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• Weekly tech tips
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• Pedagogy that impacts tech in ed
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Read the most popular articles

Find favorite articles in one spot–the Ask a Tech Teacher Hall of Fame. These are the ones we heard about the most from you, were reposted and referenced, and had the biggest impact on your classrooms.  It includes topics on classroom management, digital citizenship, the future of education, how technology blends into the classroom, and more.

Find tech ed resources for your class

Here’s where you look for them:

• Free Lesson Plans–on software programs, core tech principles, subject-specific topics
• Free video training–on Wikispaces, Evernote, more
• Website reviews–on products you want to use in your classroom
• Apps–for your digital devices
• Great resources–for your teaching, integration, class management, more
• Ask a Tech Teacher resources–these are the ones we-all use in our classrooms
• Structured Learning--where all the Ask a Tech Teacher crew’s tech ed books are published; there’s an insane number of topics and formats. Some free, most fee

Looking for Video PD?

Lots of webinars available on topics that range from Common Core to How to Set up Your Classroom. They’re really affordable–you’ll be surprised.

Ask for help in your class

1. This is your chance to query the Ask a Tech Teacher crew (for free) on anything that has to do with implementing technology in your classroom. We call it Dear Otto. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page (it’s one of the Dear Otto articles) and we’ll answer.
2. Or, join our Sunday Office Hours (re-starting in August). Bring any question you have, just like students and parents do at your school.

If you own the K-5 curriculum…

Get FREE help at K-5 tech curriculum companion wikis. Every week, I teach the lesson with you. You can see an example here.

Don’t own the Curriculum? You can purchase a one-year access to the companion wikis here.

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Don’t forget to check out our Summer offerings:

• Summer Learning classes–four of them; all include certificates
• Summer college credit–two classes to choose from
• Summer Tech Camp (a Build Your Own Adventure for your students)
• Summer Online Keyboarding

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.