Ask a Tech Teacher is a small group of tech-ed teachers with a big goal: provide free and affordable resources and insight to anyone, anywhere on how to integrate technology into education. It's an ambitious goal and we rely on donations from readers like you to make that happen.

About this time of each year, when several of our larger bills come due, we give a shout out for help. This year, we thought we'd share some of the costs of running Ask a Tech Teacher:

• Site hosting--we use GoDaddy--an excellent company that keeps the site up and running over 99% of the time.
• Domain name hosting--for that, we also use GoDaddy. They always take my calls, walk us through how to fix problems in terms we understand. we're teachers, not network geeks, but they don't hold that against us.
• Legal images--to avoid problems with illegal images, we buy ours through a service.
• Constant and chronic techie problems--such as IPNs and plug-in updates and so much more. Again, we're teachers. This double geek stuff makes our heads hurt. We have a monthly maintenance service for that who can solve 99% of the problems we face.
• Plan B--problem solvers for techie stuff beyond the monthly stuff, including hardware issues
• The geeky tools and programs that deliver content--like the apps we review and the programs we use for webinars.