This month join us for a great Make-And-Take Marvel with co-leader Kelli Cannon. We will also share our monthly newsletter and some Googley updates.

We will have a brief sharing session and then what we are calling Make-and-Take Marvels, pre-made lessons that you can take to your classrooms tomorrow with all the materials ready to go. This month, co-leader Matthew Winters will walk us through a lesson he calls "In The Room," a miniature digital/physical diorama project using Google Slides.

Learn more about Utah's GEGUtah program and join in on the fun! We are so excited about our upcoming GEGUtah/Utah Nearpod Community combined meetup! Come join both communities to share what is new with Google and Nearpod.

Join us on May 4th for our May GEGUtah Meetup! We will have a few guest speakers from Derivita to discuss their amazing integration with Google Classroom. Then Ian Davey will walk us through a Design Sprint to spark us for Summer break!

The PDF contains 20 half-sheet flashcards on a variety of topics including adding closed captioning, dictation tools, support for students with dyslexia, general accessibility features, hotkeys, and some Google extensions for accessibility.

This episode just came out at the tail end of September and covers a lot of great updates, a new series on Chromebooks and ChromeOS, and Google's new standalone Read Along site for our younger students.

Google Takeout is a lesser known tool that helps users migrate their data from one Google account to another. In this great one-page infographic from Google Trainer Brandy Nichols, she walks users through how to use Google Takeout and move your data to a new account.

UEN Homeroom welcomes Gabbi Young, an EdTech coach with Washington County School District, to our Learn @ Home series. As part of the discussion we focus on the need to be on the same team with teachers and students, the impact of the Digital Teaching and Learning Grant in preparing our schools for distance learning, and how to support teachers with their current needs.

Critical thinking is the process of actively analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information gathered from a variety of sources, using a framework designed to lend structure and clarity to the thinking process.

This Genius Hour project will focus on student’s in special education and their IEP transition goals related to their career interests. Students will select one career of interest to them and conduct research, interview people in the field, job shadow, etc. to develop a presentation on their findings. 

This unit plan gives an outline for introducing Genius Hour to your students. It was developed for a third grade class, but can be adapted for any grade level.

This resource gives a description of how Genius Hour could be implemented into the lower elementary grade K-2. It gives ISTE standards, mini-lesson for helping students choose a topic and complete their research. It has links for an exit ticket and rubric that can be used for lower elementary students. It also contains a reflection on what I have learned about Genius Hour in the Classroom.Resource Photo: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 

Get three ideas for extension activities available to you now using Google applications! Whether you’re looking to fill space between lessons or boost creativity, let’s “Get Googley” and explore innovative ways to use technology in your classroom.

Teachers and students come to school bringing a wide range of backgrounds, languages, abilities, and temperaments. Get things off to the best start by asking them to respect their differences and make the most of their similarities. By sharing information on their lives and dreams, students and teachers can build community in the classroom that will support literacy instruction throughout the school year.

Google Meet has changed a lot over the last year and added tons of new features for teachers to meet the needs of their students. Eric jumps in and shares all these features both on his website and in an accompanying 30 minute video. There are some wonderful new updates and he has some great ideas on how to utilize them.

Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts that retell, analyze, or interpret events, usually at a distance of time or place. This webpage will help educators teach students using primary sources and engage them in analyzes these sources.

A teacher discusses the importance of giving students a choice over what to write about, what to write with, and where to sit when they are writing. When given these choices, students are able to write more, they enjoy it more, and the quality of their writing improves.

The growing interconnectedness of the world has both benefits and drawbacks. These Lessons and resources provide a variety of ways for students to learn about the impact of globalization.

This article highlights a number of mathematical strategy games that are available on the NRICH website. Most have interactive versions but also can be played offline. The author explains their value in the classroom, offers suggestions for implementation and extension, and provides links to the games and to other related articles.

Learn how to sync up your Google Classroom with your classroom Google Site.