UEN Professional Development TV
UEN PDTV is on-demand, streaming professional development for teachers in the state of Utah. Each episode will focus on how educators are implementing Utah's education technology competencies in their classrooms. View all episodes by clicking on the PDTV playlist, the UEN PDTV YouTube Channel, or in UEN's eMedia.
Breaking Barriers with Virtual Reality
Join us at Hartvigsen School in Taylorsville to see how Granite School District’s Teacher of the Year, Seyyed Sharifi, uses virtual reality in the Essentials for Living program to prepare his post-high-school, special education students for life skills beyond the classroom.
Apply the EdTech competencies taught in this video using the resources linked below!
Utah Educational Technology Competencies
Experiential Learning
- USBE: Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
- USBE: Work-Based Learning
- Rowland Hall: Experiential Learning
- USBE: CTE Internship Strands and Standards
- UEN: Work-Based Learning
- Utah Valley University Center for Social Impact
- University of Utah Benion Center for Community Engagement
- Utah PTA: Service Learning
- UEN: Service Projects
- Utah’s Online School Library
- UEN + Scrible: Crafting Research Projects with Scrible and Utah’s Online Library
- UEN’s PDTV: Online Learning
Video Conferencing
- Zoom for Education
- UEN’s Zoom Product Page
- Google Meet
- UEN’s eMedia Google Meet Collection
- Use FaceTime with your iPhone or iPad
Virtual Field Trips
- “Extending learning with Nearpod’s Virtual Field Trips” from nearpodblog
- “Top 10 Virtual Reality (VR) Field Trips for Students” from nearpodblog
- Google Arts Culture Virtual Field Trips
- Virtual Field Trips for Elementary from PBS Learning Media
Extended Reality
- Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality from micahshippee.com
- “A Learning Framework For Augmented And Virtual Reality” from TeachThought
AR/VR Tools:
- UEN Digital Media Arts -- Augmented and Virtual Reality with Students
- UEN’s eMedia Digital Media Arts Hub
- Virtual Reality (VR):
- Augmented Reality (AR):
- Google Arts & Culture – Augmented Reality
- ”Add 3D objects to your lesson with Nearpod” from nearpodblog
- BBC Civilizations
- Merge Cube
- Google Chrome Mobile App - AR objects are built into the Chrome browser search results
- Google ARCore
Your Host:
Katie Blunt is a product manager with the Utah Education Network. She has a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy and a master’s in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University. Katie has K-12 administrative licensure and teaching endorsements in ESL, Ed Tech, Keyboarding, and Multimedia. She is an ISTE, Apple, Nearpod, and Google certified educator and UCET past president.