Category: Freebies/Discounts

#32: How to Use Art to Teach Grammar

Here’s a great lesson that uses every child’s innate love of color to learn grammar. All you need is MS Word or Google Docs), a quick introduction to the toolbars and tools, and about 25 minutes to complete. If you’re the tech lab teacher, this gives you a chance to reinforce the grammar lesson the classroom is teaching and teach tech skills students need (click to enlarge):

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You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…

I have to reblog this wonderful post by my efriend, Lisa. How many of these fit you? Can you add to this list?

You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…

  1. You can’t remember the last time you printed a classroom document.
  2. Plurking, tweeting, and playing with your wiki in public are acceptable behaviors.
  3. Your Notebook isn’t spiral bound – it plugs into the wall.
  4. Forget the garden…you spend more time on the weekend weeding out your Inbox.
  5. You can recite your school’s Acceptable Use Policy by heart.
  6. On parent/teacher night, instead of exchanging business cards, you Bump.
  7. You express yourself with emoticons.
  8. You no longer consider it graffiti to write on someone’s wall.
  9. Your significant other gets jealous of your PLN.
  10. It’s not creepy to have lots of followers.
  11. Your students call you the “cool” teacher.
  12. The other teachers are jealous of your Instagram.
  13. YouTube is blocked in your school, and you know how to get around it.
  14. The Tech Department is sick of your constant requests to unblock Twitter.
  15. You’ve Googled your principal.
  16. You know that TweetDeck is not a patio with a lot of birds.
  17. You correct your friends’ grammar when they text you.
  18. “Casual Fridays” means logging into the EdTech UNconference in your bunny slippers.
  19. You wear your “I Heart EdTech” button everywhere you go.
  20. You read this blog post then tweet it, like it, and pass it on to a friend (more…)

#72: Check Your Math in Excel

This is one of the most popular lessons I teach to Excel beginners. It is relevant, instantly usable and makes sense from the beginning. Click the images below to enlarge them for viewing.

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

How to Keep a Timecard in Excel

This project (#70 in the collection of #110) hides a spreadsheet’s power behind a template you create and students fill out at home. If they’re older and more familiar with spreadsheets, involve them in creating the template. If the lesson plans are blurry, click on them for a full size alternative.

Note: The example uses Excel, but it works just as well with Google Spreadsheets.

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–from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom

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5 (free) Security Posters for Tech Ed

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired.

This month: Security

–for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here



Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Subscriber Special: 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

Subscriber Special

Until January 18th:

Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

Two lesson plans to prepare for Martin Luther King Day in January: 1) Students research events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s impact on American history and share them with an Event Chain organized visually, including pictures and thought bubbles. 2) Students interpret the words of Dr. Martin Luther King in their own words in a visual organizer. Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history.
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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards.
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What’s included in each lesson plan:
  • brief summary of the project
  • Essential Question
  • Big Idea
  • Common Core and ISTE alignment
  • materials required
  • teacher prep required
  • step-by-step instructions
  • extensions to dig deeper into the subject
  • assessment strategies
  • sample grading rubric
  • sample project
  • resources

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Subscriber Special: August

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get news to help their tech teaching.

August:

3 Ways to Learn Digital Citizenship

so you can teach your students

Building Digital Citizens: Online college-credit 5-week class

Building Digital Citizens: Online certificate class delivered via Google Classroom (also available through Teachers Pay Teachers)

K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Here’s a preview of my Digital Citizenship materials:

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