From the start, please know the idea(s) in this blog are almost in their entirety taken from another blog post on Freetech4teachers.com. The title of this blog is Historical Facebook- Facebook for dead people by Richard Byrne. I read this the other day...

Lisa Dubernard investigates how she might integrate an iPad in an ActivClassroom. In this article, Lisa focuses on whether the tablet device has potential as a wireless slate and shares her experiences trying out applications she discovered at the International Society for Technology in Education conference (ISTE 2011).

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You may have seen a theme in my recent posts around 'model rockets'. This is proving to be a fantastic topic for a group of students I am working with, covering whole swathes of Maths and Science as well as Technology. One software tool that has...

A QR code is a special bar code that can store information such as website URLs or plain text. It can be read with mobile devices that have a camera and a QR code reader, such as most smartphones and some tablets. In her latest article for the Planet blog, Lisa Dubernard investigates if and how QR codes can be used in the classroom.

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Classroom technology can provide invaluable resources to aid teachers in classroom management. Planet Super User, Tabitha Savage, shares three apps that have improved the daily functions of her classroom. Best of all, they're all FREE!

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I recently read a blog that claimed people are drawn to blogs that start with "Top Ten..." Hmm, I think that's probably correct. I guess I'm drawn to those blog titles myself, maybe because I think they will be a "quick read"...

To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here . I use many interactive websites in my class to aid in my language arts instruction. Although there are hundreds from which to choose, I have selected the five websites that I use...

To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here . Teaching students how to infer can be a challenge sometimes. Inferring can be difficult, because when students infer, they can’t find the answer directly in the passage or...

So, I've been creating my own cartoon scenes lately. I've made them because sometimes I need to make a custom image to illustrate a specific idea when I'm writing about a topic. During this process, I've found some simple tools that I've...

This article provides you with a program for creating very simple jigsaws in flipchart format. The functionality is based upon the Jigsaw Maker game that ships with the ActivArena Demo Pack ( here ). The difference here is that the output is automatically...