You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…

I have to reblog this wonderful post by my efriend, Lisa. How many of these fit you? Can you add to this list?

You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…

  1. You can’t remember the last time you printed a classroom document.
  2. Plurking, tweeting, and playing with your wiki in public are acceptable behaviors.
  3. Your Notebook isn’t spiral bound – it plugs into the wall.
  4. Forget the garden…you spend more time on the weekend weeding out your Inbox.
  5. You can recite your school’s Acceptable Use Policy by heart.
  6. On parent/teacher night, instead of exchanging business cards, you Bump.
  7. You express yourself with emoticons.
  8. You no longer consider it graffiti to write on someone’s wall.
  9. Your significant other gets jealous of your PLN.
  10. It’s not creepy to have lots of followers.
  11. Your students call you the “cool” teacher.
  12. The other teachers are jealous of your Instagram.
  13. YouTube is blocked in your school, and you know how to get around it.
  14. The Tech Department is sick of your constant requests to unblock Twitter.
  15. You’ve Googled your principal.
  16. You know that TweetDeck is not a patio with a lot of birds.
  17. You correct your friends’ grammar when they text you.
  18. “Casual Fridays” means logging into the EdTech UNconference in your bunny slippers.
  19. You wear your “I Heart EdTech” button everywhere you go.
  20. You read this blog post then tweet it, like it, and pass it on to a friend

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. 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. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Author: Jacqui
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