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February's Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers

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Good evening from North Carolina where I'm getting ready for the NCTIES 17 conference. I look forward to this conference every year. The...
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Google Keep Is Now Part of G Suite's Core Services

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Google Keep is my favorite tool for bookmarking, taking notes, and setting reminders. I use it on my laptop, Chromebook, my phone, and my i...
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Teach Your Monster to Read Minigames

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Teach Your Monster to Read is a fun online environment in which students play games that are designed to help them improve the speed and acc...
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Google's Guides to G Suite Accessibility Options

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Google offers two G Suite accessibility guides. There is a guide for administrators and there is a guide for users. The  G Suite user guide ...
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Nixon's Visit to China - Documents and Video

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Last week the National Archives Today's Document feed featured two artifacts from President Nixon's landmark visit to China in 1972....
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RefME is Becoming Cite This For Me - Changes to Free Plan Coming

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RefME is a great service for organizing your research and creating bibliographies out of your collections of online and offline resources. ...
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The Week in Review - Back from Vacation

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Good morning from Maine where I am back to work after my annual ice-fishing vacation on Moosehead Lake in Rockwood, Maine . While it wasn...
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All About Bison

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There is a chilling scene in Dances With Wolves in which Kevin Costner's character and the Lakota Indians come over a hill to see hundr...
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Quill Connect Helps Students Understand Sentence Structure

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Quill Connect is a new feature on the Quill writing lesson platform. Quill Connect presents to students a collection of short sentences tha...
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Two More ClassTools Templates for Showing Content Connections

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Last week I shared the Hexagon Learning Template offered by ClassTools.net . That template is great for helping students make connections b...
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TinyTap Handbook - Tutorials for Making Interactive iPad Activities

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TinyTap is a great tool for creating interactive, educational activities that your students can play on their iPads, on their Android table...
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Pattern Matcher Helps Students Prepare for ACT and SAT

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Pattern Matcher is a feature of PrepFactory's free ACT and SAT preparation service. Pattern Matcher is a game that students can play af...
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Nudge - Interactive Algebra Lessons on iPads and Android Tablets

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Nudge is a free iPad and Android app that provides students with interactive, on-demand algebra tutorials. The free app provides students w...
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Simple, Effective Search Challenge Lessons

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One of my favorite ways to reinforce the use of good search strategies to students is to show interesting pictures and have students try to ...
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Make Your Videos Lively With Puppets

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This is a guest post from Rushton Hurley. Rushton is the founder of Next Vista for Learning and the author of Making Your School Something ...
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4 Strategies To Support Digital Responsibility

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Note: Twitter won't let you share my blog url so use this instead: http://tinyurl.com/attackideasnotpeople   Innovative educators have ...
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VocApp - Multimedia Flashcards on iOS and Android

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Last week I shared a few tools that students can create digital flashcards. Two of those tools offer the option for including audio in flas...
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Memrise - Learn New Languages

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Memrise  is a service through which you can learn vocabulary for a new-to-you language, study science flashcards, review math problems, or r...
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