On Vacation!

Published: Wed, 03/18/26

I'm off to visit my two military children and then my sister. My son is returning from overseas to his next duty station (which I won't yet mention) while my daughter does what she can to keep the world safe. After time with them, I'll go see my sister in rural Marion, Indiana for a recentering and needed family time. As a result, I won't be around much--a bit, but forgive me if I seem to be ignoring everyone!

While I'm gone, check out a few of these articles from earlier weeks, you might have missed.

See you-all in a few weeks!

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Last month, I talked about my secret to making all elementary-age students tech savvy. I promised to give you a list of the sixteen tech problems I teach between kindergarten and 5th grade so by Middle School, students feel capable not only in facing common tech problems, but in solving new ones.

Here's the table:

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One of the most popular applications of math is through spreadsheets (like Excel) that make those numbers relevant to everyday life. We're going to provide a series of lessons on spreadsheet basics you can use in your K-8 classroom. Here are some of the topics we'll cover:

#74: Mastering Excel (for Beginners)
#71: Beginning Graphs in MS Excel
#70: Create a Timecard in Excel for Grade Two and Up
#73: How to Graph in Excel
#12: Create Simple Shapes in Excel
#75: Tessellations in Excel
#72: How to Check Your Math in Excel
How to Use Excel to Teach Math Arrays
#62: Email from Word (Or PowerPoint or Excel)
#79: Excel Turns Data Into Information

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When students -- and adults -- think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you're graded on speed and accuracy.

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I've taught edtech for almost twenty years to a lot of different grade levels--elementary school, middle school, and educators. Teaching technology is as much about the tech skills as overcoming the dread associated with geeky subjects like computer, science, and math. I usually spend a good bit of time make it user friendly before I can even get into the what's and how's.

Turns out there's a trick to teaching this subject. The Ask a Tech Teacher team put some ideas together for you below:

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Questions? Go ahead and ask! I love tech ed questions. You can either reply to this newsletter or contact me via email.

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