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Rob Bentley 
Rick Cline Lisa Cohne Jared Covili Rich Finlinson Katie Garrett Jenn Gibbs
Laura Hunter Mindy Hintze Mitchell Jorgensen Victoria Rasmussen Tim Stack
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Friday, March 8
10:45 am - 11:45 am
20 Great Web 2.0 Sites in 60 Minutes
In this rapid-fire session you’ll experience 20 websites you can use to create, collaborate, and share educational content. Most of us are already aware of Web 2.0 giants like YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter, so we’ll skip those obvious ones in favor of lesser-known, up and coming sites.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
QR Codes: A Scavenger Hunt of UEN Resources
Use your smart phone and free QR code technology to take a tour of great UEN resources, including Pioneer Library, my.uen, Apps4Edu, UEN K-12 Interactives, and many more! You’ll also learn how to make your own QR code adventures.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Student-Teacher Interaction with iPads and Apps4Edu
iPads are great for facilitating interaction between teacher and students. Use UEN’s Apps4Edu to help you learn to use apps that turn your device into a clicker system and give you the ability to push out interactive lessons from your iPad to the student's devices. We'll also look at other great apps like Zondle, Educreations, and ClassDojo that turn your iPad into a fun and effective way to interact with your students.
Saturday, March 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Amazing Presentations with Prezi
PowerPoint is great, but in many cases it's overused and students start tuning it out. Come learn about Prezi--an exciting alternative that will inject creativity and newness back into your presentations. Create attention-getting presentations that your students will love. If you've seen Prezi before, come experience the recent improvements to the tool.
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Friday, March 8
9:10 am - 10:10 am
NetSafe Utah: Internet Safety at Home, School, and My Community
Participants will learn five ways to stay safer with today's technologies at school, at home, and in their communities. In addition, participants will learn about how they can help their schools become compliant with the recent CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) mandate and the online resources (e.g., presentations, lesson plans) available to them.
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Saturday, March 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Early Childhood: Partnerships and Technology in Utah
Kindergarten through 2nd grade students arrive at school with skills that are all over the map. Come find out what partnerships across the state are doing to help narrow the gaps in school readiness skills. Teachers will leave this session informed and armed with some great tools for classrooms and communities. Join UEN’s Preschool Pioneer Library, the State Library’s Utah Kids Ready to Read and the Utah Literacy Continuum Committee to identify 10 ways to increase skills and narrow gaps in school readiness.
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Friday, March 8
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Top Ten Tips for Going Google
SPOTLIGHT – Google has revolutionized the classroom over the past decade. With so many innovative tools for learning, teachers can find themselves overwhelmed with features and options. This workshop will provide educators with a set of ten practical tips for using Google tools in their curriculum.
Saturday, March 9
10:20 am - 10:40 am
Top Twitter Tips for Teachers
OVER THE SHOULDER - Find out why Twitter is becoming such a popular tool in the classroom. See project ideas, learn insiders tricks, and start your own PLN. All this and more in just 140 characters….
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Friday, March 8
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Reduce Stress With a Pocket Public Relations Plan
This session will unlock the connections between strategic communication planning, stress relief and your smart phone. Participants will learn how digital public relations can earn community understanding and support professional and personal goals. Video case studies will showcase high leverage strategies that achieve maximum communication impact. Participants will explore targeted techniques and examine the critical role of stories and relationships. You'll return to work with awareness of how to leverage your existing knowledge, skills and abilities. You'll also get 16 questions to customize your pocket plan.
Saturday, March 9
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Reduce Stress With a Pocket Public Relations Plan
This session will unlock the connections between strategic communication planning, stress relief and your smart phone. Participants will learn how digital public relations can earn community understanding and support professional and personal goals. Video case studies will showcase high leverage strategies that achieve maximum communication impact. Participants will explore targeted techniques and examine the critical role of stories and relationships. You'll return to work with awareness of how to leverage your existing knowledge, skills and abilities. You'll also get 16 questions to customize your pocket plan.
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Saturday, March 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
eMedia and Beyond!
eMedia is a large collection (over 20,000) of video and other educational media free for Utah's educators, students and citizen learners. eMedia allows you to search for content, preview it and then download the media for on demand use. eMedia includes videos like Magic School Bus, Bill Nye the Science Guy (yes, he's back!) and many full length programs from PBS. Come learn how to take full advantage of this free resource provided by the Utah Education Network. (www.uen.org/emedia)
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Friday, March 8
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Podcasting with UEN SciFi Friday
Learn how UEN-TV’s media production team develops podcasts for UEN SciFi Friday, the award-winning show that pairs classic B-level films with commentary by A-level Utah experts, podcast via iTunesU and www.uen/tv/scifi. Producer Jenn Gibbs will discuss the process from interview prep through digitally recording, editing and sharing interviews. Participants will leave this high-level session with ideas and handouts they can follow up on to use podcasting with their students.
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Friday, March 8
10:45 am - 11:45 am
RePainting Canvas Course Home Page
If you are currently using Canvas and are ready to see how you can make your course home page more exciting, this session is for you!
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
The ABC’s of iPads
Did you get an iPad recently? Do you feel like you’ve been given an amazing book but you can’t read it because you don’t even know the alphabet yet? Join me to learn the basics of the iPad! We’ll go over the settings, gestures, and give you the base level knowledge you need to start using your iPad effectively for personal productivity. (Hands on – BYOD)
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
15 Ways to Use Blogging-Social Media
SPOTLIGHT – In this session, we will explore some of the major Blogging-Social Media platforms and give you tips on how to safely and effectively use them to engage students and enhance the learning experience in your classroom. Learn how Blogging-Social Media is changing the way teachers and students are interacting with each other, content and the world!
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Friday, March 8
10:45 am - 11:45 am
UEN and the Teaching Channel
UEN and the Teaching Channel (www.teachingchannel.org) are teaming up bring you videos that showcase -- on the Internet and TV - innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools. The Teaching Channel video library offers educators a wide range of subjects for grades K-12. The videos also include information on alignment with Utah Core State Standards and ancillary material for teachers to use in their own classrooms. "Teaching Channel Presents", a weekly one-hour program featuring Tch videos, also airs on UEN-TV.
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Friday, March 8
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Canvas for Success: Rubrics and Outcome to guide student achievement
Clear objectives help people reach achievement standards. Instructure's Canvas helps educators set outcomes for student achievement and build rubrics to measure that achievement. Quick grading and feedback are just two of the benefits of using the inside of the Canvas classroom. If you are using Canvas already or are just thinking about it come see how easy it is to set up goals for students and then to grade their achievements in class.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Presenting with the iPad and Netsafe too
Follow along and learn how to use Apple's Keynote on your iPad to create powerful presentations. Learn how to use photos, videos and resources already on your iPad to create slide based presentations to use with students. See how you can sync video from your computer to your iPad for use in Keynote and how iCloud keeps you up to date on all your devices. PowerPoint users don't despair Keynote can work for you too. Try out SkyDrive for moving files from your computer to your iPad without wires.
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Pioneer for Secondary: Utah's Online Library for Secondary Teachers
Come try a hands on simple tech way of helping students do some amazing research on Pioneer: Utah's Online Library. Use foldables to allow students to demonstrate their learning while matching up with Utah Core standards for accessing multiple mediums of information. Find 3 great alternatives to Wikipedia, and learn how to help students find media that is suited to their needs. This Session will be focused on resources for Secondary Level Educators.
Saturday, March 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
eMedia on the Move: Video Playback on mobile devices
Go beyond the basics of navigating your iPad. This demo of three ways to use eMedia (and other video resources) will help you get the most out of and onto your iPad or other mobile devices. Learn how to stream video, download and sync video and how to stream from your computer to your iOS device. Three techniques that allow you to get the most out of video playback. Ideas and techniques for doing this with Android based devices will also be addressed.
11:30 am - 12:30 am
eLiterature: eReaders and eBooks in the classroom
Come learn about the latest and greatest devices for literacy in the classroom. What's the difference between a Nook and a Kindle? Where can I get books for my Kobo? What if I want audiobooks or I also need to surf the web? Get all these questions and more answered in this session about the gadgets for reading and how to do more with them.
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Friday, March 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Pioneer Library: Engaging Elementary Kids in Research
Pioneer, Utah’s Online Library offers several products specifically designed for younger students. Each of these tools comes with features that support and appeal to elementary age kids. Take a tour with us and see highlights including interactive web sites, audio, video, research support tools, activity ideas and more to engage elementary students and encourage development of information problem-solving skills.
1:55 pm - 2:15 pm
UEN Professional Development: Opportunities for Any Schedule!
OVER THE SHOULDER - Learn about the variety of technology-related professional development courses available, how you can earn credit at no cost and many options for “just in time” training and resources to help busy teachers keep up! Also, discover details about the new UEN-USOE partnership for subject-based professional development. We’re working with social studies and financial literacy and will have more subject endorsement programs online in the next year.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Excel: Colorful Data Management
“Data management” sounds so cold and dull! In this session, see we’ll liven it up a bit and show how to introduce color and creativity that can also help you work efficiently and effectively with numbers, dates and other data.
Saturday, March 9
10:20 am - 11:20 am
UEN Resources for the New Utah Core
Do you want more to help implement the new Utah core? UEN has lesson plans, resources to address parent questions, online texts, video and much more – all designed to help Utah educators provide the best materials with the best strategies to help students succeed. Learn about using Pioneer Library to find informational texts at different reading levels and to find support for writing argument papers or structuring class debates – all ready to go! Discover online math texts and story problems, open source courses with many tutorial videos, research-proven to improve student achievement on math, and many other items too numerous to list here…
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Friday, March 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Productivity Tools on the iPad
Learn how the iPad can be used to help you and your students been more productive and organized. Explore Mail, DropBox, QR Code Reader, Keynote, Pages, Notability, Talktone, Remind101, Google Docs, Zite, Pocket, Three Ring and more.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Publishing a Classroom Website with My.Uen
In this fast-paced session, we will explore some of the newer features available with Utah's portal page for educators: my.uen Review how to create, organize and publish bookmarks and documents. See how you can upload and link to your own images and videos, or even include videos from YouTube. Check out the newest gadgets available, and learn about a few helpful options such as the ability to change your login name. To get the most out of this session, participants should be able to login to their my.uen account prior to attending.
Saturday, March 9
8:00 am - 11:20 am
Multimedia Projects with the iPad (BYOD)
The iPad’s powerful collection of multimedia tools provide new and innovative ways for students to demonstrate their learning through creative and motivating projects. In this workshop three types of projects will be explored: creating a video using iMovie and Stop Motion Studio, recording and editing a podcast using Garage Band and storytelling using Educreations. To get the most out of this workshop participant should have these apps installed on their iPad.