On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Jared and Dani welcome SGEN host Katie Blunt to highlight how higher ed has been impacted this past year. We get to hear her interview with four student body presidents: Sione Siaki from USU Eastern, Penny Mills from Utah Tech University, Nouman Kante from Southern Utah University and Matt Griffin from Snow College.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Matt welcome founder and CEO, Jose Enriquez. They talk about Jose's organization, Latinos in Action, going national and how the organization has helped the Utah community over the past 20 years.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani Sloan and Katie Blunt welcome past Homeroom guest, Dr. Darren Draper. Their conversation focuses on the lessons learned during the pandemic, how educators can implement those lessons moving forward and how this past year might have changed education for the better.

Jared and Dani are joined by Liz Arias, a Senior Customer Success Manager for Adobe Education. During the episode we discuss Adobe's statewide partnership with Utah schools to bring Creative Cloud to teachers and students.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom, Matt and Dani get the pleasure of speaking with "This Land" podcast host and activist, Rebecca Nagle about Native American culture and education. Their conversation covers storytelling, uplifting marginalized voices and how educators can learn more about Native American culture.

In this episode, Dani and Matt are joined by Heather Francis and Brenda Beyal from the BYU Arts Partnership's Native American Curriculum Initiative. They talk about the initiative, why it exists, how they built the curriculum and how it will help educators.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani Sloan and Katie Blunt have an in-depth conversation with Megan Simmons and Joanna Schimizzi from the ISKME team. Megan and Joanna touch on the creation of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons and how it has been a powerful tool for educators during the pandemic.

In this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Matt are joined by Ray Matsumiya and Iman Al-Omari from the Oleander Initiative. Listen to learn how they inspire peace education in the classroom by taking teachers from across the world to Japan to learn about the resilience of the survivors of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Adobe creative tools to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Microsoft tools to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Nearpod to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. Learn how to apply key technologies available to Utah teachers in the PCBL + Technology webinar series. This is the first of eight webinars in the PCBL + Technology series.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Utah's Online Library to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize eMedia to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Quin Henderson, Partnerships Manager of Future Design School, joins Homeroom today to share his thoughts on the importance of design thinking in our classrooms. Included in our conversation is the need for teachers and students to innovate, how problem solving is an essential art in learning, and the need to build creativity into our schools.

This week UEN's Rob Bentley joins Jared and Dani in the Homeroom to discuss how students can learn from games. We discuss the difference between game-based learning and gamification, how games help students engage with content, and how to get started building your own educational games.

In this episode of UEN Homeroom, Matt and Dani are joined by Shannon Rupert from the Mars Society and Jen Carver Hunter. They share great ways teachers can take advantage of learning opportunities involving the Mars Desert Research Station, right here in Utah!

In this student-facing activity, students will explore various TED videos as examples of digital short stories. After watching a video, students will complete a questionnaire and participate in a class discussion.  (Public speaking image - free to reuse - from Pixabay.com)  Resource Author: Matthew Winters, adapted by Katie Blunt

On the first episode of the new Homeroom season, Matthew Winters debuts as Dani Sloan's new co-host! The two talk to Dan Ryder, and Mat Dombrowski about encouraging student innovation and maintaining innovation over time.

In this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Matt are in the studio with Utah's First Lady, Abby Cox. Abby discusses the experiences of her new position and starting education initiatives to make positive change. The three of them chat about the need to focus on both educators' and students' emotional wellness.