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APRIL 12, 2024

You can search by keyword, category, or filter options. 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.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Category: Pedagogy. Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledge bases digitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. class website or blog. class website or blog. Today’s tip: What is Digital Literacy? Sounds simple. The difficult is in the implementation.

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JULY 26, 2022

A Venn diagram is a plot of overlapping circles that can display items via specific categories, as well as relationships. This is particularly good as an activity where you might change the categories – you can create some counters representing specific people that move dependent on when the categories change.

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MARCH 5, 2021

Category: Keyboarding. Q: I love the Windows snipping tool, but it takes too long to activate. Today’s tip: Create Shortkeys for Windows Tools. Is there a shortkey ? A: Oddly, there isn’t, which is why I didn’t use it for a long time. I want a screen capture that’s instantaneous.

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MAY 20, 2022

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. Readers search by title, author, country, or category (or several other options such as ISBN). Unite for Literacy.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Category: MS Office, Keyboarding. To activate the shortcut, push Alt + exposed letter or number. Today’s tip: Alt+??? Brings up which Command? Q: I always forget the Alt keys for MS Word menu commands. Do you have a list? A: I’ll do one better.

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MAY 19, 2023

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. Readers search by title, author, country, or category (or several other options such as ISBN).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Category: Pedagogy. are not distracting or overwhelming in colors, music, or activity. are not distracting or overwhelming in colors, music, or activity. Today’s tip: How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

I arranged these tools into different categories including tools to create class website, tools to manage students noise, teacher-parent communication tools, formative assessment tools, first day of school books, back to school activities and worksheets, and more. Formative Assessment tools Formative assessment is teachers' friend.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Category: Problem-solving. Make sure you’re the active profile. 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, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. What happened?

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MAY 19, 2021

Today’s tip: Backup Your Blog. Category: Maintenance, Social Media, Writing, Problem-solving. My blog –it’s become an important cog in my PLN. Do this once a month–or a week if you’re active. This will backup posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags. My WordPress.org blog is hosted by GoDaddy.

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JUNE 6, 2021

Category: MS Office, Problem-solving, Keyboarding. Here are popular MS Word tips from my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. Visit it to find these articles: Turn an Address into a Link –p ush the space bar after pasting in an internet address–that activates it (or push enter). Today’s tip: Ten Best MS Word Tips.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Today’s tip: How to Activate a Link. Category: Internet. Sub-category: Search/Research, Keyboarding. Q: Is there a shortkey to search a website? It’s Ctrl+F. This highlights all instances of the word or phrase on the page, PDF, or website (see inset).

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence. Does it display properly?

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MARCH 7, 2023

Today’s tip: 19 Tech Problems Every Student Can Fix Category: Problem-solving Here are the nineteen problems that cause eighty percent of the tech stoppages in your classrooms. This gets you out of wherever you were and activates the command you’d like to use. Chromebooks : Push Alt+Shift+M to access File Manager.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Category: MS Office, Google Apps, internet, Edit/Format. That activates the link. Today’s tip: Turn an Address into a Link. Q: I get documents from friends with links to websites. How do they do that? Push the space bar once or push enter after the address. You’ll know you succeeded because it turns blue with an underline.

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JULY 19, 2019

Today’s tip: How to Activate a Link. Category: Internet. Sub-category: MS Office, Keyboarding. A: Activating a link is simple, but varies depending upon where you find it: MS Word : Hover over the word or phrase and Ctrl+click to activate. Q: I see an underlined blue phrase on my word processing document.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Category: Keyboarding. If yours is active and you want to change that, go to. Today’s tip: The Insert Key. Q: When I type, the new words cover up everything that comes after. I’m losing all my work as I edit. How do I fix that? A: Push the insert key. It toggles between ‘insert’ and ‘typeover’. You are probably in ‘typeover’.

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MAY 14, 2021

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. Readers search by title, author, country, or category (or several other options such as ISBN). Unite for Literacy.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

On everything from get-to-know-you activities to getting yourself ready: 11+ Back-to-School Night Tips. 11 Back-to-school Activities for the First Month of School. Great Back to School Classroom Activities. For the entire list, click this Back-to-School category tag. Back to School Bundle of Lesson Plans at a Great Price.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Check out Jotform Apps: You may know Jotform as one of the most popular tools in the form builder category, recognized for its versatility, ease-of-use, and sophistication in what could otherwise be the complicated process of collecting and analyzing data. There are so many ways Jotform Apps can streamline school activities.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Category: Google Apps. Sub-category: MS Office, Webtools, Keyboarding, Problem-solving. This is a fun activity for December’s Hour of Code. It works in Office and Google Apps , as well as lots of other places, like my WordPress blog. Today’s tip: #59–Alt Keys Add Symbols. A: It’s easier than you think.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

This week, I’ll share three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, your PLN. Switched jobs?

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APRIL 4, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Collections – these are objects and items photographed from museums organized by category. The five types of activities include narratives, hotspots, slideshows, annotations, timelines, and yes — ESCAPE ROOM GAMES!

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JANUARY 30, 2019

15 President’s Day Activities. Best-in-Category Winners. Questions Parents Ask about Tech in School. 20 Valentine Sites For Students. How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. Engineers Week — A Must for High School. Purpose Driven Learning: Myths, Problems, and Education Applications.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

This week, I’ll share three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

To award this Best in Category badge, we looked for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about, like Khan Academy) most visited by our readers in each category. Winner: Frolyc aka Activity Circle ( see my review ). Then we looked for the following qualities: how dependable is it. Lesson Planning.

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JUNE 20, 2023

What I found many years ago is that packing things away in categories (like a BTS bin) helped me decorate and get ready for school to begin. I loved those little bins of posters and activities that were ready to go! Let me share a few activity ideas with you today! It will help me keep this blog running! Chaos #right!

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MARCH 21, 2017

Category: Differentiation. Sub-category: Teaching, Classroom management, Pedagogy. Use tech tool s for every activity possible. Show students tech is part of daily activities and teaching. Today’s tip: #127–12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes. Use domain-specific language as you teach.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

These are activities that could (or should) be done once a month if you’re active on your computer, but AT LEAST do them yearly. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile–your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, your PLN. Like today.

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MAY 21, 2018

Category: Hardware. If your mouse has both a left and a right button, the left one is for normal stuff, but the right one is for the most common activities performed from wherever you are–on the desktop, in a program, whatever. Today’s tip: #13–The Powerful Right Mouse Button. Q: What’s a fast way to access menus?

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MARCH 31, 2020

Click the images or red text below to grab these free distance learning resources: Backyard Ecology: This ecology activity is perfect for laying the groundwork prior to your ecology unit. Cell Respiration Word Game Review : This review activity is designed to help your students master the difficult vocabulary in a cell respiration unit.

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APRIL 11, 2017

This is for teachers by teachers, giving educators an attractive, easy-to-maneuver online site where they can find exactly the right lesson plans, rubrics, activities, classroom decor, and more for their unique classroom needs. I invite you to visit my store, Ask a Tech Teacher. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Zapzapmath has been awarded a plethora of education accolades and is ranked in the top 10 of the education category in 58 countries including the US and China.No I know from experience that the more students who remember passwords, the faster everyone gets started and the less time we lose from granular lesson activities. Coordinates.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On everything from get-to-know-you activities to getting yourself ready: New School Year? For the entire list, click this Back-to-School category tag. I Got You Covered. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year.

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