UTAH EDUCATION NETWORK

Our team over at UEN are getting ready to share our Spring course offerings! Check back in two weeks to sing up for courses.

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo with Teacher Tips, GEGUtah, and Utah's Online School Library Shorts
• UEN Homeroom Podcast: New episode on Digital Equity
• Course Spotlight on Research Ready with Scrible
• Sign up for the UCET / UELMA 24 Book Club
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from Adobe, UCET, UELMA, UCTM, and Edcamps
• Resource Share: ULEAD Middle Grades Math Innovation Group

In this UEN Teacher Tip, Matt Winters will show you how to explore large language models and generative AI tools in your classroom using tools you may already have. Learn how to use these powerful tools to create engaging and interactive learning experiences for your students.

This video is perfect for educators who are new to large language models and generative AIs, or who are looking for new ways to use these tools in their classrooms.

Join the GEGUtah Leadership for their monthly meetup. This month GEGUtah Leader and Ogden School District's own Ian Davey walks us through some ways to connect Google to Canvas!

Here's why Gale In Context is a must-have for your classroom: ✅ Access to a vast collection of credible sources ✅ Easy-to-use annotate tools for highlighting, note-taking, and citation creation ✅ Seamless integration with Google Docs for effortless citation management And the best part? Gale In Context is FREE for all Utah educators and students, visit onlinelibrary.uen.org.

Welcome back to UEN Homeroom!

Season 6 is here, and things are a little different this time around. Hosts Matt Winters and Dani Sloan are stepping away from their usual format to tell the story of digital equity throughout Utah. Throughout the season, they'll be interviewing local and national experts, IT directors, teachers and more, delving into the complexities of this critical issue.

To kick off the season, Matt and Dani turn to the community and educators to gather their definitions of digital equity. Join them as they uncover the diverse perspectives that shape our understanding of equity in the digital age.

Scrible is an advanced platform built to tackle the massive research and writing skills crisis undermining students' college and career readiness. This course is for educators who wish to learn how to integrate Scrible into their classrooms. In this course, participants will learn the basics of Scrible, how to build a Scrible library, create and import class rosters, use Scrible with Utah's Online Library and produce an assignment with Scrible. All Utah educators have access to Scrible Edu Pro for free through a USBE statewide contract.

Register for any course using the links below!

As you might know, the conference is coming up on March 19th-20th and they have some great speakers and sessions in planning right now (you can learn more at this link). This year, thanks to support from Utah Education Network, UCET / UELMA is offering a Book Club! The book club will include three authors that will be speaking at the upcoming conference: Donalyn Miller's The Book Whisperer, Richard Culatta's Digital For Good, and Carl Hooker's Learning Evolution: New Era of AI in the Classroom. The UCET / UELMA Book Club will include an option for USBE or SUU credit (you must complete two books to get credit).

The course will be launched in December, but if you would like to sign up now, you can use the form below to pre-register:

https://forms.gle/kjLU3XRBrfAeRhf68

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

You are invited to join a professional learning cohort from Utah Leading through Effective, Actionable, and Dynamic (ULEAD) Education where you will develop and implement an innovative practice plan with guidance from research, evidence, and experts designed to infuse vertical teams with collaborative support to achieve mathematical outcomes.

The deadline to submit this application is December 1, 2023. Accepted applicants will be notified by December 8, 2023.

Application: https://bit.ly/uleadmathapply

More Information: https://bit.ly/uleadmath

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