topics. Therefore, I'm asking you to share your requests for technology tutorials. I can't promise that I'll tackle every request, but I'll do my best to create tutorials for the most frequently requested topics. If you have a request, please fill out the two question form embedded below. If you can't see the form, please click here to complete it.

The Month in Review - January's Most Popular Posts

It's hard to believe it, but the first month of 2012 is just about over (or is over depending on when and where you are reading this). 2012 is off to a great start for Free Technology for Teachers. Thanks to all of you and your sharing of the posts here, this month saw a new record for pageviews. In January, for the first time ever, Free Technology for Teachers surpassed 700,000 pageviews! When I started this blog four and a half years ago I never imagined that it would grow like it has. Thank you all for your continued support.

Here are the most popular posts from January, 2012:
1. 10 Useful Chrome Web Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students
2. Evernote in Education
3. Investigating the Interest in Pinterest
4. The School That Launched 1,000 iPads
5. Seven Ways to Quickly and Easily Share Files
6. Video - How to Find Creative Commons Images
7. Get the Math - Multimedia Algebra Challenges
8. Free 2012 Calendar Templates
9. Interactive Animated Heart
10. Free Download - Ten Digital Storytelling Projects


Please visit the official advertisers and marketing partners that help keep this blog going.
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Edublogs provides blog hosting for teachers and students.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In February I will be holding a free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools. I will be speaking at their winter conference on March 3.

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Week in Review - The New Desk Edition

Good morning from Maine where I'm using the new workspace that I set up this week. The "some assembly required" aspect of the new desk confirmed that although I enjoy watching This Old House, I will never be mistaken for Norm Abram. I do, however, find my posture while typing to be much improved now that I'm not working from a coffee table, my kitchen table, or my lap. Perhaps my improved posture will increase my blogging productivity too.

As I do every Saturday morning, I've compiled a list of the week's most-read posts. Before I jump to the list I just want to say thank you for your continued support of Free Technology for Teachers. Because of all of the sharing of the content here that so many of you do, Free Technology for Teachers now has nearly 43,000 subscribers.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. Video - Create a Collaborative Digital Writing Portfolio
2. A Pearltree of Free Technology for Teachers
3. Free Download - Ten Digital Storytelling Projects
4. Get Out the Crayons! It's Time to Doodle for Google Again
5. gText - Free Group Text Messaging
6. Videos - Primary Elections and Gerrymandering Explained
7. Five Tools to Help You Schedule Meetings


Please visit the official advertisers and marketing partners that help keep this blog going.
LearnBoost provides a free online gradebook service for teachers.
MasteryConnect provides a network for teachers to share and discover Common Core assessments.
The Worth Ave Group offers insurance plans for school technology.
Edublogs provides blog hosting for teachers and students.
ABCya.com is a provider of free educational games for K-5.
Lesley University offers quality online graduate programs for teachers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County offers graduate programs for teachers. In February I will be holding a free public webinar through UMBC.
Ed Tech Teacher offers professional development services for schools. I will be speaking at their winter conference on March 3.

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New Google in Education Ebook and Website

Yesterday, the Google Apps for Education team published a new ebook (PDF) titled A New and Open World for Learning. A New and Open World for Learning is all about using Google's products and services in education. The ebook is clearly a marketing vehicle for Google Apps for Education, but you will find some good examples of and ideas for using Google apps in your school.

As part of the same announcement in which A New and Open World for Learning was released, Google also announced a revamped Google in Education website. The aspects of Google in Education that are probably of most interest to classroom teachers are the lesson plan index and the classroom tools index. The classroom tools index provides links to information about each of the services available to teachers and students. In the classroom tools index you'll find some tutorial or how-to resources.