I recently collaborated with my school’s librarian, Rachel Morling, to develop a 3D design unit where the students created a playable game piece for Monopoly, by Hasbro. She approached me to create an end of year activity for fourth graders…
I was approached by one of my fourth grader teachers. She was looking for an activity for her students to celebrate the end of their Mystery Unit in ELA. The students learned vocabulary like: mystery, crime, culprit, evidence, etc. They started to write…
I’ve had a few teachers ask me questions lately on how to stay organized. I figured if a couple are asking, then there are probably more thinking about it. I recently facilitated a PD session in my building around the…
For the past couple of months, I have been working on earning my Tynker Certifications. I would highly recommend working on these! First, they are free till Sept. 2021! Secondly, they give you a full picture of everything which Tynker…
So back in December, I tweeted… So this just happened… pic.twitter.com/Z7X5CCddrp — Dan Gallagher (@Gallagher_Tech) December 18, 2018 Now there are just a couple of hours remaining till the start of #ISTE19! I thought I would share a little bit…
If you have been following along with this blog, you know my role in my school district as a Teacher Resource Specialist for Technology sees me delivering PD in various ways (department(s), school(s), district, etc.). February 15, 2019… This year’s…
Much like in the Seinfeld episode above, my colleague, Stacey, and I had the idea to introduce teachers to HyperDocs by having them complete a HyperDoc on HyperDocs. This way they are authentically going through learning and doing each component.…