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• Book Review: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
• Tech Tip #54: How to Auto Forward a PowerPoint Slideshow
• What’s a Tech Teacher Do With Their Summer Off?
• Happy Father’s Day!
• Book Review: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum
• 32 Keyboarding Websites for Summer
• It’s Here–7th Grade Technology Curriculum!
• 10 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
• Tech Tip #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu
• Summer Tech Tips–What Do You Need?
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• In My Opinion
• Weekend Website #130: EngageNY
• Can’t Attend ISTE 2013? Try this
• 5 Digital Goals for You This Summer
• Tech Tip #52: Roll Your Computer Back to a Problem-Free Date
• ISTE 2013
• Weekend Website #129: 3DTin
• 7 Digital Ways to End the School Year
• 10 Factors to Consider in Tech Report Cards
• Tech Tip #113: Back up Your Blog!
• Happy Memorial Day
• 17 Memorial Day Websites for Students
• 14 Educational Websites Students Will Ask to Visit This Summer
• 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
• Dear Otto: Do Students Still Need to Learn Keyboarding?
• Tech Tip #50: The Easiest Way to Outline
• 6 Must-have Skills for New Tech Teachers Plus One Extra
• 16 Memorial Day Websites for Students
• It’s Here! K-5 Tech Curriculum Aligned with Common Core!
• Tech Tip #49: The Fifteen Second Slideshow
• 11 Ways to Make an Inquiry based Classroom
• Weekend Website #127: Brown Bear Typing
• You Know You’re a Geek When…
• 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher
• Tech Tip #48: Quickly Switch Between Windows
• Dear Otto: How do I prevent printer pandemonium?
• 15 Great Simulations to Gamify Your Class
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• CSTA Conference Coming Up!
• Tech Tip #47: Tool Tips
• Which is better for schools: iPads or laptops?
• Weekend Website #126: BrainPop Game Up
• What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
• Why Keyboarding Should NOT be Dead
• Tech Tip #46: The Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left to (Little) Kids
• Dear Otto: I need reading resources for ELL/ESL
• Weekend Website #125: Starfall Math
• 12 Great Websites for Earth Day
• Platform for Good Hosts Me
• Summer Keyboarding Class–How to Win FREE K-8 Keyboarding Curriculum
• Dear Otto: What’s a good Website program?
• 42 Great Story Websites You’ll Love
• Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part II
• 7 Ways Common Core Will Change Your Classroom
• Tech Tip #45: Your Screen Upside Down?
• FREE Tech Teacher Training–But Join Quickly
• Weekend Website 123: Google Gravity
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• How to Make a Student-created Video
• Tech Tip #44: Clean Your Computer Weekly
• Dear Otto: Any Ideas for Tech Ed Benchmark Assessments?
• Weekend Website #122: Dance Pony Dance
• 7 Technology Tools Every Educator Should Use–the Movie
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• Tech Tip #43: Back Up Often
• Dear Otto: How Do I Teach Citations?
• 10 Easter Sites For Your Students
• 13 Easy Spring Cleaning Steps for Your Computer
• 14 Factors to Consider for Tech Report Cards
• Tech Tip #42: How to (Re)Set Your Homepage
• Dear Otto: How Can Students Keep Track of Passwords?
• 7 Websites That Ring in Spring
• Ramp up Your iPad Use
• Tech Tip #41: Repair Your Computer With System Restore
• 24 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students
• Definition of ‘Teacher’
• How to Teach Keyboarding? Ask Bernadette
• Tech Tip #111: Quick Internet Fix
• Dear Otto: What Can I Use Besides PowerPoint?
• 5 Favorite Websites for K-5
• Read Across America Day
• How to Pick iPad Apps for your Classroom
• Tech Tip #110: Sound Doesn’t Work?
• Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part I
• Weekend Website #121: Class Badges
• How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship
• 7 Common Core Ways to Assess Knowledge
• Tech Tip #112: Five Second Back-up
• One Million Hits–Wow
• Weekend Website #119: 5 Great Website to Teach Letters
• What are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
• Free Lesson Plans–Visit My TeachersPayTeachers Store
• Tech Tip #40: Where Did Windows Explorer Go?
• New Literacies Enable Smarter Researching
• 20 Valentine Sites For Your Students
• How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community
• Dear Otto: When will the 7/8 Technology Curriculum Textbooks be out?
• Tech Tip #39: My Computer Won’t Turn Off
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• Weekend Website #118: Scale of the Universe
• 5 Favorite iPad Apps
• 11 Resources to Blend Technology and Special Needs
• Tech Tip #38: My Desktop Icons Are All Different
• Now Available: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum
• Great Websites Updated!
• Technology in Schools: A Brief History
• Take Tech into the Classroom
• Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar Disappeared
• 17 Topics to Teach K-8 About Digital Citizenship
• 5 Tips to Keeping Your New Years Resolutions
• Weekend Website #120: Spelling Teacher App
• 10 Top Click-throughs from Ask a Tech Teacher
• 2013, I Resolve…
• 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2012
• Lesson Plans for Martin Luther King Day
• Top Ten Websites of 2012
• Honors for Ask a Tech Teacher
• 2012 in review
• New Year’s Gift: 113 Digital Citizenship Links
• 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2012
• Weekend Website #111: California Missions
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• Happy Holiday!
• Tech Tip #36: The Internet Toolbar Disappeared
• 5 Fabulous Last-minute Gifts
• Check Out My Post at TeachHUB
• 5 Great Websites to Teach Letters
• Dear Otto: Should I stick with age limits on websites?
• How to Thrive as a Digital Citizen
• Tech Tip #35: My Program Closed Down
• 10 Steps to Become a Better Geek
• 14 Holiday Websites For Your Students
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• 7 Technology Tools Every Educator Should Use
• Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze
• Perfect Gift for the Teacher in Your Life
• Weekend Website 40: NORAD Santa
• Dear Otto: PowerPoint or Publisher?
• Book Review: Talking Back to Facebook
• Tech Tip #33: My Desktop Icons are Messed Up
• 10 Digital Tricks to Add Zip to Your Roadtrip
• Edublog Nominee
• Happy Thanksgiving Week
• 18 Thanksgiving Sites For Your Students
• Subscribers: Your Special is Available
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 6th Grade
• Tech Tip #32: My Taskbar Got Moved to the Side
• Check Out My Post at TeachHUB
• Weekend Website #116: Google Street View Locations
• Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 5th Grade
• Tech Tip #31: What’s Today’s Date
• 15 Ways to Get Your Geek On
• Weekend Website #115: Minecraft
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 4th Grade
• Tech Tip #109: How to Open 2 Gmail Accounts at Once
• Yes, I’m Resilient, but I Wish Computers Were More Dependable
• Weekend Website #114: 55 Digital Citizenship Links
• What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 3rd Grade
• Top Tech Tips of All Time
• Dear Otto: What Keyboard Curriculum is Best?
• Weekend Website #113: Digital Passport
• Book Review: 16 Holiday Projects
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 2nd Grade
• Tech Tip #108: Three-click Rule
• Dear Otto: I need more guidance than the curriculum offers. What do I do?
• Weekend Website #109: Google World of Wonders
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 1st Grade
• A Virtual Tour of America–Via Biplane
• Tech Tip #107: Got a Tech Problem? Google It!
• Dear Otto: Is Keyboarding Not for Cool Students?
• Weekend Website #112: Nanoogo
• How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten
• Is Keyboarding Dead?
• Tech Tip #91: Internet Problem? Switch Browsers
• Dear Otto: How Do I Prepare for an Unknown Tech Future?
• Weekend Website #108: Wowzers
• Do You Make These 9 Mistakes
• What’s a Digital Portfolio and Why Should You Use it?
• Tech Tip #106: Fastest Way to Add a Period When Typing on an IPad
• Dear Otto: What Are Good Guidelines for Younger Bloggers?
• Weekend Website #107: Google Search Education
• Will Texting Destroy Writing Skills?
• How to Use iPads in Your Classroom
• Tech Tip #105: Create Shortkeys for any Windows Tool
• Dear Otto: What are Options on Digital Portfolios
• 16 Great Virtual Field Trips
• Book Review: 38 Web 2.0 Articles That Will Turn Your Class Around
• Tech Tip #104: Need a File on Your iPad? Here’s an Easy Way
• Our Children Remember…
• When is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?
• Check out my Article over at Cisco
• 5 Great FREE Programs for Students
• Book Review: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
• New to technology? Follow my classes
• 25 Most Common Problems Your Students Will Face
• Happy Labor Day
• 7 Great Labor Day Websites
• Book Review: 98 Tech Tips
• Let me Plan Your Tech Curriculum–for Free
• Tech Tip #30: Menu Command is Greyed Out
• Dear Otto: What’s a good student email program?
• Book Review: How Technology Can Jumpstart Your Classroom
• Weekend Website #106: ZimmerTwins
• Do Your Children Need Computers for School?
• Now Available: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
• Tech Tip #103: Need Email Accounts for Registration? Here’s a Fix
• Dear Otto: What’s a good program to create an online ezine?
• Book Review: Common Core SS K-5 Lesson Plans
• Weekend Website #105: Voki
• New to technology? Follow my classes
• Back to School–Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of Everything
• Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
• 50 Ways to Tell a Story (and Each is Unique)
• Weekend Website #112: The Babakus
• Dear Otto: My computers are old. What do I do?
• Check out my Article over at Cisco
• Tech Tip #28: 5 Ways to Fix a No-Sound Problem–For Free
• Now Available: 35 Extra Lessons for the SL K-6 Technology Curriculum
• Weekend Website #104: Animoto
• Subscribe to my Blog–Get Special Gifts Every Month
• Book Review: 19 Posters to Decorate Your Technology Lab
• Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar Disappeared
• Dear Otto: What About Carmen San Diego?
• Weekend Website #103: Screenbird
• Book Review: My Evernote
• Why do Educators Use Pinterest?
• Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
• 10 Passwords Everyone Uses (And You Shouldn’t)
• Great Resources for Educators–Check it out
• Book Review: 55 Tech Projects for the Digital Classroom
• Website Review: Chegg
• The Elephantine Impact of Technology on Education
• 19 Free Posters For Your Tech Lab
• Tech Tip #25: My Keyboard Doesn’t Work
• Dear Otto: What Online Images are Free?
• Book Review: Sixth Grade Technology Textbook
• Weekend Website #111: 40 California Mission Websites
• Have You Noticed Our New “Great Websites?”
• 5 Great Tech Ed Blogs You May Not Have Heard Of
• Tech Tip #24: How to Open A New Word Doc Without the Program
• Dear Otto: How Can I Highlight a Document
• Subscriber Special: Huge Savings on Bundles
• Book Review: Fifth Grade Technology Textbook
• Weekend Website #110: 89 Resources for Teachers
• Use the SL K-6 Technology Curriculum? Want More Lessons? I Can Do That
• Happy July 4th!
• Tech Tip #23: I Deleted a File By Accident
• Dear Otto: What’s a Good Comic Creator
• Book Review: Fourth Grade Technology Textbook
• Special Ends June 30th–98 Tech Tips FREE With Blog Follow
• Weekend Website #102: Interactive Simulations
• 9 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
• Now Available: Grade-level Bundles of Common Core Lessons
• Tech Tip #22: Quick Exit from 97% of Programs
• Dear Otto: Should Students Space Once or Twice After a Period?
• Book Review: Third Grade Technology Textbook
• Weekend Website #101: Electrocity
• Dear Otto: What Can I Use Besides TuxPaint/KidPix?
• What’s a Tech Teacher Do With Their Summer Off?
• Tech Tip #21: How to Make a Small Webpage Window Big
• Now Available: 98 Tech Problems From the Classroom: and How Students Can Solve Them
• Weekend Website #100: CybraryMan Math
• How to Teach Internet Safety in K-6
• Book Review: Second Grade Technology Textbook
• Tech Tip #20: How to Add an MS Word Link
• Dear Otto: How Do You Teach Adults to Keyboard?
• Weekend Websites #99: How to Research
• Check out my Article over at Cisco
• Now Available: KEY TO ALIGNING K-5 CLASS WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
• Tech Tip #19: How to Activate an MS Word Link
• I’ve been Nominated for the Fascination Award
• App Review: 5th Grade Math–Splash Math Worksheets
• Dear Otto: Where Can I Find Kid-safe Images?
• The Truth About Teaching in America
• Tech Tip #18: 10 Best MS Word Tips
• Happy Memorial Day
• Weekend Website #98: Smithsonian Wild
• Pre-Order: KEY TO ALIGNING K-5 CLASS WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
• Summer Keyboarding Class–Here are the Details
• Tech Tip #17: What’s Today’s Date?
• Book Review: First Grade Technology Textbook
• Weekend Website #98: TED-Ed
• How to Adapt Lessons to Common Core State Standards
• Connect Classrooms With Skype–How it’s Done
• Tech Tip #16: Quickly Email a Doc
• Book Review: Kindergarten Technology Textbook
• Weekend Website #97: Timed Test Arcade
• How to Align Technology with Common Core State Standards
• Ask a Tech Teacher is Interviewed
• Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
• Great Apps Now Available
• Weekend Website #96: Embedit.in
• 16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest
• What About Teacher Tech Training–Part II
• Tech Tip #15: Save Early Save Often–Always
• Dear Otto: Why Can’t I type into a PDF?
• Half a Million Hits–Wow
• Weekend Website #95: AIRR Math
• Changing Education Paradigms
• 10 Things My Blog Taught Me
• Tech Tip #14: Did Your Desktop Icons Disappear?
• Apps for Education
• Weekend Website #94: 9 Websites to Teach Writing
• Communicate the Web 2.0 Way
• Ed-Tech Readers’ Choice Awards–Final Call
• Tech Tip #13: Powerful Right Mouse Click
• Dear Otto: What About Teacher Tech Training?
• 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8–Plus 1
• Weekend Website #93: 24 Third Grade Websites on Landforms
• How Do I Decide What to Write About?
• 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8
• Tech Tip #12: Wrap Text Around an Image
• Monday Freebie #34: How to Teach Dolch Words with KidPix
• Weekend Website #93: 18 Natural Disasters Websites
• Google Summer of Code–They’re Hiring
• What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
• Tech Tip #11: How to Show the Entire Drop Down Menu (Office 2003)
• Dear Otto: How Do You Keep Students From Playing with Settings?
• Weekend Website #92: 43 Language Arts Websites for 3rd Grade
• Should Tech Teachers be in the Classroom or the Lab–Follow Up
• Wikipedia vs Britannica–the Results May Surprise You
• Tech Tip #10: How to Undelete With Two Keystrokes
• Monday Freebies #39: Google Earth Board
• Weekend Website #91: 16 Word Study Websites for 2nd Grade
• 13 ways Twitter Improves Education
• Grants for Classroom Management Software–Take a Look
• Tech Tip #9: Hide Your Screen Quickly
• Dear Otto: How do I protect my lab?
• Weekend Websites #90: Free Audio Books
• What Every Parent Should Know About Computers and the Internet
• Should You Dump Twitter?
• Google Docs on WordPress
• Tech Tip #8: Print Part of a Web Page
• Monday Freebies #40: Wonders of Google Earth
• Weekend Website #89: Rubrics for Web 2.0 Tools
• 21 Reasons Why You Know You’re a Teacher
• Do You Skype? Dilbert Does
• Tech Tip #7: Make Backgrounds Transparent
• Dear Otto: Should Lefties Use Right Hands for Mousing Around
• Weekend Website #88: Drive a Ship
• 29 Steps to Internet Safety for Kids
• Ed-Tech Readers’ Choice Awards
• Tech Tip #6: The (Horrid Annoying) Publisher Drawing Canvas
• Monday Freebies #38: Introduction to Google Earth
• Weekend Website #87: Volcano Explorer
• You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…
• How to Integrate Web 2.0 Tools into the Classroom
• Tech Tip #101: The Internet Button
• Monday Freebies #37: Use Oregon Trail to Teach Westward Expansion
• 62 First Grade Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
• Do Teacher Ed Programs Prepare Students for Technology Needs of the Classroom?
• Should Tech Teachers be in the Classroom or the Lab
• Tech Tip #5: What to do When Your Taskbar Disappears
• Monday Freebies #35: Sponge Activities for Vocabulary Building
• Curious About ChromeBooks? Watch These
• Product Review: Just Air Case for Ipad
• Great Websites Updated!
• Google Apps Support Bloom’s Taxonomy–Take a Look
• My G+ Stream is a Trickle
• Tech Tip #4: Zoom In and Out
• Monday Freebies #36: My First Report
• Where Tech Can Take Students
• 62 Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
• Book Review: Facebook for Business in 10 Minutes
• Help Students Stay Organized with Wikis
• Tech Tip #3: Turn an Address into a Link
• Monday Freebie: #33: Grow Your Story
• Weekend Website #86: Periodic Table of Videos
• Dear Otto: What iPad Apps Do You Recommend?
• Top 13 Web 2.0 Tools for Classrooms
• Tech Tip #2: The PrintScreen Key
• Monday Freebies #32: Color my Grammar
• Weekend Website #85: 11 Sizzling Space Sites
• What Should You Expect of Younger Keyboarders?
• How To Successfully Start a 1:1 Technology Program
• Tech Tip #1: Insert Key
• 6th Grade Technology Textbook is Here!
• Monday Freebie #31: A Title Page in Word
• Top Ten Websites of 2011
• 2011 in review
• 2012, I Resolve…
• 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2011
• Monday Freebies #28: My Storybook
• Web 2.0 Tools in Tech Ed
• Weekend Websites #84: Planet in Action
• Product Review: MindMaple
• 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2011
• Introducing: Tech Tip Tuesday
• Monday Freebies #19: My Bookcover in KidPix
• Happy Holidays!
• Tech Tip #100: Top Ten MS OfficeTips
• Monday Freebie #27: Internet Skills for K-8: Blogs
• Weekend Website #83: Bookmarks4Techs
• Product Review: Live! Cam
• 32 Science Websites for Fifth Graders
• Tech Tip #99: Top Ten Internetting Hints
• Monday Freebies #25: Intro to PowerPoint–with KidPix Pictures
• Weekend Website 40: NORAD Santa
• 6th Grade Tech Textbook Almost Ready
• Edublogs Nomination: Best EdTech/Resource Sharing Blog
• Tech Tip #98: Speed up MS Office with Quick Access Toolbar
• Monday Freebies #13: Great Online Art Sites
• Weekend Website #82: NASA City
• Read My Latest ‘Innovate My School’ Article
• Managing the Second Grade Classroom
• Tech Tip #96: Open a Program Maximized
• Monday Freebie #12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Ask a Tech Teacher Featured
• Tech Tip #97: How to Add Zip to Your Slow Computer
• Monday Freebie #10: Drawing in Photoshop
• Product Review: Luna Projection Camera
• Organize Your Teaching With Wikis
• Nominations For Edublog Awards Now Open!
• Monday Freebies #22: A Holiday Flier
• Weekend Website #81: A Web Whiteboard
• What Should You Expect of Younger Keyboarders?
• Keyboarding for Youngers? There are Three Sides to the Story
• Tech Tip #95: Find the Programs You Use Quickly
• Monday Freebies #24: Holiday Newsletter
• Weekend Website #80: 73 Sponges for Classroom–by topic
• Buy 3, Get 16 Holiday Projects Free
• Make ‘Passports’ to Encourage Keyboard Skills
• Tech Tip #94: Shortkey for Find
• Monday Freebies #23: A Holiday Calendar
• Weekend Website #74: 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
• Using Skype in the Classroom
• Unlocking Social Networking for Schools
• Tech Tip #93: Auto-fill for Internet Addresses
• Monday Freebies #21: Another Holiday Card
• Weekend Website #73: 3 Programs to Teach Architecture in First Grade
• Couldn’t make the Radio Interview? Here’s What We Covered
• Tech Tip #92: Rollback Windows Updates
• Monday Freebies #3: Make Your Own Wallpaper
• Weekend Website #65: Noodle
• Ask a Tech Teacher Takes to Radio
• Tech Tip #91: Internet Problems? Switch Browsers
• Monday Freebies #20: How to Make Wallpaper
• Weekend Website #75: Solar System Scope
• Classroom Management 101: Use Wikis
• Easi-Speak Digital Microphone is Simple
• Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans
• Monday Freebies
• Weekend Website #72: 62 Favorite 1st Grade Websites
• Do You See Youself in This Video?
• Tech Tip #89: Use Keyboard Shortcuts With Students
• Are You As Smart as a Fifth Grader (and more)
• Weekend Website #71: 5 Great FREE Programs for Kids
• #42: Where Did I Come From?
• Tech Tip #87: Image Your Computer
• How to Organize the First Grade Class
• Weekend Website #68: Live Like Bear Grylls
• #99: How to Teach Internet Basics to Kids
• Tech Tip #88: 20 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix
• I Love my Kindergarten Class Wiki
• Our Children Remember…
• Weekend Website #69: Free Online Classes From MIT et al
• Read My Latest ‘Innovate My School’ Article
• Back to School–Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of Everything
• Tech Tip #86: Back up Your Computer
• 5 Great Labor Day Websites
• Weekend Website #66: What’s Your Carbon Footprint
• School’s Back–Do Your Children Need Computers?
• Tech Tip #85: Browser Problem? Switch Browsers
• Free Ebook Anyone? Can I Ask a Favor?
• Weekend Website #67: 20 Websites to Learn Everything About Landforms
• The Secret to Teaching Tech to Kids: Delegate
• Tech Tip #18: Ten Best MS Word Tips–How Did You Survive Without Them
• A ‘Typical’ Tech Lesson Plan
• Weekend Website #64: Khan Academy
• How Do You Use Twitter in Education
• Tech Tip #84: How to Find the Follow-up Folder in Outlook
• Why Some Kids Always Seem to Know the Answers
• Weekend Website #63: Teach Keyboarding
• How to Balance Teaching and Independent Discovery
• Geek Tweaks Going On
• Big List of Great Kids Websites Updated
• Tech Tip #83: How Do I Use a ‘Read Only’ Doc?
• #81: Problem Solving Board
• Weekend Website #62: Teach Parents Tech
• 19 Free Posters For Your Tech Lab
• Book Review: 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom
• Tech Tip #80: My Internet Stopped Working
• 31 Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
• Book Review: Disrupt Class–Yes, That’s What I Said
• Weekend Website #60: Google Tools and Bloom’s Taxonomy
• I Got An Invite to Google+
• Tech Tip #82: My Picture’s a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG
• Are you as Tech-Smart as a Fifth Grader?
• Weekend Website #53: EasyBib
• What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
• Book Review: Fifth GradeTechnology
• Tech Tip #78: Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses
• Discount on Technology Curriculum
• Weekend Website #61: Brainy Widgets from Wolfram Alpha
• Come Visit Me on Innovate My School
• Book Review: Third Grade Technology–32 Lessons
• Tech Tip #69:Make your desktop icons Big or Little
• A Note to Readers From My Publisher
• Weekend Websites #58: 12 Music Websites for the Non-Geeks in Your Class
• ISTE Debrief: Don’t Hide the Internet from Today’s Kids
• Book Review: Kindergarten Technology–32 Lessons
• Tech Tip #77: Laptop Frozen? Here’s Another Solution
• Weekend Websites #59: 62 First Grade Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
• Book Review: 1st Grade Technology–32 Lessons
• Tech Tip #79: Saving Your File so Everyone Can Read it
• 23 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5
• Weekend Websites #79: 57 Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
• Book Review: Fourth Grade Technology–32 Lessons
• Tech Tip #76: Laptop Frozen? Here’s What You Do
• Five Great Summer Websites Your Kids Don’t Want to Miss
• Weekend Website #52: 7 Sites About Coin Counting
• Book Review: Second Grade Technology–32 Lessons
• Tech Tip #75: What’s My IP Address
• #54: Sponge Activities in History
• Weekend Websites #78: 46 Online Math Sites for 4th/5th Grade
• 6 Hi-Tech Tools for Writers
• #11: Photoshop Actions and History Brush
• Tech Tip #81: I Have Office 2010; Everyone Else Has 2003–They Can’t Read My Stuff
• Book Review: Digital Forensics With Open Source Tools
• Weekend Website #77: Blackle
• #10: Drawing in Photoshop
• Tech Tip #74: The Gadgets Menu Bar
• Thank You
• 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
• Tech Tip #73: Alt+??? Brings up which Menu Command?
• Blogger Humor
• Weekend Websites #56: 23 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5
• #47: Tour the World—with a PowerPoint Slideshow
• How I Doubled My Business in a Year
• Tech Tip #72: How to Move Pics Around in Documents
• #42: Where Did I Come From
• Weekend Website #55: Science for Fifth Graders
• How Fast Should Kids Type
• Dr. Seuss Discusses Packet Pockets
• Tech Tip #71: Visit Foreign Language Google Search
• Weekend Website #76: 46 Math Websites for Tech Integrated Classrooms
• What are Your Favorite Summer School Keyboard Activities
• Tech Tip #70: Save Energy While Searching
• 20 Common Computer Problems and Solutions (a Third Grader Can Do)
• Weekend Websites–Where’d My Newsletter Go!
• Weekend Website #54: 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
• #55: Keyboarding in the Classroom
• Tech Tip #68: Check History in Your Browser
• #54: Sponge Activities in History
• Weekend Website #53: 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
• #30: A Cover Page in Publisher
• Tech Tip #67: How to Add Accents and more
• What Every Parent Should Know About Computers
• Weekend Website #51: 17 Story Sites for First and Second Grade
• College Students Then and Now
• Tech Tip #66: Zoom In/Out of Websites
• #47: Tour the World—with a PowerPoint Slideshow
• Weekend Website #50 Visuword
• What Did a Hard Drive Look Like in 1956?
• Tech Tip #65: Google Street View
• Tech Tip #64: Reset Default Font
• 6 Kindergarten Keyboard Basics
• Weekend Websites #57: 28 Websites to Teach Tech to Kindergarten-First Grade
• 17 Story Sites for First and Second Grade
• Tech Tip #63: Don’t Like Double Space Between Paragraphs?
• #42: Where are my Roots?
• Weekend Website #49: Tux Paint
• Help! I Need Your Input
• #39: Google Earth Board
• Tech Tip #62: Email from Word (Or PowerPoint or Excel)
• How to Teach Keyboarding in Lower School
• Weekend Website #48: Wolfram|Alpha for Educators
• 20 Best Keyboarding Websites
• Tech Tip #61: How to Get Youngers to Use the Right Mouse Button
• How to Teach Problem-solving With Oregon Trail and Win7
• Weekend Website #47: Online Keyboarding
• #37: Use Oregon Trail to Teach Westward Expansion
• Tech Tip #60: How to Add Shortcuts to the Desktop
• Bill Gates to Visit Pomona College on March 10
• Weekend Website #46: Computer Lab Favorites
• Lots of Great Lesson Plans
• Tech Tip #59: Shortkey for the Copyright Symbol
• Another Hans Rosling Extravaganza–Health vs. Wealth
• Weekend Website #45: Google Art Project
• #48: Sponge Activities for Geography
• Tech Tip #58: Show all Your Tools on Toolbars
• Weekend Website #44: Mission US
• 5 Best Tech Skills You Learned in Elementary School
• Tech Tip #57: How to Create a Chart Really Fast
• Photoshop Anyone?
• Weekend Website #43: Google Search
• Book Review: Savvy Cyberkids at Home
• Tech Tip #55: Find a Lost Shortcut
• #41: Where is That?
• Twitter Buzz On Super Bowl Sunday Ads
• Weekend Website #41: Spanish Help
• #30: A Cover Page in Publisher
• Tech Tip #56: Force a New Page
• Google EBooks is a Year Old. How are they doing?
• Weekend Website #42: Yuckiest Site on the Internet
• #40: Wonders of Google Earth
• Tech Tip #54: How to Auto Forward a PowerPoint Slideshow
• 3 Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer
• Weekend Website #40: Many Eyes
• #35: Sponge Activities for Vocabulary Building
• Tech Tip #51: Copy Images From Google Images
• Just Another Day In Computer Lab
• Weekend Websites #39: Big Huge Labs
• 3 Steps to Keep the Internet Child-Safe
• Will All Twitter Users Please Twand Up
• Tech Tip #45: Your Screen Upside Down?
• Weekend Website #38: DSpace@MIT
• 10 Top Click-throughs from Ask a Tech Teacher
• 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2010
• Tech Tip #46: The Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left to (Little) Kids
• Ask a Tech Teacher 2010 in Review
• 2011, I Resolve…
• Weekend Websites: Best Sites of 2010
• 10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2010
• Weekend Website #40: NORAD Santa
• Tech Tip #48: Quickly Switch Between Windows
• 3 Programs to Teach Architecture in First Grade
• Weekend Website #37: Microsoft Dreamspark
• #36: My First Report
• How Blogs Make Kids Better Writers
• Tech Tip #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu
• Can Technology Help Teachers Plan?
• Weekend Website #36: LearnItIn5
• What Happens When Technorati Gives Me Authority?
• Tech Tip #52: Roll Your Computer Back to a Problem-Free Date
• Weekend Website #35: Dance Mat Typing
• #38: Introduction to Google Earth
• Tech Tip #22: Quick Exit from 97% of Programs
• #33: Grow Your Story
• Weekend Website #25: Online Schooling
• Tech Tip #50: The Easiest Way to Outline
• Favorite Animated GIF’s
• Buy a Book Get a FREE PDF
• Weekend Website #34: Block Posters
• #30: A Cover Page
• Tech Tip #47: Tool Tips
• ASCII Art for the Beginner
• Weekend Website #33: Wild on Math
• #15: A Holiday Letter in Word
• Tech Tip #49: The Fifteen Second Slideshow
• #35: Sponge Activities for Vocabulary Building
• Weekend Website #32: SqoolTube
• #39: Google Earth Board
• Tech Tip #44: Clean Your Computer Weekly
• Profile of the Non-Voter
• Weekend Website #27: TED
• Weekend Website #31: Elementary Tech Teachers Ning
• Tech Tip #43: Back Up Often
• #28: My Storybook
• Weekend Website #30: Breathing Earth
• Tech Tip #42: How to (Re)Set Your Homepage
• #27: Online Blogs for Your Classroom
• Weekend Website #29: Storybook Maker
• Tech Tip #40: Where Did Windows Explorer Go?
• #33: Grow Your Story
• Weekend Website #28: Bing Maps
• #32: Color my Grammar
• Tech Tip #41: Repair Your Computer With System Restore
• Tech Problems Date to the Middle Ages
• #80: Study Better Together With Excel
• End of the Week Laugher #7
• Weekend Website #7: Free Flash Tools for your Classroom
• What’s it Like to Be a Blogger?
• Tech Tip #38: My Desktop Icons Are All Different
• Life is a Computer Program
• Weekend Website #26: Tagxedo
• 7 More Great Mouse Skills Programs
• Tech Tip #39: My Computer Won’t Turn Off
• How to Solve the Hardest Computer Problem
• Weekend Website #24: Office Web Apps
• Tech Tip #21: How to Make a Small Webpage Window Big
• Weekend Website #22: Webspiration
• Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar Disappeared
• Tech Tip #36: The Internet Toolbar Disappeared
• FREE Lesson Plans for K-8 Technology
• Weekend Website #23: Fourth Grade Class Wiki
• Weekend Website #21: Test Your Typing Speed
• Tech Tip #35: My Program Closed Down
• Social Media Explained With Two Maps
• What Should You Include on a Younger Child’s Computer
• Weekend Website #20: Kindergarten Class Wiki
• Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze
• Weekend Website #19: First Grade Class Wiki
• A Good Peer Review–Huzzah
• Tech Tip #33: My Desktop Icons are Messed Up
• 25 Tips for Not-so-Techy Folk
• Weekend Website #18: Second Grade Class Wiki
• 8 Simple Fixes if Your Computer Won’t Work
• Tech Tip #19: How to Activate a Link in Word
• What Do You Think of Facebook in Schools?
• Weekend Website #17: Third Grade Class Wiki
• Who Reads Blogs?
• Tech Tip #20: How to Add A Link to Word
• E-book Sales Surpass Harcovers
• Weekend Website #16: Fourth Grade Class Wiki
• Dr. Seuss in the Digital Age
• Tech Tip #32: My Taskbar Got Moved to the Side
• Weekend Website #15: A Class Wiki
• What About Our Kids Endangered Minds
• Tech Tip #31: What’s Today’s Date
• 5 Google Earth Projects for the Web 2.0 Classroom
• Weekend Website #12: Wacky Faces
• Tech Tip #18: No Excuse for Spelling Errors
• #79: Excel Turns Data Into Information
• Weekend Website #14: The Internet Start Page
• Is Technology Good for Our Younger Children?
• Tech Tip #30: Menu Command is Greyed Out
• Weekend Website #13: MS Office
• #13: Great Online Art Sites
• Tech Tip #29: I Can’t Find My File
• Here’s One for the Tech-ed Naysayers
• Weekend Website #11: Google Moon
• Tech Tip #28: 5 Ways to Fix a No-Sound Problem–For Free
• Where Would You Like to Go Today?
• Weekend Website #10: Google Mars
• Thirty-two More Ways to Use Spare Classroom Time
• Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar Disappeared
• Nineteen Ways to Use Spare Classroom Time
• Weekend Website #9: Talking Pets
• Tech Tip #23: I Deleted a File By Accident
• Weekend Website #8: Virtual Surgery
• Tech Ten Commandments–the Christian Version
• Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work
• Weekend Website #7: Create Flash Class Tools Online
• #43: How to Teach Geography with KidPix II
• Tech Tip #25: My Keyboard Doesn’t Work
• #44: How to Teach Geography with KidPix I
• Weekend Website #6: Cool Tools for School (and Homeschools)
• Ten Best Keyboarding Hints You’ll Ever See
• How to Make a Cover Page in KidPix
• Tech Tip #24: How to Open A New Word Doc Without the Program
• #34: How to Teach Dolch Words with KidPix
• Weekend Website #5: Get Tricky With Wikis
• #73: How to Graph in Excel
• Tech Tip #17: Don’t Know the Date? No Problem
• #26: Create a Storybook in KidPix
• Weekend Website #4: Hangman
• This School Has Spirit!
• The Geek Lifestyle: Can You Relate
• Tech Tip #16: Email That Document
• #2: How to KidPix II
• Weekend Website #3: Spybot
• 18 Great Poetry Websites
• #1: How to KidPix I
• Tech Tip #15: Save Early Save Often
• Weekend Website #2: Zoopz
• #109: MS Word Skills Assessment for Grades 3-8
• Tech Tip #14: Desktop Icons Disappear?
• How to Use Second Life for Teaching
• Weekend Website #1: Jing
• Tech Tip #13: The Powerful Right Mouse Button
• Ask a Tech Teacher–A Great Review
• Weekend Websites (They’re Wonderful)
• Hackers Love April Fool’s Day
• Tech Tip #12: Wrap Text Around a Picture
• #110: Publisher Skills Assessment for Grades 3-8
• End of the Week Laugher #5
• The First Female Geek: Ada Lovelace
• #51: History Trifold in Publisher–Grades 4-7
• Tech Tip #11: How to Show the Entire Drop Down Menu
• #50: American Revolution Magazine in Publisher
• Tech Tip #10: How to Undelete
• Kids Use Computers More at School Than Home
• #53: Colonization Trifold Brochure in Publisher
• #52: Indigenous Cultures Magazine in Publisher
• Tech Tip #9: Quickly Hide Your Screen
• #49: California Missions Project–in Publisher
• End of the Week Laugher #4
• #74: Mastering Excel (for Beginners)
• Tech Tip #8: Print a Selection off a Web Page
• #102: 23 Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts
• #103: Know Your Computer Hardware
• Tech Tip #7: Transparent Backgrounds
• Tech Support and Teachers: Like Two Foreign Languages
• End of the Week Laugher #3
• #3: Windows Skills: Make Your Own Wallpaper
• #105: Top 30 Geek Speak for Fifth Grade
• Tech Tip #6: The (Horrid Annoying) Drawing Canvas
• What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting WPP Online
• End-of-the-week-Laugher #2
• #99: Internet ABCs for Elementary Schoolers
• Tech Tip #5: Reveal a Program
• #100: How to Web 2.0 Accessorize Your Classroom
• End-of-the-Week Laugher #1
• #101: Don’t Print Homework–Email it!
• Every Group Has Their Own Secret Language; Here’s Tech’s
• Tech Tip #4: Zoom In and Out
• Don’t Miss This Westward Expansion Website
• #12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
• How to Automate an MLA Heading
• Tech Tip #3: Turn an Address into a Link
• #27: Internet Skills for K-8: Blogs
• #95: Teach About Inventions with PowerPoint
• Tech Tip #2: The PrintScreen Key
• #67: Teach PowerPoint in Elementary School
• #29: A PowerPoint Slideshow for Third Graders
• Tech Tip #1: the Insert Key
• #26: Intro PowerPoint in Second Grade
• #25: Intro to PowerPoint–with KidPix Pictures
• #72: An Easy Way to Check Math Homework
• Introducing: Tech Tip Tuesday
• Visit My Class Wikis
• #59: Reading + Keyboarding = Success
• 5 Best Online Keyboarding Programs
• #57: Yes, You Should Assign Keyboarding Homework
• Keyboarding Starts Here
• #75: Tessellations in Excel
• #70: How to Keep a Timecard in Excel
• #12: How to Draw in MS Excel
• #71: Beginning Graphs in MS Excel
• How the World Ranks Your Blog
• #21: A Holiday Card in Publisher
• #20: A Holiday Card in KidPix
• #17: A Holiday Story in MS Word for Grades 2-7
• #22: A Holiday Flier in Publisher
• #16: A Holiday Memory in Word or KidPix
• Big List of Student-Friendly Websites
• #15: A Holiday Letter for Grades 2-6
• How to Become Survivorman–or Bear Grylls–in Third Grade
• Use MS Word’s Tables to Review for a Chapter Test
• Teach Animal Adaptations with an MS Word Diagram
• Nomination for Edublogs 2009 Award
• #87: Use MS Word’s Diagrams to Teach Animal Characteristics
• 3 Projects to Integrate Tech into an Animals Unit–Part I
• #46: How to Use Technology to Teach Landforms
• FREE Tech Lesson Plans!
• #24: A Holiday Newsletter in MS Word for Elementary School
• #23: A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School
• 11 MS Word Tricks Every Teacher Should Know
• Saul Alinsky: NEA’s Model for Education Reformers
• Census Facts About Today’s American Indians
• #72: How to Check Your Math in Excel
• Kigose–Does it Satisfy it’s Promise of a Student-Friendly Search Engine?
• #70: How to Excel if You’re a Beginner II
• How to Excel if You’re a Beginner–I
• 20 Websites to Learn Everything About Landforms
• 5 Tools for the Teacher’s Technology Toolkit
• 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
• What are the EU’s Education Issues?
• Are You A Critical Thinker?
• More Free Stuff From Google
• 10 Great Virtual Field Trips
• How to… Just About Anything in Technology
• ‘Race to Top’ Said to Lack Key Science
• 20 Websites to Learn Everything About the Human Body
• Will Digital Books Help Education? Yes.
• Here’s Why People Don’t Stress over Education Anymore
• How to Teach Email to Kids
• 10 of the Best Math Websites Out There
• Common Sense Wins Out: It Takes More Than Praise to Make Kids Smart
• #32: How to Use Art to Teach Grammar
• How to Teach Geography with Google Earth–Part II
• How to Teach Geography with Google Earth–Part I
• How to Explain Computers In K-5
• Hackers Don’t Waste Their Time on Macs
• Social Media–What the Heck is This All About??
• Handwriting vs. Computers: Winner Takes All
• Can Your Fifth Grader Answer This Math Problem?
• What Others Say When They Know I’m a Techie
• Attention Moms: A List of the Worst Lunches
• #45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography
• National Education Standards? Can You Say Big Brother?
• How to Use Excel to Teach Math Arrays
• How to Teach Lats and Longs
• 4 Ways to Explore the Universe From Your Computer
• 3 Projects to Teach ‘Who Am I?’
• Free Online Tech Classes From MIT and Others
• Four Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills
• 16 Things You Know If You’ve Been Reading This Blog
• Announcing: The Technology Lab Toolkit
• Don’t Teach to the Test, But Tie Teacher Pay To Performance?
• The Official List of Twitter-friendly Words
• Three Tips to Keep Your PC Safe
• How Obama Is Changing Education
• Did Your Computer Freeze? Read This
• 13 Cool Win 7 Tricks
• #112: 10 Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer
• Is Handwriting Like Camera Film–So Last Generation
• How to Stop Hating Your Computer
• What You Need to Know about Kidproofing the Internet
• The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks (16-25)
• How to Protect Your Computer–for Free
• Microsoft Professional Software Free to Students
• Two Internet Activites For the First Day of Class
• Keyboarding Could Give Early Warning of Dementia
• The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks (1-15)
• How to Find Reliable Internet Sources
• How Blogs and Wikis Make Students Better Writers
• Tips for Internet Searches
• #9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade
• Why Do People Hack?
• Another Big City Goes With Google Apps
• How to Talk to Your Child’s Teacher (Parent)
• 4 FREE Online Keyboarding Programs for K, 1
• 642 Hours to Complete Race to the Top Application
• Obama and Cookies: What’s the Story
• Middle School Programmers: Meet Alice
• 5 Clues You’ve Been Hacked and What to do About it
• How to Get Published if You’re Just Starting Out
• What Everybody Ought to Know About Technological Literacy
• Why I like PCs Better Than Macs
• Textbooks Should be Digital, not Hard Copies
• Five More Must-have Freebies
• Top Ten Free Apps to Install on a New Computer
• Fifth Grade Photoshop: Change That Background
• Fifth Grade: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
• Government IT Departments Still Confused by Cloud Computing
• Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics
• #7: Fifth Grade Cropping in Photoshop
• Blogging for Education
• Education reform: Let’s start by burning all the textbooks
• Do You Know Where Your Sysadmin is Today?
• Total Firefox Downloads Just Shy Of 1,000,000,000 (yes, 1 billion)
• #8: Fifth Grade Cloning in Photoshop
• Education Week: ‘Race to Top’ Guidelines Stress Use of Test Data
• Obama Mandates Teacher Performance Pay
• #6: Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Autofixes
• #4: Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is Word
• Use Your Computer Like a Pro–in fifth grade
• How to Crack your (Lost) Windows Password
• How to Hack Passwords
• Blogging for Education
• What’s Your Carbon Footprint
• Why People Blog–You’ll be Surprised at the Reasons
• Costco Pairs With Gazelle for Old Tech Trade-Ins
• 9 Reasons to Quit Teaching and Ten to Stay
• Make a Movie–at Any Age
• Interview with Ask a TechTeacher
• Programming for You and Me–from MIT
• Survivors Guilt and Teaching–Why Me?
• School Reports Contradict Pres. Obama and Ed Sec Duncan
• Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
• You Know You’re a Geek if You Know What ‘Defcon’ is
• Freebies
• Learn Publisher Basics II
• technorati: take notice
• Marketing 101
• Five Little Known Ways to Hack a Computer
• Google Takes Aim at Microsoft, Introduces OS – Science News | Science
• Learn Publisher Basics I
• Get Rid of Computer Fear
• Education Week: Authors Share Tips on How to Hook Boys on Books
• MS Word for Grades 2-5
• Warning: Computers can be Addicting
• Let’s Review… Tech Essentials
• 5 Great FREE Programs for Kids
• Top Ten Tech Vocabulary Words
• What Do You Think is the Hardest Techie Problem?
• Twenty-one Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix
• World’s Fastest Typist
• 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
• Using the Internet–K-2
• Using an Internet Start Page
• Techie Humor
• Shake Hands with a Computer
• Introduction to KidPix
• Summer technology