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All Posts – Jacqui Murray
- January 22, 2026: 4 Ways to Plan Your Writing
- January 18, 2026: Five Must-Do Skills to Accomplish During High School
- January 12, 2026: Fiction by Jacqui Murray
- January 12, 2026: Laws of Nature
- January 9, 2026: Should You Unschool?
- January 8, 2026: Against All Odds
- January 8, 2026: Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?
- January 3, 2026: Man vs Nature--the series--explained
- January 2, 2026: The Quest for Home
- December 31, 2025: A Teacher's New Year Resolutions
- December 23, 2025: Natural Selection
- December 21, 2025: Survival of the Fittest
- December 20, 2025: A Soldier's Christmas Poem
- December 19, 2025: Where'd Christmas Come From:
- December 18, 2025: A Soldier's Christmas
- December 18, 2025: Once a Year Blog Maintenance--Are You Up to Date?
- December 17, 2025: End-of-year Tech Tips: Image Your Computer
- December 16, 2025: End-of-year tech tips: Back up Your Computer
- December 15, 2025: End of Year Tips: Is Your Online Presence Up to Date?
- December 15, 2025: End of Year Tips: Update Your Online Presence
- December 12, 2025: How to Make Your Chance of Acceptance 70%
- December 11, 2025: Get Ready for the New Year!
- December 11, 2025: December To Do List for USNA Applicants
- December 11, 2025: How to Thrive as a Digital Citizen
- December 10, 2025: The Tablet's 'Killer App'
- December 8, 2025: 11 Tips for Self-Editing Your Manuscript
- December 5, 2025: Writers Tip 86: 11 Tips from Blockbuster Plots
- December 4, 2025: Fear of Saying Dumb Things Scares Me to Death
- December 3, 2025: The King is Dead. Long Live the King
- December 2, 2025: An Open Letter to Agents--Open Your Minds or I'm Leaving
- November 29, 2025: Product Review: Luna Projection Camera
- November 28, 2025: 10 Digital Tricks to Add Zip to Your Roadtrip
- November 27, 2025: November To Do List for USNA Applicants
- November 27, 2025: Weekend Website 40: NORAD Santa
- November 27, 2025: Book Review: Talking Back to Facebook
- November 22, 2025: Happy Thanksgiving Week
- November 21, 2025: Want to Fly a Spitfire?
- November 19, 2025: The Power of Symbols--What does the word 'Turkey' mean?
- November 18, 2025: A Writer's (Holi)day
- November 17, 2025: How NOT to Write a Book Review
- November 17, 2025: Stephen King's Ten Commandments of Writing
- November 16, 2025: Edublog Nominee
- November 15, 2025: And Navy Air is Born
- November 14, 2025: Monday Freebies
- November 14, 2025: Common Core Language: Teach Your Students to Speak Like a Geek
- November 13, 2025: 11 Tips on Writing Thrillers
- November 12, 2025: 5 Simple Ways to Bring Your Story to Life
- November 12, 2025: 23 Reasons I'm NOT Doing NaNoWriMo
- November 11, 2025: How Do They Do a 'Fly Over'? I'll Tell You
- November 11, 2025: Today We Honor Veterans
- November 11, 2025: We Honor Veterans
- November 10, 2025: Book Review: We Are Not Alone
- November 9, 2025: What Every Parent Should Know About Computers and the Internet
- November 9, 2025: Man in the Arena
- November 7, 2025: 11 Paths to Becoming an Officer--Which Works For You
- November 7, 2025: 15 Ways to Get Your Geek On
- November 6, 2025: Be Featured on Ask a Tech Teacher
- November 6, 2025: Dear Otto: Is it important that students use all fingers when typing?
- November 5, 2025: #IWSG--The World is Changing--Can I keep up
- November 4, 2025: Hour of Code--the Series
- November 4, 2025: NaNoWriMo -- Oh No
- November 2, 2025: How to Find Reliable Internet Sources
- October 31, 2025: Wednesday Heroes: Tyrone Wood and Glen Doherty
- October 30, 2025: What's a Candidate Weekend Visit?
- October 30, 2025: Yes, I'm Resilient, but I Wish Computers Were More Dependable
- October 29, 2025: 18 Good Reasons I'm NOT Doing NaNoWriMo
- October 29, 2025: 13 Ways to Exorcise Wordiness
- October 29, 2025: 9 Reasons to Join NaNoWriMo and 8 Tips on How
- October 29, 2025: When Do You Follow Writing Rules?
- October 28, 2025: Demographics of a Trekkie
- October 27, 2025: Lessons I Learned From a Computer
- October 26, 2025: What to do Once You're Accepted into USNA
- October 25, 2025: Goal Setting for a Fourteen-year old
- October 24, 2025: 38 Tips from Digital Publishing Conference
- October 23, 2025: 10 Tips from David Gerrold
- October 22, 2025: 8 Tips for Horror Writers
- October 22, 2025: Dear Otto: What about blogging?
- October 22, 2025: 8 Tips to Prepare for NaNoWriMo
- October 22, 2025: What I learned from finishing my novel
- October 21, 2025: How to Prepare for the Congressional Interview--Part I
- October 21, 2025: Common Core Breathes Life into Keyboarding
- October 19, 2025: Let Students Learn From Failure
- October 19, 2025: USNA Grads--Among Highest Paid
- October 18, 2025: What's a Candidate Weekend Visit?
- October 17, 2025: Monday Freebies #20: Make a Holiday Card
- October 17, 2025: Writers Tips #81: 11 Tips on Writing Thrillers
- October 17, 2025: How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 2nd Grade
- October 17, 2025: Book Review: Law of Primitive Man
- October 15, 2025: When Do You Follow Writing Rules?
- October 14, 2025: How to Think (Critical Skill #5 for Future USNA Applicants)
- October 13, 2025: How to Get Along (Critical Skill #4 for Future USNA Applicants)
- October 12, 2025: Does Group Marketing Work? Here's my story
- October 11, 2025: Tech Tip for Writers #22: Quick Exit from 97% of Programs
- October 11, 2025: October To Do List for USNA Applicants
- October 10, 2025: A Virtual Tour of America--Via Biplane
- October 9, 2025: Dear Otto: Is Keyboarding Not for Cool Students?
- October 9, 2025: N* Football: USNA vs. ND
- October 9, 2025: Humor that Inspires--for Teachers! Part V
- October 8, 2025: Is Handwriting So Last Generation--Redux
- October 8, 2025: 8 Websites that Explain Elections
- October 7, 2025: 5 Ways to Write Like Your Hair's on Fire
- October 7, 2025: USNA Grads--Among Highest Paid
- October 7, 2025: 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers
- October 6, 2025: How to Prioritize (Critical Skill #3 for Future USNA Applicants)
- October 5, 2025: Easi-Speak Digital Microphone is Simple
- October 4, 2025: Signs That You Fit a Military Lifestyle
- October 4, 2025: How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten
- October 3, 2025: Is Keyboarding Dead?
- October 2, 2025: Dear Otto: How Do I Prepare for an Unknown Tech Future?
- October 2, 2025: What I'm Insecure Writing About
- September 30, 2025: 19 Tips for Children's Writers
- September 28, 2025: 17 Ways to Describe Work Spaces
- September 28, 2025: Five Must-Do Skills to Accomplish During High School
- September 26, 2025: What's My Plebe Doing Today?
- September 26, 2025: Do You Make These 9 Mistakes
- September 24, 2025: If You're a Writer, Self-Pub May Save Your Life
- September 24, 2025: Book Review: Letters From the Field Part II
- September 24, 2025: Book Review: The Path
- September 23, 2025: How to Talk to a Writer
- September 23, 2025: 5 After School Tech Club Activities
- September 21, 2025: Office Hours--Questions? Let's Talk
- September 20, 2025: Will Texting Destroy Writing Skills?
- September 20, 2025: POW/MIA Recognition Day
- September 19, 2025: How to Use iPads in Your Classroom
- September 18, 2025: Book Review: Letter from the Field--Part I
- September 18, 2025: 5 Great Reasons to Build Your Writer's Platform Yourself
- September 17, 2025: Book Review: Runaway Brain
- September 17, 2025: Dear Otto: What are Options on Digital Portfolios
- September 16, 2025: 6 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Blogging
- September 15, 2025: Navy vs. Penn State--It's Been a While
- September 12, 2025: September To Do List for USNA Applicants
- September 12, 2025: Tech Tip #104: Need a File on Your iPad? Here's an Easy Way
- September 11, 2025: 9/11... We Remember
- September 11, 2025: Our Children Remember...
- September 11, 2025: 9/11... We Remember
- September 10, 2025: Headed for USNA? Prepare Yourself Part I
- September 10, 2025: At What Age is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?
- September 9, 2025: September To Do List for USNA Applicants
- September 9, 2025: 25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix--Update
- September 8, 2025: Sad Letter From Afghanistan
- September 8, 2025: 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year
- September 8, 2025: How to go Paperless in Your Classroom
- September 7, 2025: The Danger of Using Images Online
- September 4, 2025: 25 Most Common Problems Your Students Will Face
- September 4, 2025: A Day in the Life of a Tech Teacher
- September 3, 2025: Back-to-School (Free) Training on Tech Tools
- September 3, 2025: Happy Labor Day
- September 2, 2025: Asking for the Sale Without P****** People Off
- September 1, 2025: How I'm Doing on 'To Hunt a Sub'
- August 30, 2025: Book Review: Lucy
- August 29, 2025: USNA 2017 Plebes Are Here
- August 28, 2025: Dear Otto: Lab Teacher or Integration Specialist
- August 28, 2025: 7 Tools I Use to Organize My Stories
- August 27, 2025: 9 Secrets That'll Get You Into USNA
- August 26, 2025: 27 More Tips From Twitter
- August 25, 2025: Do Your Children Need Computers for School?
- August 24, 2025: You're a Sophomore and Interested in USNA?
- August 23, 2025: Why One Sailor Loves the Navy
- August 22, 2025: A 'Typical' Tech Lesson Plan
- August 20, 2025: New Tech Teacher? I Understand You
- August 19, 2025: Weekend Website #64: Khan Academy
- August 19, 2025: 5 Digital Tools Parents Will Love
- August 17, 2025: Back to School--Tech Makes it Easy to Stay On Top of Everything
- August 16, 2025: Book Review: In the Shadow of Man
- August 16, 2025: What to do Once You're Accepted into USNA
- August 15, 2025: 9 Reasons Why Readers Stop Reading
- August 15, 2025: What I'm Writing This Month
- August 14, 2025: 13 Rules to Remember When Using a Gun
- August 13, 2025: August To Do List for USNA Applicants
- August 13, 2025: Book Review: Building a Midshipman
- August 11, 2025: August To Do List for USNA Applicants
- August 11, 2025: My Summer with David Rosenfelt
- August 10, 2025: Is Whole Brain Teaching the Right Choice?
- August 9, 2025: Dear Otto: My computers are old. What do I do?
- August 8, 2025: My New Non-fiction: 169 Real-world Ways to Put Tech into Class
- August 8, 2025: The Problem With Voice
- August 7, 2025: Dear Otto: How do I teach [wild and crazy] 7th Grade Tech?
- August 6, 2025: 21 Tips About Writing From Twitter
- August 4, 2025: #IWSG--What's My First Piece of Writing
- August 3, 2025: The 15 Biggest Writing Blunders (And How To Avoid Them)
- August 2, 2025: 47 Must Read Books That Explain Human Evolution
- August 2, 2025: My Favorite Writing Software is...
- July 30, 2025: You Want to Be a USNA Midshipman? Start Today
- July 29, 2025: 3 Problems to Address Before Blogging at Your School
- July 29, 2025: 10 Tips for Thriller Writers
- July 27, 2025: When Your Muse Speaks, Do You Listen?
- July 26, 2025: Tech Tip #82: My Picture's a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG
- July 26, 2025: 33 Rules (aka Rates) Plebes Must Follow
- July 25, 2025: July 25, 1968: Remember the Pueblo Entered National Lexicon
- July 24, 2025: Summer Like a Midshipman
- July 24, 2025: 22 Tips on How to Work Remotely
- July 23, 2025: 10 Passwords Everyone Uses (And You Shouldn't)
- July 23, 2025: 7 Skills Students Need for Today's Classwork
- July 22, 2025: Weekend Website #53: EasyBib
- July 22, 2025: 32 Tips for Science Fiction Writers
- July 21, 2025: 6 Tips to Avoid Email Phishing
- July 21, 2025: Leadership Traits in USNA Midshipmen
- July 21, 2025: 14 Action Items, 5 Take-aways and 3 Tidbits from the TpT Conference
- July 19, 2025: Dear America: I'm a Soldier in Afghanistan
- July 19, 2025: The Elephantine Impact of Technology on Education
- July 19, 2025: Cover Reveal: To Hunt a Sub
- July 18, 2025: Writers Tip #68: Three Tips From David Shenk
- July 18, 2025: How to Talk to People Online
- July 18, 2025: Humor that Inspires--for Teachers! Part III
- July 17, 2025: Dear Otto: What are Common Core keyboarding standards?
- July 17, 2025: Differentiate with Tech--Starts July 18th!
- July 17, 2025: 10 Tips Guaranteed to Rescue Your Story
- July 16, 2025: Dear Otto: What Online Images are Free?
- July 16, 2025: I love Words
- July 15, 2025: USNA Class of 2016: What are They Doing?
- July 15, 2025: You Know You're a Plebe if...
- July 13, 2025: USNA-Bound? Take Inventory of Your Skills
- July 13, 2025: What's a Tech Teacher Do With Their Summer Off?
- July 12, 2025: Why I Don't Get Writers Block
- July 11, 2025: How do you get readers to trust you?
- July 11, 2025: Is Your Dialogue More Sigh than Sizzle?
- July 9, 2025: A Day in the Life of a new Plebe
- July 8, 2025: You Know You're a Plebe Parent if...
- July 8, 2025: July To Do List for USNA Applicants
- July 7, 2025: My Debut Novel Launches This Summer
- July 6, 2025: July To Do List for USNA Applicants
- July 6, 2025: Five Popular Excuses for NOT Going to USNA
- July 5, 2025: Handwriting vs. Keyboarding--from a Student's Perspective
- July 4, 2025: Happy July Fourth. Pass Me the Scissors
- July 4, 2025: Happy July 4th!
- July 3, 2025: How to Instill Digital Citizenship in Students
- July 3, 2025: ASVAB or USNA? What's Best for You
- July 2, 2025: Writer's Tip #13: Be Specific
- July 1, 2025: How to Build Your Personal Learning Network
- July 1, 2025: 7 Tips for Literary Fiction Writers
- July 1, 2025: A Day in the Life of a new Plebe
- July 1, 2025: Plebe Summer Care Packages: Here's What to Send
- June 29, 2025: Help Me Launch To Hunt a Sub?
- June 28, 2025: 9 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
- June 27, 2025: Writers Tip #65: Thing? Really?
- June 27, 2025: Are You Going to I-Day? Part II
- June 27, 2025: You Might Be a Writer if...
- June 26, 2025: You're a Geek Now
- June 25, 2025: Dear Otto: Should Students Space Once or Twice After a Period?
- June 24, 2025: Let's Talk About Habits of Mind
- June 24, 2025: Beautiful Words
- June 22, 2025: Book Review: Fourth Grade Technology--32 Lessons
- June 22, 2025: How I'm Doing on 'To Hunt a Sub'
- June 21, 2025: What's a Tech Teacher Do With the Summer Off?
- June 21, 2025: June To Do List for USNA Applicants
- June 20, 2025: 23 Common Sense Rules to Thrive in the Military
- June 19, 2025: Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?
- June 19, 2025: Going to USNA? Ready for I-Day
- June 18, 2025: Sell Your Books Online
- June 17, 2025: Free Posters
- June 17, 2025: Going to USNA? Ready for I-Day
- June 16, 2025: Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning
- June 16, 2025: Happy Father's Day!
- June 15, 2025: Book Review: Second Grade Technology--32 Lessons
- June 15, 2025: Humor that Inspires--for Teachers! Part III
- June 15, 2025: What Happens After USNA Graduation?
- June 14, 2025: The Best Online Colleges for Military Members and Their Families
- June 14, 2025: 10 Steps to Tech Savviness This Summer
- June 12, 2025: Are You a Midshipman?
- June 12, 2025: Computer Shortkeys to Streamline Your Day
- June 11, 2025: Tech Tips for Writers #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu
- June 10, 2025: Writers Tip #51: Give Your Characters Their Head
- June 8, 2025: Why is Honesty so Difficult as a Writer?
- June 7, 2025: June To Do List for USNA Applicants
- June 7, 2025: ASVAB or USNA? What's Best for You
- June 6, 2025: Writers Tip #62: It's Not What Happens. It's Your Character's Reaction That Matters
- June 6, 2025: D-Day -- 1944
- June 5, 2025: Tech Tip #19: How to Activate an MS Word Link
- June 5, 2025: Book Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
- June 4, 2025: I've been Nominated for the Fascination Award
- June 3, 2025: How Would You Describe a Post-it Note?
- June 2, 2025: How After School Sports Improve Academic Performance
- June 1, 2025: Book Review: The Path
- June 1, 2025: #IWSG--Another bad first draft or the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
- June 1, 2025: Writers Tip #98: 18 Tips on Grammar from William Safire
- May 31, 2025: Dear Otto: Where Can I Find Kid-safe Images?
- May 31, 2025: What Happens After USNA Graduation?
- May 30, 2025: The Truth About Teaching in America
- May 30, 2025: Happy Memorial Day
- May 29, 2025: 7 Reasons For and Three Against Critique Groups
- May 29, 2025: 10 Factors to Consider in Tech Report Cards
- May 28, 2025: How I'm Doing on 'To Hunt a Sub'--VII
- May 28, 2025: Book Review: Horse Soldiers
- May 27, 2025: Happy Memorial Day
- May 26, 2025: Happy Memorial Day!
- May 26, 2025: Great Quotes About the Evolution of Man
- May 25, 2025: Weekend Website #98: Smithsonian Wild
- May 25, 2025: Wednesday Hero: Ssgt. James Spurrier
- May 25, 2025: Didn't Get in? Try NAPS
- May 23, 2025: Writers Tip #60: It's Fiction. Make Stuff Up.
- May 23, 2025: 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
- May 22, 2025: How to Add Time to Your Day
- May 22, 2025: Dear Otto: Do Students Still Need to Learn Keyboarding?
- May 21, 2025: 5 Must-have Skills for New Tech Teachers Plus One Extra
- May 20, 2025: 5 Top Steps to Market Your Books this Summer
- May 19, 2025: Metamaterials and an invisibility cloak
- May 19, 2025: 15 Tips for Young Adult Writers
- May 19, 2025: 5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences
- May 18, 2025: How to Compare and Contrast Authentically
- May 18, 2025: Armed Forces Day
- May 17, 2025: 11 Ways to Make an Inquiry based Classroom
- May 16, 2025: How Did Homo erectus Differ as a Species 800,000 ya?
- May 16, 2025: 10 Things Students Can Do With Buncee
- May 15, 2025: 10 Things I Learned From My Blog
- May 13, 2025: Born in a Treacherous Time
- May 13, 2025: Writers Tip #48: Have a Web Presence
- May 13, 2025: Eleven Top Naval Battles
- May 12, 2025: Tech Tip #101: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
- May 12, 2025: How Fast Should Kids Type
- May 12, 2025: Lone Survivor Quotes
- May 12, 2025: Create a Tech-based Curriculum With the SAMR Model
- May 12, 2025: Our Navy's Status
- May 11, 2025: How Many POVs is Too Many?
- May 11, 2025: Great Series: Berger and Mitrie
- May 10, 2025: How to Align Technology with Common Core State Standards
- May 9, 2025: Ask a Tech Teacher is Interviewed
- May 9, 2025: How to Build Lifelong Learners
- May 9, 2025: 10 Uses for Metamaterials. Beyond Star Trek. Way Beyond Harry Potter.
- May 9, 2025: May is Military Appreciation Week
- May 9, 2025: Is The Earth Warmer or Cooler? Some Evidence
- May 7, 2025: 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher
- May 6, 2025: A Marine's Letter to His Dad
- May 5, 2025: 8 Things Writers Can Do No One Else Can
- May 4, 2025: Ten Favorite Geek Words--Part I
- May 4, 2025: 6 Tips for Paranormal Writers
- May 4, 2025: Thrillers by Jacqui Murray
- May 3, 2025: My Character is Sick--How to Show (Not Tell) Some Illnesses
- May 2, 2025: What About Teacher Tech Training--Part II
- May 2, 2025: Thank You SEAL Team 6
- May 1, 2025: Why Attend USNA?
- April 29, 2025: Visible Learning and John Hattie
- April 29, 2025: 21 Ways to Describe Detectives
- April 28, 2025: Weekend Website #95: AIRR Math
- April 28, 2025: If Ford created the computer instead of Microsoft (or Apple)
- April 28, 2025: Book Review: Building a Midshipman
- April 27, 2025: How I Doubled My Business (Again) In a Year
- April 26, 2025: How to Edit Your Novel (according to Yuvi)
- April 26, 2025: What Happened April 25, 2011 in the US Navy?
- April 25, 2025: How to be Funny if You're Not--II
- April 25, 2025: What to do Once You're Accepted into USNA
- April 23, 2025: Changing Education Paradigms
- April 23, 2025: Metamaterials and an invisibility cloak
- April 22, 2025: Summer Online Learning Questions We've Been Asked
- April 21, 2025: You Want to Be a USNA Midshipman? Start Today
- April 20, 2025: Great Quotes About the Evolution of Man
- April 20, 2025: The Questionable Future of Agents and Publishers
- April 20, 2025: 20+ Books That Will Make You Sound Like an Intellect
- April 19, 2025: Tech Tip for Writers #2: Social Media–What the Heck is it?
- April 18, 2025: How to Describe Sensory Actions
- April 18, 2025: How to Use Social Media for Professional Development
- April 18, 2025: It's OK to Write What You Don't Know
- April 16, 2025: How I'm Doing on 'To Hunt a Sub'
- April 14, 2025: Who Are Bloggers?
- April 13, 2025: Book Review: Boy in the Moon
- April 13, 2025: Tech Tip for Writers #115: The 3-Click Rule
- April 12, 2025: How Do I Decide What to Write About?
- April 9, 2025: April To Do List for USNA Applicants
- April 8, 2025: Weekend Websites #39: Big Huge Labs
- April 8, 2025: A to Z Challenge: Literary Genres
- April 8, 2025: 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
- April 5, 2025: Google Summer of Code--They're Hiring
- April 4, 2025: 10 Things My Blog Taught Me
- April 2, 2025: USS San Diego Comes Home
- April 2, 2025: #IWSG--Am I Brave Enough?
- April 2, 2025: Book Review: Scorpion Betrayal
- March 29, 2025: Should Tech Teachers be in the Classroom or the Lab--Follow Up
- March 29, 2025: Is Whole Brain Teaching Right for Me?
- March 29, 2025: Is Orton-Gillingham Right For Your Students?
- March 27, 2025: What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?
- March 27, 2025: How to Talk to a Tech Teacher
- March 24, 2025: Tech Tips for Writers #102: Doc Saved Over? No Problem
- March 20, 2025: 13 ways Twitter Improves Education
- March 19, 2025: How I'm Doing on 'To Hunt a Sub'
- March 19, 2025: 5 Reasons Class Size Does NOT Matter and 3 Why Large is a Good Thing
- March 16, 2025: Can You Fix These Grammar Problems?
- March 16, 2025: What Happened March 13, 2011 in the US Navy?
- March 16, 2025: 21 Writing Tips Found on Twitter
- March 14, 2025: What Every Parent Should Know About Computers and the Internet
- March 12, 2025: 6 Stand-alone Lesson Plans for Subs
- March 11, 2025: Keyboarding with ASCII Art
- March 10, 2025: 14 Things Writers Do Before 8am
- March 8, 2025: 21 Reasons Why You Know You're a Teacher
- March 6, 2025: Writers Tip #99: 17 Tips From Noah Lukeman
- March 5, 2025: #IWSG--My Writing Style Doesn't Work
- March 5, 2025: Dear Otto: Should Lefties Use Right Hands for Mousing Around
- March 5, 2025: TurboScan--Great Class Management Tool
- March 4, 2025: When Writing, Shout it Out
- March 2, 2025: Secret Codes and Music
- March 1, 2025: Faces of the Fallen
- February 28, 2025: Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin
- February 28, 2025: Stupid Mistakes My Agent Found in My WIP
- February 27, 2025: 3 Desk Organizers You Need
- February 26, 2025: Humor that Inspires--for Teachers! Part I
- February 26, 2025: 6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun
- February 25, 2025: How to Tell if Someone is Lying: Body Language
- February 24, 2025: 22 Ways to Add Rigor to Your Classroom
- February 24, 2025: The Power of Positive Writing
- February 24, 2025: Ten Commandments from Richard Bausch
- February 23, 2025: Life of a Navy Chief
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