Here are the most-read posts last month: May is Homeschooling Awareness Month Tech Teacher Appreciation Week 20+ Online Resources for Screenshots, Screencasts, Screenshares Happy Mother’s Day! How …

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29.05.2025

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my writing blog, WordDreams, for the teacher-authors in the group: My virtual book tour to introduce my latest prehistor…

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28.05.2025

Photoshop Skills Fifth Graders Can Do

The program that says ‘pro’ more than any other is Adobe Photoshop. Believe it or not, there are a whole list of skills easy enough for a fifth grader (maybe even fourth, but I haven&#8…

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24.05.2025

Photoshop Artwork

Photoshop reputation as a photo editor ignores its many other tools that enable you to draw like a pro with a wide variety of brushes, textures, and scintillating extras. This side of Photoshop is …

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22.05.2025

Photoshop Actions and History Brush

These are simple features ( including frames, quadrant colors, photo effects like snow) that add sophistication and professionalism to a finished product. This is a good addition to a Photoshop uni…

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21.05.2025

#29: A Slideshow for Third Graders

By fourth grade, my students are so good at PowerPoint, I don’t even teach it in fifth grade (I move on to Photoshop). They’ve learned enough to get them through school. Here’s ho…

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20.05.2025

50 Websites About Animals

Here are 50 animal websites for grades K-5, everything from Dinosaurs to the wildly popular Wolfquest (click here for updates): 3D Toad—3D science study Adaptations—game Animal Adaptations Animal g…

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17.05.2025

Tech Tips to End the School Year

Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if no…

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15.05.2025

17 Video Creation Online Tools

Click for Updated List Adobe Spark–suite of free tools for creating images, videos, and simple web pages; quick; great for Chromebooks Animoto Canva video creator–How-to video by Richard Byrne Chro…

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14.05.2025

Top Grant Sources to Bring Technology to Under-Resourced Classrooms

Top Grant Sources to Bring Technology to Under-Resourced Classrooms In today’s classrooms, technology is more than a supplement — it’s a necessity. From digital literacy tools to interactive learni…

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13.05.2025

Plan Ahead: How to Set Yourself Up for Success Toward a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering

With median U.S. salaries for electrical Engineers ~$103,000 and computer engineers ~$129,000, who wouldn’t be interested? Read on… Plan Ahead: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrica…

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10.05.2025

Happy Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day in the United States is annually held on the second Sunday of May. This year, that’s May 11th. It celebrates motherhood and it is a time to appreciate mothers and mo…

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08.05.2025

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07.05.2025

20+ Online Resources for Screenshots, Screencasts, Screenshares

Here are a bunch of online resources for Screenshots, Screencasts, Screenshares, Videocasts, and a Lesson Plan click here for updates to the list): Screencasts Chromebook native tool–video on…

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06.05.2025

Tech Teacher Appreciation Week

Tech Teacher Appreciation Week If you wonder what’s so hard about being a teacher, look at this list of challenges they faced the last few years:

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03.05.2025

May is Homeschooling Awareness Month

Homeschooling Awareness Month is celebrated annually in May to promote the benefits of homeschooling and educate the public about this viable educational option. It has been recognized since around…

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01.05.2025

Flowers in the Classroom: Blossoming Learning with Tech

Flowers spark creativity and learning in classrooms. Today, the Ask a Tech Teacher international team is exploring how flowers inspire students in STEM, art, and ecology, how a bouquet can enhance …

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30.04.2025

What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: National Library Week–Resources, Links, Ideas 17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics April is Financial Literacy Month 15 Best Technology Careers for the…

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29.04.2025

Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Something broke in American education these past years. Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. I went out to our international contributors for i…

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26.04.2025

Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children

New America has a good overview on raising kids with tech: Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children Take-Aways from Our Two-Part Series Focused On Tablets in Pre-K Through T…

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24.04.2025

Applying for a Military Academy

Military academies offer benefits most high school students and their parents don’t realize: the quality of education is comparable to an Ivy League they not only provide you with an educatio…

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23.04.2025

Earth Day Class Activities

Every year, the United Nations recognizes April 22nd as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day we can all participate in making our air clean, water fresh and land unlittered rather than accep…

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22.04.2025

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month: What Should You Know About Interactive Storytelling? Here’s what …

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19.04.2025

Summer STEM at USNA

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. Here’s information from the U…

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17.04.2025

Great App to Teach Spelling

A 2023 SHRM (a human resources group) survey found that 52% of HR professionals say spelling errors in applications lowered candidate appeal. A 2024 Journal of Educational Psychology study showed t…

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16.04.2025

Easter Classroom Resources

Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and…

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15.04.2025

Teacher-Authors–Join me to launch my Indie Book

Starting tomorrow, on my writer’s blog, WordDreams, my wonderful efriends are helping me launch my latest prehistoric fiction, Badlands. Early reviews… “Your best ever”&#821…

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12.04.2025

Tech Tip #125: Basics in Every Lesson Plan

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 …

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10.04.2025

15 Best Technology Careers for the Future in 2025

From We Are Teachers, a run-down on the top tech careers for 2025: 15 Best Technology Careers for the Future in 2025 Computer and information technology might be one of the most exciting fields for…

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09.04.2025

What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

Here are the most-read posts for last month: How to Leverage AI Tutors for Effective Learning Tips for Parents, Educators, and Students Subscriber Special: 50% Off Sidebar Sponsors Didn’t Get in Co…

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08.04.2025

April is Financial Literacy Month

Financial Literacy Month is recognized annually in Canada in November, and the United States in April. It’s purpose: to teach how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. When kids…

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05.04.2025

17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bell’s chimes or the strugglin…

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03.04.2025

National Library Week–Resources, Links, Ideas

National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities. In the mid-195…

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02.04.2025

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01.04.2025

March 31st is World Backup Day

World Backup Day–March 31st Every Year March 31st is called World Backup Day. At least once a year, I remind you to backup your data files to an external drive (like a flash drive). This is one tha…

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28.03.2025

Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring

A few spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities: 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring Books from Scholastic about Spring Spring Puzzle Spring Garden–click to find flowers…

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27.03.2025

The Intersection of Physics and Everyday Objects

The Intersection of Physics and Everyday Objects Physics might sound like something confined to textbooks and whiteboard scribbles, but it’s at play in our daily routines. It’s the forc…

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26.03.2025

How to Change the Dynamics of Peer-to-peer Learning

Here’s what most educators and parents innately know as a truism of education: “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” –Alb…

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25.03.2025

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month here. If you follow WordDreams, you may have already seen this: &#8220…

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22.03.2025

Invention Convention 2025 is coming

Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem identification, problem solving, entrepreneurship…

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What You Might Have Missed in May–What’s up in June

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Photoshop Skills Fifth Graders Can Do

Photoshop Artwork

Photoshop Actions and History Brush

#29: A Slideshow for Third Graders

50 Websites About Animals

Tech Tips to End the School Year

17 Video Creation Online Tools

Top Grant Sources to Bring Technology to Under-Resourced Classrooms

Plan Ahead: How to Set Yourself Up for Success Toward a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Happy Mother’s Day!

Subscriber Special: 10% Discount with Newsletter Sign-up

20+ Online Resources for Screenshots, Screencasts, Screenshares

Tech Teacher Appreciation Week

May is Homeschooling Awareness Month

Flowers in the Classroom: Blossoming Learning with Tech

What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May

Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children

Applying for a Military Academy

Earth Day Class Activities

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Summer STEM at USNA

Great App to Teach Spelling

Easter Classroom Resources

Teacher-Authors–Join me to launch my Indie Book

Tech Tip #125: Basics in Every Lesson Plan

15 Best Technology Careers for the Future in 2025

What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

April is Financial Literacy Month

17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

National Library Week–Resources, Links, Ideas

Subscriber Special: Discounted Curricula School License

March 31st is World Backup Day

Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring

The Intersection of Physics and Everyday Objects

How to Change the Dynamics of Peer-to-peer Learning

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Invention Convention 2025 is coming

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