Check out Loera's cuties as they extend their learning via Google Cardboard VR! This is engaging technology, but also instructive. While viewing animals and their habitats, these little ones asked pertinent questions related to their learning!

Garcia's Firsties were intrigued by the Merge Cube Aquarium app. There is an unexpected twist to this app! Try adding fish to the aquarium, it's not easy but these kids can do it!

The free AR Flashcard app in the App Store is a great way to introduce augmented reality. Can't wait to see these kids create AR projects when they are older by converting and coding 3D images into virtual objects using Paint 3D and Cospaces EDU!

Cannan STUCO waits to escort the Leadership Team committee to classrooms and musical events. We are so proud of these amazing students!

We were thrilled to have President Abraham Lincoln stop by during the Leadership WISD visit to Cannan! Here he is giving pointers to our superintendent and CES PTO president. 💜

Our Leadership WISD visitors were impressed by our AR/VR technology demos by district iCoaches, Persinger, Soose, and Hughes. Here Hughes guides a Google Expedition! 🚌

Cannan Rock Stars LOVE 😎 our Flocabulary subscription for student engagement. Flocabulary reviews four ways to define unknown words using context clues: synonyms, antonyms, explanations and examples.

Boom Cards are handy when a Kindergarten teacher needs a quick sight word review! The students love making their choices with the eBeam pen!

Sheppard Software offers a wealth of interactive whiteboard games for whole group and station practice/review. Fruit Splat is an engaging math activity!

Cannan's 5th-graders are @GoogleForEdu-immersed across the curriculum. The addition of another Chromebook cart for their Science class puts them far ahead of the tech-innovation game. So proud of the teamwork I see every day in these amazing teachers and students! 😍

You could hear a pin drop as over 100 2nd-graders were mesmerized by Cressida Cowell as she shared how she writes and illustrates her famous Dragon book series. She also gave the students ideas about how to keep small journals with notes and drawings for future creations. Teachers were making connections with their own creative projects for their students. It was a great "Skype in the Classroom" experience, and we are looking forward to more author visits via Skype!

These budding writers wrote their story in rhyme, "Dr. Seuss style", illustrated their book, and signed their names as "Dr."+ their last name. All done in Spanish, no less! They totally got the connection to author Cressida Cowell and were very proud to say that they are authors, too!📚

Students and teachers geared up for dress-up days to celebrate Dr. Seuss' books.

Our Amazing Rosa is always adorned for the theme of the day in her LulaRoe! We love this amazing teacher's heart and soul for her students!

Students were totally engaged as they battled to "medal" 🥇in the Olympics! What a fun way to review measurement skills...outside...with paper plate discus, extreme mini-golf, left-handed sponge squeeze, marble grab, and more. These two teachers WIN the coolness prize!

Cannan's Leadership Team always takes time to listen to a child's heart, and spread the message of inclusion and acceptance. We've got it good here @ Cannan! 😍

She shares a learning game she recently created for an education course she took on her way to be a teacher. Our STEAM TEAM created their own avatars to compete in the game.

Third-graders extend their study of the solar system with the Merge Cubes and Google Cardboard VR Viewers. Just ask them how excited they are to reach out and touch the stars! 🌜🌛🌟🌏

Second grade teachers use a variety of digital reading platforms to encourage and support reading. Epic and MyON are part of our Cannan family culture!

This second-grade group of scientists delved into the deep blue sea and chose to research Goblin Sharks. They used their voices to explain and video their project on their "Show What You Know" FlipGrid.

Little professors demonstrated ELA sequencing using advanced innovative technology plus their own very smart brains. Instant feedback is the key to mastering this challenging concept.

Third-grade reading wizards chose either a paper book or a MyON ebook to read for daily D.E.A.R. time, then typed their reflection into a Google Form. Whole group discussion took place while viewing the Google Sheet. A.MAZ.ING🤓

We are going places! Virtually, that is! *Rock Stars* stay after a long day to learn about VR and AR tools to take their students to places they may never visit in reality, such as Saturn, a great white shark observation cage, or inside a volcano.

Checked off:

Background Knowledge ✅

Real-World Experiences ✅

Problem Solving ✅

Each of our coding robots were named by our STEAM TEAM members. Now the robots can be synced by name with the code program on the IOS devices. The team submitted and then voted on the names.

Introducing: *drumroll*

• Row-bo
• Kirby
• Flash
• Bumblebee
• Dotty
• Boi
• Zero

Williams' amazing team figured it out in no time! They took to the coding robots like ducks 🦆 to water! These programmers will soon peer teach their friends how to interact with the robots during learning stations in their classroom!

STEAM TEAM

Cannan's Science,Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math team test out our cutting-edge coding robots, Dash, Dot, and Sphero. Just out! Our new AR/VR gear! Next on the team's agenda: Naming the robots!

Merge Cube Explorer

Young's Scientists top off an awesome "Meteor Drop" lab with an AR (Augmented Reality) visit to our neighboring planets, observing their surface characteristics. These 5th-graders are rocking the coolness factor!

VR in Deep Space

I said, "Class, let's take a 360 degree Virtual Reality tour of six REAL exoplanets!"

These guys exclaimed, "Sure thing, Mrs. Perez!"

Nothing but "WOWs" from them for 15 minutes, then speculation that the surface of exoplanet Barnard's Star b might support life.

Soaring with Virtual Reality

Young's Science Club members take a flight through the Solar System with our new VR viewers and iPods.

QR Codes = Quick Response for Agile Minds

McDonald's Mathematicians scan QR codes with iPads on a Jenga game to review math facts up to 20.

Dynamic Classroom

Schaefer's Sages slay perimeter calculations using Gynzy and the eBeam pens. It is awesome to see a collaborative team of learners.

Formative Assessment

Garcia reviews understanding during a math skip-counting review. Her Mathematicians smash blended learning tools using a JeopardyLabs.com game on the eBeam. They can also check out their number-grid carpet for differentiated clues.

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Students Create

Flippo's Illustrators create vivid journals using Sketchnotes as a note-taking technique during a read-aloud story. Sketchnotes promotes higher-order thinking skills and helps students process information visually. Students easily use visual cues to boost memory retention.

Student Voice and Choice

Parsley's first-grade Historians research and discuss the legacy of MLK using writing prompts, discussing how they are all different yet still the same, and using their own voices to record their vision of their own Dream of the World.

Cannan teachers love our new Performing Arts Center and learning about the innovator's mindset with George Couros.

Blackstock's Bucket-Fillers use ChatterPix to explain how to fill their buckets with kindness, caring, helping, respect, and compliments. These Firsties will spread happiness with their overflowing buckets!

S. Cruz shared how to innovate student research projects by using the DoInk Green Screen app. All it takes is the app and a few fluorescent green post boards! Done and done, with amazing results!

Hampton's students write persuasive scripts then give compelling speeches on @Flipgrid to convince us to read Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I'm in because I love that classic and hilarious Christmas novel!

Eaton discovers T-Rex in iPod with Google Expeditions Markers and an iPad, speculates dinosaurs may not be extinct! Ask your iCoach about Google Expeditions VR! You may end up anywhere!

Flippo uploads Flippity Christmas vocabulary Bingo to her Google Classroom for her 3rd-graders to play on their Chromebooks. Breaks record for being the coolest techie teacher ever this week.

Copley & Mitchell add positive hashtags to our #PositiveTweetWall.

Mitchell, Dillon, & Thompson created the wall after a book study sponsored by Friends of Texas Public Schools. The purpose is to promote advocacy for public education in Texas.

@FOTPStx @SchoolPriority

Loera inspires her 2nd-graders with her amazing creativity. She made the study of the difference between 2D and 3D shapes reality by placing Snapchat photos into glass Christmas balls. These 7-year-old scholars are learning to match geometry vocabulary to shapes while also creating cute Christmas ornaments to take home!

Cannan's teachers *ROCK* technology at our Christmas T3 training and party. The application du jour is Flippity, a fun Google Sheets template for making tons of learning games. We explored Flashcards, Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, Bingo, and Matching games. We added Kinder sight words in the Matching game, and Christmas words in the Bingo game. Flippity is super fun and easy, and the teachers love it! Our outcome for Flippity is to teach our student creators to make learning games on their Chromebooks!

Click here for my simple Flippity directions for WISD teachers!

Dillon's 4th-grader STEM Leaders use basic code with Sphero during Hour of Code week. Students control the Sphero SPRK by using apps to learn computer programs in math, physics, and computer science using hands-on, engaging activities with a robot ball.

Foster's 2nd-graders use their creativity and self-expression with the Seesaw app on iPads during ELA stations. Seesaw's easy setup, upgraded features, and schoolwide collaboration help teachers transform their instruction, while making it easier than ever to engage families in their child’s learning.

Hampton's 5th-grade investigators love using a Google Form to assess their own knowledge on an informational text passage.

Hampton also loves her students using Google Forms because it is paperless, give students instant feedback and grades, and saves lots of trees!

S. Cruz's meteorologists use a green screen app to simulate real-world extreme weather phenomena. We should expect to see a few weather professionals in this group!

Hampton's explorers created a Flipgrid review after reading Gary Paulsen's book Hatchet. Never fear, these brave 5th-graders have learned to survive in the wilderness with only a hatchet!

Dillon's mathematicians smash apps using Flocabulary and Gynzy to make multiplying and solving equivalent fractions a breeze!

Mitchell's Marvels Start Their Biography PBL With a Chromebook and HelloID

Hampton Engages Her Heroes with Assessments in Google Forms

Rios' Rockers Love Britannica Online to Get Accurate, Reliable, and Valid Facts

Garcia's Firsties learn how to navigate safely online from Jeremiah on one of our favorite classroom resources, DiscoveryEducation.com. Just log in with your WISD email account!

Blake's math students compute area in different ways using Gynzy and the eBeam pen.

Thompson's reading students enjoy using technology while taking their Friday spelling test using Google Forms on their Kindle Fires.

Hernandez, Ayala, Foero, and Garcia discovered how to create their own lesson plans in the Osmo Words app. Osmo continues to challenge and delight our young creators! Here our student volunteer artist sketches an elephant in Masterpiece!

These smart first-graders showed off their interactive techno-skills by moving letters to make consonant blends with the eBeam pen. Sometimes they did not even have to uncover the hidden picto-clue to get it correct! These Firsties have big brains!

It is always a good idea to get one's heart rate up by jogging in place when calling out multiplication facts! These fit fifth-graders multi-tasked their way easily through Gynzy's Multiplication Jog.

Kudos to Garcia for being the first to implement Gynzy on her eBeam for morning warmups. Her Firsties are true digital natives in her classroom.

Burnett teaches her Kinders all about apples using the eBeam. Rest assured these youngsters can explain every step, from seed to applesauce!