Canyons+10.3.2014

= October 3, 2014 - Canyons Meeting Agenda = media type="custom" key="26507102" align="right"

**Location:** Canyons Support Service Center, 9361 South 300 East, Sandy, UT 84070
Register for this event.

__**Agenda**__


 * 8:30-9:00 am:** Continental Breakfast and Snacks


 * 9:00-9:15 am:** Welcome from CSD

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 * 9:15-9:30 am:** Jared Ward
 * Canvas BLACK Level Trainings Book (Free Giveaway at the end of the meeting.)
 * "Essentials for Blended Learning" by Jared Stein and Charles Graham.
 * Regularly $34.95. Buy from in bulk from the publisher and get 30% discount, $24.47.
 * **Jessie Taylor | Special Sales Account Manager **
 * ENTER HERE TO WIN A FREE COPY
 * #EdTechTips Course via Remind: wardtech.weebly.com/edtechtips
 * Regular updates and tips from multiple resources. Want to share your #EdTechTips? Share your ideas on twitter, Facebook, instagram with the hashtag #EdTechTips.

**9:30-11:00 am:** Katie Hill & Camille Cole
 * The Tech Club Experience
 * What's a Tech Club?
 * Katie's Experience- How we've built our club and how it's formatted
 * [|Code.org]
 * Tech Club Website
 * Camille's Experience
 * CS-First
 * Sphero
 * Chariot Race
 * Working with full-time teachers
 * Meet the Makey Makey
 * 5 minute explanation
 * 30 minutes to Play & Create
 * related TED Talk worth watching: [|AnnMarie Thomas-Hands-on science with squishy circuits]
 * Sphero exploration
 * Focus on the Lesson MacroLab Lesson 5
 * 11:00-12:00 pm:** Rick Gaisford Discussion


 * 12:00-1:00 pm:** Lunch


 * 1:00:** Updates
 * **UTIPS:** Julie Quinn


 * **UEN Updates** - Justin Brooksby
 * New channel in October called FNX. [|FNX (First Nations Experience)] presents Native American stories and content to create a diverse and entertaining channel. UEN channel 9.3 is now live airing FNX
 * Preschool Pioneer is a online collection of resources for quality early childhood education. For ages 3-6. This site is now available in [|spanish].
 * UEN’s newest program “SciTech Now” will air on Monday, October 6th at 8:30pm. Or for a sneak peak of the program [|click here] . All of these programs (as well as the segments) are also available in eMedia. You can learn more about the show at [|uen.org/scitechnow]
 * Pioneer Library has some new products from [|Gale: Cengage Learning] (There is a initial [|train-the-trainer workshop] on October 14th). The following products are part of the Gale resources.
 * Kid's InfoBits
 * InfoTrac Junior
 * InfoTrac Student
 * Student Resource Center Junior
 * Discovering Collection
 * InfoTrac Newsstand
 * Biography in Context
 * Science in Context
 * Opposing Viewpoints in Context
 * Virtual Reference Library
 * This is the last year for grant money for NetSafe Utah. It is the hope that all future NetSafe trainings come from the district, school or service center. A new [|NetSafe grant application] is now available.

Plualsights [|free one year] subscription: http://ww2.pluralsight.com/GOED-free-trial


 * **USOE Updates** - Rick Gaisford
 * State Software Agreements
 * ESRI - ArcGIS
 * SketchUp 2014 Pro
 * Lucid Chart and Lucid Press: http://www.uen.org/lucid
 * VMWare
 * PluralSight
 * CenturyLink Teachers and Technology Program: http://my.uen.org/39 (CenturyLink Tab)
 * SpeakUp 2014
 * [[file:SpeakUp_generalflyer.pdf]]

[|Survey] for possible topics - > ** UCET 2015 - > Write something for the UELMA Newsletter by 10/10/14 >
 * **UCET Updates** - Leslie Lewis
 * EdCamp Utah
 * 29 Reservations left
 * Venue - ?
 * Date - ?
 * Contest - #TechElevated & #UCET2015 - Take photos of yourself with your tech elevated then post with the hashtags. Prizes, such as tickets to UCET, will be given.

And the winner of the "Essentials for Blended Learning" book IS: media type="custom" key="26637504"