Co-Presenter with Millsap ISD Superintendent Deann Lee and Millsap ISD Assistant Superintendent Edie Martin The COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world of education, forcing schools and school districts to make immediate changes to how they provided instruction to their students. The Millsap ISD team had just updated the district Strategic Plan less than a month prior […]
In my position as a Technology Leader I regularly lead presentations on best practices using technology to enhance learning. The presentations below are ones that I gave outside of my regular role in my district to different groups of educators at conferences and regional meetings.
All presentations either have a slide deck or video attached. I subscribe to the "less is more" strategy when preparing a visual aid for presentations, so some of the slide decks have minimal information included. I try to provide content to the audience so that they have an idea of the subject matter but they are not so distracted by a large amount of writing on the screen.
Beginner’s Guide to Using a Canvas Course Template (North Texas Canvas Users Group, ESC 11 – April 2020)
North Texas Canvas Users Group, ESC 11 – April 2020 This presentation was made a little over a month after schools shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic. A face to face session had to be quickly moved to a remote session. As everyone was learning the best ways to host digital conferences at the time […]
Using Canvas to Help Stay Organized and Increase Classroom Usage (North Texas Canvas Users Group, ESC 11 – September 2019)
We use Canvas, our Learning Management System, for everything in our district. We find that using it for more than just instructional delivery helps teachers and staff not only stay more organized, but it also allows them to have a better perspective of what students see in their Canvas courses. Teachers are “students” in the […]
Preparing Teachers to Be 1:1 Ready (TCEA Feb 2020 & TCEA SysAdmin October 2020)
As a teacher I had the luxury of my classroom being a computer lab, so my experience in a “1:1 environment” encompasses my entire instructional career. Every since I left the classroom I have been helping teachers adjust to every student having a device, and helping them find new ways to increase engagement and learning […]
I Once Was Lost, but Then I Found Google Keep (TIA Conference – July 2018)
On my second ever day in the classroom I underestimated the time that my lesson planned for the day would take, and we were left with 20 minutes at the end of class where I didn’t have a plan. Since then I have tried to focus on finding ways to help keep myself organized and […]