Here are the most-read posts last month:

It’s a little short this month because I was out of town for a few weeks:

1. 16 Tech Problems Every 5th Grader Can Solve
2. 40+ Visual Learning Options for your PBL
3. Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up:

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Here are the most-read posts last month:

1. Groundhog Day
2. #WorldReadAloudDay February 4th
3. 100th Day of School
4. ow to Use Excel to Teach Math Arrays
5. 50 Special Needs Tools
6. Happy Chinese New Year
7. Great Websites to Make Spring Sparkle
8. Sure-fire Ways to Teach Vocabulary
9. Excel Turns Data Into Information
10. You’re a Sophomore and Interested in USNA

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Here are the most-read posts last month:

1. Public Doman Day 2026
2. Top Ten Posts and Tips for 2025
3. January is Braille Literacy Month
4. Free MLK Lesson Plans
5. Tessellations in Excel
6. Tech Tip for Writers #34: My Program Froze
7. National Handwriting Day
8. Tons of Online Resources About Classroom Management
9. Keyboarding 101
10. How to Check Your Math in Excel

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up:

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Here are the most-read posts last month:

1. Websites that Explain Elections
2.  Subscriber Special: November Holiday Project Book
3. National STEM Day Nov. 8th
4. Geography Awareness Week November 17-21
5. A Day to Remember Veterans
6. How to Graph in Excel
7. Create a Timecard in a Spreadsheet for Grade Two+
8. 8 Tips to Teach Tomorrow’s Students
9. Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning
10. What Makes a Great EdTech Teacher?

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This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll accomplish in the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (links won’t be active until the post goes live):

1. 12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence— December 4th (today)
2. 8+ Ways to a Speedier Computer — December 5th 

Regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher know I update these each December. New readers: Consider these body armor in the tech battle so you can jubilantly overcome rather than dramatically succumb. If you also read WordDreams, these are also posted there with some adaptations to writers.

Today: 12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with students, parents, meetings, grades, reports, reviews, and thinking. There are few breaks to update/fix/maintain the tech tools that allow us to pursue our trade.

That includes our online presence. But, if they aren’t updated, we are left wondering why our blog doesn’t attract visitors, why our social media Tweeple don’t generate activity, and why we aren’t being contacted for networking. Here’s a short list that won’t take long to accomplish. The ones from last year, consider a reminder!

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Here are the most-read posts for the month of November:

1. Websites that Explain Elections
2. Subscriber Special: November Holiday Project Book (still going ond)
3. National STEM Day Nov. 8th
4. Geography Awareness Week November 17-21
5. A Day to Remember Veterans
6. How to Graph in Excel
7. Create a Timecard in a Spreadsheet for Grade Two+
8. 8 Tips to Teach Tomorrow’s Students
9. Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning
10. What Makes a Great EdTech Teacher?

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up in December:

It’s a short month because we’re dark for the second half, to prepare for the new year:

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I’ve taught edtech for almost twenty years to a lot of different grade levels–elementary school, middle school, and educators. Teaching technology is as much about the tech skills as overcoming the dread associated with geeky subjects like computer, science, and math. I usually spend a good bit of time make it user friendly before I can even get into the what’s and how’s.

Turns out there’s a trick to teaching this subject. The Ask a Tech Teacher team put some ideas together for you below:

What Makes a Great EdTech Teacher?

Educational technology, or EdTech, is much more than a buzzword. It’s become a building block of modern classroom teaching. Blackboards and textbooks have been accompanied (or replaced) by things like digital whiteboards, learning apps, virtual reality, and AI tutoring tools. These advances continue to redefine how students engage with learning — but being a great EdTech teacher is about more than just introducing or using apps — it’s about understanding how students learn and how technology can supplement meaningful teaching.

So what makes a good EdTech teacher great? Here are a few key qualities to consider. (more…)

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Here are the most-read posts for the month:

1. Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher
2. Here’s How to Get Started with Ask a Tech Teacher
3. #9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade
4. 20+ Back To School Websites
5. Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills
6. 50+ Websites on Keyboarding
7. The Quiet Power Of Puzzles In A Noisy Classroom
8. Should You Unschool?
9. Autumn Websites
10. Tech Ed Resources–Mentoring and Coaching

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How AI is Giving Teachers Back Their Weekends: A Peek Inside the Classroom Revolution

In the whirlwind of a teacher’s day—juggling lesson tweaks, student IEPs, and that inevitable stack of assessments – it’s easy to feel like the weekend is just a myth. I remember my first year teaching middle school science in a diverse urban district. I’d spend Friday nights hunched over my laptop, piecing together slides from outdated textbooks, scrambling to adapt activities for English language learners, and crossing my fingers that the lesson would actually land with my mixed-ability class. It wasn’t just exhausting; it chipped away at the joy of why I got into teaching in the first place. Fast-forward to today, and tools like TeachAid are flipping that script, turning hours of drudgery into minutes of magic. If you’re a teacher staring down another unit plan, this is the friendly nudge you’ve been waiting for. (more…)