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Tech Tool of the Week 4/22/19
Tech Tool of the Week 4/22/19
Do your students love science?
Do your students love science?
Try Mystery Science!
Open and go science lessons that kids love! Teachers sign up free for next year!
Tech Tool of the Week 4/8/19
Tech Tool of the Week 4/8/19
How to change the size of your icons on your computer desktop:
Hold down the Control key on your keyboard while scrolling the mouse wheel.
(This tip is compliments of our own famous Jonathan Evans!)
Tech Tool of the Week 4/1/19
Tech Tool of the Week 4/1/19
Any teacher who is interested in the burgeoning presence of AR/VR in education should consider joining the Merge EDU closed Facebook group. Merge recently announced they have added an education platform for Windows 10, Paint 3D, and have a Merge Ambassador program for educators.
The Merge EDU Facebook group is packed with educators sharing their creations with the world. Some recent posts include frog dissection, AR Rubik's Cube, how to create AR with Cospaces, and more. Merge also announced the cubes will be compatible with Chromebooks soon!
Check out Texas A&M's engineering department's article about AR & VR!
Tech Tool of the Week 3/25/19
Tech Tool of the Week 3/25/19
Willis ISD is a small-ish district in East Texas. Many of our students do not travel far from home very often. I feel one of my duties as technology coach is to open up the world for my students with diverse ideas, challenges, and to give my students their own voice and choice. The more they extend their experiences, the better they will do in school. So much learning depends on prior experiences. One way we can help is with Virtual and Augmented Reality, which has taken our district by storm!
Another way to open doors for our students is with Skype in the Classroom. Our iCoach at Meador Elementary, Dr. Michelle Hall, brought in Skype as a learning tool, and I am proud to say we have begun to embrace it at Cannan. Our next Skype experience is a virtual visit with Dr. Jane Goodall in April.
Please check out all that Skype in the Classroom has to offer to our young learners.
Virtual Field Trips
Skype Lessons
Mystery Skypes
Guest Speakers
You can join as an educator to have access to Skype in the Classroom. Please ask me to assist when you do, since I am also a learner!
Tech Tool of the Week 3/18/19
Tech Tool of the Week 3/18/19
Flocabulary
Flocabulary
English Language Learners (ELLs) Implementation Guide
English Language Learners (ELLs) Implementation Guide
Ready to learn about how educators are already using Flocabulary to help English Language Learners (ELLs)? In this guide, you'll find three strategies for using Flocabulary to engage English Language Learners (ELLs):
- Building Content Knowledge
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- At Home Resources
- Click here for link to Guide
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Tech Tool of the Week 3/4/19
Tech Tool of the Week 3/4/19
Genius Hour Video for Students
by
John Spencer (My new favorite Youtube channel!)
Tech Tool of the Week 2/25/19
Tech Tool of the Week 2/25/19
Celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday and reading with this cute Dr. Seuss rhyming game on Gynzy!
Suitable for levels K-2
Tech Tool of the Week 2/18/19
Tech Tool of the Week 2/18/19
Cannan Technology Rock Star Teachers love using Flipgrid! Their students use FlipGrid as a tool to:
- Review
- Reflect
- Compare
- Contrast
- Gather information
- Explain
- Predict
- Solve
Tech Tool of the Week 2/11/19
Tech Tool of the Week 2/11/19
CraftyText
CraftyText
TCEA 2019 was awesome, I learned so many technology tools to share with my amazing *Rock Star* teachers! Here is a nice Chrome extension that lets you enlarge text on top of what you are projecting on your whiteboard. For example, you can beam up a join code for Kahoot or Google Classroom, or even a message with brief instructions. Click here for instructions.
If you want to learn more Google extensions (including the one that saves you $$$$$$), attend our next T3 on February 27, Google Play List!
Tech Tool of the Week 1/28/19
Tech Tool of the Week 1/28/19
IOS iPad
"Too Loud" Noise Meter and Timer
Rosa Garcia found this in the IOS app store and uses it with an iPad screen-shared from her projector to her white board. It is effective because the kids get competitive and keep quiet while having fun watching the meter. Set the timer duration, meter sensitivity and start the timer. The voice meter shows the noise level graphically. The animal behind the voice meter reacts, showing happy when it is more quiet and sad when it is noisy. Really cute, and Rosa says it works!
Be prepared for something new and exciting for our next T3 on February 13! I will be bringing back technology goodies and ideas for YOU, our amazing Cannan teachers! Register in Eduphoria.
Tech Tool of the Week 1/21/19
Tech Tool of the Week 1/21/19
Common Sense Media is a great online tool that helps families and educators evaluate book, movie, music, and app choices for children. It is also a great resource for internet/social media safety and digital citizenship.
Tech Tool of the Week 1/14/19
Tech Tool of the Week 1/14/19
Zearn Math is a complete math program that provides math lessons personalized for individual learners. Lessons focus on three critical components: deep understanding, fluency, and problem-solving.
Click here try Zearn.
Tech Tool of the Week 1/7/19
Tech Tool of the Week 1/7/19
makes it easy to get students (and staff!) up and out of their seats, learning with an interactive scavenger hunt! Stay tuned for our next T3 January 24 at 4:00 in the Cannan Library! We will have a friendly GooseChase Challenge with other WISD schools!
makes it easy to get students (and staff!) up and out of their seats, learning with an interactive scavenger hunt! Stay tuned for our next T3 January 24 at 4:00 in the Cannan Library! We will have a friendly GooseChase Challenge with other WISD schools!
Tool of the Week 12/17/18
Tool of the Week 12/17/18
A free gift to our students for Christmas from Capstone Interactive and Literacy for Texas
A free gift to our students for Christmas from Capstone Interactive and Literacy for Texas
Free Access to a Huge Selection of eBooks until January 15th
Free Access to a Huge Selection of eBooks until January 15th
username: capstonewinter
password: lovetoread
Website for online reading: www.mycapstonelibrary.com
Sign in with Capstone Interactive
Free iPad app that allows for offline reading:
Week of 12/10/18
Tool Tip of the Week
Classroom management in a specialized learning space is a unique challenge. Our amazing Ms. King backs up her paper sign-ins in her busy classroom of 10 scholars with the Brightwheel app on her smartphone. It's a great way to handle roster management and attendance. The app includes photos of her students, as well as a daily schedule for each. She simply clicks on her students' photos as they enter and exit. She says her Brightwheel app is a lifesaver!
Week of 12/3/18
Tool Tip of the Week
The Shidu Voice Amplifier has been purchased for Cannan teachers and they love it!
SMALL BUT VERY POWERFUL -- If you are looking to purchase a teacher microphone that is small in size and lightweight, then S258 is right up your alley. It is a portable voice amplifier with wired headset microphone that amplifies your voice with clear and crisp sound quality.The max 10 watts sound is loud enough to cover a room with a small or large group of 25-100 people.
Week of 11/26/18
Tool Tip of the Week
Freckle Education is a one-stop shop for hundreds of thousands of teachers to differentiate instruction across all four core subjects.
Sign up for free!
Week of 10/30/18
Mrs. P's 2-Minute Tech Tip
Or how to look up library books in the Cannan Library.
You can use this tool at school or at home!
Week of 10/23/18
Week of 10/23/18
Technology Tool of the Week
Technology Tool of the Week
Cannan *ROCKS*
Cannan *ROCKS*
TexQuest Databases
TexQuest Databases
Cannan teachers facilitated their Biography PBL's using Britannica Online, one of the many resources in WISD's TexQuest Databases provided to Texas public schools by our state legislature. Check out our Cannan TexQuest home page for accurate, reliable, and valid research resources for students.
Caught a student conducting valid and interesting research on a Chromebook.
“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. ” -Bill Gates
Teachers have one goal; to see their students succeed and achieve lifelong learners. Establishing a culture of inquiry learning with ample student voice and choice in their learning will give children the confidence to make good decisions in their lives.
Week of 10/16/18
Week of 10/16/18
Technology Tool of the Week
Technology Tool of the Week
Cannan Features Morning Warmups
Cannan Features Morning Warmups
Cannan's innovative instructors search in their tech toolboxes to engage and motivate their students to get ready for the day's learning. Our younger students demonstrate their interactive whiteboard skills by manipulating the eBeam pen on the Gynzy calendar, weather map, and time of day. They have fun remembering calendar facts by singing the Addams Family Days of the Week song, and dancing the Months of the Year Macarena. Upper grades start out the day with a fun writing activity using Google Docs, or practice math facts using Gynzy's Math Facts Jog. #wemakelearningfun at Cannan Elementary!
Cannan's innovative instructors search in their tech toolboxes to engage and motivate their students to get ready for the day's learning. Our younger students demonstrate their interactive whiteboard skills by manipulating the eBeam pen on the Gynzy calendar, weather map, and time of day. They have fun remembering calendar facts by singing the Addams Family Days of the Week song, and dancing the Months of the Year Macarena. Upper grades start out the day with a fun writing activity using Google Docs, or practice math facts using Gynzy's Math Facts Jog. #wemakelearningfun at Cannan Elementary!
Levantino's Firsties love the Gynzy calendar and weather activities.
Parsley's Kinders learn the days of the week with the Addams Family tune and finger snaps.
Week of 10/16/18
Week of 10/16/18
Technology Tool of the Week
Technology Tool of the Week
Gynzy allows teachers to create their own lessons or to access lessons created by others covering topics in Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. Teachers can use the lessons that are in Gynzy and manipulate them and use them in their own way.
Week of 10/2/18
Technology Tool of the Week
Hands down, Cannan's favorite technology tool this week was Osmo. Students played Words, Tangrams, and Numbers on their favorite learning games using iPads!
Hands down, Cannan's favorite technology tool this week was Osmo. Students played Words, Tangrams, and Numbers on their favorite learning games using iPads!
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