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Free Technology for Teachers
Ben Licciardi
When the advice is good and the price is right, what's not to like? In his award-winning blog Free Technology for Teachers, high school social studies teacher Richard Byrne reviews a wide variety of free online tools and offers different ways to incorporate them into the classroom.
With a focus on integrating technology into everyday teaching, posts cover everything from free math tutorials to "back-channel" chatting—the practice of allowing students to have online conversations alongside live teaching. Other informative resources include strategies for finding fellow teachers on Twitter and Byrne's "How-to Series," which walks educators through the process of using various Web 2.0 technologies.
Ben Licciardi is a project coordinator in ASCD's Information Resource Center.