January 5, 2007
Location:
Utah Education Network – U of U Campus
Milton Bennion Hall – MBH 202 (Map)
Welcome and Introductions - Victoria Rasmussen
Gadget of the Month - Ann Howden
- Flickr MiniCards - For $20 you can get 100 of the images in your Flickr account printed on small cards. You can also add text on the back. This is a great way for teachers to share their classroom web site URL. (Found at http://www.moo.com/ )
- http://www.popgadget.net/ Personal Tech and Innovative Lifestyle for Women.
Class / Podcast Highlight - Tim Stack
- iLife Projects - this is a new class UEN is offering.
In this two-day class, learn to use a variety of iLife tools to create curriculum-based projects. Create your own multimedia product that includes a podcast and photos, and learn how to incorporate this creative process into your own curriculum with students. Develop skills and identify resources associated with iLife tools including iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, and iWeb. Apple makes all these activities straightforward, so even beginners can benefit from this class. Demystify those "iWords" above and learn how to build content understanding as well as technical skills with fun and motivational projects that make curriculum "real, rich and relevant" for your students.
- PodCast: Teachers Teaching Teachers - http://teachersteachingteachers.org/
- http://www.elgg.net/ - Social Networking for education
- PodioBooks.com - http://www.podiobooks.com/ - Free serialized audio books
Getting to know C-forum - Jared Covili, Ross Rogers
- InterWrite PRS - available in radio-frequency and infrared versions, is an award-winning student response system that combines interaction and assessment to create a dynamic classroom.
General Communications, a company that sells InterWrite, asked UEN Professional Development to demo the system.
The InterWrite PRS software allows you to go through each slide and review the answers, see graphs of the results, move results to a gradebook, create a report.
Cost: class set of 32 is $1400-1900
NetTrekker, Big6 Theme 3 - Location and Access - NetTrekker presenters
- January Pioneer Library Trial: NetTrekker
- netTrekker d.i.:
The latest version of netTrekker supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level, some audio files. They also have resources targeted toward English Learners.
GIS Update - Ross Rogers and Jessica Anderson
USOE Updates
- Unfortunately I was setting up lunch during this presentation so I don't have much to include here.
- Rick G. said they need people to help read grant applications on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at the Qwest building.
Lunch / Networked game - Scorched 3D
After playing a networked game called Scorched 3D, we discussed the educational value of games.
Life Skills and Technology - Alan Griffin
- Utah Life Skills have seven domains
- Thinking and Reasoning
- social and Civic Responsibility
- Character
- Aesthetics
- Communication
- System Skills
- Employability
- Each domain is organized into four sections
- Definition
- Rationale
- Indicators
- Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions
UEN Updates
150 new 7-12 interactives - New UEN Distance Education web page
- MarcoPolo will be changing their name to Thinkfinity. More to come on that.
- Please share with your Science educators: On Wed., Feb. 28, 2007 Dr. Edward O. Wilson, considered to be the father of modern environmental movement, is speaking at Kingsbury Hall on the U of U campus.
- New Distance Education online catalog
- Internet Safety Project: Producing a one-hour program on Internet safety
NetSafe Utah: Cybersafe Your Teens - Channel 7 Monday Feb. 26, 9:00 p.m.
UCET Updates
- March 1 and 2 at Murray
- Desperate call for presenters
UTIPS Update
- New UTIPS server in Northern Utah and one for some districts in the SESC region and UEN is hosting a server for some Wasatch Front districts.
- UTIPS Training materials created by Paul Waite are completed.
Future meeting dates:
- February 2, 2007- Tooele School District
- April 13, 2007 - Davis School District
For questions or comments contact us.