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 members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I've found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular.

Today: Keyboarding Curricula

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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:

1. Photoshop artwork--already live
2. Photoshop actions--already live
3. Photoshop basics #5
4. Photoshop filter and rendering tools
5. Photoshop starters--quick fixes that make a photo cleaner #6
6. Photoshop crop tool--with the lasso and the magic wand #7
7. Photoshop clone tool-- within and to another picture #8
8. Photoshop--change the background
9. Photoshop tools--add custom shapes--already live
10. Photoshop--start with Word (a little dated but still useful)

Today: Change Backgrounds

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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:

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