January 10, 2012

10 Most Popular Tech Tips in 2011

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday in 2011, I shared one of those with you. Here are the

Top Tech Tiops of 2011

Top Ten tech tips from 2011. Between these ten, they had 40,510 visitors during the year. They better be good or a lot of people were disappointed!

  1. Ten Best Keyboarding Hints You’ll Ever See
  2. Twenty-one Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix
  3. What Do You Think is the Hardest Techie Problem?
  4. Tech Tip #18: Ten Best MS Word Tips–How Did You Survive Without Them
  5. 25 Tips for Not-so-Techy Folk
  6. Tech Tip #1: the Insert Key
  7. Tech Tip #2: The PrintScreen Key
  8. Tech Tip #19: How to Activate a Link in Word
  9. Tech Tip #12: Wrap Text Around a Picture
  10. Tech Tip #57: How to Create a Chart Really Fast

What was your favorite tip? Which one made a difference in your teaching?

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Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, an Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, an IMS tech expert, and a bi-monthly contributor to Write Anything. Currently, she’s seeking representation for a techno-thriller she just finished. Any ideas? Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab.