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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week

If you wonder what’s so hard about being a teacher, what with technology, computers, AI assistants, look at this list of challenges they faced just last year: (more…)

What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May

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What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March

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What You Might Have Missed in January–What’s up in February

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Here are the most-read posts for the past month:

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up:

Online resources about puzzles
Online video resources for math
How to check your math in a spreadsheet
Tech Tip: My keyboard doesn’t work
100th Day of School
16 Tech Problems every 5th grader can solve
Engineering Week
Online graphic resources
13 tips to solve unusual problems
Dr. Seuss–Techie style

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How I Merge and Manage Assignments for My Students: Some Examples

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Want to know how I handle and combine assignments for my students? From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here are some real-life examples.

How I Merge and Manage Assignments for My Students: Some Examples

Teaching is not all about delivering lectures to students. In addition to this, you also need to make sure all your students can access their assignments without any hassle.

Yes, it is right!

Managing assignments for my students became a challenging task for me. This situation has sparked my curiosity to find the best way to manage assignments for my class students. During that journey, I discovered the power of these PDF assignments. This solution has streamlined the entire process of managing academic assignments.

Are you an educator looking for an innovative way to merge and manage assignments for students? You are in the right place! In today’s post, I am going to show you how I excelled in this task. I will also provide some examples. Here you go!

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What You Might Have Missed in December–What’s up in January

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

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up this month:

Top articles, tips, reviews for 2023
Free Lesson Plan: Holiday Memory in Word or KidPix
Subscriber Special
Free Lesson Plan: MLK Day
Tech Tips
Tons of online resources about classroom management
14 Websites About Landforms
13 Online Resources About Farms
National Handwriting Day
11 Online Resources About Puzzles

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“The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.”

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, 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.

What You Might Have Missed in November–What’s up in December

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

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

The Subscriber Special–freebies for coding
Holiday projects
Our holiday break–we’ll return early January

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work:

https://forms.aweber.com/form/07/1910174607.htm

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, 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.

12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence

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):

12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence— December 11th (today)
8+ Ways to a Speedier Computer — December 12th
Backup and Image your computer — December 13th

Regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher know these are updated 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 of items that won’t take long to accomplish. The ones you read last year, consider a reminder!

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