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Great list of Top Education Blogs
10Greatest.com has a comprehensive list of the top education blogs. It covers everything from grade-level resources to topic-specific. I’m proud to say that Ask a Tech Teacher is the first blog on the list–but we have a lot of august company, everything from Richard Byrne to Alice Keeler.
Here are a few:
ASK A TEACHER
LEARN LEAD GROW
COOL CAT
PBS PARENTS
LARRY FERLAZZO’S ENGAGING PARENTS IN SCHOOL
ED TECH FOR BEGINNERS
CAITLIN TUCKER
TEACHER TECH WITH ALICE KEELER
SCHOLASTIC
FREETECH4TEACHERS
PARENT CUE
THE EDUCATOR
If you’re wondering who to follow to be sure you are up to date on the latest in education, definitely check this list.
20 Websites and 3 Posters to Teach Mouse Skills
Many of my most popular articles are about mouse skills. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers visit Ask a Tech Teacher to find resources for teaching students how to use a mouse. No surprise because using a mouse correctly is one of the most important pre-keyboarding skills. Holding it is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break.
The earlier posts are still active, but I’ve updated this resource with more websites and posters to assist in starting off your newest computer aficionados.
Mouse Skills
- Bees and Honey
- Drawing Melody–draw in many colors with the mouse and create music
- Hover skills–drag mouse over the happy face and see it move
- Left-click practice while playing the piano
- Left-click with Bubble Wrap
- MiniMouse
- Mouse and tech basics–video
- Mouse practice—drag, click
- Mouse skills
- Mouse Song
- Mr. Picasso Head
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OwlieBoo–mouse practice
Puzzles
Kids love puzzles and they are a great way to teach drag-and-drop skills with the mouse buttons. Here are some of my favorites:
- Digipuzzles–great puzzles for geography, nature, and holidays
- Jigsaw Planet–create your own picture jigsaw
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Jigzone–puzzles
- Jigsaw Puzzles–JS
Adults
Posters
169 Tech Tip #126: 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #126–7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
Category:Â Differentiation
Sub-category:Â Teaching, Pedagogy
Here are seven ways to differentiate instruction every day:
What You Might Have Missed in August
Here are the most-read posts for the month of August:
- 2017 Teachers Pay Teachers Conference: Notes from Sessions
- Back to School. Lots of Ideas!
- Google Sheets in the K-12 Classroom
- Math: Energize Your Math Program with Thinkster Math
- Moodle: The Unsung Hero of LMS Options
- Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class
- Whole Brain Teaching: Is it Right for Me?
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 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 reviewer, 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. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.
It’s Time to go Back to School. Lots of Ideas!
I’ve written a lot of Back-to-School articles over the last few years. They cover so many topics–see if you find what you’re looking for here:
3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons
3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year
4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page
5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall
5 Tools To Shake up the New Year
5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year
5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology
5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class
6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers
8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School
11 Back-to-School Activities for the First Month
Back to School–Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of Everything
Dear Otto: I need year-long assessments
How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests
New School Year? New Tech? I Got You Covered
Plan a Memorable Back to School Night
Turnitin Releases Free Back-to-School Resources
Tech Ed Resources for Your Classroom: Survival Kits
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular.
Today: Tech Survival Kits
Overview
Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more. By purchasing as a Kit, you get a 10% discount on the included materials.
There are five Survival Kits. The specific resources depend upon your need:
What You Might Have Missed in July
Here are the most-read posts for the month of July:
- What is Microsoft Sway?
- 10 Great Posts on How to Involve Parents
- 12 Projects for your STEAM program
- Is Orton-Gillingham Right For Your Students?
- 13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading
- Zap Zap Kindergarten Math–Clever, Engaging Early Math Lessons
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 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 reviewer, 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. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.
13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading
At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Good intentions to give all students access to the world’s knowledge were derailed by the cost of the websites and webtools that made that happen. Turns out — and not really a surprise — the cost of the digital devices was minor compared to the cost of the websites and webtools required to meet goals.
There is one bright spot in this story: Online books. Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure.
FREE
Here are eight sites that offer free books for kids to adults:
What You Might Have Missed in June
Here are the most-read posts for the month of June:
- 10 Classroom Management Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- 11 Classroom Blogging Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
- OneNote–the all-in-one digital notetaking, classroom app for educators
- Need Tech Next Year? Start Here
- Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?
- How the Frayer Model Helps Thousands Learn Vocabulary
- 3 Important Books for Kids
- Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do
- 6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program
- 15 Skills Teachers Can Learn this Summer and Use in Next Year’s Classroom
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 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 reviewer, 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. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.
11 Classroom Blogging Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are eleven of the top classroom blogging tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
- Can We Eliminate Blogs–Teachers Hate Them!
- 6 Tips I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging
- 3 Problems to Address Before Blogging at Your School
- 7–no 10, wait 12–OK, 13 Skills I Teach With Blogging
- Once a Year Blog Maintenance–Are You Up to Date?
- 5 Great Tech Ed Blogs You May Not Have Heard Of
- What Are Good Guidelines for Younger Bloggers?
- Internet Skills for K-8: Blogs
- How Blogs Make Kids Better Writers
- What’s it Like to Be a Blogger?
- How to Use Blogs in Your Classroom
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