With many bibliography creation tools being restricted with a pay wall, here are some fast, easy, student-approved tools to help your researchers quickly create a bibliography.

Find out more about First Lego League and the newest robot used in the program called Spike Prime. We will demonstrate building and programming Spike Prime, as well as present some of the many benefits of having students involved in planning, building, and programming in small teams for the FLL competition, or simply as an amazing learning experience within a classroom or after school club.

Find out more about First Lego League and the newest robot used in the program called Spike Prime. We will demonstrate building and programming Spike Prime, as well as present some of the many benefits of having students involved in planning, building, and programming in small teams for the FLL competition, or simply as an amazing learning experience within a classroom or after school club.

Do you design with accessibility in mind? Tota11y is an accessibility visualization toolkit created by Khan Academy that can help you do just that! Join us in exploring how to use this tool to visualize how your site performs with assistive technologies, and learn about best practices along the way!

Are you tired of your students taking the first page results from Google and doing a copy/paste and calling it done when researching? Would you like to show them a way to collect, curate and cite the information they find anywhere online? Then come check out Scrible, the most advanced research and writing platform ever built to tackle the massive research and writing skills crisis undermining American students’ college and career readiness.
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) has secured a statewide contract to provide Scrible Edu Pro for all Utah K-12 educators and students.

In 2012, the state of Utah began the formal Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) initiative and created Utah Master Plan, both of which focus on preparing students for success in the ever-changing economy, while at the same time situating Utah as a leader and innovator of the future. As a result, in the past ten years there has been much effort in Utah to provide all students and teachers with infrastructure, devices and applications for effective learning. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, however, has thrown many Utah teachers in the deep end of online and distance teaching. Some early studies revealed certain vulnerabilities when it comes to educational technology usage, but they also pinpointed many opportunities for future professional development and other state initiatives. To assess the state of educational technology usage in Utah, we conducted a statewide online survey from January to July 2021. 902 teachers completed the survey reporting the frequency of usage for over 60 computer applications and classroom technologies. We followed the survey with ten in-depth interviews where among other things, teachers discussed challenges that they faced at the outbreak of the pandemic, as well as changes in their approach to teaching and technology as a result of the pandemic. In this lecture, we will present the results of that survey and discuss our interview findings.

Ever wondered how to improve student engagement with your Canvas content? Research has shown that a well-designed course promotes a positive user experience, credibility, and usability. In this session, we’ll use DesignPLUS - our advanced course design toolset built into Canvas - to show you how easy it is to transform the look and feel of a basic Canvas course into something more engaging - all without requiring any advanced technical skills.
Join this session to learn how our tools can make it easy to create, customize, and style content for more polished and engaging courses.

Ten Strategies That Will Turn Every Teacher Into a Literacy Teacher provides teachers and school leaders with a variety of simple-yet-innovative literacy strategies that will enhance the learning within any classroom. Topics to be addressed include differentiated methods for increasing content-specific vocabulary, how to build rapport with students and parents through writing, and engaging ways for students to demonstrate their learning. Participants will leave with a clear vision of how to not only increase, but also improve, the literacy within their classes.

Teaching is hard, and at times, it seems like no one understands the struggles of a teacher. In this keynote, Mike Roberts connects some of the challenges of teaching to some of your favorite songs from the past fifty years. In doing so, he shares stories, strategies, and insight from his twenty-two year teaching career. Get those singing voices ready…this is a fun one!

Opening session of the 2022 Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) conference - Welcome, Orientation & Annual Awards presented by Clint Stephens, UCET President

Katie Blunt and Justin Andersen are at it again! Join us on the third floor mezzanine any time during the conference -- in person or virtually -- for conference tips, session suggestions, prize giveaways, interviews, and a variety of pre-recorded programming. Join us during your breaks, just in passing, or for a whole session!

Katie Blunt and Justin Andersen are at it again! Join us on the third floor mezzanine any time during the conference -- in person or virtually -- for conference tips, session suggestions, prize giveaways, interviews, and a variety of pre-recorded programming. Join us during your breaks, just in passing, or for a whole session!

Katie Blunt and Justin Andersen are at it again! Join us on the third floor mezzanine any time during the conference -- in person or virtually -- for conference tips, session suggestions, prize giveaways, interviews, and a variety of pre-recorded programming. Join us during your breaks, just in passing, or for a whole session!

Katie Blunt and Justin Andersen are at it again! Join us on the third floor mezzanine any time during the conference -- in person or virtually -- for conference tips, session suggestions, prize giveaways, interviews, and a variety of pre-recorded programming. Join us during your breaks, just in passing, or for a whole session!

Dani Sloan from UEN presents to virtual attendees about Utah's Online Library as a student research tool at the 2021 Utah Coalition for Educational Technology Conference.
This session will be a quick look into using Utah's Online Library for student research. Participants will learn how to use the Gale Reference Collection research tools to cite, gather, and organize research for learners of all ages.

Chandra Martz and Camille Cole from Canyons School District and Dani Sloan and Katie Blunt from UEN present to virtual attendees about their doctoral research surrounding Utah's digital divide at the 2021 Utah Coalition for Educational Technology Conference.
This panel discussion provides a look the digital divide in Utah, and educational leaders' response to the need for equitable home technology access. The panelists will share solutions and challenges that some urban, suburban, and rural districts in Utah experienced during the COVID-19 school dismissal, lessons learned, and their recommendations for addressing the digital divide in education.

UCET Conference 2021 - Ignite! In 5 minutes and with 20 images come and inspire teachers! Share 20 slides in 5 minutes and inspire teachers (think of a mini TED event). Presenters will have just five minutes and 20 slides each to share their passions, tell their stories, or share their experiences in a continuous rapid-fire presentation! Presenter slides are shown for 15 seconds each on an automatic rotation for a total of 5 minutes of fame. By sharing what ignites their passions—a professional practice from the classroom, excitement about a new tool that will spark creativity for their students, or a personal story of student engagement – Ignite! presenters will fan the flames for their fellow attendees while awakening their awareness, stimulating their thought, or spurring them to action.
A Year in Utah Teacher Twitter - Brooke Anderson
A quick overview of Utah Teacher Twitter in 2020. What were our main shared resources? Topics? Most common follows? Come and see the ways your fellow teachers used Twitter to extend their professional learning in 2020.

UCET Conference 2021 - Ignite! In 5 minutes and with 20 images come and inspire teachers! Share 20 slides in 5 minutes and inspire teachers (think of a mini TED event). Presenters will have just five minutes and 20 slides each to share their passions, tell their stories, or share their experiences in a continuous rapid-fire presentation! Presenter slides are shown for 15 seconds each on an automatic rotation for a total of 5 minutes of fame. By sharing what ignites their passions—a professional practice from the classroom, excitement about a new tool that will spark creativity for their students, or a personal story of student engagement – Ignite! presenters will fan the flames for their fellow attendees while awakening their awareness, stimulating their thought, or spurring them to action.
All Things TPACK - Christina Van Dam
TPACK! What is it? What’s a TPACK Coach? How do I use it in blended learning? Come learn all about it.

UCET Conference 2021 - Ignite! In 5 minutes and with 20 images come and inspire teachers! Share 20 slides in 5 minutes and inspire teachers (think of a mini TED event). Presenters will have just five minutes and 20 slides each to share their passions, tell their stories, or share their experiences in a continuous rapid-fire presentation! Presenter slides are shown for 15 seconds each on an automatic rotation for a total of 5 minutes of fame. By sharing what ignites their passions—a professional practice from the classroom, excitement about a new tool that will spark creativity for their students, or a personal story of student engagement – Ignite! presenters will fan the flames for their fellow attendees while awakening their awareness, stimulating their thought, or spurring them to action.
Empowering Education by Design - Cory Henwood
We have learned a lot this past year about what is most meaningful in education. How will we move forward, what will we adopt and what will we leave behind? Will we seek to only develop skills for success on standardized tests or choose to build skills for success that are transferable no matter where life takes them? Will we seek to solely engage students in our curriculum or empower their passions to solve real problems they see in the world around us? I bet you value face-to-face relationships more than ever. How might you make personalized mentoring, feedback, and collaboration central to your classroom? It's ALL a matter of design. Retool how you do school with an upgraded set of values for education as we move from BC to AD (Before Coronavirus to After Disease). Leave UCET with an itch to employ these same empowering principles of design with your students so they can make their learning both more meaningful and memorable.