2021 (35)
- 03/03/21 - Subscriber Special: March
- 03/01/21 - What You Might Have Missed in February
- 02/26/21 - Here’s a Preview of March
- 02/25/21 - Online College Credit Classes Forming
- 02/24/21 - Tech Tip #31: 10 Best Keyboarding Hints
- 02/22/21 - How Fast Should Kids Type
- 02/19/21 - Inspire Kids to Pursue an IT Degree
- 02/16/21 - Opportunities prisoners have to study
- 02/12/21 - Math Word Problems
- 02/10/21 - Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology
- 02/08/21 - 5 (free) Tech Problem Solving Posters
- 02/05/21 - #WorldReadAloudDay February 5
- 02/04/21 - 100th Day of School — Make it about Learning
- 02/03/21 - Subscriber Special: More MLK
- 02/01/21 - What You Might Have Missed in January
- 01/29/21 - Here’s a Preview of February
- 01/27/21 - Classes in Remote Teaching
- 01/26/21 - 5 (free) Shortkey Posters
- 01/25/21 - 9 Great Websites to Inspire 3rd Graders
- 01/21/21 - Great Websites for Special Needs
- 01/18/21 - Edtech Trends From 2020 And Beyond
- 01/15/21 - Game-based Learning in Remote Teaching
- 01/14/21 - 5 Fun Science Experiments Kids Do at Home
- 01/13/21 - 2021, I Resolve…
- 01/08/21 - 10 Top Tips and Click-throughs in 2020
- 01/06/21 - Top 10 Reviews of 2020
- 01/05/21 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2020
- 01/01/21 - Public Domain Day and Happy New Year!
2020 (184)
- 12/19/20 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/18/20 - New Blog Directory–and it’s free!
- 12/17/20 - 11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence
- 12/16/20 - Have Santa Call Your Kids!
- 12/15/20 - Tech 101 for Teachers
- 12/14/20 - 2020 Holiday Gifts for Teachers
- 12/10/20 - Subscriber Special: 40% Discount!
- 12/08/20 - 6 Unplugged Activities for Hour of Code
- 12/07/20 - 10 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code
- 12/05/20 - Coding Websites/Webtools by Grade
- 12/04/20 - Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate
- 12/03/20 - Here’s a Preview of December
- 12/02/20 - What You Might Have Missed in November
- 11/30/20 - Students decide: PC or Mac
- 11/14/20 - Happy Thanksgiving!
- 11/08/20 - National STEM/STEAM Day Nov. 8th
- 11/06/20 - How to Put Kindness in Your Classes
- 11/04/20 - Subscriber Special: November
- 11/03/20 - What You Might Have Missed in October
- 11/02/20 - Here’s a Preview of November
- 10/29/20 - SEO for Online Teachers and Coaches
- 10/29/20 - Tech Tip #158: Why Learn Keyboarding
- 10/24/20 - A Geek is asked, “Who are you?”
- 10/23/20 - 7 Apps That Inspire Students
- 10/21/20 - How do I become a Web Designer?
- 10/20/20 - 10 Best US Colleges for Computer Science
- 10/15/20 - October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
- 10/12/20 - Subscriber Special: October
- 10/03/20 - Traveling to America’s Heartland!
- 10/01/20 - National Bullying Prevention Month–October
- 09/30/20 - What You Might Have Missed in September
- 09/28/20 - Tech Tip #9–Quickly Hide Your Screen
- 09/25/20 - Here’s a Preview of October
- 09/22/20 - 20 Great Websites to Inspire 2nd Graders
- 09/21/20 - Tech Tip #2–The PrintScreen Key
- 09/16/20 - 19 Great Websites to Inspire 5th Graders
- 09/15/20 - Favorite Shortkeys for Special Needs
- 09/14/20 - Tech Tip #1–The Insert Key
- 09/11/20 - We Remember…
- 09/08/20 - What You Might Have Missed in August
- 09/02/20 - JotForm Smart PDF–Great for Today’s Teaching
- 09/01/20 - Subscriber Special: September
- 08/31/20 - 12 Great Websites to Inspire 4th Graders
- 08/28/20 - Here’s a Preview of September
- 08/26/20 - 9 Great Websites to Inspire 1st Graders
- 08/21/20 - Teacher-Authors–Do You Write Fiction?
- 08/17/20 - Tech Tip #118–Top 10 iPad Shortkeys
- 08/14/20 - 9 Great Websites to Inspire Kindergartners
- 08/13/20 - Subscriber Special: August
- 08/10/20 - 5 (free) Tech Ed Safety Posters
- 08/05/20 - Tech Tip #76–13 Tips for using an iPad
- 07/31/20 - What You Might Have Missed in July
- 07/29/20 - Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans
- 07/27/20 - Back to School Tips
- 07/25/20 - Here’s a Preview of August
- 07/24/20 - Tech ed Resources–Online Classes
- 07/17/20 - We Landed on the Moon July 20 1969
- 07/10/20 - Tech Ed Resources–Mentoring and Coaching
- 07/08/20 - Tech Tip #21 How to Make a Small Window Big
- 07/06/20 - What You Might Have Missed in June
- 07/04/20 - Happy July 4th (and Happy Canada Day)
- 07/03/20 - Subscriber Special: July
- 06/24/20 - Tech Tip #111 Quick Browser Fix
- 06/17/20 - 169 Tech Tip #95 Open a Program Maximized
- 06/15/20 - Tech Ed Resources–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
- 06/12/20 - Delurk This Week–It’s Easy!
- 06/10/20 - Looking for Summer Activities? Try These
- 06/08/20 - 169 Tech Tip #93 Shortkey for Find
- 06/05/20 - Internet Safety Month–Rules to Live By
- 06/03/20 - Subscriber Special: June
- 06/02/20 - What You Might Have Missed in May
- 06/01/20 - Here’s a Preview of June
- 05/29/20 - 6 Must-reads for This Summer
- 05/25/20 - Happy Memorial Day!
- 05/21/20 - 17 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/16/20 - Music for Armed Forces Day 2020
- 05/15/20 - College or Career? Check out These
- 05/13/20 - 169 Tech Tip #51 Find Public Domain Images
- 05/11/20 - Tech Tools for Specials
- 05/08/20 - Here’s a Preview of May
- 05/06/20 - What You Might Have Missed in April
- 05/02/20 - World Password Day — It’s Coming!
- 05/01/20 - Subscriber Special: May
- 04/30/20 - 169 Tech Tip #164 Parts of a Website
- 04/27/20 - End of Year Activities
- 04/24/20 - 3 Apps That Energize Learning
- 04/23/20 - 169 Tech Tip #73 7 tips for Netiquette
- 04/21/20 - 10 Tips for Teaching Remotely
- 04/15/20 - Teaching During COVID-19
- 04/13/20 - How to Assess Digital Literacy
- 04/12/20 - Stem Education in 2020
- 04/10/20 - 18 Easter Sites For Students
- 04/09/20 - What You Might Have Missed in March
- 04/07/20 - #CoronaVirus–This Week’s Inbox
- 04/06/20 - 15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy
- 04/04/20 - Subscriber Special: April–Free Lesson Plan
- 03/30/20 - World Backup Day–Once a Year
- 03/27/20 - Teaching Online During COVID-19
- 03/25/20 - Here’s a Preview of April
- 03/23/20 - Why Teach Poetry?
- 03/19/20 - Resources You Need During COVID-19
- 03/18/20 - 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020
- 03/16/20 - How to Eteach in a Covid-19 Pandemic
- 03/13/20 - World Maths Day–March 14
- 03/09/20 - New Book: Inquiry and PBL
- 03/07/20 - Subscriber Special: March
- 03/06/20 - College Credit Classes in Blended Learning
- 03/04/20 - What You Might Have Missed in February
- 03/02/20 - 5 Tips to Avoid Plagiarism
- 03/01/20 - Here’s a Preview of March
- 02/19/20 - 10 Great Virtual Reality Apps
- 02/14/20 - 169 Tech Tip #79 My Internet Stopped Working
- 02/05/20 - What You Might Have Missed in January
- 02/03/20 - Multimedia content personalizes learning
- 01/31/20 - #WorldReadAloudDay February 5
- 01/24/20 - 100th Day of School — Make it about Learning
- 01/22/20 - How to Talk to a Tech Teacher
- 01/17/20 - Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching
- 01/15/20 - Subscriber Special: 15% Discount Sitewide
- 01/12/20 - 10 Top Tips and Click-throughs in 2019
- 01/10/20 - Top 10 Reviews of 2019
- 01/06/20 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2019
- 01/03/20 - Here’s a Preview of January
2019 (186)
- 12/31/19 - Happy New Year!
- 12/21/19 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/16/19 - 13 Holiday Websites and 9 Projects
- 12/13/19 - Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching
- 12/12/19 - Where did Christmas Come From?
- 12/11/19 - Holiday Gifts for Teachers
- 12/10/19 - 9 Touch Typing Programmes for Schools
- 12/09/19 - Have Santa Call Your Kids
- 12/06/19 - 4 Unplugged Activities for Hour of Code
- 12/03/19 - Websites for Hour of Code by Grade
- 12/02/19 - Hour of Code 101
- 12/01/19 - Did You Miss These in November?
- 11/23/19 - 10 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code
- 11/22/19 - Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 11/19/19 - Subscriber Special: December
- 11/16/19 - College Credit Class in Digital Citizenship
- 11/07/19 - Ward’s Science–So Many STEM Resources
- 11/01/19 - What You Might Have Missed in October
- 10/30/19 - 169 Tech Tip #100 Top Ten Internet Shortkeys
- 10/28/19 - How teachers address cell phones in class
- 10/23/19 - 9 Good Collections of Videos for Education
- 10/21/19 - Videos: Why, How, Options
- 10/18/19 - 169 Tech Tip #65 Zoom In/Out of Websites
- 10/16/19 - Digital Assistants in the Classroom
- 10/14/19 - Help Students Select the Right Summer School
- 10/09/19 - Resources for Digital Citizenship Week
- 10/02/19 - October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
- 09/30/19 - What You Might Have Missed in September
- 09/27/19 - College Credit Classes in Blended Learning
- 09/25/19 - Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans
- 09/23/19 - Subscriber Special: September
- 09/16/19 - Teacher-Author? Me too! Let’s talk
- 09/13/19 - College Credit Classes in Blended Learning
- 09/11/19 - We Remember… 9/11
- 09/06/19 - 20 Back-to-School Articles
- 09/05/19 - 12 Favorite PC Shortkeys
- 09/02/19 - Work Hard–it’s Labor Day!
- 08/30/19 - What You Might Have Missed in August
- 08/23/19 - 169 Tech Tip #37 — Basics of Internet Safety
- 08/21/19 - Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology
- 08/19/19 - Tech Ed Resources–K-8 Tech Curriculum
- 08/06/19 - Subscriber Special: August
- 08/05/19 - What You Might Have Missed in July
- 07/31/19 - 11+ Back-to-School Night Tips
- 07/29/19 - Here’s a Preview of August
- 07/24/19 - Online Tutor–Is it Right For You?
- 07/22/19 - How to Do Student-led Conferences
- 07/19/19 - 169 Tech Tip #18 How to Activate a Link
- 07/17/19 - How Tech Enhances Class Performance
- 07/15/19 - Wonder Workshop’s Amazing Dash
- 07/12/19 - 169 Tech Tip #4 My Webpage Froze
- 07/10/19 - How to Help Students Find Their Passion
- 07/08/19 - Math Webtools to Support Any Curriculum
- 07/05/19 - What You Might Have Missed in June
- 07/04/19 - Happy July 4th (and Happy Canada Day)
- 07/02/19 - Great App for Future Readers: Word Zoo
- 07/01/19 - Subscriber Special: July
- 06/28/19 - 4 Innovative Ways to Co-Author a Book
- 06/26/19 - Here’s a Preview of July
- 06/24/19 - What’s Changed in Lesson Planning
- 06/21/19 - What’s all the buzz about Messenger Kids?
- 06/20/19 - 7 Tech Tools for PE Teachers
- 06/19/19 - Smartphones in the classroom
- 06/18/19 - 11 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer
- 06/13/19 - 10 Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer
- 06/10/19 - 8 Practical Ways to Use AI in Learning
- 06/05/19 - 5 Favorite Apps for Summer Learning
- 06/03/19 - Wonderful Southeast Asia Trip!
- 06/01/19 - Here’s a Preview of June
- 05/06/19 - I’m Traveling!
- 05/01/19 - Subscriber Special: Great Price on Coaching
- 04/30/19 - What You Might Have Missed in April
- 04/25/19 - Here’s a Preview of May
- 04/24/19 - 12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship
- 04/23/19 - 169 Tech Tip #49 The 15-second Slideshow
- 04/19/19 - What to do when you lose a digital document
- 04/17/19 - 169 Tech Tip #12 Wrap Text Around a Picture
- 04/15/19 - 12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year
- 04/12/19 - Kindergartners need Technology too!
- 04/11/19 - 10 Myths about Teaching with Tech
- 04/09/19 - 2 Children’s Books You’ll Love
- 04/08/19 - 169 Tech Tip #7 Transparent Backgrounds
- 04/05/19 - Subscriber Special: April
- 04/04/19 - 5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year
- 04/03/19 - Cutting-Edge Tech To Improve Music Teaching
- 04/01/19 - What You Might Have Missed in March
- 03/29/19 - Here’s a Preview of April
- 03/27/19 - 18 Easter Sites For Students
- 03/26/19 - 9 Ways to Teach Tolerance
- 03/25/19 - Fake News or Fact? How do you tell?
- 03/22/19 - Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option
- 03/21/19 - April is Financial Literacy Month
- 03/18/19 - The Importance of SEL to Education Success
- 03/13/19 - Peer Feedback That Works
- 03/07/19 - What You Might Have Missed in February
- 03/06/19 - Subscriber Special: March
- 03/03/19 - Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age
- 03/01/19 - 33 Resources for Read Across America Day
- 02/28/19 - Here’s a Preview of March
- 02/25/19 - Kid-created Games That Teach
- 02/18/19 - Best-in-Category Winners for 2018
- 02/14/19 - Engineers Week — A Must for High School
- 02/13/19 - The Easy Way to Teach Internet Skills
- 02/12/19 - 15 President’s Day Activities
- 02/08/19 - 18 Valentine Sites For Students
- 02/07/19 - Why is HUE HD a Must for your Classroom?
- 02/06/19 - Questions Parents Ask
- 02/05/19 - Subscriber Special: February
- 02/04/19 - 10 Top Tips and Click-throughs in 2018
- 02/01/19 - My Favorite 5 Tech Tools for Teacher-Authors
- 01/30/19 - Here’s a Preview of February
- 01/29/19 - How to Celebrate World Read Aloud Day
- 01/28/19 - Best-in-Class Resources–Last Chance to Vote
- 01/27/19 - Math Games in the Classroom
- 01/22/19 - Join me Jan. 23rd for a Webinar
- 01/20/19 - Last Chance for this College-credit Class
- 01/17/19 - Top 10 Product Reviews of 2018
- 01/15/19 - Free Lesson Plans from Study.com
- 01/14/19 - 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans
- 01/10/19 - What You Might Have Missed in December
- 01/09/19 - 2019, I Resolve…
- 01/08/19 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2018
- 01/07/19 - Best-in-Class Resources–You Decide
- 01/06/19 - Starting This Week: MTI 562
2018 (203)
- 12/31/18 - Happy New Year!
- 12/30/18 - Here’s a Preview of January
- 12/22/18 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/20/18 - Have Santa Call Your Kids
- 12/13/18 - 3 Free SEL Activities from SafeSchools
- 12/11/18 - 13 Holiday Websites and 13 Projects
- 12/07/18 - Holiday Gifts for Teachers
- 12/05/18 - Subscriber Special: December
- 12/04/18 - Here’s a Preview of December
- 12/03/18 - What You Might Have Missed in November
- 11/30/18 - Websites and Apps to Support Hour of Code
- 11/29/18 - Hour of Code Lesson Plans by Grade
- 11/28/18 - 10 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code
- 11/27/18 - Hour of Code 101
- 11/26/18 - Metaverse–Education Game-changer
- 11/25/18 - Big Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!
- 11/16/18 - Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 11/02/18 - What You Might Have Missed in October
- 10/31/18 - Subscriber Special: November
- 10/29/18 - Here’s a Preview of November
- 10/26/18 - Halloween Projects, Websites, and Apps
- 10/24/18 - The Impact of VR on Student Education
- 10/22/18 - Is technology outpacing you?
- 10/19/18 - Differentiation Simplified with Study.com
- 10/17/18 - Resources for Digital Citizenship Week
- 10/16/18 - Great News: JotForm now offers a PDF Editor
- 10/15/18 - Subscriber Special: October
- 10/12/18 - 169 Tech Tip #114: Embed a Google Apps File
- 10/10/18 - Tech Ed Resources for Class–Common Core
- 10/09/18 - Engagement through Competition
- 10/08/18 - October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
- 10/05/18 - Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class
- 10/04/18 - What Qualities Make an Effective Teacher?
- 10/01/18 - What You Might Have Missed in September
- 09/28/18 - Here’s a Preview of October
- 09/26/18 - Tech Ed Resources for your Homeschool
- 09/25/18 - The 101 of Research for Kids
- 09/24/18 - Differentiating with Personalized Learning
- 09/21/18 - Tech Tips #171: Return your screen to normal
- 09/20/18 - Learning Strategies for your Classroom
- 09/19/18 - How to Teach Critical Thinking
- 09/18/18 - What to Consider When Assigning Homework
- 09/13/18 - New Ways to Gamify Learning
- 09/11/18 - We Remember… 9/11
- 09/10/18 - High School Technology Curriculum Coming!
- 09/06/18 - Great Back to School Activities
- 09/05/18 - What You Might Have Missed in August
- 09/04/18 - Subscriber Special: September
- 09/03/18 - Work Hard–it’s Labor Day!
- 08/30/18 - Teaching Digital Rights and Responsibilities
- 08/29/18 - The Important Morning Meeting
- 08/28/18 - It’s Time to Make Your Classroom Paper-free
- 08/27/18 - Here’s a Preview of September
- 08/21/18 - Great Back to School Classroom Activities
- 08/17/18 - Curriculum Companions Start September 10th!
- 08/15/18 - Plan a Memorable Back to School Night
- 08/08/18 - Make your LMS a social learning platform
- 08/06/18 - Last Chance for this College-credit Class
- 08/02/18 - Subscriber Special: August
- 07/31/18 - August Preview at Ask a Tech Teacher
- 07/27/18 - Kiddom Helps Administrators Manage Change
- 07/06/18 - I’m traveling!
- 07/05/18 - College Credit Classes in Blended Learning
- 07/04/18 - Happy Fourth of July!
- 07/03/18 - What You Might Have Missed in June
- 07/02/18 - Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?
- 06/29/18 - Here’s a Preview of July
- 06/25/18 - 169 Tech Tip #28: My Sound Doesn’t Work
- 06/20/18 - Top Ten Education Blogs
- 06/15/18 - The Case for PDFs in Class
- 06/11/18 - SL Curricula Online Resources are Moving!
- 06/08/18 - 5 Favorite Apps for Summer Learning
- 06/07/18 - What You Might Have Missed in May
- 06/05/18 - Look what’s new at Zapzapmath
- 06/01/18 - Subscriber Special: June
- 05/31/18 - How to Wrap up Tech for the School Year
- 05/28/18 - Memorial Day
- 05/25/18 - 14 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/22/18 - Positive focus; Positive behaviors
- 05/19/18 - Music for Armed Forces Day 2018
- 05/17/18 - Cute Video on Keyboarding
- 05/14/18 - Last Chance: Building Digital Citizens
- 05/11/18 - EdTech Magazine’s 50 Must-read K-12 IT Blogs
- 05/10/18 - Last Chance for this College-credit Class
- 05/09/18 - 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
- 05/07/18 - Subscriber Special: May
- 05/04/18 - 5 Best Websites for IELTS Exam Prep
- 04/30/18 - What You Might Have Missed in April
- 04/25/18 - Summer Tech Camp–Everything You Need
- 04/23/18 - College Credit Classes in Blended Learning
- 04/20/18 - 5 Great Websites to Make Spring Sparkle
- 04/16/18 - 20 Websites and Apps for Earth Day
- 04/13/18 - Subscriber Special: April
- 04/11/18 - Tech Tip for Teachers: Cover your Webcam
- 04/03/18 - What You Might Have Missed in March
- 04/02/18 - 25 Websites for Poetry Month
- 03/29/18 - 22 Easter Sites For Students
- 03/27/18 - 14 Education Advancements in a Year
- 03/20/18 - Tech That Won’t Survive 2018
- 03/16/18 - 169 Tech Tip #39: My Computer Won’t Turn Off
- 03/15/18 - How to Build Lifelong Learners
- 03/14/18 - Celebrate Pi With Your Students
- 03/13/18 - Update a Classic Bridge Building Lesson Plan
- 03/09/18 - Ways to use a movie for language teaching
- 03/07/18 - How to Prepare for the SAT
- 03/06/18 - What You Might Have Missed in February
- 03/05/18 - 17 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For the Classroom
- 03/01/18 - Subscriber Special: March
- 02/28/18 - 169 Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
- 02/26/18 - 39 Resources for Read Across America Day
- 02/21/18 - What is the VARK model of Student Learning?
- 02/20/18 - Citing Sources: The Infographic
- 02/19/18 - Innovative Ways to Encourage Writing
- 02/16/18 - Best-in-Category Winners for 2017
- 02/14/18 - Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs
- 02/09/18 - 20 Valentine Sites For Students
- 02/05/18 - Tech Tips #170: Cover your webcam!
- 02/02/18 - What You Might Have Missed in January
- 02/01/18 - Subscriber Special: February
- 01/31/18 - 169 Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? Try This
- 01/29/18 - Cikumas–an LMS that’s easy to understand
- 01/26/18 - 10 Options for Polls and Forms in Your Class
- 01/25/18 - Keyboarding 101
- 01/24/18 - What is a Growth Mindset?
- 01/22/18 - Mysimpleshow Keeps Getting Better
- 01/10/18 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2017
- 01/09/18 - What You Might Have Missed in December
- 01/08/18 - Top 10 Websites and Apps of 2017
- 01/03/18 - Best-in-Class Resources–You Decide
- 01/02/18 - Subscriber Special: January
2017 (212)
- 12/31/17 - Happy New Year!
- 12/22/17 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/21/17 - Holiday Gifts for Teachers
- 12/15/17 - New Year, New Mindset
- 12/11/17 - Feeling Thankful? Any Spare Holiday Spirit?
- 12/07/17 - What You Might Have Missed in November
- 12/06/17 - Have Santa Call Your Kids
- 12/04/17 - Empatico-Build Global Awareness in Students
- 12/01/17 - Subscriber Special: December
- 11/30/17 - 10 ways to use QR Codes for Hour of Code
- 11/27/17 - 10 Projects to Kickstart Hour of Code
- 11/19/17 - Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 11/16/17 - Websites for Hour of Code by Grade
- 11/14/17 - Hour of Code 101
- 11/13/17 - Coding and US Security
- 11/11/17 - Today we Honor Veterans
- 11/06/17 - 169 Tech Tip #59: Alt Keys
- 11/03/17 - Subscriber Special: November
- 11/02/17 - Hour of Code is Coming!
- 11/01/17 - What You Might Have Missed in October
- 10/31/17 - 12 Fresh Ways to Assess Student Learning
- 10/27/17 - How to Grow Global Digital Citizens
- 10/26/17 - 10 Tips About Using Images in Your Classroom
- 10/24/17 - How NOT to Assess Student Writing
- 10/20/17 - What is Standards-based Grading?
- 10/13/17 - How to Cope with Bullying
- 10/12/17 - Should You Unschool?
- 10/10/17 - Visible Learning and John Hattie
- 10/09/17 - 2 Free Webcasts from Turnitin
- 10/05/17 - What is WittyWe and Why You Want to Use it
- 10/04/17 - What You Might Have Missed in September
- 10/02/17 - Subscriber Special: October
- 09/27/17 - 169 Tech Tip #69: Instead of Emailing, Share
- 09/22/17 - A New Typing Website With a Twist
- 09/20/17 - 169 Tech Tips: Email from MS Office
- 09/18/17 - Building Digital Citizens–the Class
- 09/15/17 - Great list of Top Education Blogs
- 09/12/17 - 4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom
- 09/11/17 - We Remember… 9/11
- 09/06/17 - Curriculum Companions Start September 10th!
- 09/04/17 - Have a Happy, Productive Labor Day!
- 09/01/17 - What You Might Have Missed in August
- 08/30/17 - Subscriber Special: September
- 08/28/17 - Tech Ed Resources for Class–Common Core
- 08/16/17 - ORIGO Education Partners with Lakeshore
- 08/14/17 - Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class
- 08/11/17 - Is Whole Brain Teaching Right for Me?
- 08/09/17 - Moodle: The Unsung Hero of LMS Options
- 08/02/17 - What You Might Have Missed in July
- 07/31/17 - Subscriber Special: August
- 07/30/17 - Tech Ed Resources for your Homeschool Class
- 07/28/17 - What is Microsoft Sway?
- 07/26/17 - 10 Great Posts on How to Involve Parents
- 07/21/17 - 12 Projects for your STEAM program
- 07/19/17 - Is Orton-Gillingham Right For Your Students?
- 07/05/17 - Last Chance to Join Tech-infused Class
- 07/04/17 - Happy Fourth of July!
- 07/03/17 - What You Might Have Missed in June
- 06/30/17 - Subscriber Special: July
- 06/23/17 - Need Tech Next Year? Start Here
- 06/21/17 - Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?
- 06/16/17 - 3 Important Books for Kids
- 06/14/17 - Subscriber Special: June
- 06/09/17 - Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do
- 06/06/17 - What You Might Have Missed in May
- 06/05/17 - Differentiate with Tech–Starts June 12th!
- 06/01/17 - Looking for a Summer Volunteer Opportunity?
- 05/31/17 - UWorld’s Unique SAT Prep Site
- 05/30/17 - Zapzapmath–Gamify any Math Curriculum
- 05/28/17 - Last Chance for this College-credit Class
- 05/25/17 - 9 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences
- 05/19/17 - 15 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/15/17 - Can an AI Save the World?
- 05/08/17 - Kiddom Redesigns Student Experience
- 05/04/17 - Subscriber Special: May
- 05/02/17 - How Great is MS Office Mix
- 05/01/17 - What You Might Have Missed in April
- 04/28/17 - Teacher Appreciation Week is May 1st-5th
- 04/27/17 - 5 Resources to Gamify Student Writing
- 04/20/17 - Summer Tech Camp–Everything You Need
- 04/19/17 - 20 Great Websites and Apps for Earth Day
- 04/07/17 - 15 Easter Sites For Students
- 04/06/17 - 27 Websites for Poetry Month
- 04/05/17 - 8 Websites For Financial Literacy Month
- 04/04/17 - Subscriber Special: April
- 04/03/17 - What You Might Have Missed in March
- 03/24/17 - Beneylu School: A Clever LMS for your School
- 03/16/17 - 18 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
- 03/14/17 - Celebrate Pi Day in Your Class
- 03/10/17 - How to Teach STEM Every Day
- 03/08/17 - 169 Tech Tip #120–Why Use Airplane Mode
- 03/06/17 - How to Run a Parent Class
- 03/02/17 - What You Might Have Missed in February
- 03/01/17 - Subscriber Special: March
- 02/28/17 - 13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom
- 02/24/17 - Touch Typing Basics from KidzType
- 02/23/17 - Must-have Resources for Blended Learning
- 02/17/17 - What’s a Digipuzzle?
- 02/15/17 - 169 Tech Tip #116–How to Take Screenshots
- 02/14/17 - Edit and Share Videos Like a Rock Star
- 02/13/17 - An Introduction to Blended Learning
- 02/10/17 - 19 Valentine Sites For Students
- 02/08/17 - 169 Tech Tip #115–Three-click Rule
- 02/06/17 - Subscriber Special: February
- 02/03/17 - How to Use Google Apps
- 02/02/17 - Groundhog Day??
- 02/01/17 - How to Prepare for the SAT Essay
- 01/27/17 - Need to Learn Moodle? Start With VerveEd
- 01/27/17 - Why is PBL So Popular in Schools?
- 01/25/17 - 169 Tech Tip #74–What’s My IP Address
- 01/23/17 - How to Use Google Drawings
- 01/20/17 - How and Why to Use Podcasts in Your Classes
- 01/18/17 - Why and How Students Can Blog
- 01/16/17 - 10 Websites + 4 Apps that Make Geography Fun
- 01/13/17 - Subscriber Special: January
- 01/12/17 - 169 Tech Tip #15–Save Early Save Often
- 01/11/17 - Did You Miss These Posts Over the Holidays?
- 01/10/17 - How Google Docs Improves Writing
- 01/09/17 - New Year Brings Changes
- 01/07/17 - New from Kiddom
- 01/04/17 - Best-in-Category Awards for 2016
- 01/03/17 - Top 10 Websites and Apps of 2016
- 01/02/17 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2016
2016 (223)
- 12/16/16 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/14/16 - How to Teach With Videos
- 12/08/16 - Have Santa Call Your Kids
- 12/07/16 - Where did Christmas Come From?
- 12/05/16 - How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
- 12/02/16 - A Shout Out for My Donate Button
- 12/01/16 - Subscriber Special: December
- 11/28/16 - 15 Good Replacements for ScreenChomp
- 11/18/16 - Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 11/17/16 - 10 Projects to Kickstart Hour of Code
- 11/15/16 - Hour of Code–What is it?
- 11/14/16 - Hour of Code–Is it the right choice?
- 11/12/16 - World Typeathon Starts Monday–Join in!
- 11/11/16 - Today we Honor Veterans
- 11/08/16 - How to Teach Social Media Safety
- 11/07/16 - 11 Websites that Explain Elections
- 11/02/16 - 169 Tech Tips–Two Great Chromebook Shortkeys
- 11/01/16 - Subscriber Special: November
- 10/31/16 - How to Teach Mouse Skills to Pre-Keyboarders
- 10/27/16 - Classroom Experts on Tap–from Nepris
- 10/26/16 - 169 Tech Tips–8 Tips for Chromebooks
- 10/21/16 - 169 Tech Tips #160–14 Assessment Strategies
- 10/19/16 - The Importance of 3D Printing in Education
- 10/18/16 - 10 Ways to Use Twitter in Class
- 10/17/16 - Office Hours–Questions? Let’s Talk
- 10/14/16 - 11 Webtools That Make Images Talk
- 10/12/16 - 10 Articles on Using Tech to Teach Math
- 10/07/16 - Mindsnacks–Learning in Bite-sized Pieces
- 10/04/16 - 8 Websites that Explain Elections
- 10/03/16 - Subscriber Special: October
- 09/27/16 - 3 Technology Benefits for Homeschoolers
- 09/19/16 - Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts
- 09/17/16 - Haiku Deck Classroom Intro Price Ends Soon
- 09/16/16 - Tech Ed Resources for Your Classroom: PBL
- 09/11/16 - We Remember… 9/11
- 09/07/16 - 15 Back-to-School Posts
- 09/05/16 - Productive Labor Day!
- 09/03/16 - Subscriber Special: September
- 09/01/16 - 16 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills
- 08/26/16 - 17 Sites About Coin Counting
- 08/22/16 - Tech Ed Resources for your Homeschool Class
- 08/19/16 - 7 Great Websites to Teach Habitats
- 08/15/16 - The Tech-infused Classroom
- 08/12/16 - Curriculum Companions Start August 8th
- 08/09/16 - Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class
- 08/04/16 - Subscriber Special: August
- 08/02/16 - What You Might Have Missed in July
- 07/29/16 - Padlet: A Versatile Classroom Tool
- 07/27/16 - 4 Ways to Use Podcasts in the Classroom
- 07/26/16 - 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class
- 07/15/16 - Differentiate with Tech–Starts July 18th!
- 07/14/16 - What You Might Have Missed in June
- 07/08/16 - Last Chance to Join Tech-infused Class
- 07/05/16 - Subscriber Special: July
- 07/04/16 - Happy July 4th!
- 06/29/16 - 14 Ways to use Scribble Maps
- 06/23/16 - 3 Creative Tech Tools to Teach Writing
- 06/20/16 - 9 Google Apps Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 06/16/16 - 9 Best-in-Class Digital Storytelling Tools
- 06/15/16 - 10 Grammar Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 06/05/16 - What You Might Have Missed in May
- 05/30/16 - Happy Memorial Day!
- 05/23/16 - 15 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/18/16 - Twelve Slideshow Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 05/16/16 - 6 Summer School Tech Activities
- 05/12/16 - 7 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences
- 05/09/16 - 10 Spreadsheet Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 05/07/16 - Turnitin Launches Feedback Studio
- 05/04/16 - Subscriber Special: May
- 05/02/16 - Teacher Appreciation Week is May 2nd-May 6th
- 05/01/16 - What You Might Have Missed in April
- 04/29/16 - Zap Zap Math–Clever, Robust Math App for K-6
- 04/27/16 - Summer Keyboarding Class for Students
- 04/25/16 - 3 Free/Freemium Tools for Rubrics
- 04/18/16 - 5 Tech Tools to Inspire Reading
- 04/15/16 - 23 Great Websites and Apps for Earth Day
- 04/14/16 - Summer Tech Camp–Everything You Need
- 04/13/16 - What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying
- 04/11/16 - Go Paperless for Earth Day
- 04/09/16 - Free Virtual Conference from Turnitin
- 04/08/16 - My #GoDaddyNightmare
- 04/08/16 - 3 Comic Creators That Will Wow Your Students
- 04/07/16 - 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
- 04/06/16 - Ten MS Word Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 04/04/16 - Subscriber Special: April
- 04/01/16 - 31Websites for Poetry Month
- 03/31/16 - What You Might Have Missed This Month
- 03/28/16 - Summer Classes–from Ask a Tech Teacher
- 03/25/16 - 11 Easter Sites For Students
- 03/24/16 - Dear Otto: How do I teach vocabulary?
- 03/20/16 - Free Videoconferencing Through EZTalk
- 03/18/16 - 4 Ways Students Can Plan Their Writing
- 03/16/16 - 20 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
- 03/14/16 - Celebrate Pi With Your Students
- 03/04/16 - Subscriber Special: March
- 03/01/16 - Parent Questions About Edtech
- 02/29/16 - 52 Resources for Read Across America Day
- 02/26/16 - 3 Whiteboard Apps for Teachers and Students
- 02/23/16 - Summer PD–What are you looking for?
- 02/19/16 - 7 Innovative Writing Methods for Students
- 02/17/16 - 5 Tech Tools That Motivate Every Reader
- 02/12/16 - 8 Fresh Activities for Valentine’s Day
- 02/11/16 - 3 Fresh Art and Music Apps for the Classroom
- 02/10/16 - 19 Valentine Sites For Students
- 02/08/16 - Digital Literacy–What is it?
- 02/05/16 - 3 Favorite Classroom Apps
- 02/01/16 - Subscriber Special: February
- 01/28/16 - What’s Groundhog Day??
- 01/27/16 - Tech Tip #122: Chromebook Delete Key
- 01/26/16 - What are Good Tech Goals for Students?
- 01/25/16 - Keyboarding and the Scientific Method
- 01/20/16 - 3 Digital Tools To Keep Parents Up to Date
- 01/13/16 - 2 Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans
- 01/12/16 - Did You Miss These Posts Over the Holidays?
- 01/11/16 - 3 Apps to Build Solid Study Skills
- 01/10/16 - Subscriber Special: January
- 01/09/16 - How Do You Backup Your Data
- 01/08/16 - Top Ten Websites and Apps of 2015
- 01/06/16 - How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services
- 01/04/16 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2015
2015 (227)
- 12/19/15 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/18/15 - Have Santa Call Your Kids
- 12/17/15 - 10 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer
- 12/16/15 - Where’d Christmas Come From?
- 12/15/15 - 5 Great Holiday Websites
- 12/14/15 - A Shout Out for My Donate Button
- 12/11/15 - 20 Holiday Websites For Your Students
- 12/07/15 - Get Ready for the New Year!
- 12/04/15 - Hour of Code: Create Macros
- 12/03/15 - Hour of Code: Build Websites
- 12/02/15 - Subscriber Special: December
- 12/01/15 - 17+ Holiday Activities
- 11/30/15 - 4 Collaborative Projects Students Will Love
- 11/21/15 - Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 11/20/15 - Hour of Code: Scratch Jr.
- 11/19/15 - Hour of Code: Program Shortkeys
- 11/18/15 - Hour of Code: Minecraft Review
- 11/17/15 - Hour of Code–Program with Alt Codes
- 11/13/15 - 18 Thanksgiving Sites and Apps For Students
- 11/12/15 - A Holiday Card in Publisher
- 11/11/15 - Today we Honor Veterans
- 11/10/15 - Tech Tip #121: Chromebooks Caps Lock
- 11/09/15 - 58 Hour of Code Suggestions by Grade Level
- 11/07/15 - A Holiday Flier in Publisher
- 11/06/15 - Hour of Code–Why Not
- 11/05/15 - Hour of Code–the Series
- 11/04/15 - Tech Tip #120: Why Use Airplane Mode?
- 11/03/15 - 5 Best Typing Tutors for Everyone
- 11/02/15 - Subscriber Special: November
- 10/23/15 - 26 Halloween Sites for your Students
- 10/21/15 - Let Students Learn From Failure
- 10/19/15 - Dear Otto: Evaluating Faculty Websites
- 10/16/15 - The Fun of IFTTT
- 10/14/15 - 5 Best Practices for Digital Portfolios
- 10/07/15 - Tech Tip #116: How to Take Screenshots
- 10/06/15 - 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers
- 10/05/15 - 5 Image Apps for your Classroom
- 10/02/15 - 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics
- 10/01/15 - Subscriber Special: October
- 09/28/15 - 3 Apps to Keep Parents in The Loop
- 09/26/15 - Office Hours–Questions? Let’s Talk
- 09/23/15 - 5 After School Tech Club Activities
- 09/21/15 - Tech Tip #115: Three-click Rule
- 09/18/15 - 14 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills
- 09/17/15 - Top Fourteen Articles for Back to School
- 09/16/15 - 3 Lesson Plans to Teach Architecture in First GradeThree projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions. Plus, they'll understand how to think about a three-dimensional object and then spatially lay it out on paper. This is challenging, but fun for first graders.
- 09/15/15 - 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class
- 09/14/15 - Embed a File from Google Drive
- 09/11/15 - 9/11… We Remember
- 09/10/15 - 13 Changes in Tech-in-Ed in Just Three Years
- 09/08/15 - How to go Paperless in Your Classroom
- 09/07/15 - Happy Labor Day!
- 09/02/15 - How to Write a Novel with 280 Characters
- 09/01/15 - Subscriber Special: September
- 08/31/15 - Tech Tip #113: Back up Your Blog!
- 08/28/15 - 23 Great Research Websites for Kids
- 08/21/15 - Teach Financial Literacy with Banzai
- 08/19/15 - 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year
- 08/17/15 - Tech Tip #111: Quick Internet Fix
- 08/15/15 - Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Common Core
- 08/11/15 - Curriculum Companions Start August 17th
- 08/10/15 - Tech Tip #110: Can’t Get Sound to Work?
- 08/08/15 - Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class
- 08/07/15 - 6 Sites + 12 + 6 About Coin Counting
- 08/03/15 - Tech Tip #109: Five Second Back-up
- 07/31/15 - Subscriber Special: August
- 07/30/15 - What a Typical Tech Lesson Looks Like
- 07/27/15 - 17 Take-aways from Summer PD
- 07/24/15 - 15 Websites on Natural Disasters
- 07/22/15 - 7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork
- 07/18/15 - Tech Ed Resources–Classes
- 07/17/15 - 19 K-8 Space Science Websites
- 07/14/15 - What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 07/04/15 - Happy July 4th!
- 07/01/15 - Subscriber Special: July
- 06/30/15 - How to Build Your PLN
- 06/29/15 - Otus–Exciting Free LMS You Want to Meet
- 06/26/15 - 3 Websites to Gamify Your Math Class
- 06/24/15 - Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind
- 06/22/15 - Review: Flipwrite iPad Keyboard
- 06/17/15 - 3 Great Special Needs Digital Tools
- 06/15/15 - Last Chance to Join Summer PD
- 06/12/15 - Top Ten Reasons to sign up for Summer PD
- 06/09/15 - Computer Shortkeys That Streamline Your Day
- 06/06/15 - Differentiated Teacher-Starts June 8th
- 06/05/15 - 25 Websites on Civics
- 06/04/15 - The Maker Movement In Education
- 06/03/15 - 5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing
- 06/02/15 - 4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page
- 05/29/15 - 24 Economics Websites for Middle School
- 05/27/15 - #81: Problem Solving Board
- 05/25/15 - Happy Memorial Day
- 05/24/15 - Great List of EdTech Tools
- 05/22/15 - 15 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/21/15 - #101: Don’t Print Homework–Email it!
- 05/20/15 - 5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences
- 05/18/15 - How to Compare and Contrast Authentically
- 05/15/15 - 50 Economics Websites
- 05/14/15 - 3 Digital Tools to Encourage Close Reading
- 05/11/15 - 3 Apps to Prioritize Your Day
- 05/10/15 - Happy Mother’s Day!
- 05/08/15 - 31 Sites on American History
- 05/06/15 - #79: Excel Turns Data Into Information
- 05/04/15 - Subscriber Special: May
- 05/01/15 - Summer PD–Questions We’ve Gotten
- 04/27/15 - Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? Try This
- 04/23/15 - Summer Keyboarding Class for Students
- 04/22/15 - #98: Email Basx
- 04/20/15 - Tech Tip #101: The Laptop Internet ButtonQ: My internet stopped working on my laptop. Everyone else's in the house works, but mine won't connect. What do I do? A: First: Make sure the laptop button that allows connection to the internet is on. More often than not, that's the problem for teachers at my school. If it's not that, it gets much more complicated. I'll cross my fingers.
- 04/17/15 - 21 Great Websites and Apps for Earth Day
- 04/15/15 - #74: Mastering Excel (for Beginners)
- 04/13/15 - 11 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
- 04/11/15 - Summer Keyboarding Class for Students
- 04/10/15 - 11 Sites to Teach You How To…
- 04/08/15 - Summer Tech Camp–Everything You Need
- 04/07/15 - Google Hangouts–Are You Using Them Yet?
- 04/06/15 - 3 Apps That Encourage Students to Read
- 04/03/15 - 21 Websites for Poetry Month
- 04/02/15 - Resource Review: Mentoring Minds
- 04/01/15 - Summer PD–from Ask a Tech Teacher
- 03/31/15 - How to Create a Curriculum Map
- 03/30/15 - Chromebooks in the Classrooms–Friend or Foe?
- 03/27/15 - Website Review: Grammarly
- 03/26/15 - 11 Easter Sites For Your Students
- 03/25/15 - #73: How to Graph in Excel
- 03/24/15 - What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?
- 03/23/15 - 28 Unique Ideas for Publishing Student Work
- 03/20/15 - 7 Websites That Ring in Spring
- 03/18/15 - #55: Keyboarding in the Classroom
- 03/16/15 - 12 Spring Cleaning Steps for Your Computer
- 03/13/15 - 16 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
- 03/12/15 - 5 Favorite Classroom Apps
- 03/11/15 - Celebrate Pi Day
- 03/10/15 - Keyboarding with ASCII Art
- 03/09/15 - 6 Stand-alone Lesson Plans for Subs
- 03/08/15 - What’s With Daylight Savings?
- 03/06/15 - 20 Sites for Authentic Assessments
- 03/05/15 - TurboScan–Great Class Management Tool
- 03/04/15 - What to do when your Computers Don’t Work
- 03/03/15 - #54: Sponge Activities in History
- 03/02/15 - Read Across America Day
- 02/27/15 - 17 Websites to Manage Your Classroom
- 02/26/15 - 22 Ways to Add Rigor to Your Classroom
- 02/24/15 - Summer PD–What are you looking for?
- 02/23/15 - 6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun
- 02/20/15 - 32 Math Apps for a Rigor-infused Classroom
- 02/18/15 - 7 Authentic Assessment Tools
- 02/17/15 - Best-Kept Secrets for Teaching Tech to Kids
- 02/16/15 - Website Review: ProdigyGame.com
- 02/13/15 - 14 Websites for 4th Grade Culture
- 02/12/15 - Happy President’s Day!
- 02/06/15 - 19 Valentine Sites For Your Students
- 02/05/15 - #51: History Trifold in Publisher–Grades 4-7
- 02/04/15 - Modernizing the School Counselor
- 02/01/15 - What’s Groundhog Day??
- 01/29/15 - #49: California Missions Project
- 01/28/15 - 3 Desk Organizers You Need
- 01/27/15 - Lesson Plans: Where Did I Come From?
- 01/26/15 - What to do When Computers Are Down
- 01/23/15 - 3 Apps to Combat Grammar Faux Pas
- 01/19/15 - Playful Learning–What a Great Idea
- 01/16/15 - Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans
- 01/14/15 - Did You Miss These Posts Over the Holidays?
- 01/13/15 - 3 Classroom Management Apps You’ll Love
- 01/12/15 - 2015, I Resolve…
- 01/09/15 - Top Ten Websites of 2014
- 01/08/15 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2014
- 01/07/15 - 10 Top Click-throughs from 2014
- 01/06/15 - 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2014
- 01/05/15 - Subscriber Special: January
2014 (240)
- 12/19/14 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/12/14 - 21 Holiday Websites For Your Students
- 12/11/14 - Get Ready for the New Year!
- 12/10/14 - Where’d Christmas Come From
- 12/08/14 - Programming Shortkeys for any Windows Tool
- 12/05/14 - Student Workbooks Now Available!
- 12/04/14 - Hour of Code: Minecraft
- 12/03/14 - Hour of Code: Create a Macro
- 12/02/14 - 11 FREE Holiday Resources
- 12/01/14 - Hour of Code: Primo–Programming
- 11/21/14 - Happy Thanksgiving Week
- 11/20/14 - Hour of Code Activity: Build a Website
- 11/19/14 - Hour of Code: 3DTin
- 11/17/14 - Hour of Code–the Series
- 11/16/14 - Edublog Nominee
- 11/14/14 - 22 Reading Websites
- 11/11/14 - Today we Honor Veterans
- 11/10/14 - How Do You Grade Tech? I Have 14 Ideas
- 11/07/14 - 16 Thanksgiving Sites For Your Students
- 11/06/14 - A Holiday Flier in Publisher
- 11/04/14 - Book Review: 16 Holiday Projects
- 11/03/14 - A Holiday Card in Publisher
- 10/31/14 - 3 education tools you don’t want to miss
- 10/29/14 - Need a Halloween Costume? I have that
- 10/27/14 - Tech Tip #99: Top Ten Internet Hints
- 10/24/14 - 47 Visual Learning Options for your PBL
- 10/23/14 - Halloween Projects for K-5
- 10/21/14 - Book Review: Savvy Cyberkids at Home
- 10/20/14 - How to Create a Tagxedo
- 10/17/14 - 19 Halloween Sites for your Students
- 10/14/14 - A Day in the Life of a Tech Teacher
- 10/13/14 - Columbus Day
- 10/10/14 - 9 Field Trips Free to Students
- 10/08/14 - How to Teach a Tech Lesson–the Movie
- 10/07/14 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part V
- 10/06/14 - New School Year? New Tech? I Got You Covered
- 10/04/14 - Help! We need 1 minute of your time
- 10/03/14 - 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year
- 10/01/14 - Shout Out to Tech Curriculum Folks–Freebie!
- 09/30/14 - 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students
- 09/25/14 - Mind-n-Mettle–Great Assessment Tool
- 09/24/14 - Keyboarding and the Homeschooler
- 09/23/14 - How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests
- 09/19/14 - 3rd Grade Websites on Economics
- 09/16/14 - How to Organize Your Classroom–the Movie
- 09/11/14 - 9/11… We Remember
- 09/09/14 - How to set up your tech classroom
- 09/08/14 - Tech Tip #96: Open a Program Maximized
- 09/05/14 - 12 Websites on Biomes
- 09/04/14 - Do Your Children Need Computers for School?
- 09/02/14 - Tech Tip #95: Quickly Find Programs You Use
- 09/01/14 - Happy Labor Day!
- 08/29/14 - Subscribe to my Blog–Get Gifts Every Month
- 08/28/14 - What’s Tomorrow’s Student Look Like
- 08/27/14 - Tech Tip #94: Shortkey for Find
- 08/26/14 - Need to Create Lesson Plans? Try Frolyc
- 08/25/14 - Dear Otto: I need year-long assessments
- 08/22/14 - Great (Free) Lesson Plans
- 08/20/14 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part IV
- 08/15/14 - 12 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills
- 08/12/14 - Book Review: Common Core Literacy for ELA
- 08/11/14 - Tech Tip #92: Roll Back Windows Update
- 08/08/14 - 50 Special Needs Tools
- 08/04/14 - Subscribers: Here’s Your August Special
- 07/29/14 - “Our children love being tested”–Here’s Why
- 07/24/14 - 22 Tips on How to Work Remotely
- 07/23/14 - High Tech In The Classroom
- 07/15/14 - 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core
- 07/11/14 - Weekend Websites: 25 Keyboarding Websites
- 07/09/14 - Twitter in the Classroom
- 07/08/14 - How to Teach Students to Solve Problems
- 07/04/14 - Happy July 4th!
- 07/03/14 - Subscribers: Your July Special is Available
- 07/02/14 - Summer PD–Join us!
- 06/20/14 - 38 Art Websites for K-8
- 06/19/14 - ISTE 2014
- 06/18/14 - Chinese Class vs. American Class
- 06/17/14 - Top Ten Reasons for signing up for Summer PD
- 06/16/14 - Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans
- 06/13/14 - Website Review: Knowmia
- 06/12/14 - 12 Take-aways from WordCamp Orange County
- 06/11/14 - Update Your Online Presence
- 06/09/14 - Dear Otto: Should I fix ‘Thumb clicking’?
- 06/06/14 - 252 Favorite IPad Apps for your Classroom
- 06/05/14 - What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 06/04/14 - 5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences
- 06/02/14 - Tech Tip #87: Image Your Computer
- 05/29/14 - WordCamp Orange County 2014
- 05/26/14 - Happy Memorial Day
- 05/23/14 - 17 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/22/14 - 15 Webtools in 15 Minutes
- 05/20/14 - Summer PD–Questions I’ve Gotten
- 05/19/14 - Tech Tip #86: Back up Your Computer
- 05/16/14 - Use Google Safe SearchI teach K-5 technology. A constant problem is finding websites that communicate in language elementary school students can understand. I've tried the kid browser, but they are sometimes too limited in their content. Google's advanced search, rolled out in December 2010, is a better solution.
- 05/15/14 - Book Review: Endangered Minds
- 05/14/14 - 5 Apps to Help You Reach Your Zen
- 05/13/14 - Subscribers: May Special–Summer Tech PD
- 05/10/14 - Educational Advice From Finland
- 05/09/14 - Happy Mother’s Day!
- 05/07/14 - Summer Keyboarding Class for Students
- 05/06/14 - Summer PD–from Ask a Tech Teacher
- 05/01/14 - 10 Factors to Inform Tech Assessment
- 04/30/14 - 5 Ways to Cure Technophobia in the Classroom
- 04/29/14 - Best Online Activities for Kids
- 04/25/14 - 9 Webtools in 9 Minutes
- 04/18/14 - 12 Great Websites for Earth Day
- 04/15/14 - Why Digital Textbooks?
- 04/12/14 - Bammy Award in Ed
- 04/11/14 - Websites that Teach Your Kids About Money
- 04/10/14 - 3 Apps that Boost Creativity
- 04/08/14 - Apps and IPads as Education Tools
- 04/04/14 - 16 Poetry Websites for Poetry Month
- 04/03/14 - Common Core Writing–Digital Quick Writes
- 04/02/14 - Book Review: Google Apps Meets Common Core
- 03/31/14 - Tech Tip #80: My Internet Stopped Working
- 03/28/14 - 149 Websites for K-8 Geography/Geology
- 03/26/14 - 4 Subjects Every Teacher Must Teach and How
- 03/25/14 - 12 Spring Cleaning Steps for Your Computer
- 03/21/14 - 6 Websites That Ring in Spring
- 03/20/14 - Summer PD–Help Us Plan it
- 03/17/14 - Dear Otto: How do I use avatars?
- 03/14/14 - Celebrate Pi Day
- 03/13/14 - Book Review: Photoshop Elements 12
- 03/12/14 - 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am
- 03/10/14 - Dear Otto: How do you teach file types?
- 03/07/14 - 17 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
- 03/06/14 - 6 Steps to a Successful Tablet Roll-out
- 03/04/14 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 03/03/14 - I Can Solve That Problem…
- 02/28/14 - Read Across America Day
- 02/27/14 - Big Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!
- 02/25/14 - 4 myths to bust about game-based learning
- 02/24/14 - Tech Tip #75: What’s My IP Address
- 02/21/14 - A Website That Cleans Your Computer for You
- 02/19/14 - Tech Tip #74: The Gadgets Menu Bar
- 02/17/14 - Happy President’s Day!
- 02/14/14 - Weekend Websites: Mouse Skills
- 02/12/14 - Definition of ‘Teacher’
- 02/08/14 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 02/07/14 - 16 Valentine Sites For Your Students
- 02/06/14 - 8 Education Tools That Are Going Away
- 02/05/14 - BYOD–the lowdown in one article
- 01/31/14 - 21 Websites with Data on Tech Ed
- 01/30/14 - 7 Education Trends You Don’t Want to Miss
- 01/25/14 - 1.69 Million Hits–Wow
- 01/24/14 - 21 Google Apps for Education Resources
- 01/23/14 - 11 Things I Love About Common Core
- 01/22/14 - Top 5 Dear Otto Columns in 2013
- 01/21/14 - 13 Tips To Speed Up Your Computer
- 01/18/14 - Who Am I? Sandy Wants to Know
- 01/14/14 - New to technology? Follow my classes
- 01/10/14 - Weekend Website: ReclaiMe
- 01/09/14 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2013
- 01/08/14 - Lesson Plans for Martin Luther King Day
- 01/07/14 - Top Ten Websites of 2013
- 01/07/14 - 10 Top Click-throughs from 2013
- 01/06/14 - 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2013
- 01/05/14 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 01/04/14 - Ask a Tech Teacher’s New Home
2013 (263)
- 12/23/13 - 14 FREE Holiday Projects
- 12/20/13 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/19/13 - Where’d Christmas Come From:
- 12/17/13 - End-of-year Tech Tips: Image Your Computer
- 12/16/13 - End-of-Year Tech Tips: Back Up Your Computer
- 12/13/13 - Weekend Website: Hunger Games
- 12/12/13 - The Tablet’s ‘Killer App’
- 12/10/13 - Tech Tip: Back up Your Blog for the Holiday!
- 12/09/13 - How Has the Internet Changed Education
- 12/07/13 - App Building–for Teachers!
- 12/06/13 - Hue HD–Webcam, Doc camera, Versatile Friend
- 12/05/13 - 18 Holiday Websites For Your Students
- 12/03/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 11/23/13 - Twitter and the Teacher
- 11/22/13 - Weekend Website 40: NORAD Santa
- 11/21/13 - Happy Thanksgiving Week
- 11/19/13 - Why We Differentiate
- 11/16/13 - How is Technology Useful in Skill Building?
- 11/15/13 - 20 Programming Websites for K-8
- 11/11/13 - Today we Honor Veterans
- 11/10/13 - Freebies #19: My Bookcover in KidPixDraw a cover for a classroom project or unit of inquiry or use one of Kidpix’s templates. Have students nicely mix text and pictures for an attractive design. Introduce KidPix fonts, font sizes, font colors to grade 1
- 11/08/13 - 18 Thanksgiving Sites For Your Students
- 11/06/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 11/04/13 - How Do You Grade Tech? I Have 14 Ideas
- 11/03/13 - What’s a Tech Teacher Do All Day?
- 11/01/13 - What is the Flipped Classroom
- 10/30/13 - How to be a Tech Teacher
- 10/28/13 - Tech Tip #69:Change Size of Desktop Icons
- 10/25/13 - 28 Halloween Sites for your Students
- 10/23/13 - Dear Otto: What about blogging?
- 10/22/13 - Common Core Breathes Life into Keyboarding
- 10/21/13 - Tech Tip #68: Check History in Your Browser
- 10/18/13 - Weekend Website #135: Samorost
- 10/17/13 - 12 Tips for Teaching Middle School Tech
- 10/15/13 - Tech Tip #67: How to Add Accents and more
- 10/14/13 - Columbus Day
- 10/11/13 - 9 Kids News Websites
- 10/09/13 - Is Handwriting So Last Generation–Redux
- 10/03/13 - Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft
- 10/02/13 - 5 Sure-fire Ways to Teach Vocabulary
- 10/01/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 09/30/13 - 12 Tips on Handling Hard-to-teach Classes
- 09/30/13 - Tech Tip #66: Zoom In/Out of Websites
- 09/25/13 - 5 FREE Web Tools for a New School Year
- 09/24/13 - Dear Otto: What’s a typical lesson
- 09/23/13 - Tech Tips #114: Embed Google Docs
- 09/20/13 - Weekend Websites: 22 Culture Websites
- 09/19/13 - How to Teach Students: Teach Their Parents
- 09/14/13 - Book Review: Sixth Grade Technology Textbook
- 09/13/13 - Weekend Website #117: Co-Teaching Wikis
- 09/12/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 09/11/13 - 9/11… We Remember
- 09/10/13 - Tech Tip #65: Google Street View
- 09/07/13 - Book Review: Fifth Grade Technology Textbook
- 09/05/13 - Join me at CSG
- 09/04/13 - How to set up your tech classroom
- 09/03/13 - Back-to-School (Free) Training on Tech Tools
- 09/02/13 - Happy Labor Day!
- 08/30/13 - 10 Labor Day Websites
- 08/27/13 - 6 Ways to Say Bye Bye Binders
- 08/26/13 - Tech Tip #64: Reset Default Font
- 08/24/13 - Book Review: Third Grade Technology Textbook
- 08/23/13 - Weekend Websites: 52 Economics Websites
- 08/22/13 - New Tech Teacher? I Understand You
- 08/20/13 - 5 Digital Tools Parents Will Love
- 08/15/13 - 5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall
- 08/10/13 - Book Review: 1st Grade Technology–32 Lessons
- 08/03/13 - It’s Here–8th Grade Technology Curriculum!
- 08/02/13 - 5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences
- 08/01/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 07/31/13 - Subscribe to my Blog–Get Gifts Every Month
- 07/29/13 - Book Review: Common Core Lesson Plans
- 07/15/13 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part III
- 07/13/13 - Book Review: 98 Tech Tips
- 07/11/13 - Literacy In K-5 Classrooms
- 07/10/13 - 9 Reasons For Online Training and 5 Against
- 07/09/13 - Tech Tip #56: Force a New Page
- 07/05/13 - Weekend Websites: 50 websites about animals
- 07/04/13 - Happy July 4th!
- 07/01/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 06/28/13 - 58 Math Websites for K-8
- 06/27/13 - You’re a Geek Now
- 06/26/13 - Sell Your Books Online
- 06/25/13 - Tech Tip #55: Find a Lost Shortcut
- 06/24/13 - Do you like Online Training?
- 06/24/13 - #48: Sponge Activities for Geography
- 06/21/13 - Weekend Website #133: Embeddable Puzzles
- 06/19/13 - Book Review: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
- 06/16/13 - Happy Father’s Day!
- 06/15/13 - 24 Keyboarding Websites for Summer
- 06/14/13 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part III
- 06/13/13 - It’s Here–7th Grade Technology Curriculum!
- 06/12/13 - 10 Steps to Tech Saviness This Summer
- 06/10/13 - Summer Tech Tips–What Do You Need?
- 06/08/13 - In My Opinion
- 06/07/13 - Weekend Website #130: EngageNY
- 06/06/13 - Can’t Attend ISTE 2013? Try this
- 06/05/13 - 5 Digital Goals for You This Summer
- 06/03/13 - ISTE 2013
- 05/31/13 - Weekend Website #129: 3DTin
- 05/30/13 - 7 Digital Ways to End the School Year
- 05/29/13 - 10 Factors to Consider in Tech Report Cards
- 05/28/13 - Tech Tip #113: Back up Your Blog!
- 05/27/13 - Happy Memorial Day
- 05/27/13 - 17 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/23/13 - 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
- 05/21/13 - Tech Tip #50: The Easiest Way to Outline
- 05/17/13 - 16 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- 05/15/13 - 11 Ways to Make an Inquiry based Classroom
- 05/14/13 - Tech Tip #49: The Fifteen Second Slideshow
- 05/10/13 - Weekend Website #127: Brown Bear Typing
- 05/09/13 - You Know You’re a Geek When…
- 05/08/13 - 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher
- 05/07/13 - Tech Tip #48: Quickly Switch Between Windows
- 05/03/13 - 12 Great Simulations to Gamify Your Class
- 05/02/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 05/01/13 - CSTA Conference Coming Up!
- 04/30/13 - Tech Tip #47: Tool Tips
- 04/26/13 - Weekend Website #126: BrainPop Game Up
- 04/25/13 - What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 04/24/13 - Why Keyboarding Should NOT be Dead
- 04/19/13 - Weekend Website #125: Starfall Math
- 04/18/13 - 12 Great Websites for Earth Day
- 04/17/13 - Platform for Good Hosts Me
- 04/15/13 - Dear Otto: What’s a good Website program?
- 04/12/13 - 42 Great Story Websites You’ll Love
- 04/11/13 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part II
- 04/09/13 - Tech Tip #45: Your Screen Upside Down?
- 04/08/13 - FREE Tech Teacher Training–But Join Quickly
- 04/05/13 - Weekend Website 123: Google Gravity
- 04/04/13 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part II
- 04/03/13 - How to Make a Student-centered Video
- 04/02/13 - Tech Tip #44: Clean Your Computer Weekly
- 03/29/13 - Weekend Website #122: Dance Pony Dance
- 03/27/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 03/26/13 - Tech Tip #43: Back Up Often
- 03/25/13 - Dear Otto: How Do I Teach Citations?
- 03/22/13 - 10 Easter Sites For Your Students
- 03/20/13 - 14 Factors to Consider for Tech Report Cards
- 03/19/13 - Tech Tip #42: How to (Re)Set Your Homepage
- 03/15/13 - 7 Websites That Ring in Spring
- 03/14/13 - Great Websites–Stories
- 03/13/13 - Ramp up Your iPad Use
- 03/09/13 - Just for Fun
- 03/08/13 - 24 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
- 03/07/13 - Definition of ‘Teacher’
- 03/06/13 - How to Teach Keyboarding? Ask Bernadette
- 03/05/13 - Tech Tip #111: Quick Internet Fix
- 03/01/13 - 5 Favorite Websites for K-5
- 02/28/13 - Read Across America Day
- 02/27/13 - How to Pick iPad Apps for your Classroom
- 02/26/13 - Tech Tip #110: Sound Doesn’t Work?
- 02/25/13 - Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part I
- 02/22/13 - Weekend Website #121: Class Badges
- 02/20/13 - 7 Common Core Ways to Assess Knowledge
- 02/19/13 - Tech Tip #109: Five Second Back-up
- 02/18/13 - One Million Hits–Wow
- 02/14/13 - What are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
- 02/12/13 - Tech Tip #40: Where Did Windows Explorer Go?
- 02/11/13 - New Literacies Enable Smarter Researching
- 02/08/13 - 17 Valentine Sites For Your Students
- 02/05/13 - Tech Tip #39: My Computer Won’t Turn Off
- 02/04/13 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 02/01/13 - Weekend Website #118: Scale of the Universe
- 01/31/13 - 5 Favorite iPad Apps
- 01/25/13 - Great Websites Updated!
- 01/24/13 - Technology in Schools: A Brief History
- 01/22/13 - Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar Disappeared
- 01/21/13 - Take Tech into the Classroom
- 01/19/13 - 5 Tips to Keeping Your New Years Resolutions
- 01/18/13 - New Year Resolutions
- 01/16/13 - 2013, I Resolve…
- 01/15/13 - 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2012
- 01/14/13 - Lesson Plans for Martin Luther King Day
- 01/11/13 - Top Ten Websites of 2012
- 01/09/13 - Honors for Ask a Tech Teacher
- 01/07/13 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2012
2012 (258)
- 12/21/12 - Happy Holiday!
- 12/17/12 - 5 Fabulous Last-minute Gifts
- 12/14/12 - 5 Great Websites to Teach Letters
- 12/13/12 - Check Out My Post at TeachHUB
- 12/12/12 - Tech Tip #35: My Program Closed Down
- 12/12/12 - How to Thrive as a Digital Citizen
- 12/10/12 - 10 Steps to Become a Better Geek
- 12/07/12 - 14 Holiday Websites For Your Students
- 12/06/12 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 12/05/12 - 7 Technology Tools Every Educator Should Use
- 12/04/12 - Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze
- 12/03/12 - Perfect Gift for the Teacher in Your Life
- 11/30/12 - Weekend Website 40: NORAD Santa
- 11/29/12 - Dear Otto: PowerPoint or Publisher?
- 11/28/12 - How to Thrive as a Digital Citizen
- 11/27/12 - Tech Tip #33: My Desktop Icons are Messed Up
- 11/26/12 - 10 Steps to Become a Better Geek
- 11/16/12 - 18 Thanksgiving Sites For Your Students
- 11/15/12 - Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 11/12/12 - Check Out My Post at TeachHUB
- 11/08/12 - Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 11/06/12 - Tech Tip #31: What’s Today’s Date
- 11/05/12 - 15 Ways to Get Your Geek On
- 11/02/12 - Weekend Website #115: Minecraft
- 10/25/12 - What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 10/23/12 - Top Tech Tips of All Time
- 10/22/12 - Dear Otto: What Keyboard Curriculum is Best?
- 10/19/12 - Weekend Website #113: Digital Passport
- 10/18/12 - Book Review: 16 Holiday Projects
- 10/16/12 - Tech Tip #108: Three-click Rule
- 10/10/12 - A Virtual Tour of America–Via Biplane
- 10/03/12 - Is Keyboarding Dead?
- 09/28/12 - Weekend Website #108: Wowzers
- 09/27/12 - Do You Make These 9 Mistakes
- 09/20/12 - Will Texting Destroy Writing Skills?
- 09/19/12 - How to Use iPads in Your Classroom
- 09/14/12 - 16 Great Virtual Field Trips
- 09/11/12 - Our Children Remember…
- 09/10/12 - When is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?
- 09/08/12 - Check out my Article over at Cisco
- 09/07/12 - 5 Great FREE Programs for Students
- 09/06/12 - Book Review: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
- 09/05/12 - New to technology? Follow my classes
- 09/03/12 - Happy Labor Day
- 08/31/12 - 7 Great Labor Day Websites
- 08/30/12 - Book Review: 98 Tech Tips
- 08/29/12 - Let me Plan Your Tech Curriculum–for Free
- 08/28/12 - Tech Tip #30: Menu Command is Greyed Out
- 08/24/12 - Weekend Website #106: ZimmerTwins
- 08/23/12 - Do Your Children Need Computers for School?
- 08/22/12 - Now Available: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
- 08/19/12 - Book Review: Common Core SS K-5 Lesson Plans
- 08/17/12 - Weekend Website #105: Voki
- 08/16/12 - New to technology? Follow my classes
- 08/14/12 - Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
- 08/13/12 - 50 Ways to Tell a Story (and Each is Unique)
- 08/10/12 - Weekend Website #112: The Babakus
- 08/08/12 - Check out my Article over at Cisco
- 08/03/12 - Weekend Website #104: Animoto
- 07/31/12 - Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar Disappeared
- 07/30/12 - Dear Otto: What About Carmen San Diego?
- 07/27/12 - Weekend Website #103: Screenbird
- 07/26/12 - Book Review: My Evernote
- 07/25/12 - Why do Educators Use Pinterest?
- 07/24/12 - Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
- 07/22/12 - Great Resources for Educators–Check it out
- 07/20/12 - Website Review: Chegg
- 07/18/12 - 19 Free Posters For Your Tech Lab
- 07/17/12 - Tech Tip #25: My Keyboard Doesn’t Work
- 07/16/12 - Dear Otto: What Online Images are Free?
- 07/14/12 - Book Review: Sixth Grade Technology Textbook
- 07/12/12 - Have You Noticed Our New “Great Websites?”
- 07/09/12 - Dear Otto: How Can I Highlight a Document
- 07/07/12 - Book Review: Fifth Grade Technology Textbook
- 07/04/12 - Happy July 4th!
- 07/03/12 - Tech Tip #23: I Deleted a File By Accident
- 07/02/12 - Dear Otto: What’s a Good Comic Creator
- 06/28/12 - 9 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
- 06/23/12 - Book Review: Third Grade Technology Textbook
- 06/15/12 - Weekend Website #100: CybraryMan Math
- 06/14/12 - How to Teach Internet Safety in K-6
- 06/12/12 - Tech Tip #20: How to Add an MS Word Link
- 06/08/12 - Weekend Websites #99: How to Research
- 06/04/12 - Check out my Article over at Cisco
- 05/31/12 - Dear Otto: Where Can I Find Kid-safe Images?
- 05/30/12 - The Truth About Teaching in America
- 05/29/12 - Tech Tip #18: 10 Best MS Word Tips
- 05/28/12 - Happy Memorial Day
- 05/25/12 - Weekend Website #98: Smithsonian WildThis website is devoted to sharing images of animals in their wild habitats. The pictures--201,000 and counting to date--have been captured by motion-triggered 'camera traps'--cameras that are activated by an animals movement or body heat and then take pictures of them in their most natural of states--when they believe they are alone. Pictures include dozens of varieties of animals in the following categories:
- 05/22/12 - Tech Tip #17: What’s Today’s Date?
- 05/21/12 - Book Review: First Grade Technology Textbook
- 05/18/12 - Weekend Website #98: TED-Ed
- 05/16/12 - Connect Classrooms With Skype–How it’s Done
- 05/15/12 - Tech Tip #16: Quickly Email a Doc
- 05/11/12 - Weekend Website #97: Timed Test Arcade
- 05/09/12 - Ask a Tech Teacher is Interviewed
- 05/08/12 - Tech Tip #101: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
- 05/04/12 - Weekend Website #96: Embedit.in
- 05/03/12 - 16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest
- 05/02/12 - What About Teacher Tech Training–Part II
- 05/01/12 - Tech Tip #15: Save Early Save Often–Always
- 04/29/12 - Tech Tip #11: How to Show the Entire Drop Down Menu (Office 2003)Q: Every time I click on a drop down menu in MS Office (Word, Publisher, Excel, PowerPoint), it shows only some of the choices. How can I see all of them?
- 04/27/12 - Weekend Website #95: AIRR Math
- 04/26/12 - Changing Education Paradigms
- 04/25/12 - 10 Things My Blog Taught Me
- 04/23/12 - Apps for Education
- 04/19/12 - Communicate the Web 2.0 Way
- 04/18/12 - Ed-Tech Readers’ Choice Awards–Final Call
- 04/17/12 - Tech Tip #13: Powerful Right Mouse Click
- 04/17/12 - Tech Tip #13: Powerful Right Mouse ClickQ: I need a faster way to access menus. Is there one?
- 04/16/12 - Dear Otto: What About Teacher Tech Training?
- 04/16/12 - Dear Otto: What About Teacher Tech Training?
- 04/12/12 - How Do I Decide What to Write About?
- 04/11/12 - 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8
- 04/10/12 - Tech Tip #12: Wrap Text Around an Image
- 04/07/12 - Google Summer of Code–They’re Hiring
- 04/04/12 - What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- 03/26/12 - Monday Freebies #39: Google Earth BoardStudents select from a list of Wonders of the World (or locations put together in conjunction with the classroom teacher). They do brief research on it, locate it using Google Earth and make a short presentation to the class about it.
- 03/22/12 - 13 ways Twitter Improves Education
- 03/20/12 - Tech Tip #9: Hide Your Screen QuicklyHow do I quickly hide what I'm working on from prying eyes. Not just the Win 7 key that minimizes everything to the desktop, but so it looks like I'm working on something else than what I am?
- 03/19/12 - Dear Otto: How do I protect my lab?
- 03/16/12 - Weekend Websites #90: Free Audio BooksIt's clean, easy-to-maneuver, with just a bit of unobtrusive advertising to pay the bills, and she offers dozens--hundreds?--of age-appropriate free downloadable audio books.
- 03/14/12 - Should You Dump Twitter?
- 03/13/12 - Tech Tip #8: Print Part of a Web PageI only want to print part of the webpage, not the entire thing. Other than copy-pasting a selection into a Word doc or using PrintKey or Jing (they're not on some of the computers I use at work or friends' houses), how do I quickly print just a selection?
- 03/12/12 - Monday Freebies #40: Wonders of Google Earth
- 03/08/12 - 21 Reasons Why You Know You’re a Teacher
- 03/07/12 - Do You Skype? Dilbert Does
- 03/06/12 - Tech Tip #7: Make Backgrounds TransparentWhen I insert my picture, the background isn't transparent, so it covers everything behind it. I want it see-through. How do I do that? BTW, I'm using Publisher.
- 03/02/12 - Weekend Website #88: Drive a ShipOne of the favorites of my students is Ships. It gives them an opportunity to stand at the helm of the ship of their choice and guide it through the world's oceans.
- 03/01/12 - 29 Steps to Internet Safety for Kids
- 02/29/12 - Ed-Tech Readers’ Choice Awards
- 02/28/12 - Tech Tip #6: The (Horrid Annoying) Publisher Drawing CanvasWhen I try to insert a text box or object into Word 2003, a drawing canvas appears around it. It gets in the way--everything has to wrap around it and it leaves too much white space, even when I resize it. My solution: Get rid of it. It's huge and designed to allow you to place multiple shapes that are moved and resized as one. Most of us are only interested in inserting one text box, so it is cumbersome, annoying and useless. To turn the drawing canvas off:
- 02/23/12 - You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…
- 02/21/12 - Tech Tip #101: The Internet ButtonQ: My internet stopped working on my laptop. Everyone else's in the house works, but mine won't connect. What do I do? A: First: Make sure the laptop button that allows connection to the internet is on. More often than not, that's the problem for teachers at my school. If it's not that, it gets much more complicated. I'll cross my fingers.
- 02/14/12 - Tech Tip #5: What to do When Your Taskbar DisappearsQ: Some programs hide the taskbar when they open (especially for young children--like KidPix). How do I access other programs without closing down the one I'm working on?
- 02/13/12 - Monday Freebies #35: Sponge Activities for Vocabulary BuildingThere are lots of great online vocabulary websites to help kids learn high-frequency and dolch words. I’ll share five of them. Maybe you have some to share with the group.
- 02/10/12 - Great Websites Updated!
- 02/08/12 - My G+ Stream is a Trickle
- 02/07/12 - Tech Tip #4: Zoom In and Out
- 02/06/12 - Monday Freebies #36: My First ReportStudents type a report for their class on one of their units of inquiry (i.e., animals) using MS Word. Use this lesson to introduce MS Word, margins, page breaks, centering, fonts. Show students how to add pictures from the internet (using copy-paste), from the computer (using insert). Takes a few classes, depending upon how long the report is:
- 02/02/12 - Dear Otto: What iPad Apps Do You Recommend?
- 02/01/12 - Help Students Stay Organized with Wikis
- 01/31/12 - Tech Tip #3: Turn an Address into a Link
- 01/30/12 - Monday Freebie: #33: Grow Your Story
- 01/25/12 - Organize Your Classroom With Wikis
- 01/23/12 - Monday Freebies #13: Great Online Art Sites
- 01/20/12 - Weekend Website #85: 11 Sizzling Space Sites
- 01/16/12 - 6th Grade Technology Textbook is Here!
- 01/16/12 - Monday Freebie #31: A Title Page in Word
- 01/16/12 - Monday Freebies #32: Color my Grammar
- 01/13/12 - Top Ten Websites of 2011
- 01/12/12 - Web 2.0 Tools in Tech Ed
- 01/11/12 - 2012, I Resolve…
- 01/10/12 - 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2011
- 01/09/12 - Monday Freebies #28: My Storybook
- 01/09/12 - Monday Freebies #28: My Storybook
- 01/06/12 - Weekend Websites #84: Planet in ActionThe fascinating geniuses at Planet in Action use Google Earth to power some of the greatest toys I've seen around the internet. When you visit their site, you can:
- 01/05/12 - Product Review: MindMaple
- 01/04/12 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2011
- 01/03/12 - Tech Tip #65: Google Street ViewQ: I can't find enough detail about a particular area of the world that we're studying in class. Any suggestions?
2011 (240)
- 12/20/11 - Tech Tip #64: Reset Default FontQ: If you're like me, you don't like MS Office 2007 or 2010's default font of Calibri, size 11 with a double space between paragraphs. Here's how you fix that:
- 12/13/11 - Tech Tip #63: Don’t Like Double Space Between Paragraphs?Q: My Word 2010 came with a double space between paragraphs as the default, but I don't like that. I've tried to reset it to single space, but it doesn't fix it. What do I do? A: I don't either. What was Bill Gates thinking?
- 12/12/11 - Monday Freebies #21: Another Holiday CardCreate a holiday card using Publisher’s templates. Make it simple (don’t edit text, add only one picture) for youngers. Let olders change as much as they wish. Use this lesson to teach youngers about templates and olders about design, and menus. This project is very easy so shows students how fun and simple computers are.
- 12/08/11 - 6th Grade Tech Textbook Almost Ready
- 12/06/11 - Tech Tip #62: Email from Word (Or PowerPoint or Excel)was helping one of the faculty at my school. She couldn't print a document (server problems) so I suggested she email it to herself at home and print it there. She started going online to her Yahoo account and I stopped her. Click the email tool on the Word toolbar.
- 12/05/11 - Monday Freebies #24: Holiday Newsletter
- 12/02/11 - Weekend Website #77: BlackleBlackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy.
- 12/01/11 - Read My Latest ‘Innovate My School’ Article
- 11/30/11 - Product Review: Luna Projection Camera
- 11/29/11 - Tech Tip #61: How to Get Youngers to Use the Right Mouse ButtonKids always get confused when I'm explaining directions that require the right mouse button. I've found an easy way to clarify. Here's an example: "Right click with your mouse"
- 11/28/11 - Monday Freebies #20: Make a Holiday Card
- 11/24/11 - Happy Thanksgiving!
- 11/23/11 - #41: Where is That?
- 11/22/11 - Tech Tip #60: How to Add Shortcuts to the DesktopQ: How do I create a shortcut on my desktop so I can find my programs easier?
- 11/21/11 - Monday Freebies #3: How to Make Wallpaper
- 11/18/11 - Weekend Website #75: Solar System ScopeAn interactive trip through the solar system that can be embedded into a web page (must take Flash, so not WP.com, but it worked fine on my WP.org side) or a start page (click to see my sample). what a great way to get kids excited about space.
- 11/16/11 - Nominations For Edublog Awards Now Open!
- 11/15/11 - Tech Tip #59: Shortkey for the Copyright SymbolQ: How do you create the copyright symbol in Word?
- 11/14/11 - Monday Freebies
- 11/09/11 - What Every Parent Should Know About Computers and the InternetAfter fifteen years of teaching technology in a classroom and online, I can tell you without a doubt that educating your child can be done more efficiently and with better results in the world of computers. I don't mean ONLY on computers. I mean using technology to extend your scholastic reach:
- 11/08/11 - Tech Tip #58: Show all Your Tools on ToolbarsQ: I work with younger students (first grade, second grade, even third grade). We're using Office 2003. When I direct them to the menu bar and one of the dropdown menu choices, sometimes it isn't there. Instead, there's a chevron--double arrow--that they have to click to expand the menu. This is confusing for youngers. Is there any way to have the entire menu drop down rather than the truncated version?
- 11/04/11 - Weekend Website #73: 3 Programs to Teach Architecture in First GradeThree projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions. Plus, they'll understand how to think about a three-dimensional object and then spatially lay it out on paper. This is challenging, but fun for first graders.
- 11/02/11 - How to Find Reliable Internet Sources
- 11/01/11 - Tech Tip #57: How to Create a Chart Really FastQ: What's the easiest way to introduce 3rd graders to Excel charts?
- 10/31/11 - Buy 3, Get 16 Holiday Projects Free
- 10/26/11 - How to Stop Hating Your Computer
- 10/25/11 - Tech Tip #56: Force a New PageQ: I'm teaching my students to create a book report with a cover page. what's the easiest way to get the cover on the first page and the report on the second?
- 10/21/11 - Weekend Website #75: Solar System ScopeAn interactive trip through the solar system that can be embedded into a web page (must take Flash, so not WP.com, but it worked fine on my WP.org side) or a start page (click to see my sample). what a great way to get kids excited about space.
- 10/19/11 - 7 More Great Mouse Skills Programs
- 10/18/11 - Tech Tip #55: Find a Lost ShortcutQ: I can't find the shortcut for a program I want to open. It's not on the desktop, on the start menu or in 'all programs'. How do I open the program? A: Try 'Start button', then type in the name of the program where it says 'start search'. The shortcut shows up.
- 10/17/11 - Monday Freebies #20: Make a Holiday Cardstart each week off with a fully-adaptable K-8 lesson that includes step-by-step directions as well as relevant ISTE national standards, tie-ins, extensions, troubleshooting and more. Eventually, you'll get the entire Technology Toolkit book. If you can't wait, you can purchase the curriculum here.
- 10/14/11 - Weekend Website #68: Live Like Bear GryllsIf you want to spice up a unit on landforms, have students look into surviving these unique natural habitats. To get out with their lives, they'll have to understand the flora and fauna, dangers and helpers. Here are some websites they can visit to improve their survival toolkit:
- 10/12/11 - Ask a Tech Teacher Takes to Radio
- 10/11/11 - Tech Tip #54: How to Auto Forward a PowerPoint SlideshowQ: My students are learning to use Powerpoint for presentations. They'll stand in front of the class and the slideshow will play behind them. We want it to go automatically without requiring them to click the mouse or push the space bar. How do we do that? A: Presentations are a great skill to teach students. I applaud you on this. Auto-forward isn't difficult:
- 10/10/11 - Monday Freebies #3: How to Make WallpaperKids love personalizing their computer stations. Show them how to create their own wallpaper using internet pictures, pictures on the computer or their own photos or drawings
- 10/07/11 - Weekend Website #72: 62 Favorite 1st Grade WebsitesThese are my 62 favorite first grade websites. I sprinkle them in throughout the year, adding several each week to the class internet start page, deleting others. I make sure I have 3-4 each week that integrate with classroom lesson plans, 3-4 that deal with technology skills and a few that simply excite students about tech in education.
- 10/06/11 - How to Use Excel to Teach Math Arrays
- 10/05/11 - Easi-Speak Digital Microphone is Simple
- 10/04/11 - Tech Tip #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start MenuQ: There's a program I use all the time, but it's not on my desktop. I have to click through All-Programs-(etc--wherever it is you must go to find it). Is there a way to add it to my start menu so I can find it more easily? A: Absolutely. Click through All-programs to wherever it is, but don't open the program. Instead, right click on the icon that would normally open the program and select 'pin to start menu' from the drop down menu. This will attack this program to your Start button in the future. Much easier!
- 09/28/11 - 18 Great Poetry Websites
- 09/27/11 - Tech Tip #52: Roll Your Computer Back to a Problem-Free DateQ: Something happened and now my computer isn't working right. I downloaded a program/music/video or installed a new holiday program and it hasn't worked right since. What do I do? A: These days, that's not as hard as it used to be. All you have to do is type 'restore' in the search box (on the start menu) and follow instructions. What it'll do is turn your computer back to an earlier date, before you did the download or the install. It won't affect documents, only the bad stuff. It's saved me several times.
- 09/23/11 - Weekend Website #65: NoodlePlus, Noodle offers a 'school selection' tool, to enable parents and high schoolers to search for the right school, from kindergarten through college. Once you've set up an account, Noodle allows you to keep track of the schools you’ve applied to or been admitted to, or classify schools based on criteria such as cost, campus setting, etc. You can keep these lists private or make them public so that your friends can see them.
- 09/21/11 - 13 Cool Win 7 Tricks
- 09/20/11 - Tech Tip #51: Copy Images From Google ImagesQ: To copy an image from Google Images (or Bing), I right-click on the picture, select copy, then paste it into my document (with right-click, paste). But, It's hard to move around. Isn't there an easier way. A: You're probably grabbing the thumbnail rather than the real image. Before copying the picture, go to the full size image by clicking on the gallery thumbnail...
- 09/19/11 - How to Organize the First Grade ClassYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (Click for more on twitter). Wikis are the most thorough. Take a look at my first grade class wiki . I have room for student and parent resources, homework, What we did Today (for absent students or parents), grade-level skills, favorite links. You can even add student pages, created by students.
- 09/17/11 - Weekend Website #66: What’s Your Carbon FootprintThis is a fun, albeit simplistic approach to carbon counting. As a teacher, I find it a wonderfully simply way to deliver the message to students that the size of their carbon footprint matters. This site has a few easy fill-ins about family cars, travel and where the reader lives, then calculates an average carbon footprint. For example, when I answered the four or five easy questions about my home (with lots of prompts about 'average' which I can see students defaulting to), it gave me a rundown on my profile:
- 09/14/11 - MS Word for Grades 2-5
- 09/13/11 - Tech Tip #50: The Easiest Way to OutlineQ: My fifth graders are learning outlining in the classroom. Is there an easy way to tie that into technology? A: Outlining can't be easier than doing it in Word. Here's what you do:
- 09/12/11 - I Love my Kindergarten Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (Click for more on twitter). Wikis are the most thorough. Take a look at mykindergarten grade class wiki . I have room for student and parent resources, homework, What we did Today (for absent students or parents), grade-level skills, favorite links.
- 09/11/11 - Our Children Remember…
- 09/10/11 - Weekend Website #64: Khan AcademyOne final note, the ISTE tech conference I attended back in June of over 15,000 educators chronically listed Khan Academy as among the most-important websites for video tutorials on the web. Attendees and presenters constantly raved about Khan Academy as a self-help site far beyond any other available, on a par with MIT's offering of free videos of their course offerings. Check it out. You won't be disappointed.
- 09/08/11 - #39: Google Earth Board
- 09/06/11 - Tech Tip #48: Quickly Switch Between WindowsQ: I'm copy-pasting between a Word doc and an Excel doc on my computer. I know how to do that, but here's the problem: I have three Word docs open. I don't want to close the other two because I'll need them soon. It takes a lot of time to click down to the taskbar, bring up the Word group and find the correct Word doc. Is there an easier way? A: Oh yes, Much easier. Use Alt+tab. That takes you to the last window you visited. If you're toggling between two windows, this is the perfect solution. I use it a lot for grading and report cards.
- 08/31/11 - Free Ebook Anyone? Can I Ask a Favor?
- 08/30/11 - Tech Tip #45: Your Screen Upside Down?Q: My screen is sideways 90 degrees. How do I fix that? A: If you ever needed this, you're going to be blessing me. If you've never faced that off-kilter screen, you're going to wonder why I'd post this tip.
- 08/26/11 - Weekend Website #63: Teach KeyboardingIf you've been thrown into the slot of tech teacher at your school, or just want to shake up the program you've been teaching for years, this wiki will take you through how to teach keyboarding to grades 2-8. It's a real-time wiki, meaning I'm using it right now, so you'll see lots of changes every day. Currently, I'm teaching a summer keyboard class to 4th graders, so that's what's under What We Did Today. When the school year returns, it'll be more of a monthly approach to guide students through skills they need to learn in thirty days.
- 08/26/11 - Weekend Website #62: Teach Parents TechEveryone can use a little help in technology. this amazing website lets you pick the videos you feel a friend/family needs help with and send them their way. It has categories like basics, communications, internet, media, find information, and each category has about eight videos to pick from. You make your choices, fill out who you're sending it to and--send! Here's the email friends will get from you:
- 08/23/11 - Tech Tip #46: The Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left to (Little) KidsQ: I teach kindergarten. They don't always understand the difference between left and right. A: There are two times kids get confused about right and left when I'm teaching:
- 08/22/11 - 31 Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
- 08/19/11 - Weekend Website #61: Brainy Widgets from Wolfram AlphaWolfram Alpha has a boatload of educational widgets you can put on your website to amaze your students. Simply go to their widget gallery, select the category you prefer (I picked technology) and pick your widget. I picked creating QR codes because I can see my students adding this to their wikis next year as another way of sharing their name:
- 08/17/11 - Tech Tip #47: Tool TipsQ: I'm supposed to find a tool on the toolbar, but there are so many and I have no idea what they are for? It's just as bunch of pictures to me. Is there an easy way to figure this out? A: To figure out what a tool does on the toolbar or 2007/10''s ribbon, hover your mouse over the tool (place the mouse above it without clicking). A tool tip will appear with a clue as to what it's for.
- 08/12/11 - Weekend Website #60: Google Tools and Bloom’s TaxonomyBloom's Taxonomy has long been accepted as the de rigueur classification of learning objectives. Its consideration as a foundational and essential element within the education community is memorialized in the 1994 yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Lesson plans are written with a focus on which of these objectives are met and how to achieve all of them within a school year.
- 08/10/11 - Tech Tip #49: The Fifteen Second SlideshowQ: My kindergarten and first grade students are too young to create their own slideshows for Open House (or any parent day) and I'm just too busy. What's an easy way to display their work digitally for parents that also involves the students in the preparation? A: I had this problem last year. I simply ran out of time trying to prepare so I offloaded the work onto the students. I was worried it would be too much, but it turned into a wonderful experience for students and parents alike. Here's all you do:
- 08/05/11 - Weekend Websites #59: 62 First Grade Websites That Tie into Classroom LessonsThese are my 62 favorite first grade websites. I sprinkle them in throughout the year, adding several each week to the class internet start page, deleting others. I make sure I have 3-4 each week that integrate with classroom lesson plans, 3-4 that deal with technology skills and a few that simply excite students about tech in education. Here's the list:
- 08/04/11 - 19 Free Posters For Your Tech Lab
- 08/04/11 - Tech Ten Commandments–the Christian Version
- 08/03/11 - 10 Great Virtual Field Trips
- 08/03/11 - Book Review: 55 Technology Projects for the Digital ClassroomVolume I is 219 pages and Volume II 235 pages, making this series an all-in-one K-8 toolkit for the lab specialist, classroom teacher and homeschooler, with a years-worth of simple-to-follow projects for K-8. Integrate technology into language arts, geography, history, problem solving, research skills, and science lesson plans and units of inquiry using teacher resources that meet NETS-S national guidelines and many state standards. The fifty-five projects are categorized by subject, program (software), and skill (grade) level.
- 08/02/11 - Tech Tip #44: Clean Your Computer WeeklyQ: I'm afraid of getting slammed with viruses, malware, all that bad stuff that comes with visiting the internet. What do I do? A: If you take reasonable precautions, the chances of being hit are minimized. Here's what I do:
- 07/30/11 - Weekend Websites #58: 12 Music Websites for the Non-Geeks in Your ClassMy students aren't always geeks who live and breath tech as I do. Some of them have other hobbies--art, sports, even music. For them, I offer websites that will enhance that experience in ways they hadn'[t imagined. Here's my list of music websites for elementary school-age students as young as first grade:
- 07/28/11 - Are you as Tech-Smart as a Fifth Grader?
- 07/27/11 - Don’t Miss This Westward Expansion Website
- 07/27/11 - Book Review: Fifth GradeTechnologyThis is the Fourth Edition, updated to MS Office 2007/10. It includes many more samples, reproducibles, Web 2.0 connections and how-to's that are age-appropriate for a second grader. At 133 pages, it's much more like a tech lab-in-a-binder than a mere 32 projects. The Amazon blurb says it all:
- 07/25/11 - #40: Wonders of Google Earth
- 07/21/11 - About MeI'm glad you asked that question because, they absolutely do stand out. They start kids in kindergarten with age-appropriate and challenging skills in programs such as keyboarding and KidPix, and that wonderful online reading site, Starfall.com.
- 07/20/11 - Book Review: Third Grade Technology–32 LessonsI am one of the editors for this series, though it's a collaboration of a team of technology teachers. We've included links to free versions of software so users aren't forced to purchase expensive software. We've included many how-to's on timely technology topics like when to start keyboarding, how to integrate Web 2.0 tools into classrooms and more. We've also connected the Fourth Edition to this Ask a Tech Teacher blog so users can stay up-to-date on tech in their classes and can get immediate assistance with lessons should they get stuck. And, we've put the entire workbook in a three ring binder making it easy to remove reproducibles for copying without ruining the book.
- 07/19/11 - Tech Tip #43: Back Up OftenQ: How often should I back up my current project? How about my whole hard drive? A: I teach my students to save early, save often when they're working on a project. You decide what you can tolerate losing. Ten minutes or Ten hours. After all, if the computer loses your work, you're the one who has to start over.
- 07/18/11 - Discount on Technology Curriculum
- 07/14/11 - Sign Up for Weekend Websites
- 07/12/11 - Tech Tip #42: How to (Re)Set Your HomepageQ: My homepage got hijacked! I mean, it no longer opens up to what it used to. How do I fix that? A: Go to the page you want as your homepage. Here's what you do next:
- 07/11/11 - A Note to Readers From My Publisher
- 07/06/11 - Book Review: 1st Grade Technology–32 Lessonshe six-volume Structured Learning Technology Curriculum (Fourth Edition, 2011) is the all-in-one solution to running an effective, efficient, and fun technology program whether you’re the lab specialist, IT coordinator, classroom teacher, or homeschooler, and is the current choice of hundreds of school districts across the country. Newly updated and expanded, each volume now includes step-by-step directions for a year's worth of projects, samples, grading rubrics, reproducibles, wall posters, teaching ideas and hundreds of online connections to access enrichment material and updates from a working technology lab. Aligned with ISTE
- 07/05/11 - Tech Tip #41: Repair Your Computer With System RestoreQ: I don't know what I did, but my computer doesn't run right anymore. What can I do? A: With access to the internet, computer malfunctions have become even more prevalent than ever. Sometimes you download a program--or your child mistakenly pushes a button that allows malware on your computer. Suddenly, through no fault of your own, things just aren't working right anymore.
- 06/22/11 - #10: Drawing in Photoshop
- 06/22/11 - Book Review: Second Grade Technology–32 LessonsThis is the Fourth Edition, updated to MS Office 2007/10. It includes many more samples, reproducibles, Web 2.0 connections and how-to's that are age-appropriate for a second grader. At 72 pages, it's much more like a tech lab-in-a-binder than a mere 32 projects. The Amazon blurb says it all:
- 06/17/11 - Weekend Website #50 VisuwordVisuwords is an online graphical dictionary where you can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. The tool enables you to produce diagrams and learn how words associate and is another of the great Open Source websites (yes, they give their source code as well as the web site away for free)--like Visual Thesaurus, Wordle, Tagxedo--that makes the study of words as visual as a picture.
- 06/14/11 - #38: Introduction to Google Earth
- 06/14/11 - Tech Tip #40: Where Did Windows Explorer Go?Q: I have Windows 7 and I can't find Explorer anymore. Where did it go? A: Right click on the start button and select 'Explore'.
- 06/11/11 - Book Review: Kindergarten Technology–32 LessonsDisclaimer: I am one of the editors for this series, though it's a collaboration of a team of technology teachers. We've included links to free versions of software so users aren't forced to purchase expensive software. We've included many how-to's on timely technology topics like when to start keyboarding, how to integrate Web 2.0 tools into classrooms and more. We've also connected the Fourth Edition to this Ask a Tech Teacher blog so users can stay up-to-date on tech in their classes and can get immediate assistance with lessons should they get stuck. And, we've put the entire workbook in a three ring binder making it easy to remove reproducibles for copying without ruining the book.
- 06/09/11 - #36: My First Report
- 06/08/11 - #33: Grow Your Story
- 06/06/11 - #30: A Cover Page in Publisher
- 06/03/11 - Weekend Website #49: Tux PaintIn my classroom, we use KidPix. It's a wonderful program to introduce students to tools, toolbars, text, drag-and-drop mouse skills and all the basics required to use the computer. It's the gold standard for acclimatizing children to computers. Students always love it and parents always want to know how to get it for them.
- 06/02/11 - 5 Best Online Keyboarding Programs
- 06/01/11 - #5: Photoshop Basx
- 05/30/11 - Thank You
- 05/26/11 - Use MS Word Diagrams to Teach About Animals
- 05/24/11 - Tech Tip #39: My Computer Won’t Turn OffQ: I'm pushing the power button on my laptop (or desktop, but more commonly this happens with laptops), but it won't turn off. What do I do? A: Push the power button and hold it in for a count of ten. That'll work. If not (there's always that one that breaks all the rules), hold it for a count of twenty
- 05/23/11 - Nineteen Ways to Use Spare Classroom Time
- 05/19/11 - #4: Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is WordBefore we get into Photoshop, we'll start with a program your fifth grader is most likely comfortable with: MS Word. For basic image editing, Word does a pretty good job, so we'll start with a project using Word's tools:
- 05/18/11 - A Story About a Bear and a Pig
- 05/17/11 - Tech Tip #38: My Desktop Icons Are All DifferentQ: My desktop icons (those little pictures that allow you to open a program) are all different. What happened? A: I get this question a lot. Push the start button and check who the log in is. That's the name at the top of the right-hand side of the start menu. It should have your log-in name. Any other, log out and log in as yourself and the world will tilt back to normal.
- 05/16/11 - #12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
- 05/13/11 - Weekend Website #47: Online KeyboardingEverything you need to run your classroom keyboard program. It includes:
- 05/11/11 - Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar DisappearedQ: My tools for formatting disappeared from the top of my MS Word (2003). Where'd they go and what do I do? A: They do disappear at times, for no good reason. Here's the simple fix: * Right-click in the toolbar area at the top.
- 05/09/11 - #3: Windows Skills: Make Your Own Wallpaper
- 05/07/11 - #101: Don’t Print Homework–Email it!
- 05/06/11 - Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics
- 05/05/11 - #30: A Cover Page in Publisher
- 05/03/11 - Tech Tip #36: The Internet Toolbar DisappearedQ: My internet toolbar disappeared. All I see at the top of the screen is, more of the page I'm on. No tools. What do I do? A: Push F11. You can hide the internet toolbar or unhide with F11. It's that simple.
- 05/02/11 - Book Review: 55 Technology Projects for the Digital ClassroomThe all-in-one K-8 toolkit for the lab specialist, classroom teacher and homeschooler, with a years-worth of simple-to-follow projects. Integrate technology into language arts, geography, history, problem solving, research skills, and science lesson plans and units of inquiry using teacher resources that meet NETS-S national guidelines and many state standards.
- 04/29/11 - Weekend Website #46: Computer Lab Favorites
- 04/28/11 - #95: Teach About Inventions with PowerPoint
- 04/27/11 - #75: Tessellations in Excel
- 04/26/11 - Tech Tip #33: My Desktop Icons are Messed UpQ: I have several kids/students who share the same computer. Kids being kids loving moving the icons around on the desktop. Sometimes they create the first letter of their name in icons. It's cute, but makes it difficult for the next student to find the shortcut they need. What's the best way to handle this? A: I've tried everything. Refusing to allow them to play doesn't work and asking them to undo their play at the end of their time doesn't either. The best solution is to teach all students how to organize their desktop:
- 04/25/11 - #67: Teach PowerPoint in Elementary School
- 04/22/11 - Weekend Website #45: Google Art ProjectExplore museums from around the world with Google's incredible Street View technology. Discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
- 04/19/11 - Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze
- 04/16/11 - Weekend Website #44: Mission USMission US is a FREE multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history.
- 04/15/11 - Weekend Website #43: Google SearchI teach K-5 technology. A constant problem is finding websites that communicate in language elementary school students can understand. I've tried the kid browser, but they are sometimes too limited in their content. Google's advanced search, rolled out in December 2010, is a better solution.
- 04/14/11 - #45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography
- 04/13/11 - Tech Tip #35: My Program Closed Down
- 04/12/11 - Tech Tip #32: My Taskbar Got Moved to the SideQ: The taskbar at the bottom of my screen got moved. I liked it at the bottom. How do I move it back?
- 04/11/11 - #7: Fifth Grade Cropping in Photoshop
- 04/10/11 - Weekend Website #42: Yuckiest Site on the InternetFind out all about the human body with Wendell the Worm, Yucky's Ace Reporter. My students love learning all about the gross and cool stuff humans' bodies create--burps, snores, gas and more on the Yucky site. It includes:
- 04/08/11 - Weekend Websites #39: Big Huge LabsThis site definitely lives up to its tagline--Helping you do cool stuff with your digital photos. It includes over two dozen projects that can be printed and/or posted on the web. What a plethora of tools. You can:
- 04/07/11 - #27: Internet Skills for K-8: Blogs
- 04/06/11 - #28: My Storybook
- 04/05/11 - Tech Tip #31: What’s Today’s Date
- 04/04/11 - #12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
- 04/03/11 - Weekend Website #38: DSpace@MITMIT has stepped to the front of education equity issues. For the past year, they've made their scholarly articles FREE to the public through an open source platform called DSpace, a scholarly repository for over one-thousand organizations (if you have a favorite University, i.e., Notre Dame or USC, check to see if it's listed here).
- 04/02/11 - Weekend Website #37: Microsoft Dreamspark
- 04/01/11 - Weekend Website #36: LearnItIn5The challenge as the tech coordinator at my school is to persuade teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. Kids are easy. I know that first-hand because I teach K-8 technology classes also.
- 03/31/11 - #3: Windows Skills: Make Your Own Wallpaper
- 03/30/11 - Tech Tip #30: Menu Command is Greyed OutQ: I pushed the menu command I wanted to use (in MS Office 2003). I got the drop-down list, but the command I needed was greyed out. When I pushed it, nothing happened. What do I do?
- 03/29/11 - Tech Tip: I Deleted a File!
- 03/28/11 - #2: How to KidPix II
- 03/27/11 - Weekend Website #35: Dance Mat Typing
- 03/26/11 - #33: Grow Your Story
- 03/26/11 - Weekend Website #33: Wild on MathThis program has a clean, simple interface with none of the vibrant colors, constant motion and advertising of so many other math websites.
- 03/25/11 - Weekend Website #34: Block PostersWhat a great way to upsize student projects. Simply upload a digital picture created by students. Tell the program what size you'd like the poster and the program automatically figures out how to lay it out on 8x10 sheets and its ready to print.
- 03/24/11 - Help! I Need Your Input
- 03/23/11 - 10 Great Virtual Field Trips
- 03/22/11 - Tech Tip #28: 5 Ways to Fix a No-Sound Problem–For FreeQ: I can't get any sound out of my computer. Do I need a new sound card? A: Before you invest that kind of money, try these easy fixes:
- 03/21/11 - How to Hack Passwords
- 03/20/11 - Weekend Website #32: SqoolTubeWhile YouTube has some of the best training videos around, if your school's like mine, you can't access it on campus. Which means, I'm constantly on the look-out for a good alternative in this video-oriented education world I find myself. I found Sqooltube.
- 03/18/11 - Weekend Website #31: Elementary Tech Teachers NingOf all the social networks I belong to, this is the most helpful. It has a wonderful group of teachers with real-life experience handling tech lab problems. Here's a sampling:
- 03/15/11 - Tech Tip #24: How to Open A New Word Doc Without the ProgramQ: I can't find the Word icon that opens MS Word. What do I do? A: Let's say
- 03/14/11 - More Homeschoolers are Military Families
- 03/13/11 - Weekend Website #30: Breathing EarthWhen you arrive at Breathing Earth, it’s not obvious what to do. You see a map of the world, browns and oranges with a few darker shades. Occasionally, a nation lights up, painted red. Bursts of blue and black explode here and there, seemingly randomly. Look closer. There’s order to the chaos.
- 03/11/11 - Weekend Website #29: Storybook MakerThere are lots of story makers out there, but this one is a cut above. It was developed by graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University to increase literacy rates among young children while appealing to their techno-gene in this fast-moving society.
- 03/10/11 - 10 of the Best Math Websites Out There
- 03/09/11 - Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar DisappearedQ: My taskbar disappeared. What do I do? A: Push the flying windows key (it's located between Ctrl and Alt on the bottom left of your keyboard). That brings up the start button
- 03/08/11 - Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t WorkQ: My mouse stopped working. Do I need to buy a new one? A: Maybe, but try a few things first:
- 03/05/11 - Weekend Website #28: Bing MapsIf you're a Google Earth/Google Maps fan--as I am--you probably haven't kept up with what Bing Maps is doing over there, in the competitor's home. I came across this video on TED and was blown away. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps.
- 03/04/11 - Weekend Website #27: TEDTED, as its tagline says, is truly 'riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world'. T-E-D stands for Technology, entertainment, design, and gives you a good idea how they approach this avenue for sharing knowledge.
- 03/02/11 - Tech Tip #23: I Deleted a File By AccidentQ: I deleted a file! I need it back! What do I do? A. Here's what you do:
- 03/01/11 - Tech Tip #25: My Keyboard Doesn’t WorkYou sit down to type, start in on that long project with an imminent deadline, and nothing happens. The cursor blinks... and blinks... and blinks... but goes nowhere.
- 02/28/11 - Where Would You Like to Go Today?
- 02/28/11 - 4 FREE Online Keyboarding Programs for K, 1
- 02/25/11 - Weekend Website #26: TagxedoIf you haven't discovered Tagxedo, you have a treat in store. As its tagline suggests, it is a tag cloud with style. Think Wordle on steroids. Tagxedo takes words and turns them into pictures, as does Wordle, but it has all those options you wanted and couldn't find on Wordle. Remember saying, "I wish I could turn this into a picture of a ____ (fill in the blank with your favorite)." Or, "I wish I could save this."
- 02/18/11 - Weekend Website #24: Office Web AppsMS Web Apps is one of the stable of FREE online tools to replace or enhance installed software. Though MS Office has a gazillion percent of the marketplace, as we the people become more mobile, more interactive, MS Office has become tattered at the edges. It doesn't run with all versions of itself. It is linked to a specific computer--incompatible between Macs and PC (fixable), between Office and other word processing programs (fixable at times), documents aren't available online (you have to convert to a pdf to display the doc or upload as an icon). A document can't be shared.
- 02/17/11 - Four Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills
- 02/15/11 - Tech Tip #21: How to Make a Small Webpage Window BigQ: When I open the internet (or a document), the window is small. It barely fills half the screen. What's the quickest way to make it bigger? A: There are two easy solutions, one faster than the other
- 02/13/11 - Weekend Website #23: Fourth Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 02/11/11 - Weekend Website #22: WebspirationUse Webspiration anywhere you'd use the software, Inspiration. It will map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Webspiration allows you to appeal to students who are visual learners as it strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge.
- 02/10/11 - Solid Education Option: HomeschoolingTwenty one percent don't like the environment in traditional schools. Another 17 percent are home schooled because their parents are dissatisfied with the academic instruction that’s available to them
- 02/09/11 - Tech Tip #20: How to Add A Link to WordQ: I want to link my Word document (or my Outlook email) to a website. How do I do that? A: Follow these easy steps:
- 02/08/11 - 16 Great Research Websites for Kids
- 02/07/11 - Sign up for Weekly Tech Tips
- 02/04/11 - Weekend Website #21: Test Your Typing SpeedI use this as practice in my tech classes. Students love seeing their typing speed improve, and it shows them the importance of subtracting for errors (we all know how time-consuming correcting typos is). I often see them go to this site during free time, especially when the next speed quiz is imminent. I think your kids will enjoy it, too.
- 02/03/11 - Can Your Fifth Grader Answer This Math Problem?Teaching Math In 1950: A logger sold a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit? Teaching Math In 1960: A logger sold a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
- 02/02/11 - Is Handwriting Like Camera Film–So Last Generation* 1 in 10 Americans are endangered by the poor handwriting of physicians. * citizens miss out on $95,000,000 in tax refunds because the taxman can't read their handwriting * Poor handwriting costs businesses $200,000,000 in time and money that result in confused and inefficient employees, phone calls made to wrong numbers, and letters delivered to incorrect addresses.
- 02/01/11 - Tech Tip #19: How to Activate a Link in WordQ:I see a blue phrase on my page. It's underlined. I'm told that's a link to a website. How do I make it work? A: Activating a link in MS Word or most of the MS Office products is pretty simple.
- 01/31/11 - Find Great Kids Websites
- 01/28/11 - Weekend Website #20: Kindergarten Class Wiki
- 01/27/11 - Google Earth: User Friendly in the Classroom
- 01/26/11 - Will All Twitter Users Please Twand Up
- 01/25/11 - Tech Tip #23: I Deleted a File By AccidentQ: I deleted a file! I need it back! What do I do? A. Here's what you do:
- 01/24/11 - How Blogs Make Kids Better Writers
- 01/21/11 - Weekend Website #19: First Grade Class Wiki
- 01/20/11 - Secrets About Your Mobile Phone
- 01/19/11 - Tech Tip #20: How to Add A Link to WordQ: I want to link my Word document (or my Outlook email) to a website. How do I do that? A: Follow these easy steps:
- 01/18/11 - Tech Tip #19: How to Activate a Link in WordQ:I see a blue phrase on my page. It's underlined. I'm told that's a link to a website. How do I make it work? A: Activating a link in MS Word or most of the MS Office products is pretty simple.
- 01/17/11 - Just Another Day In Computer Lab
- 01/14/11 - Weekend Website #18: Second Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 01/13/11 - #32: How to Use Art to Teach Grammar
- 01/12/11 - 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2010
- 01/11/11 - Tech Tip #16: Email That DocumentQ: I want my home/business/classroom to be as paperless as possible. What's a good first step? A: Do you make fliers or announcements in Publisher, then print them? Don't do that. Use the email tool on the toolbar:
- 01/07/11 - Weekend Website #17: Third Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 01/06/11 - Tech Tip #19: How to Activate a Link in WordActivating a link in MS Word or most of the MS Office products is pretty simple. * hover over the word or phrase * Push Ctrl+click to activate
- 01/05/11 - Ask a Tech Teacher Receives an Award
- 01/04/11 - 2011, I Resolve…
- 01/01/11 - Weekend Websites: Best Sites of 2010
2010 (127)
- 12/21/10 - Tech Tip #18: No Excuse for Spelling ErrorsWhen you see a red squiggly line in a Word doc--or lots of other docs too, even online--it indicates a possible spelling error. I've found that most times, it's true. Y
- 12/21/10 - Track Santa Christmas EveThere's so much to like about this website. Target users are young children, so I like that this website requires little reading. Once they get to the site (I have a link on our classroom start page for NORAD Santa), they can watch a Santa video while I get everyone else logged on.
- 12/18/10 - Weekend Website #17: Third Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 12/15/10 - What is Authority and How Did I Get It?
- 12/14/10 - Tech Tip #17: Don’t Know the Date? No ProblemQ: I don't know why, but I never remember the date. Unfortunately, I have to type it often at school/work/home. Is there a shortcut for people like me?
- 12/13/10 - Can Technology Help Teachers Plan?One of the engines helps teachers do what I had presented about years ago and it helps them make those four choices of activities in less than 10 minutes!
- 12/10/10 - Weekend Website #15: A Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 12/09/10 - #20: A Holiday Card in KidPix
- 12/03/10 - Weekend Website #14: The Internet Start PageI include everything that my students might need to start their tech class experience--a Todo list, links to projects, sponges, a calendar--and I change it weekly, sometimes daily.
- 12/02/10 - Using an Internet Start Page
- 12/01/10 - #72: How to Check Your Math in Excel
- 11/30/10 - Tech Tip #16: Email That DocumentDo you make fliers or announcements in Publisher, then print them? Don't do that. Use the email tool on the toolbar:
- 11/29/10 - Using the Internet–K-2
- 11/23/10 - Tech Tip #15: Save Early Save OftenA: Saving is easier than you think. I know, you're thinking it is easy, so what's the deal? Do you save every ten minutes?
- 11/22/10 - 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
- 11/20/10 - World’s Fastest Typist
- 11/19/10 - Weekend Website #13: MS OfficeHover over the 2003 tool that you are trying to find in 2007. It will show a tool tip that tells you where it is in 2007.
- 11/18/10 - *8: Fifth Grade Cloning in Photoshop
- 11/16/10 - #16: A Holiday Memory in Word or KidPix
- 11/15/10 - #15: A Holiday Letter for Grades 2-6
- 11/12/10 - Weekend Website #12: Wacky FacesThis one is pretty freaky. The faces are realistic. They smile at you, react to your mouse movement, wink, stick their tongues out. You have to see it to believe it.
- 11/09/10 - ASCII Art–Computer Art for EveryoneHere's how I did it: 1. Add a watermark of a picture you like, preferably a single image (I picked a pumpkin for Halloween) 2. Type over it with appropriate letters (if you're more patient than I, you can pick a variety of letters. That would provide more depth) 3. Delete the watermark
- 11/08/10 - #21: A Holiday Card in Publisher
- 11/07/10 - Weekend Website #10: Google MarsWhat it doesn't have that the software version has is the ability to fly a plane (using Google Earth's built-in Flight Simulator) all over Mars. My students love doing this. I didn't teach it to them at all. They were curious, motivated and figured it out on their own. I love student-led activities.
- 11/04/10 - How to Use MS Word to Teach GeographyCreate a diagram to represent the layers of where we are in the universe. Great for visual thinkers.
- 11/03/10 - #22: A Holiday Flier in Publisher
- 10/29/10 - Weekend Website #11: Google MoonAs with Google Mars, the online version doesn’t have that the ability to fly a plane or a jet (using Google Earth’s built-in Flight Simulator) all over the moon (BTW--my students fly all around our galaxy, to other planets, other stars. They think it's pretty amazing to land on the Sun!)
- 10/25/10 - #6: Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Autofixes
- 10/22/10 - Weekend Website #10: Google MarsWhat it doesn't have that the software version has is the ability to fly a plane (using Google Earth's built-in Flight Simulator) all over Mars. My students love doing this. I didn't teach it to them at all. They were curious, motivated and figured it out on their own. I love student-led activities.
- 10/21/10 - #25: Intro to PowerPoint–with KidPix PicturesDrawings are done in KidPix. Assign topics (me, my family, etc) for grades K-1 to reinforce the concept of following directions. With 2nd grade, use one picture for each of the parts of a story—characters, plot, setting, climax/resolution. Mix pictures and text. Students can show these to parents at Open House or a parent night using Windows slideshow function (something they can do without assistance after a bit of practice)
- 10/20/10 - Dr. Seuss–Techie Style
- 10/19/10 - Tech Tip #14: Desktop Icons Disappear?Q: My desktop icons disappeared for no known reason. What do I do? A: This is a question I get from parents more often than you'd think.
- 10/18/10 - #43: How to Teach Geography with KidPix IIUse an Enchanted Learning template. Import it into KidPix. Students use the paint bucket to fill continents and oceans different colors. Then label them as detailed as is age appropriate.
- 10/16/10 - What’s it Like to Be a Blogger?
- 10/15/10 - Weekend Website #9: Talking PetsDog's eyes follow your mouse and he speaks what you write--what could be better!
- 10/12/10 - Tech Tip #13: The Powerful Right Mouse ButtonQ: I need a faster way to access menus. Is there one? A: Yes, and you'll love it.
- 10/09/10 - Weekend Website #8: Virtual Surgery
- 10/06/10 - Shake Hands with a Computershow them where each part connects to the computer. Have them plug in andMouse-02 disconnect the headphones, the microphone (if available).
- 10/05/10 - Tech Tip #12: Wrap Text Around a PictureQ: I want my text to wrap around the picture I inserted, but it goes under/above it. There's a big white space I can't type in. What do I do? A: I get this from students a lot.
- 10/04/10 - #44: How to Teach Geography with KidPix ICreate a cross. Label the four directions. Place a picture that coordinates with that direction by it.
- 09/28/10 - Tech Tip #11: How to Show the Entire Drop Down MenuEvery time I click on a drop down menu in MS Office (Word, Publisher, Excel, PowerPoint), it shows only some of the choices. How can I see all of them?
- 09/27/10 - #71: Beginning Graphs in MS ExcelUse a template with the topics at the bottom as pictures and numbers along the side. Students use the paint bucket to fill in cells to the right number/level. Great introduction to Excel and collaboration with classroom exploration of math concepts
- 09/25/10 - #26: Create a Storybook in KidPixUse the drawings completed in Project #25 and put them into a PowerPoint slideshow. Students learn the basics of PowerPoint including inserting pictures and text, animation, transition, inserting clipart, inserting internet pictures, auto-advance, sound. Have each students present their slideshow when completed to practice the unique skills of presentations using PowerPoint
- 09/24/10 - #103: Know Your Computer HardwareReview the parts of the computer so students will understand what they’re learning
- 09/21/10 - Tech Tip #10: How to Undelete
- 09/20/10 - #59: Reading + Keyboarding = SuccessI test my students speed every trimester. I use an age-appropriate document that will engage their interest so they worry less about their grade. I’ll share with you how I select the piece, what my expectations are for speed per grade and how I approach the test so kids are not stressed by it
- 09/18/10 - Weekend Website #19: First Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 09/15/10 - #102: 23 Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts
- 09/14/10 - Tech Tip #9: Quickly Hide Your ScreenPress "alt+tab" simultaneously on your keyboard (or Command-Tab on a Mac). It'll hide the window that's on your screen and bring up one from behind it. This trick is used most often by office personnel, hiding the fact that they're surfing the Net at work, but it's useful for any number of other reasons. It's also a verb, as in, "I had to alt+tab when my boyfriend dropped by."
- 09/10/10 - Weekend Website #17: Third Grade Class WikiI have room for student and parent resources, homework, What we did Today (for absent students or parents), grade-level skills, favorite links. You can even add student pages, created by students. This is very popular.
- 09/09/10 - #99: Internet ABCs for Elementary SchoolersReview the basics of internet, including the address bar, forward/back buttons, links, favorites, plagiarism, and netiquette
- 09/08/10 - #34: How to Teach Dolch Words with KidPixHave students type three or four of their site-dolch words into KidPix. Create a quasi-sentence, filling in the missing nouns, verbs, etc with stamps from KidPix toolbars.
- 09/07/10 - #13: Great Online Art SitesOnline resources for great worldwide museums. Take one lesson to introduce students to these six art sites (five to ten minutes on each) and then allow them to revisit when they have a few minutes at the end of a class projects, unit, before lunch, etc.
- 09/06/10 - Back to School–Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of EverythingAs hard as parents try, it's difficult to dig through backpacks and uncover test scores, grading rubrics, and their ilk. It's likely grades will be available online. Take advantage of the ability to check your child's grades. Know there's a problem when there's still time to fix it.
- 09/05/10 - 5 Great Labor Day Websiteshe online version includes built-in tours of the moon which are fascinating, but doesn't have the flight simulator that my students can't get enough of. They fly all around our galaxy, to other planets, other stars. They think it’s pretty amazing to land on the Sun!
- 09/04/10 - What Should You Include on a Younger Child’s ComputerIf your child must have MS Office and you are trying to fit the price into a budget, start with Office Web Apps, the free online version of Office. It's compatible with MS Office, much like it but more limited. A good starter.
- 08/31/10 - #1: How to KidPix IStudents learn about tools, toolbars, drag-drop, multi-media, menus—all tech basics
- 08/30/10 - Free Lesson Plans That Mix Tech and Ed
- 08/27/10 - Weekend Website #23: Fourth Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 08/26/10 - Ten Best Keyboarding Hints You’ll Ever SeeUse your thumb for the space bar. That leaves your hands on home row, Curl fingers over home row—they’re cat paws, not dog paws, Use inside fingers for inside keys, outside fingers for outside keys
- 08/25/10 - #99: Internet ABCs for Elementary SchoolersBasics for elementary school includes maneuvering through websites, links and more. I also include troubleshooting tips
- 08/24/10 - Thirty-two More Ways to Use Spare Classroom TimeThis one covers language arts, math, science and technology
- 08/23/10 - Nineteen Ways to Use Spare Classroom Time
- 08/22/10 - Weekend Website #17: Fifth Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it.
- 08/20/10 - Weekend Website #20: Kindergarten Class WikiTake a look at my kindergarten grade class wiki . I have room for student and parent resources, homework, What we did Today (for absent students or parents), grade-level skills, favorite links. You can even add student pages, created by students. This is very popular in the older grades.
- 08/19/10 - 17 Great Research Websites for KidsIncludes almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and more
- 08/18/10 - Tech Tip #8: Print a Selection off a Web PageHighlight the desired text, Press Ctrl+P, In the Print dialog box that appears, in Print Range area, click Selection, then click OK.
- 08/17/10 - How to Web 2.0 Accessorize Your ClassroomA general overview of Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, what is a digital citizen, class internet homepages, class internet start pages, twitter, social bookmarks (i.e., delicious),podcasting, photo sharing (i.e., flikr)
- 08/16/10 - How to Teach Kids EmailUsed properly, email encourages collaboration among teachers, encourages conversations between parents-students-faculty and facilitates the paperless submittal of homework and projects (no more dog-ate-my-homework excuses).
- 08/15/10 - Book Review: Second Grade Technology–32 LessonsI found it easy to use, straightforward, nonthreatening. I like the entire series.
- 08/13/10 - 18 Great FREE Online Keyboard WebsitesIf you're picking an online program as an alternative to software, it's important to log in so the software remembers what your child has accomplished. If you're going to use online sites as part of an overall typing practice curriculum, here are some other good sites to try:
- 08/12/10 - Book Review: Third Grade Technology–32 Lessonsa year's-worth of age-appropriate computer training in MS Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, Google Earth, keyboarding, vocabulary, and computer problem solving. Everything meets and exceeds ISTE, NCLB standards.
- 08/11/10 - Book Review: 55 Tech Projects for the Digital ClassroomAlso included is an Appendix of over 200 age-appropriate child-friendly websites. Skills taught include collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, creativity, digital citizenship, information fluency, presentation, and technology concepts.
- 08/08/10 - Website #14: The Internet Start PageI include everything that my students might need to start their tech class experience–a Todo list, links to projects, sponges, a calendar–and I change it weekly, sometimes daily. It has tabs, too, so I offer a different tab for each class.
- 08/06/10 - Weekend Website #18: Second Grade Class WikiYou can organize a classroom with blogs, internet start pages (click for more on internet start pages), wikis, even twitter (this is the only one I have yet to use because my Admin shut me down on it. Click for more on twitter).
- 08/04/10 - Book Review: Fifth Grade TechnologyThis is a well-thought out approach that seems to insure (at least, according to the students I interviewed) the least amount of frustration and the greatest amount of learning. As a result, the students I talked to always felt prepared for what they learned next. The parents I talked with were across the board amazed at what students accomplished. No one felt their students were bored or that tech class was 'babysitting'--wasted time--as happens in some situations.
- 08/03/10 - Which Social Media Should Be Allowed in Schools?these are the sites that have kids excited about learning--excited about technology. So what are we doing? We're cutting off the most effective avenue for keeping students interested in school because we're afraid of them. Does that sound right to you?
- 07/31/10 - There Are No Bad ComputersI'd chat a little longer, but my computer is telling me there's no printer installed. I know there is, so I'm going to reintroduce computer and printer. See you tomorrow!
- 07/30/10 - Spotlight on this Blog’s AuthorShe’s the author of the career book for college-bound teens called Building a Midshipman: How to Crack the USNA Application
- 07/29/10 - Weekend Website #5: Get Tricky With WikisHere's my class wiki, lots of formatting thanks to this website. Lenva (the author) tells you how to password protect it, add columns, change the name, embed a webpage and more.
- 07/28/10 - Tech Tip #7: Making Backgrounds TransparentQ: When I insert my picture, the background isn't transparent, so it covers everything behind it. I want it see-through. How do I do that? BTW, I'm using Publisher. A: There are two ways, one simpler than the other.
- 07/27/10 - #70: Create a Timecard in Excel for Grade Two and UpThey’ll have no idea they’re using Excel. Olders can create the template themselves and then fill it in
- 07/26/10 - Life Wisdom From Your Computer #4: HourglassingPatience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. (Napoleon Hill)
- 07/23/10 - God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World.what has been true all along: the vast majority of people outside the West, and many people in the West, are religious.
- 07/22/10 - Weekend Website #4: HangmanWhen I give my students five or ten minutes to select any website from our internet start page links, Hangman is the most popular. Kids play it with a neighbor or by themselves.
- 07/21/10 - Tech Tip #6: The (Horrid Annoying) Drawing CanvasGet rid of it. It's huge and designed to allow you to place multiple shapes that are moved and resized as one.
- 07/20/10 - #70: How to Keep a Timecard in Excel
- 07/19/10 - Help Kids Use the Internet Safely with a Start PageWhen you get yours set up, on the To Do list, put what the child should do to start each computer time. This gives them a sense of independence, adultness, as they get started while you’re wrapping something else up.
- 07/18/10 - You Have Permission to Disrupt ClassSchools throw technology at their problems in hopes software, hardware, internet websites, will fix their shrinking test scores. Be Different.
- 07/16/10 - Does Homeschooling Work? YesThe average home schooled 8th grade student performs four grade levels above the national average.
- 07/13/10 - Easy Photo Editing in MS WordI’ve put it all on one page for you if you want to print it out:
- 07/12/10 - Life Wisdom From Your Computer #3: ShortcutsDon't always feel you must reinvent the wheel. You're not capitulating if you take the road more traveled.
- 07/09/10 - Homeschool Day at the Getty–2010
- 07/08/10 - Website #2: ZoopzZoopz: Easy to understand, to maneuver. Bright colors that attract youngers and almost no ads.
- 07/07/10 - Tech Tip #4: Zoom In and OutHold down the Ctrl and + to zoom in. Hold down Ctrl and – to zoom out.
- 07/06/10 - #1: How to KidPix IYou want a program that teaches a bit about mouse functions, tools and toolbars, maybe even some text? You're looking for KidPix.
- 07/05/10 - Life Wisdom From Your Computer #2: Your Processor SpeedWho cares what your processing speed is if your hard drive is to die for?
- 06/30/10 - Tech Tip #3: How to Turn a Website Address Into a LinkWhen you have a website you want to send to people, copy it, paste it into the email/doc. Be sure to add a space or enter afterwards.
- 06/24/10 - Weekend Website #11: Google MoonI get students to the website and leave the rest to their curiosity and the explorative side of human nature. From first grade on, they figure out what to do.
- 06/22/10 - How to Use MS Word to Teach GeographyDiagrams organize a students thinking and are fun and easy to create
- 06/22/10 - Life Wisdom From Your Computer #1: Consider RAMDon't be afraid to say, My RAM is full! That's what computers do.
- 06/18/10 - Sharon Angle Homeschooled Her ChildAfter he failed kindergarten, I put him back in for that second year and he was completely demoralized
- 06/18/10 - Technorati
- 06/17/10 - Homeschool Website #1: JingIt not only grabs a picture, but a video of what you’re doing, allows you to add highlighting, arrows, text, and more.
- 06/16/10 - Tech Tip #61: How to Get Youngers to Use the Right Mouse ButtonUse the other right button--yeah, that makes sense to kids
- 06/15/10 - Summer Activities to Keep Kids in Tech