Posts in this category deal with general education musings of mine.
If you are on Facebook, maybe you have seen this… It’s slowly making the rounds trying to get responses. Well, there are multiple ways of answering this problem and it could be interesting to see which method people employ. This…
Susan Oxnevad, ThingLink’s Education Community Manager and a great colleague, shared with me some exciting news coming soon to ThingLink. Below is the beginnings of a post she released on ThingLink’s Education Blog. Let me say, I’m really excited about…
During a Twitter chat, Jonathon Davis asked: @JDavis680 I might be interested — Dan Gallagher (@Gallagher_Tech) January 12, 2016 The blog (‘Teachers Use This‘) is based on another blog (‘The Set Up‘) where educators describe the equipment they use in…
I recently read a post by Richard Wells (@EduWells) titled “14 Star Wars Posters for Educators” which combined two loves: Star Wars & LEGOs. He created scenes with minifigure (LEGO) Star Wars characters. The difference in mine, I had those LEGOs (I know, my…
UPDATE: I recently listened to a podcast, by Chuck Poole, titled ‘3 Lessons We Can Learn From Yoda’ I felt his message fit with the topic of this post so after reaching out to him, @Gallagher_Tech hey Dan sure go…
I was going through my ‘Saved for Later’ on Feedly when I came across Rae Fearing‘s recent blog post about Creating Science Memes… I would recommend checking it out, then do like I did and accept the challenge. I thought for…
***I posted about this topic on my district’s blog: WW-P 1to1 Learning*** I had the pleasure of getting a Post-it Note from Dr. Rebecca McLelland-Crawley, one Friday morning. “11am, STEAM room, Take Apart Day, be there!” Now that sounds enticing!…
In time for award season (AMA’s were this past weekend), the Edublog Awards will be starting up. “The Edublog Awards started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog…
Professional development is a hard task to fulfill. Teachers have varying skills and needs. Sometimes topics can be too large to cover in a short period of time or they can be too specific and not really apply to the…
I’ve had my mind on Forms a lot lately. Assisted a teacher with setting up Parent/Teacher conferences using Forms, Choice Eliminator add-on, and confirmation emails using formMule add-on. Then I joined an 8th Grade Team meeting. Prior to the agenda…