UTAH EDUCATION NETWORK

UEN is excited to share our six-week PD offerings that start on November 2nd! Check out all the courses below!

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo with Teacher Tips
• Course Spotlight on Fall Six Week Courses Starting November 2nd
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from Adobe, UCET, UELMA, UCTM, and Edcamps

Teaching students how to evaluate online sources for credibility can be tricky, but it's essential for success in school and life. One way to practice this skill is to use a secure online database like Utah's Online School Library.

In this quick tutorial, Kayla Towner will show you:

- How to find Utah's Online School Library Nearpod Scavenger Hunts - How to use Nearpod to create and share scavenger hunts with your students - Tips for teaching students how to evaluate online sources for credibility

Watch now to learn how to help your students develop the skills they need to be critical thinkers in the digital age.

UEN has some great six-week courses open for registration right now! All courses listed below start on November 2nd and run for six-weeks. These courses are paced with a UEN instructor that will be there with you to answer questions and engage with your ideas every step of the way. Like all UEN courses, you can receive USBE or SUU credit for any of these courses.

Register for any course using the links below!

Participants in this course will take their intermediate Canvas skills to an advanced level by learning how to create groups and differentiated group assignments, utilizing HTML for page design, hold students accountable with specially designed rubrics and monitor student progress, increase accessibility to better meet student needs, and create overview and conclusion pages. This course will help participants improve existing Canvas courses to enrich student learning and performance by following the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning.

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Educational animations can be an effective tool for both enhancing student understanding and demonstrating student learning. In this course, participants will learn how to integrate educational animations in the classroom. The course provides a series of readings, resources, links, and video tutorials that explain what educational animations are, why they are worth considering, and how to create and use them effectively. Animation tools that will be touched on in this course include: Adobe Express, Canva, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Adobe Animate, and Adobe Character Animator. This course requires access to two animation tools (Adobe Animate and Adobe Character Animator) that are not free for the general public. Many teachers who are currently teaching in Utah have access to a pre-paid Adobe account through their school district or charter school. It is highly recommended that current teachers contact their school district or charter school to find out if that is the case, and to find out how to access it. If you are not currently a public school teacher, you could pay for an Adobe Creative Cloud account or download free trials of Adobe Animate and Character Animator.

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The focus of this course will be understanding the different blended learning models and frameworks. These will be explained and modeled in class in order to guide participants in understanding and developing their own blended learning materials. This course is designed to consist of two in-person virtual sessions and then four weeks of online work. This will allow the participant time to work on concepts, principles, course materials and apply them in their classroom. There will also be online work between classes that will consist of videos, readings, discussions, and using the blended learning models and frameworks in practice. This course is designed to consist of two in-person virtual sessions and four weeks of online work.

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Podcasts are a very popular medium for sharing stories, information, news, and opinions and have increasingly become a more important medium in our classrooms. This course is for educators who wish to learn how to integrate podcasts into their classrooms, both as a teaching medium and to create them with their students. Participants will learn about the different types of podcasts available to educators, basic audio recording and editing techniques, and how to publish podcasts with their students.

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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.

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This course will provide educators with an opportunity to explore, create, and collaborate within the eMedia community. eMedia is a digital library of educational resources created specifically for Utah educators. Participants will explore digital educational resources, including Open Educational Resources (OER), and practice curation strategies to collaboratively organize resources relevant to desired use. Participants will engage with eMedia tools to effectively identify and evaluate these resources -- utilizing rubrics and quality criteria -- and align them to standards. Participants will discover ways to create and remix quality resources within eMedia by sharing a lesson plan that follows the SAMR model and TPACK framework.

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In this course, students will learn how to effectively implement game-based learning and gamification in the classroom. The course provides a series of readings, resources, links, and video tutorials that explain what game-based learning and gamification are, why they are worth considering, and how to use them effectively. The course also covers a few examples of websites and other educational resources that can make game-based learning and gamification more practical in today’s classrooms. The course is divided into two parts: one that focuses on game-based learning and one that focuses on gamification.

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In this online course, teachers will learn about Minecraft Education, a game-based teaching and learning tool to enrich classroom learning. Participants must have an Office 365 account to participate in this course. The course guides participants to encourage their students to think creatively, work collaboratively, and engage in problem-solving immersive environments. In this course, participants will be able to apply Minecraft to their own curriculum and show the importance of collaborative learning. In the end, participants will create or remix their own lesson within Minecraft and see how Minecraft is more than just a game.

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In this course, participants will learn what digital citizenship is, how to teach students to be responsible digital citizens, and how to talk with students openly about cyberbullying and other potential pitfalls of social media. Participants will learn how to model digital citizenship and develop tools and lessons to use with students of all ages.

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This 6-week online class will give educators the opportunity to explore apps and functionalities of iPads while focusing on teaching 21st Century Skills that will prepare students for the workforce and world that they will be entering. Using the 4 Cs (Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking), we will look at how iPads can be used as powerful tools to enhance the learning that is already taking place in the classroom.

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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

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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