UEN Trainers are getting geared up for UCET/UELMA 2024. Check out more information below!

In this week's newsletter, you will find:

• UENVideo with PDTV, Teacher Tips, and Students in Focus
• UEN Homeroom Podcast: New episode "How Has Learning Changed?"
• Course Spotlight on Mobile Photography in the Classroom
• eMedia Hub Spotlight: Secondary ELA Hub
• Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from UCET, UELMA, and Edcamps
• Resource Share: Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids

For the first time on UEN’s PDTV, we’re shining the spotlight on school leadership! Host Katie Blunt travels to Orangeville, Utah to visit principal John Hughes of Cottonwood Elementary to discuss how his experiences at the UEN Leading Schools Conference have provided him with ideas to support his staff, allowing teachers to continuously improve their skills and provide the best education to their students.

Looking for ideas to improve classroom management? In this quick tutorial, Rob shares three tech tools available to help you create a focused and positive learning environment in your classroom.

Get ready to be inspired by Utah's creative and diverse student filmmakers in this episode of Students in Focus! Tune in and experience how these filmmakers use their artistic skills to shed light on some of the pressing issues on students' minds today. We also hear from a music video director who started in action sports, he shares his story about how his film career grew into what he's most passionate about today.

Join Dani and Matt on this episode of UEN Homeroom as they delve into three different types of technology: eSports, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). They discuss how these technologies are being incorporated into schools as tools to enhance the classroom experience and positively impact students' lifelong success.

This course introduces teachers to the use of mobile devices for digital photography to enhance student learning. Participants learn basic skills in taking and editing digital photos while exploring how digital photography can be integrated into project-based lessons that engage students in curricula. Participants will gain hands-on experience using mobile devices to take digital photos, using software and mobile apps for photo editing, and exploring royalty-free photo resources and Creative Commons licensing. Participants will also create a lesson plan for utilizing photography in the classroom, including an example multimedia project they can use as an exemplar for student work, that follows the SAMR model and TPACK framework.

This course, along with many others, will run in our Spring B semester starting March 7th.

Register for any course using the links below!

https://emedia.uen.org/hubs/secondaryela

Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids, Utah’s premiere kids film festival, is excited to announce our 2nd annual kids film competition in partnership with UEN!

The 2024 Tumbleweeds Kids Film Competition is open to all Utah students grades K-8. Students may enter fiction or nonfiction films for competition. Films will be judged based on filmmakers’ ability to clearly tell a story or convey a message, artistic style, and technical skill.

To submit your film, visit https://filmfreeway.com/TumbleweedsKidsFilmCompetition.

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