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🔬STEM educator turned VR enthusiast
✏️Helping teachers bring real science to life with immersive tools like syGlass.

🩷Mom to two tiny humans and one fur baby, coffee lover, and tennis fan!

09/18/2026

🐸 This I’m asking you: Should we use more VR and save the frogs?

Frog dissection has been a staple of science education for decades, and there’s a reason teachers continue to use it. Students get hands-on experience, practice lab skills, work together, and interact with real biological structures.
But VR can add something pretty valuable to that experience.

With a VR frog, students can:
🥽 Explore a 3D specimen from every angle
🔍 Zoom in and examine structures up close
🖐️ Practice identifying and manipulating structures before working with a real specimen
🔄 Make mistakes, reset, and try again
🔁 Repeat the experience as many times as they need
👀 See structures that can be difficult to visualize during a traditional dissection

And perhaps one of the biggest benefits? Every student gets a chance to explore.

VR gives students a low-risk space to build confidence, ask questions, and develop spatial understanding before, during, or even after a hands-on lab.
That doesn't have to mean choosing VR OR real frogs.

For many classrooms, it could be VR + hands-on learning, with each experience serving a different purpose.

So I'm curious, science teachers and professors:
🐸 Hands-on dissection
🥽 VR dissection
🔬 A combination of both?

How are you using VR to complement your lab experiences?

SyGlass

09/15/2026

“Wait… THAT’S inside the body?!” 😂

If you’ve ever watched students use VR for the first time, you’ve probably heard some version of these:
❓ “Can I zoom in?”
❓ “Can I see the other side?”
❓ “Wait… what is THAT?”
❓ “Can I cut it open?”

This Tuesday we are celebrating the questions that might sound funny, but are also one of the best parts of teaching with immersive technology like SyGlass .

Students are asking questions because they genuinely want to know the answer.
And that’s the part I love.
Curiosity is a pretty powerful teaching tool.

09/11/2026

🥚🪿 This , we’re looking inside a goose egg… without cracking it!

A CT scan + SyGlass lets students explore a real goose egg and see what’s happening inside, from the yolk and surrounding structures to the developing gosling. ❤️

And honestly, this is the kind of thing that makes students say, “Wait… we can actually see that?!” 👀

Suddenly, one really cool scan can lead to questions like:
🔬 What is a goose eggshell actually made of?
🥚 Does eggshell thickness matter?
🌎 What effect can persistent organic pollutants have on eggshells and developing birds?
🫁 How does a gosling breathe while it’s still inside the egg?
🪿 And what does all of this have to do with managing bird populations and overpopulation?

One scan can prompt so many questions!

Who knew something as simple as an egg could make class so cool? 🥚🔬🪿

09/01/2026

This Tuesday I wanted to take a look into an interesting question: What does VR actually teach?

It's a question I think we should be asking more often.

VR is impressive. Being able to step inside a 3D dataset, rotate it, section it, and explore structures from every angle is undeniably cool.

But the technology itself isn't the learning objective.
The learning happens when students use that technology to:
🔎 Observe
📏 Measure
🔄 Compare
❓ Question
🧠 Analyze
💬 Explain
✨ Create

That's where immersive technology can move beyond simply showing students something and start giving them opportunities to interact with authentic data, investigate what they see, and build their own understanding.

The goal is to use the right technology to create better opportunities for students to think, investigate, and learn.

The technology is cool.
Learning is the point.

08/29/2026

The ExxonMobil Foundation grant will bring immersive virtual reality science learning to all four Midland ISD middle school campuses.
Click the link in the comments 👇️

08/28/2026

What if one CT scan could introduce a student to an entirely new career?

This we are looking at Ross's Goose! This is a great example of why I believe immersive technology can be so much more than a way to make science “cool.”

With SyGlass , students can explore authentic 3D CT data from animals and specimens, examining anatomy in ways that aren't possible with a textbook or traditional 2D image.

They can discover that a goose's kidneys don't look like ours. That birds have a completely different respiratory system. That some bones can be pneumatized. And that the anatomy they've been learning in class can look remarkably different across species.

But the real opportunity is what comes next.
Bring in an avian veterinarian. An ornithologist. A veterinary radiologist. A wildlife biologist. A biomedical researcher.
Let students ask questions about the scan and hear what these professionals actually do.

A student who has never considered veterinary medicine might suddenly see themselves working with animal imaging.
A student fascinated by birds might discover ornithology.
A student interested in technology might discover medical or veterinary imaging.
A student who loves biology might discover research.
These experiences can happen in high school, middle school, or college, long before a student has to make a decision about their future.

We are giving students access to experiences, experts, questions, and possibilities that can help them imagine a future they didn't know was available to them.

Sometimes career exploration doesn't start with a career fair.
Sometimes it starts with:
“Wait... what am I looking at?” 🔬🪿
And that's where curiosity can open a door.

08/25/2026

What If We Stopped Giving Students the Answers?
This week on Tuesday, we are diving into how to promote inquiry-based learning using VR.

As educators, we spend a lot of time making learning easier to understand.
But what if sometimes we made it a little harder to figure out?

Instead of showing students a labeled diagram and telling them what they're looking at, what if we gave them a 3D dataset and had them make the connections:
🔎 What do you notice?
🧠 What do you think is happening?
📏 What evidence can you collect?
💡 What can you discover?

With syGlass, students can manipulate 3D scientific data, explore structures from different perspectives, take measurements, and investigate before being handed the answer.

VR gives students an environment where they can ask questions, investigate what they see, and discover answers for themselves.

Stop giving students the answer. Give them something to figure out.

SyGlass

08/21/2026

💙💛Big bird. BIG personality. And a whole lot to discover beneath those feathers!

This week for , we're exploring a Blue & Gold Macaw (Ara ararauna) through a CT scan.

These incredible birds can use their beaks like a third foot, have two toes forward and two backward for climbing and gripping, and can even visibly "blush"! They can also live for decades and are highly social, intelligent birds.

But this scan gives us something even more important to explore: pathology.
This individual had multifocal feather cysts, a condition that is especially common in blue-and-gold macaws.

With VR, veterinarians, veterinary students, researchers, and educators can move beyond simply looking at a scan. They can manipulate anatomy, investigate abnormalities, study pathology, and explore structures in 3D.

And the possibilities don't stop with veterinary medicine.
The same technology can help students connect anatomy, pathology, imaging, biology, and research while exploring real scientific datasets.

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