I’ve written about Edji before in a few posts on this blog and for full transparency, I’m an Edji Visionary. I was asked by Edji to write a follow-up post for the TeacherCast blog after a recent episode of the TeacherCast Podcast…
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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…
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…
2015 Take Apart Day
Teacher Appreciation
As part of the SMART Exemplary Educators program, they have an area called Gold Star SEE powered by Influitive. This system is a means to share articles, post challenges/activities; basically a means of engagement within their program. Since this week…
Getting Creative with a Free Friday App
Paper Camera is a creative way to take pictures or video and make it look like it is a comic. They have an assortment of filters which are applied in real-time, no waiting or delays. This could be a nice…
Catching Up on Past Friday Apps
I’ve been a little lax in my posting. Here are two Free Friday Apps that I missed posting on the blog. Friday, December 5th Last year, I shared with my teachers a Free Friday Apps, Math Duel($2.99), an app that…
Sizing Up a Free Friday ‘App’etizer
SAMR is currently a huge buzz word! And I don’t claim to be an expert on this model, so I may be incorrect with the rest of this post (comment to help me set the record straight). I believe that…
A Heritage Project Idea
This was originally posted on the ThingLink Blog For the last several weeks, I have been working with third grade teachers and their students on their heritage project. As part of their social studies curriculum, the students researched their family’s…