The UEN professional development team is headed into Spring with our Summer offerings!

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo with PDTV, Students in Focus, and UEN Shorts
• UEN Homeroom Podcast: New episode "Portrait of a Graduate (POG) and Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL)"
• Course Spotlight on Canvas Foundations
• eMedia Hub Spotlight: CS4Utah
• UEN Leading Schools 2024 Registration
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from UCET, UELMA, and Edcamps
• Resource Share: URSA Conference Proposals

Explore the innovative use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education on this episode of UEN's PDTV. Visit Utah State University and Weber State University, where a professor and librarian utilize Pressbooks to develop open textbooks, curating OER materials to provide greater and more equitable access to content for their students.

Celebrate Women's History Month with "Students In Focus," a showcase that shines a spotlight on the talents of young filmmakers across Utah. In this episode, we amplify the voices and honor the achievements of inspiring women in filmmaking. Enjoy pieces by Kaylee Russell, a student filmmaker from Uintah High, a documentary crafted by an all-female crew, and gain invaluable insights from an interview with industry expert Virginia Pearce, the director of the Utah Film Commission, as she shares her knowledge and experiences, inspiring the next generation of filmmakers.

This resource allows your students to explore countries, cities and cultures from the comfort of their classrooms.

Welcome back to UEN Homeroom!

Join Dani and Matt as they explore how Utah's Portrait of a Graduate defines the skills and competencies students need for the future and how a Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL) approach helps students master these competencies. Listen to gain insight from some of Utah's education experts on how POG, PCBL and Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) are transforming the educational landscape in Utah.

In this course, participants will learn to design and deliver an online course using Canvas. This course will guide participants in creating their own course using best practices to set up a visual home page, add engaging content, assess student learning, and communicate effectively using Canvas. The focus of this course is to learn about pedagogical practices with online course design by using the features within Canvas to create a course that will benefit both the teacher and students.

This course, along with many others, can be started and finished at any time during the 2024 calendar year.

The purpose of the CS4Utah Initiative is to unify efforts across the state in Computer Science education and provide support and strategic direction for those efforts, resulting in a state-wide Computer Science education ecosystem. This hub serves as an online community for teachers who integrate or specialize in CS/IT across all grade levels. The hub includes resources, lesson plans, modules, group discussions, grant support, announcements, professional learning videos, and links to additional resources. We welcome your participation in this community and hope you will both find and share resources to improve CS/IT education throughout the state.

UEN invites school leaders to participate in this unique professional learning summit free of charge. Participants will be guided alongside their peers through a design-thinking process to work on self-selected problems of practice across three days.This year, the Leading Schools Summit will take place in the Zions Bankcorporations Technology Center and Lucid Software in the Salt Lake City area on June 18-20, 2024.

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

Professional educators from all over the State of Utah will gather at the Utah Rural Schools Association Annual Conference at Richfield High School in Richfield, Utah from July 15-17, 2024. This is a conference for dialogue, learning, and exploration of topics critical to districts, schools, and individuals dedicated to the education, development, and growth of students in Utah’s rural communities.

Presenter applications will be accepted from January 22, 2024 through March 31, 2024. Presenters will be notified via email of their selection status by Friday, April 12, 2024. Lead presenters will receive free registration for the entire three day conference.

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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