October 3, 2014 - Canyons Meeting Agenda

Host: Canyons School District

Location: Canyons Support Service Center, 9361 South 300 East, Sandy, UT 84070

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Agenda

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

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

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.
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• #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
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• UCET Updates - Leslie Lewis
  • EdCamp Utah
  • 29 Reservations left

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• ** UCET 2015 -
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• Write something for the UELMA Newsletter by 10/10/14
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And the winner of the "Essentials for Blended Learning" book IS: