Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Given this morning’s headlines about flooding in New England, and the excessive amounts of rainfall that the Midwest received over the weekend, I thought it might be of interest to any Geography or Geology teachers that use Google Earth to take a look at the real-time stream flow sensor map.
While many might think a map […]

I had a chance to talk with a number of educators last week at MACUL about a project I was doing with my students using the before-mentioned Stellarium software. Since my students are almost finished I thought I’d share the project concept with everyone as you may be wondering what to do once you’ve downloaded […]

The amount of creative, and free, software on the Internet amazes me. For every piece of limited, stale, and costly piece of software you find, there’s an equally fantastic, interactive, and free piece of software like Stellarium, a personal desktop astronomy program well suited for use in schools. Until I found this program mentioned in […]

While reading Barbara’s blog, I found this terrific tutorial for using Excel or OpenOffice to create a word search from scratch. By following Barbara’s directions (which were very simple and thorough) I managed to create my own word search quickly and easily. If you have a few minutes click on over to Plugged In HomeSchool […]

I have to apologize for not sharing this eariler; I’ve been holding out
Cyberschilling, one of the moderators on the forum, shared with me an awesome Google Earth map for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. It not only shows you the venues and other important locations, but it also provides background information on the […]

A few months back I talked about how useful the Comic Creator was on the Read, Write, Think website. While it allows for quick and easy publication of creative cartoons using pre-drawn characters and backgrounds, it doesn’t include a drawing tool to allow the user to make their own unique creations, nor does it have […]