How to Embed Books Into Your Blog
Google Books is one of my favorite tools for research. It’s also a great place to find all kinds of free books that you can read online and or download to read offline. Google Books also provides tools for embedding free books into your blog posts and webpages. These tools are available in both the […]
An Easier Way to Add Images to Blogger Posts
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve received a few emails from people who were having trouble with images not loading on Blogger blog posts. I’ve also had a couple of little issue with image uploads. The trouble appears to be that the default image uploader in Blogger doesn’t fully load. The work-around for the […]
SpeakPipe Adds New Landing Pages for Gathering Voice Recordings
SpeakPipe is a service that I have used and recommended for many years. It’s a service that provides you with the ability to collect voicemail messages through your blog or website. Simply create a SpeakPipe account, place their widget in your blog, and then visitors can click the widget to record and send you a […]
Why You Should Use Videos In Your Blog
Using videos in blog posts helps to keep visitors on your blog longer. For teachers and school administrators, adding a videos to your blog is a good way to show students and parents who you are and what you sound like. And, of course, videos are helpful when you’re explaining something that needs visuals in […]
Canva Can Help You Increase Your School’s Social Media Reach
One of the things that I always talk about in my workshop on Blog & Social Media for Teachers and School Leaders is using high resolution graphics to draw attention to your blog posts and social media posts. Canva is a free tool that can help you create high quality, high resolution graphics to make your posts […]
Weekend Project – Identify a Goal for Your Blog
When it comes to blogging one of the patterns that I see every school year starts to emerge around this time of year. That pattern is, our blogs that we started with the best of intentions in August start to lose their momentum. It’s easy to blame the tasks of the daily grind of the […]
How to Add Label Clouds to Blogger Blogs
Adding a label cloud or tag cloud to your blog can provide visitors with a convenient way to search for older content within your blog. Rather than scrolling through your archives or performing a keyword search, visitors simply click on a label in the label cloud to find all of the posts related to that […]
Join Me for a Hangout On Air About Ed Tech Blogging
Every week I get lots of questions from people who want to know how I started FreeTech4Teachers.com, how I maintain it, and, of course, how it helps me make a living. I’ll answer those questions and any others that you have during a Google Hangout On Air on Sunday at 7pm EST. This is informal. […]
10 Somewhat Interesting Things About Me and Free Technology for Teachers
Over the last few months there have been a lot of new visitors and subscribers to FreeTech4Teachers.com and the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page. Welcome and thanks for joining me here. And thank you to long-time followers who have helped this blog and the corresponding Facebook page grow. Whether you’re new here or you’ve […]