Covid 19 has impacted education in many different ways; one way I’ve assisted my building admin is adapting our elementary whole school meeting. My school has a monthly meeting where they introduce the theme for the month which correlates to…
Broadcast Club
For the first time in my career, I’ve been co-facilitating a school club. Now of course this is after school, but also virtually! My school offers a Broadcast Club for fourth graders. With how the school year started, we took…
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The 5C’s Club
I started something at my school… Wyoming’s 5C – Club. Now in education you probably have heard of the 4C’s: Creation, Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking. My school’s theme this year is Community, hence the fifth “C”. In the past, teachers…
Strategies for Organizing Chrome & Drive… PD
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…
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Tynker Certifications & My Tynker HyperDoc(s)
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…
How You or Your Students Could Be Anywhere… PD
As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, I have changed school districts and I’m back into a role as a tech coach (this district uses the title, Technology Facilitator). With the ongoing pandemic, our schedule affords me the opportunity to…
Engaging with Our Content… PD
As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, I have changed school districts and I’m back into a role as a tech coach (this district uses the title, Technology Facilitator). With the ongoing pandemic, our schedule affords me the opportunity to…
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Session at NJECC 2021
I presented at my first virtual conference this year! The New Jersey Educational Computing Cooperative (NJECC) 2021 Conference was held March 9th & 10th through the EventED platform. It was different, for me, since I couldn’t see or hear any…
Interactive Boards for Both In-Person & Remote Students… PD
As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, I have changed school districts and I’m back into a role as a tech coach (this district uses the title, Technology Facilitator). With the ongoing pandemic, our schedule affords me the opportunity to…
One of My First Chances to Contribute…
This school year (2020-2021, yes during a pandemic), I started in a new district as a Technology Facilitator (TF). We began the year remote and were supporting not only the teachers/staff & students but also parents. One of the ways…
Have You Ever…
Have you ever had a post that you’ve been meaning to write and it’s just taken forever to sit down and gather your thoughts? Here’s mine… it is taken me this long because there were a lot of emotions involved…
ISTE 2019…
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…
Assignment for ISTE Certification… Edji, Must Add to Teacher Toolkit!
I am currently going through ISTE Certification which broken down is three parts: Two-day, face-to-face workshop where we explored the ISTE Standards for Teachers & Students; SAMR, TPACK, & 3-E Model; the power of a digital PLN; participated in a…
Taking a ‘Pause’ from the Tech…
Friday I had the opportunity to bring one of my passions into the school community. My school has a wellness center, called the ‘Panther Pause’, which offers monthly themes, April’s theme is ‘Crafts’ so I volunteered to come in and…
How Can We See Superman Fly… 2019 Edition
This year I was invited to a different elementary school’s STEAM Day. I unfortunately had a conflict with the date of the elementary school I’ve visited for three previous years (link to last year’s post). This year I made a…
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Ever Hear of the ‘Adjacent Possible’ Theory…
At first, I didn’t either. Jake Miller‘s EduDuctTape Podcast introduced me to the concept, you can listen to a recent episode where he discussed the theory (starting at time marker 00:08:08): (referenced podcast episodes mentioned in Jake’s “soapbox” Google Teacher Tribe…
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I Wrote a Guest Post on The TeacherCast Blog…
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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I Was a Guest on a Podcast…
I was invited by Eric Guise co-host (with Nick Johnson) of the GotTechED Podcast to be a guest on episode 28 released on March 11th, 2019. Give it a listen: Checkout the show-notes by visiting the page for this episode on the GotTechED…
Ever Heard of an Unhangout…
If you are familiar with Skype, Facetime, and/or Google Hangouts then you also need to become familiar with MIT Media Lab’s Unhangout. You can read more about it on their site. This is one of those gems you hear about…
2019 Professional Development Day!
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…
Math Needs to be a Talkative Experience, Technology Helps Facilitate…
Math is not how I remember it from my childhood; the ‘drill and kill’ memorization of facts. In my middle school, we are starting to implement the Math Workshop Model a method of teaching math with components consisting of (but…
What Can Be Gained By Asking a Question…
Let me tell you about Kelly’s class one day One of my 6th Grade Science Teachers, Kelly Lee, was facilitating a lesson on physical and chemical changes. The question arose — is boiling an egg a physical or chemical change —…
Flipping the Learning by Starting with a Question… and a Bonus!
My instructional practice question for you is this, why spend class time teaching the features of a product rather than your content or providing time for researching? The scenario One of my teachers would like to have her students create…
“Sheets is the answer!” And I Have a Template for You…
As Alice Keeler says, “Google Sheets is always the answer!” So when one of my teachers came to me looking for an answer, I went with a Sheet. The scenario The teacher would like to have her students self reflect on…