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12.09.2025

Patriot Day 9/11 Never Forget

America, we love you on Patriot’s Day (formerly 9/11). If you aren’t familiar with this terrorist attack on American soil, here’s a 2-minute overview:

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11.09.2025

50+ Websites on Keyboarding

Here are a wide variety of resources that teach keyboarding–from games to drills to everything in between (click here for updates to this list): ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level Alphabet rain g…

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10.09.2025

Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher

I get thousands of visitors a day–over six million since I started. The most common reason why you-all drop by is for resources. I have lots of them–lesson plans, real stories, tips and…

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09.09.2025

Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills

It sounds easy, but to a five or six year old, holding the mouse, clicking that left button, dragging and dropping while holding a finger down is darn difficult. Here’s a list (click for upda…

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06.09.2025

20+ Back To School Websites

We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. Here are some of the past articles I think you’ll like:

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05.09.2025

#9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade

Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills: Photoshop artwork–live Photoshop actions–live Photoshop basics #…

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04.09.2025

Subscriber Special: Discount on Teacher Survival Kits Extended

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. September 4-8, 2025 We’re extending our offer of a 20% discount on any Survival Kit. Pic…

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03.09.2025

What You Might Have Missed in August–What’s up in September

Here are the most-read posts for the month: 10 Unexpected Truths About Teaching Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans 22 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology Fifth grade lesson plans in Photos…

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02.09.2025

How to Teach a Tech Lesson–the Movie

How to Teach a Tech Lesson This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free to subscribers of Ask a Tech Teacher:

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02.09.2025

Labor Day–How Teacher-Authors Do It

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is an American holiday (though celebrated world-wide by different names) dedicated to the achievements of workers. Take today to think about it. Me, I&#821…

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28.08.2025

8: Fifth Grade Cloning in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is kind of KidPix for grown-ups, as well as the default photo-editing program for anyone serious about graphics. This series of projects (available in the first volume of the book, …

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27.08.2025

#3: Windows Skills: Make Your Own Wallpaper

One of the best ways to get students interested in technology is allow them to personalize their work area. That starts with placing wallpaper of their choice on their desktop.

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26.08.2025

Teacher-Authors–Long List of my Favorite Writing Websites

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25.08.2025

Gamification of Assessments: Fun or Flawed?

Gamifying assessments for teachers means integrating the game-like elements students love into lesson plans in such a way that students want to learn material. It’s been around a long time, b…

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25.08.2025

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

A lot of teacher-authors read my writers blog. In this monthly column, I share a popular post from the past month: There are many unethical practices (much to my dismay), but one caught my attenti…

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25.08.2025

Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by…

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25.08.2025

Tech Tip #140: 10 Ways to Become a Better Geek

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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25.08.2025

Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Survival Kits

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take time this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by membe…

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25.08.2025

How to teach the hard to teach class — the video.

How do you teach the hard to teach class? Differentiate This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary Strategies for t…

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25.08.2025

Teaching Digital Ethics Through Inclusive Medicaid Survey Simulations

Real world is the best way to teach digital citizenship and what is more real than paying bills. Check out this article from the Ask a Tech Teacher team on teaching digital ethics via their bills&#…

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12.08.2025

#7: Fifth Grade Cropping in Photoshop

Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills. I’ve provided links but they aren’t live until publication: Phot…

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09.08.2025

22 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

Many (most?) states now administer yearly assessments online. If students haven’t used online testing tools before, this can be a daunting task. Having computer devices as optional education …

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08.08.2025

Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teache…

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08.08.2025

Subscriber Special: Discount on Teacher Survival Kits

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit 9 ebooks, 65 digital posters August 7-August 10, 202…

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02.08.2025

10 Unexpected Truths About Teaching

The best rules for teaching aren’t found in a textbook, a teacher training class, or even the advice of older colleagues. It’s found inside of you, in your gut, your instinct, your intu…

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01.08.2025

What You Might Have Missed in July–What’s up in August

Here are the most-read posts last month Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do Photoshop Skills–Custom Shapes Tech Tip #88: Use Shortkeys with Students Tech Ed Resources–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum Is Onli…

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29.07.2025

Photoshop Basics

Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills. I’ve provided links but they aren’t live until publication: Phot…

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29.07.2025

Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar Disappeared

Q: My taskbar disappeared. What do I do? A: Push the flying windows key (it’s located between Ctrl and Alt on the bottom left of your keyboard). That brings up the start button

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29.07.2025

Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Change Backgrounds

Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills. I’ve provided links but they aren’t live until publication: Phot…

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29.07.2025

Is Online Schooling a Good Fit for Teens?

Even before COVID burst on the scene and drove many schools into online versions of themselves, remote teaching had been gaining popularity. Driven by reasons like flexibility, personal needs, and …

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29.07.2025

How Fast Should Kids Type

I posted this four years ago, but turned comments off. What I didn’t connect at that time was that a similar post on my old WordPress blog had dozens of comments on an ongoing basis. People l…

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29.07.2025

USA Moon Landing July 20 1969

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to place foot on the moon. Commemorate that this year with an exciting collection of websites and apps that take your students to the Moon (click …

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15.07.2025

Tech Ed Resources–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by…

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12.07.2025

Tech Tip #88: Use Shortkeys with Students

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09.07.2025

Photoshop Skills–Custom Shapes

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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08.07.2025

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

Here are the most-read posts for the month: #4: Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is Word World Environment Day: Living Responsibly with Nature Online Summer Educational Activities How to…

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05.07.2025

We Honor July 4th in America

Like every year, I exuberantly celebrate America’s birthday. I’d say times are tough here in the US, but that seems to be true everywhere in the world. So, I won’t complain. I wil…

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03.07.2025

Subscriber Special: Free Hour of Code bundle

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. July 2-5th Buy the K-8 curriculum; get the 59-page Hour of Code bundle for $.99 Perfect if you…

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02.07.2025

Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

You’ve been teaching for five years and love what you’re doing. You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs fir…

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Patriot Day 9/11 Never Forget

50+ Websites on Keyboarding

Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher

Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills

20+ Back To School Websites

#9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade

Subscriber Special: Discount on Teacher Survival Kits Extended

What You Might Have Missed in August–What’s up in September

How to Teach a Tech Lesson–the Movie

Labor Day–How Teacher-Authors Do It

8: Fifth Grade Cloning in Photoshop

#3: Windows Skills: Make Your Own Wallpaper

Teacher-Authors–Long List of my Favorite Writing Websites

Gamification of Assessments: Fun or Flawed?

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

Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship

Tech Tip #140: 10 Ways to Become a Better Geek

Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Survival Kits

How to teach the hard to teach class — the video.

Teaching Digital Ethics Through Inclusive Medicaid Survey Simulations

#7: Fifth Grade Cropping in Photoshop

22 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans

Subscriber Special: Discount on Teacher Survival Kits

10 Unexpected Truths About Teaching

What You Might Have Missed in July–What’s up in August

Photoshop Basics

Tech Tip #27: My Taskbar Disappeared

Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Change Backgrounds

Is Online Schooling a Good Fit for Teens?

How Fast Should Kids Type

USA Moon Landing July 20 1969

Tech Ed Resources–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum

Tech Tip #88: Use Shortkeys with Students

Photoshop Skills–Custom Shapes

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

We Honor July 4th in America

Subscriber Special: Free Hour of Code bundle

Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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