UCET 2015

Files, pictures, links, and many more digital resources can be uploaded and shared through Canvas - but how do you keep it all organized? In this session you will learn how to make your Canvas content pages visually attractive, create modules to give your course easy navigation, and also learn to organize your files for easy access by both you and your students. http://michael-uen.weebly.com/keepcanvasclean.html

Join Baker & Taylor School Sales Account Manager and Digital Specialist, Ricky Fitzpatrick, as he tours the innovative and award-winning aspects of the company’s suite of Digital Education solutions, KnowledgePoint.

KnowledgePoint brings together the industry's best and most reliable library and education platforms. It connects teachers with students. It enables all the important aspects of education to work together, creating new learning experiences.

Through its powerful suite of solutions, KnowledgePoint allows schools to have multiple repositories of eBooks to supply to classrooms, libraries and reading rooms simultaneously. And through integrated state-of-the-art assessment tools, it increases student and teacher performance, promoting academic achievement across the board. With intuitive searching, purchasing and allocation systems, KnowledgePoint is an educator’s most valuable instructional tool and a student’s best source for an enhanced learning experience. TBA

Google Classroom is here and has changed the game. It's an amazing tool that simple and powerful. Chromebooks are more productive classroom tools, thanks to Google Classroom. Learn how to share document templates with a class, offer feedback for students and groups of students, hold online discussions, and grade assignments. http://katiedewey.weebly.com/google-classroom.html

My goal with this class is to teach all teachers, no matter the content level how they can implement Canvas in their class. I will teach them what I am doing that is successful in class, as well as showing and telling how others are also using it. I will walk through how to post an assignment or a quiz on Canvas and how easy it is to really set up a class on Canvas. I will also focus on how SpeedGrader helps with the grading process and how it isn’t as hard as it may seem. My objective for this course is to ease the complication and worry of Canvas, show all teachers that it can be used on a wide range of curriculum levels, and for teachers of all grades. www.instructure.com

Learn best practices to bring a flipped classroom to life for you and your students. How to set up a learning management system for student success, resources for video presentations, student accountability, rewards and consequences to promote student participation, and parent cooperation. Explore apps and websites that help you fully integrate the use of technology into your flipped or blended classroom whether you have 1:1, BYOD, or computer labs. http://erikabradshawportfolio.weebly.com/ucet-2015.html

As I tried to implement flipped instruction, I identified areas where flipped instruction conflicted with what I believe math instruction should be, inquiry in nature. This presentation shows how I came to a solution and implemented online math discussions in a fourth grade classroom. I found students participated in conversations that had deep mathematical thinking, and demonstrated understanding far better than traditional homework.

Classroom is Google’s new version of an LMS (Learning Management System) that is designed to work incredibly well with teachers and schools who are using the Google Apps for Education platform (free Gmail for schools). It has many features similar to Canvas, but it is entirely free to use. If you are in a district who is using Google Tools and you are using Google Docs to collect student work, Classroom is what you need. Join me to learn the basics and to see how to take control of your digital student work. http://sedcclint.com/?p=1502

Did you know that half of recent high school graduates are not ready for college math? EdReady Utah allows students assess their readiness for college math, see study options, and get a personalized study path to fill in knowledge gaps. Students can use EdReady to study for the ACT or AccuPlacer and refresh their math skills prior to starting college. Teachers can guide personalize a learning path for their students and receive real-time reports of how their student is performing. Come learn how to get started with this FREE resource. www.uen.org/ucet

Come and see how Blended Learning can take your classrooms into the 21st century by harnessing the power of Coding and Video Game Design. Presenters will show how teachers with no background in coding can use Computer Science in grades 4 – 12 as a way of guiding students to think logically and to develop problem-solving strategies. Before coding an educational game students are taught to identify a challenge, imagine a solution, experiment with it and refine it. Demonstrating the use of the Globaloria content will show how coding and video game design can be used to enhance all classes and subjects using a blended learning model. Presentation will include first hand experience by an educator who has both used, and trained many teachers in the use of coding and video game design as a classroom enhancement tool that increases engagement and gives students real world skills for the 21st century.

Interested in flipping your classroom but unsure how to get started? This session will discuss strategies and techniques for designing and impelmenting a flipped classroom. Topics will include choosing and organizing content, ensuring student engagement, and developing meaningful assessments. We will discuss common mistakes and challenges, as well as best practices to ensure high-quality instruction.

Learn how Wasatch County School District achieved 1:1 computing and now seeks to scale the teaching of coding to its students. Presenters will briefly highlight select innovative technology projects in the district and then provide a deep dive in the teaching of semester long coding to large number of students. The coding approach uses a project based design model. Students learn the fundamentals of game design and design thinking while learning how to code. Students learn real-world design and engineering processes. Presenters will highlight examples of activities used in the classroom.

Edmodo is the world’s largest, free social learning platform that provides a safe way for students and teachers to connect and collaborate. This workshop will start at the beginning and help you set up an account, get started, and find the magic of using all of the features available to bring your classroom into the 21st century. Edmodo's power is only limited by a teacher's creativity!
Engage
Edmodo is designed to get students excited about learning in a familiar environment. On Edmodo, teachers can continue classroom discussions online, give polls to check for student
understanding, and award badges to individual students based on performance or behavior.
Connect
On Edmodo, teachers are at the center of a powerful network that connects them to students, administrators, parents, and publishers. This network surfaces the world’s best resources and tools, providing the building blocks of a high quality education.
Personalize
Edmodo surfaces up engaging, easy-to-use apps that personalize learning for every student. These apps help teachers amplify their lesson plans and integrate seamlessly with Edmodo,
delivering all digital content in one place.
Measure
Edmodo makes it simple to track student progress. All grades and badges assigned or awarded through Edmodo are stored and easily accessible. Teachers can get the pulse of their classrooms
through student reactions to quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts that capture understanding, confusion, or frustration. Edmodo's Snapshot tracks student's progress as they master the standards of the Common Core.

This fast paced, interactive showcase of easy-to-implement tech tools shows how to leverage technology in your online or blended classroom and build your students’ ‘digital grit’. The US Department of Education has identified grit, tenacity, and perseverance as the critical factors for student success in the 21st century. This session will demo specific tech tools that can help you support and develop these characteristics in your classroom.
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_1EXJC2zv02c21La2WvItSHV7vQEaHb8ZMgnVn3Rh7Q/edit?usp=sharing

Adobe Connect is a web-based conferencing application that is available through my.uen to all Utah Public K-12 educators. Adobe Connect Breakout Rooms will increase student participation and learning. In this over-the-shoulder you will learn how to set up multiple breakouts, create layouts that correspond with breakouts and how to save student breakout work. uen.org/ucet/

In this session we will discuss technology that allows online collaboration with students that are not physically in the classroom. How teachers can use video conferencing technology to stream lectures live, record them for later use, or enable absent students to watch what they missed in class. Options for collaboration with other classrooms and students will be discussed.

Pinterest and Canvas users, join us to see how you can leverage Pinterest to make your course super Pinteresting! Learn to embed images and gifs you curate in Pinterest.

This session will provide you with tips and tricks for creating flipped lessons. Questions that will be reviewed are:

If I am not teaching, what am I doing?
What do I do with students who finish early with the classwork?
How do I know my students really watched the lessons at home?
What programs should I use to create my videos?

Come learn about the flipped classroom and try creating your very first flipped classroom lesson! None

learn·er /lərnər/: noun 1. a person who is learning a subject or skill.
“All learners are diverse and readiness levels differ from student to student”

read·i·ness /ˈredēnəs/: noun 1. the state of being fully prepared for something.
“There are varying levels of learner readiness in the classroom, students do not learn at the same rate”

rate /rāt/: noun 1. a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against some other quantity or measure.
“Pedagogy can be differentiated for learners by their individual readiness or rate of learning”

dif·fer·en·ti·a·tion /difəˌren(t)SHēˈāSH(ə)n/: noun 1. development from the one to the many, the simple to the complex, or the homogeneous to the heterogeneous
“Instruction can be differentiated for learner readiness or rate utilizing the flipped classroom method”

flip·ed /flipped/ class·room /klasˌro͞om,ˈklasˌro͝om/: adjective 1. Pedagogy that is normally occurs in the classroom is now taking place outside of the classroom.
“The flipped classroom differentiates for readiness or rate of all learners in the classroom.

The flipped classroom is changing the way traditional education is taught. In this session you will learn why flipping your classroom may be a way to differentiate for learner readiness in your classroom. You will also learn strategies and techniques you can use so that you can effectively flip and manage your classroom. I flipped and so can you.