Check Out My Post at TeachHUB

I write a column for TeachHUB, about twice a month. If you’d like to check out my article, Friday Five: 5 Fabulous Last-Minute Gifts, click and visit. There are some other interesting articles over there, so plan on staying a while.

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-6 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, creator of two technology training books for middle school and six ebooks on technology in education. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-weekly contributor to TeachHUB and Write Anything. Currently, she’s editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

Check Out My Post at TeachHUB

I’m going to be writing a column for TeachHUB, about twice a month. If you’d like to check out my first article, Friday Five: Top Five iPad Apps for Your Classroom, click and visit. There are some other interesting articles over there, so plan on staying a while.

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-6 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, creator of two technology training books for middle school and six ebooks on technology in education. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-weekly contributor to TeachdHUB and Write Anything. Currently, she’s editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

How Do I Decide What to Write About?

I’d like to claim that I pick topics of paramount importance in the tech ed community, the pinnacle of edtech conversations and just must be talked about.

But that’s not true. I select the topics that interest my readers. It’s a pull-through approach rather than push-through.

You-all communicate what you’d like to read about in several ways:

• comments–though not often. I have many loyal readers, but most don’t comment. That’s OK.
• Dear Otto–I get many questions through Dear Otto (don’t you love palindromes?). More often than not, they are questions I never considered, like my latest–How Do You Keep Students From Playing with Settings? and my upcoming post What About Teacher Tech Training? (scheduled for April 16th, 2012)
• click-throughs–those are the links I provide in posts that people click to garner additional information

I’m going to share the statistics from my click-throughs today. Amazingly, I get an average of 38% click-throughs from visitors–i.e., if I have 2,000 visitors on a day, 760 of them click through to one of the links. That tells me I’m providing material of interest to readers.

Here are the top sites you the reader clicked through to so far during 2012:

1. libraryspot.com
2. bbc.co.uk/schools/typing
3. factmonster.com
4. jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php
5. kids.nationalgeographic.com
6. kids.yahoo.com
7. tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=66
8. typingmaster.com/individuals/bubbles.asp
9. abcya.com/keyboard.htm
10. ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html

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