Google Maps for Educators - How to Get Started

This morning I ran a short workshop on Google Maps for educators. As I do for most workshops, I promised to post the how-to slides here. Here are the basic directions to get you started creating placemarks in Google Maps.



By the way, if you're interested in having me run a workshop or give a keynote at your school, please see my work with me page.

Almost Everything You Need to Know About Wikispaces

If there is such a thing as an "old reliable" resource in the world of ed tech, Wikispaces qualifies. I've been using Wikispaces for various purposes and recommending it to others since I started this blog. Over the years I've created screencast videos about how to use it, created slideshows about how to use it, and linked to other educators' tutorials on it. But until very recently, Wikispaces didn't have its own YouTube Channel dedicated to showing you how to use the features they offer.

The Wikispaces YouTube channel contains 25 screencast videos created by Wikispaces to show you how to utilize some of their useful features. Below I've embedded their introductory video and their video on creating an educational wiki.





Learn more about the new Wikispaces YouTube channel on the Wikispaces Blog.

Video - How to Download Blogger and Edublogs Posts

If you and or your students have more than a handful of posts on a blog, you should be in the habit of periodically downloading copies of those posts to have in a portable offline file. Watch the short video below to find out why and to find out how to do this on Edublogs and Blogger.



For annotated screenshots of the processes outlined in the video, please click here or here.

Three Browser Extensions Every Teacher Should Try

It is no secret that I am a Google fan boy which is why I use Chrome as my primary web browser. Chrome is my browser of choice in part because of the numerous useful browser extensions and add-ons that are available for it. In the video below I demonstrate my three favorite Chrome extensions that I think every teacher can benefit from using. These extensions are also available for Firefox and Safari.


Evernote
A Cleaner Internet
Bitly

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.