One of my goals this year is to get into sketchnoting. This is the concept of recording notes in a visual way to make them engaging as well as connecting key concepts with easy to understand images. I consider myself a visual…
Sketchnoting
Category: Tech Tools
Wellness Fair Posting
My district has a Wellness Fair coming up, with the focus on how to reduce stress. I was asked to write a post about “ways to be productive and beat procrastination using technology.” Take a look at it posted on…
Stop-motion Animating
I’ve written two posts in the past on this topic (3/18/15 The Animation Chefs… & 1/28/16 A Proposed Challenge…) this past February my district had a PD Day where I was able to submit a session proposal on Green Screening…
Teachers Use This: My Interview
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…
A Proposed Challenge for Pley
Pley is a company I heard about through Twitter, last year. They were new and were generating attention by giving educators a free year’s membership. According to their site & blog… “Pley is the leading toy rental company, helping smart…
Another Star Wars Inspired Post
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…
More With Forms, Sheets, & Add-ons…
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…
Great Ideas Are Started With: “Is there a way…”
Here’s the setting. The teacher resource specialists for technology are gathered together for a team meeting. On the agenda, our, what has now become annual, Tweet 10 Challenge. One of our team members read a blog post by Alice Keeler.…
Google Tone
One of my new favorite tools for Chrome is Google Tone! My district invested in Hapara which allowed our teachers in our 1:1 Chromebook program the ability to manage the devices while in the classroom. One of the features I…
The Power of the PLN
I believe I was in a Twitter chat a couple of months ago where we discussed the use of iPads and apps in education. Of course the conversation headed towards app smashing; the workflow of merging different apps to use…