Year: 2025
Top Ten Posts and Tips for 2024
Since we started Ask a Tech Teacher fifteen years ago, we’ve had almost 6.3 million views and 3300 comments from about 11,500 followers who read some or all of our 2,454 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like:
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Here are our top 10 lists of most popular posts and tips for 2024:
What You Might Have Missed in December–What’s up in January
Here are the most-read posts for the month of December:
- Three Projects to Kick Off the Holidays
- 7 Online Resources About Creating a #MakerSpace
- Five Must-Do Skills to Accomplish During High School
- Holiday Gifts for Teachers
- 14 Holiday Websites and 5 Projects
- Where did Christmas Come From?
- A Shout Out for My Donate Button
- New Year, New Mindset
- Happy Holiday! See You Jan. 2nd!
Here’s a preview of what’s coming up in January: (more…)
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“25 Digital Tools for the Classroom” is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in a K-8 classroom. This includes popular digital tools such as blogs, backchannel devices, vocabulary decoding tools, avatars, digital portfolios, digital notetaking, as well as others you may not have thought of. Here’s what you do:
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Happy New Year! And Public Domain Day
Also on January 1st: It’s Public Domain Day! Every year, January 1st is Public Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2025:
The picture above is interactive on the website. If you click it, you enter Public Domain Review’s website and can then explore each of these new sources of inspiration, free to use.
A few recently released that caught my attention:
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“The content presented in this blog are the result of creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.”
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
