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- Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin
- Understanding By Design — What’s That Even Mean?
- How to Grow Global Digital Citizens
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- A Teacher’s New Year Resolutions
- Why is the Supreme Court So Important
- It’s Time to go Back to School. Lots of Ideas!
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- A to Z Challenge: I’m in!
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- 44 Takeaways from the San Diego Writers Conference
- How to Prepare for the SAT Essay
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- 10 Websites + 4 Apps that Make Geography Fun
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- New Year Brings Changes
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- How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
- My Research at the Library of Congress
- Happy Thanksgiving Week to All!
- 12 Surprises and 4 Take-aways I Found Marketing My Debut Novel, To Hunt a Sub
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- 8 Websites that Explain Elections
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- #IWSG–What’s My First Piece of Writing
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- Differentiate with Tech–Starts July 18th!
- Why is the Supreme Court So Important — and How to Explain That
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- Summer Online Learning Questions We’ve Been Asked
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- Tech Tip for Writers #115: The 3-Click Rule
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- 21 Writing Tips Found on Twitter
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- 70 Collections to Infuse Your Writing
- How Students Access Twitter in the Classroom
- Tech Tip #123: Quick Search for All Plagiarized Images
- Keyboarding and the Scientific Method
- 8 Digital Tools for Writing
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- Top 10 Commented-on Articles and Click-throughs in 2015
- Learn to Blend Tech into Your Class; Get College Credit
- 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2015–Ask a Tech Teacher
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- A Soldier’s Christmas
- End of Year Tips: Update Your Online Presence
- Get Ready for the New Year!
- 17+ Holiday Activities
- The Power of Symbols–What does the word ‘Turkey’ mean?
- How NOT to Write a Book Review
- Hour of Code–the Series
- 8 Websites on Financial Literacy
- 9 Reasons to Join NaNoWriMo and 8 Tips on How
- Lessons I Learned From a Computer
- 8 Tips for Horror Writers
- Let Students Learn From Failure
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- N* Football: USNA vs. ND
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- Office Hours–Questions? Let’s Talk
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- Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?
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- Writers Tip #98: 18 Tips on Grammar from William Safire
- 7 Reasons For and Three Against Critique Groups
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- Summer PD–from Ask a Tech Teacher
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- Can You Fix These Grammar Problems?
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- What to do When Computers Are Down
- 3 Apps to Combat Grammar Faux Pas
- 2014, I Resolve…
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- End of Year Tips: Is Your Online Presence Up to Date?
- 11 Tips for Self-Editing Your Manuscript
- Stephen King’s Ten Commandments of Writing
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- Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part V
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- A Day in the Life of a Tech Teacher
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- Subscribers: Here’s Your August Special
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- Happy Memorial Day!
- Lone Survivor Quotes
- 8 Things Writers Can Do No One Else Can
- Book Review: Building a Midshipman
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- #IWSG–Am I Brave Enough?
- How to Talk to a Tech Teacher
- 12 Spring Cleaning Steps for Your Computer
- 5 Reasons Class Size Does NOT Matter and 3 Why Large is a Good Thing
- Celebrate Pi Day
- 14 Things Writers Do Before 8am
- #IWSG–My Writing Style Doesn’t Work
- Ten Commandments from Richard Bausch
- 13 Reasons For and 3 Against Technology in the Classroom
- Can You Mix Genres in Your Writing?
- What are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
- Valentines from USNA–the Love Formula
- 8 Education Tools That Are Going Away
- BYOD–the lowdown in one article
- #IWSG–Why do people ‘Shoot the messenger’?
- 5 Tips for Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
- 10 Tips Plus One More About Beautiful Words
- 7 Education Trends You Don’t Want to Miss
- 9 Mistakes Teachers Make Using Tech in the Classroom
- 2014, I Resolve…
- 5 Tips for Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
- Am I good enough? Does it matter?–#IWSG
- Who Am I? Sandy Wants to Know
- Top Ten Websites of 2013
- A Soldier’s Christmas Poem
- Where’d Christmas Come From:
- Once a Year Blog Maintenance–Are You Up to Date?
- End-of-year Tech Tips: Image Your Computer
- End-of-year tech tips: Back up Your Computer
- December To Do List for USNA Applicants
- The Tablet’s ‘Killer App’
- Dear Otto: What do I do with students who ‘get’ tech really fast?
- Fear of Saying Dumb Things Scares Me to Death
- Happy Thanksgiving Week
- Want to Fly a Spitfire?
- Common Core: A Lesson Plan for STEM (on Bridges)
- Why We Differentiate
- A Writer’s (Holi)day
- Common Core Language: Teach Your Students to Speak Like a Geek
- 11 Tips on Writing Thrillers
- 23 Reasons I’m NOT Doing NaNoWriMo
- Today We Honor Veterans
- Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- Dear Otto: Is it important that students use all fingers when typing?
- #IWSG–The World is Changing–Can I keep up
- NaNoWriMo — Oh No
- What’s a Candidate Weekend Visit?
- How to be a Tech Teacher
- Demographics of a Trekkie
- 38 Tips from Digital Publishing Conference
- 10 Tips from David Gerrold
- Dear Otto: What about blogging?
- Common Core Breathes Life into Keyboarding
- Is Handwriting So Last Generation–Redux
- 5 Ways to Write Like Your Hair’s on Fire
- Signs That You Fit a Military Lifestyle
- Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft
- What I’m Insecure Writing About
- 19 Tips for Children’s Writers
- What’s My Plebe Doing Today?
- 5 FREE Web Tools for a New School Year
- Book Review: The Path
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- POW/MIA Recognition Day
- 6 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging
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- America We Love You
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- 25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix–Update
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- USNA 2017 Plebes Are Here
- Dear Otto: Lab Teacher or Integration Specialist
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- 27 More Tips From Twitter
- Weekend Websites: 52 Economics Websites
- New Tech Teacher? I Understand You
- 5 Digital Tools Parents Will Love
- 34 Categories–Over 500 Links–of K-8 Links for Your Classes
- 5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall
- Dear Otto: Use Tech to Differentiate Lessons?
- August To Do List for USNA Applicants
- Plebe Parent Weekend is Past; Reform is Coming
- 163 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
- Dear Otto: How do I teach [wild and crazy] 7th Grade Tech?
- Traditional or Indie? I’m Really Stressed Over This
- 9 Tips for Mystery Writers
- 5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences
- It’s Here–8th Grade Technology Curriculum!
- Check Out My Today’s Author Post
- 10 Tips for Thriller Writers
- 32 Tips for Science Fiction Writers
- Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part III
- Dear Otto: What are Common Core keyboarding standards?
- I love Words
- 14 Writing Tips from Blogging
- You Know You’re a Plebe if…
- 9 Reasons For Online Training and 5 Against
- How do you get readers to trust you?
- 4 Tips for Writing Humor
- A Day in the Life of a new Plebe
- July To Do List for USNA Applicants
- Handwriting vs. Keyboarding–from a Student’s Perspective
- Happy July 4th!
- How to Instill Digital Citizenship in Students
- Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- 7 Tips for Literary Fiction Writers
- Plebe Summer Care Packages: Here’s What to Send
- Are You Going to I-Day? Part II
- You’re a Geek Now
- Do you like Online Training?
- Beautiful Words
- June To Do List for USNA Applicants
- Book Review: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum
- What’s a Tech Teacher Do With Their Summer Off?
- Sell Your Books Online
- Going to USNA? Ready for I-Day
- Happy Father’s Day!
- Happy Father’s Day!
- Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part III
- 10 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
- Summer Tech Tips–What Do You Need?
- 103 Most Beautiful Words? You Decide
- Tech Tips for Writers #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu
- Writers Tip #51: Give Your Characters Their Head
- It’s Here–7th Grade Technology Curriculum!
- Book Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Who is Today’s Author?
- 5 Digital Goals for You This Summer
- What Happens After USNA Graduation?
- 7 Digital Ways to End the School Year
- 10 Factors to Consider in Tech Report Cards
- Book Review: Horse Soldiers
- Happy Memorial Day
- Great Quotes About the Evolution of Man
- Didn’t Get in? Try NAPS
- 14 Educational Websites Students Will Ask to Visit This Summer
- 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
- Dear Otto: Do Students Still Need to Learn Keyboarding?
- 5 Must-have Skills for New Tech Teachers Plus One Extra
- 5 Top Steps to Market Your Books this Summer
- 16 Memorial Day Websites for Students
- Metamaterials and an invisibility cloak
- Armed Forces Day
- 11 Ways to Make an Inquiry based Classroom
- It’s Here! K-5 Tech Curriculum Aligned with Common Core!
- 10 Things I Learned From My Blog
- Check Out My Today’s Author Post
- Writers Tip #48: Have a Web Presence
- Our Navy’s Status
- Is The Earth Warmer or Cooler? Some Evidence
- USNA Commissioning Week
- 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher
- You Know You’re a Geek When…
- May To Do List for USNA Applicants
- 15 Great Simulations to Gamify Your Class
- Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- CSTA Conference Coming Up!
- Which is better for schools: iPads or laptops?
- How to Kickstart Your Writing Career
- What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher
- Why Keyboarding Should NOT be Dead
- 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
- Dear Otto: I need reading resources for ELL/ESL
- What’s Trending on WordDreams
- 23 Common Sense Rules to Thrive in the Military
- Extinctions are Part of Life
- Platform for Good Hosts Me
- USNA Weekly News
- 12 Great Websites for Earth Day
- Summer Keyboarding Class–How to Win FREE K-8 Keyboarding Curriculum
- What Do Emotions Look Like?
- 58 Bits of Wisdom I Learned As a Helicopter Crewman
- 45 Great Story Websites You’ll Love
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- FREE Tech Teacher Training–But Join Quickly
- Eight Favorite Words–Part III
- Humor that Inspires–for Teachers! Part II
- How to Make a Student-centered Video
- Dear Otto: Any Ideas for Tech Ed Benchmark Assessments?
- Ten Favorite Words–Part II
- 6 Ways to Find Time for Everything
- Pre-Plebe Workouts You’ll Need
- Must Read Books Before You Go to USNA
- Weekend Website #122: Dance Pony Dance
- 7 Technology Tools Every Educator Should Use–the Movie
- Subscribers: Your Special is Available
- Book Review: Born on a Blue Day–Insight into Learning
- Know Your Character
- Book Review: The Forest People
- God Bless Rick Monday
- Thinking USNA Summer Seminar? Check out This YouTube
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- 14 Factors to Consider for Tech Report Cards
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- Definition of ‘Teacher’
- When Writing, Shout it Out
- Secret Codes and Music
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- Read Across America Day
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- How to Tell if Someone is Lying: Body Language
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- What Wise Men Say About War and the Military
- Valentines from USNA–the Love Formula
- How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship
- 7 Common Core Ways to Assess Knowledge
- One Million Hits–Wow
- The Uncontrollable AI
- What are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
- Free Lesson Plans–Visit My TeachersPayTeachers Store
- New Literacies Enable Smarter Researching
- Writers Tip #105: How to Write About Love
- 20 Valentine Sites For Your Students
- How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community
- Dear Otto: When will the 7/8 Technology Curriculum Textbooks be out?
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- Humorous and Inspiration Quotes–Part II
- February To Do List For Military Academy Applicants
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- Now Available: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum
- Inspirational and Humorous Quotes–Part I
- Great Websites Updated!
- Take Tech into the Classroom
- 17 Topics to Teach K-8 About Digital Citizenship
- How To Describe Dogs in Your Novel
- Tool Use and Man
- How to Make Your Chance of Acceptance 70%
- We’re Back!
- 2013, I Resolve…
- Honors for Ask a Tech Teacher
- New Year’s Gift: 113 Digital Citizenship Links
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- 18 Thanksgiving Sites For Your Students
- And Navy Air is Born
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- Check Out My Post at TeachHUB
- 5 Simple Ways to Bring Your Story to Life
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- Man in the Arena
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- Oh Say Can You See
- Five Must-Do Skills to Accomplish During High School
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- 6 FREE Online Tools for Indie Writers
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- How Many POVs is Too Many?
- How to Align Technology with Common Core State Standards
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