UEN is gearing up to support you this year! Check out some of our great offerings below:

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo Rewind with Adobe Update and eMedia Update
• UEN Homeroom Rewind with Creativity In Education with Adobe
• Course Spotlight on Creative Google Skills
• UEN Call for UTTLN Participants
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from Adobe, UCET, UELMA, UtSTA, UCTM, and Edcamps
• Resource Spotlight: Adobe Express New Features

Join UENVideo this summer for a review of videos from throughout our 2022-23 season!

Learn how to navigate the new Adobe Hub, now available in eMedia! In this episode of Adobe Spotlight, Rob shows you how to access the different resources in this hub that can help you add creativity to your classroom.

Explore the Adobe Hub and find more related resources here: https://www.uen.org/adobe/

In this eMedia update, host Katie Blunt walks us through the new Parent Guides available on the eMedia library. Created by the Utah State Board of Education, watch to learn more about how these guides can help parents support their child's education at home.

Visit the USBE Parent Guides on eMedia here: http://go.uen.org/bYg

UEN Homeroom is back for the school year! In the first episode of the new Homeroom season, hosts Matt and Dani are joined by a team of Adobe Creative Educators who are inspiring educators to reignite creativity in the classroom. Listen to get expert tips on how you can encourage creativity with your students.

Participants will explore strategies for using the Google For Education Suite creatively in their classrooms. Participants will explore how to use Google For Education Suite tools such as Google Sites, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Earth, and Slides and create a unit learning hub for their classroom. The course will focus on developing students’ skill sets in these tools and best practices for classroom collaboration, student choice, and assessment.

Registration is open now!

Calling all EdTech Coaches, Instructional Coaches, and School Tech Specialists in Utah!
UEN is hosting its second cohort of Utah Tech Leaders Network (UTTLN)! This year-long program is designed to help you grow your skills and knowledge in EdTech leadership. You'll learn about personalized and competency-based learning (PCBL), best practices in coaching and supporting educators, and how to build a community of digital leaders in your school or district.

We'll have in-person and virtual meetings and you'll have access to online resources and support. Whether you're a seasoned coach, an experienced edtech, or you're just getting started, this program might be a great fit for you!

Apply today to join the UTTLN! Applications are due August 25.

Apply here!

Educators are increasingly expected to exhibit skills and knowledge of using technology to enhance student learning. The UEN Educational Technology Endorsement Program is grounded in the USBE EdTech Competencies and the Utah Effective Teaching Standards. The Competency-Based Educational Technology Endorsement is divided into four courses. Participants will come away with a portfolio of work that aligns with each competency.

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The UEN Professional Development Team is excited to come to your school and work with your teachers on a variety of topics ranging from podcasting to Minecraft, digital literacy, or a variety of technology tools (Adobe, Nearpod, Google, Canvas, Canva, Utah's Online Library, and eMedia) and more. Request Free Professional Development

Adobe Express (formerly know as Adobe Creative Cloud Express/Adobe Spark) has added a bunch of new features that you can check out below!

All-in-one editor

The all-in-one multi-media editor empowers students at any level to make anything they dream up — all in just a few quick steps.

Videos in the same place as static posts, flyers, and more

Drag and drop scenes and adjust object timing

Animations with greater controls

Real-time collaboration

From peer review and feedback to jointly working on a project, students and teachers can comment right inside their files — no printing, emailing, uploading, or downloading. Work gets done faster and students build their collaboration skills.

Making videos is easier than ever

Students can simply drag and drop to create polished videos. Starting from video templates, they can type in text and swap in graphics and clips to craft their stories. They can trim, resize, crop, and merge videos in seconds, and choose color themes that best match their projects. Plus, they can enhance their video projects with free video and audio clips from Adobe Stock, available directly inside Adobe Express. They’ll find a huge library to choose from.

Generative AI helps students grow their creative confidence

Features powered by generative AI remove barriers between students’ creative visions and the blank page. These features also increase the speed of work and discovery, helping students quickly bring their ideas to life in posters, web pages, video essays, and more.

With the text-to-image feature, students can write detailed descriptions to generate amazing images that support their creative writing projects, reports, presentations, and more.

With new generative AI text effects, students can simply describe the graphical styles and textures they want to see and let Adobe Express do the work of creating them. For example, students can write text prompts to design letters from macaw feathers, lava flows, or igneous rock.

Interoperability with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Students can now go back and forth from Adobe Express to Photoshop and Illustrator, making it easier for them to grow into the next level of Adobe Creative apps and build their digital communication skills.

Edit PDFs in Adobe Express in just one click

Documents saved in PDF format offer high-fidelity to their original versions while making it hard for people to make unwanted changes. Adobe Express now offers a number of Quick Actions that let educators and students quickly convert image files and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to PDF — and vice versa. They can also open and edit PDFs right inside Adobe Express to modify text, add visual elements, resize and even transform a PDF into a multimedia project with animation and video.

Animate from Audio

This fun feature, which enables students to bring a character to life by speaking into their microphones, allows educators to mix up their normal routines and get students excited about new ways to demonstrate their learning. It also gives a confidence boost to students who struggle with writing or presenting.

Learn more about Utah Education Network including our free professional development courses, media productions, professional development at your school, and more at UEN's website.

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