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Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog
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Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 56 Comments

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. This month I have two–both short! EdTech Review chronicles popular posts across the world on the impact of technology on education. Once a year, they … Continue reading →

My Writing Day
Dawn of Humanity / Laws of Nature / Teacher-authors / writing

My Writing Day

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 80 Comments

During my promo for my latest prehistoric fiction, Laws of Nature. one of my wonderful hosts posted this article  I wrote about how I break up my day with a timeline. In case you missed it, here’s a revisit: *** I thought this was a good time to share how my writing day has changed … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: Here’s What’s Going on at my Education Blog
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Teacher-Authors: Here’s What’s Going on at my Education Blog

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 59 Comments

Here is one of the popular posts from my Ask a Tech Teacher blog for June: You’ve been teaching for five years and love what you’re doing. You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs first. Most of the teachers at your … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog
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Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 60 Comments

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher.  Here’s one popular post that is taken from my day as tech teacher in a classroom (before I went virtual), but sounds almost too … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog
Teacher-authors / tech tips for writers

Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 61 Comments

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share a popular post from the past month on my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. In this one, I reviewed a Chromebook stylus from Logitech that requires no batteries, no charging, and works with any USI-enabled Chromebook (which is most … Continue reading →

Coping with COVID in the Classroom
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Coping with COVID in the Classroom

Posted on March 17, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 120 Comments

A lot of teachers are also authors. In an effort to spotlight their two hats, I feature teacher-authors on both my writing and education blogs. Guests can write about any topic they’d like as long as it revolves around those two skills. Today, I’d like to introduce Anne Clare, a teacher as well as a … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog
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Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Jacqui Murray • 73 Comments

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher.  Here are the most popular posts from my Ask a Tech Teacher blog for November: I got an interesting complaint about my blog. The … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog
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Teacher-Authors: What’s on my Ed Blog

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 42 Comments

A lot of teacher-authors read WordDreams. In this monthly column, I share a popular post from my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher.  A High School Driver’s Ed teacher was taking one of my grad school classes and wondered what websites I suggested to augment his in-person and remote classes. There are some great … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors–A Book You’ll Want to Read
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Teacher-Authors–A Book You’ll Want to Read

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 120 Comments

They Call Me Mom by Pete Springer 5/5 x Pete Springer’s memoir They Call Me Mom (Outskirts Press 2019) about his first years teaching will delight new teachers and have experienced educators nodding along with him. As a teacher, Pete’s early experiences remind me of the joy inherent in teaching: “This job required about as … Continue reading →

Teacher-Authors: Here’s What’s Going on at my Education Blog
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Teacher-Authors: Here’s What’s Going on at my Education Blog

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 32 Comments

Here are the most popular posts from my Ask a Tech Teacher blog for July. This one–if you’re a teacher-author, feel free to contact me about posting an article about your teaching experiences on Ask a Tech Teacher: I get thousands of visitors a day–over 5.5 million since I started. The most common reason why … Continue reading →

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy, the Man vs. Nature saga, prehistoric fiction, and Rowe-Delamagente thrillers. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice, and a freelance tech ed journalist. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Natural Selection, Spring 2022.

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