Zoom recording of our PCBL Review Committee Meeting for Februrary 2023

Topics covered include:
11:35 AM PCBL News & Events
11:45 AM Grant Application Information & Webinars
11:50 PM Questions for the Committee
1. PCBL Application on Website? or eMedia Hub? or both?
2. Request for Data regarding R277-419
12:10 PM Magellan Summit Review
12:30 PM Global Online Academy
12:45 PM Problems of Practice Breakout Rooms

Drew Schantz, Associate Partner and Blog Author with EdElements leads the meeting and share the diagnostic “needs assessment” tool to help identify professional learning opportunities, consulting services, and other supports that might help their learning community move forward with personalized competency based learning.

This is a lesson plan that will help educators teach Kindergarten students about 2D and 3D shapes, how to identify, sort them and design their own using marshmallows and toothpicks. Assessments and Rubrics are included to assess students on identifying, sorting, and designing 2D and 3D shapes.The image used in the Image Title was a screen shot taken from the Youtube Assessment that is linked to the lesson plan. It is Titled "2D or 3D Shapes: Under the Sea Math Brain Break"  by Move and Groove Math It is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

The Adobe Creative Suite of tools (available to all Utah public school educators) includes several powerful and practical educational tools. Most teachers, though, primarily use Adobe Spark. In this session, we'll go beyond Spark and learn how Character Animator, Aero, and Rush can help infuse more creativity and wonder into your classroom.

Students will be instructed in how to make a meme to display their understanding and mastery of roots and affixes. For simplicity memes will be created using printer, paper, and pen/marker/pencil. Memes 

In this lesson, students will research the physical characteristics, adaptations, and habitat of an animal and share their findings through a question-and-answer (interview) session with the animal that will be presented using a PowerPoint presentation.  Following their research, students will write a script they will use to narrate their presentation.  Images, text, animation/transition of slides will be evaluated along with the content and the writing mechanics.  This is a face-to-face format but could be virtual/distance learning.

Amurosaurus riabinini lived on Earth in the late Cretaceous, around 72-66 million years ago. This 3D image from Google Arts & Culture site allows students to view Amurosaurus in augmented reality. Augmented Reality allows you to project 3D models into the real world through the camera on your mobile device. This image is best viewed in the Google Arts & Culture mobile app.

Seasonal behaviors are actions animals take that respond to or coincide with seasonal changes. Seasonal changes often trigger an impulse in animals to hibernate or migrate.

This is a lesson for introducing Similes with photography. Students will learn about Similes, then use photography to gain a deeper understanding and show their learning. They will take original pictures and borrow pictures from online to illustrate their chosen similes.They will be introduced to Wikimedia Commons, a great website for finding openly-licensed photographs. They will learn how to cite a borrowed photograph. They will show all of these skills by creating a web page through Adobe Express that shows their learning of Similes through 3 photographs, both originals and borrowed photographs. Thumbnail Citation: Kodak EasyShare M1603 Camera, by Greyfiveys, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons

In this episode of UEN's PDTV, preservice teachers Aniston and Mallory reflect on their first professional conference at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) annual event. They’ll share their top ten tips for conference preparation, and through their insights, you’ll learn how to maximize your next professional conference experience.

This is a great video for students to use to help learn and review their knife cuts.

This video aligns with:
Culinary 1: Strand 3 - Students will identify knives and food service equipment; function, proper use and care.
Culinary 2 & 3: Strand 1 - Students will differentiate knives and food service equipment function, proper use and care.

This is a Pre-K to K lesson about bees and how they help our food grow by pollinating plants. The lesson includes Keynote slides identifying bees from other insects, repetition of the word pollination, a video of the author with backyard bees, and a worksheet assessment.Students will learn how to spot a bee vs other flying insects, what pollination means, what a beehive looks like, and will see bees pollinating flowers and carrying pollen to their hive.

Explore the innovative use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education on this episode of UEN's PDTV. Visit Utah State University and Weber State University, where a professor and librarian utilize Pressbooks to develop open textbooks, curating OER materials to provide greater and more equitable access to content for their students.

This lesson plan meets the secondary requirements for The Engish Language Arts Standard Reading: Literature Grades 7-12 with the option of meeting the additional standard of Speaking and Listening. This lesson offers specific details with flexibility for implementation in the classroom. Students can work independently or in groups and be able to create their final book project using technology. 

Join UEN PDTV as we travel to Vernal, Utah, to meet with CTE teacher Kami Elison, who has developed a broadcast journalism program at Uintah High School where students learn and grow outside the classroom. Discover how she integrates state-licensed tools and real-world experiences to equip students with the skills they need to succeed in post-secondary education and beyond.

This resource is a YouTube playlist with videos to accompany the Camp C.O.R.E. graphic novel from the Modern Water Cycle collection by BYU and the USGS. The novel takes students through a scientific adventure in ecosystem science and includes chapters about the water cycle, biodiversity, pollution, permafrost, and climate change. Humans are a critical part of the global ecosystem and impact many aspects of it through our lifestyles. Each chapter covers an area where recent research has highlighted our influence and potential consequences of the status quo. We wrote this novel as a fun way to introduce this information to a younger audience in a more friendly format. The videos are another way to access the content of the novel. To download a copy of the novel itself, search "Camp C.O.R.E. graphic novel" in eMedia or visit the BYU Modern Water Cycle website.

In this video, Val shares helpful tips to ensure your Canvas courses are mobile-friendly for students and parents accessing your courses on mobile devices.

In this step-by-step tutorial, instructor Val shows you how to embed Google Docs into Canvas. Then, she shares some tips to help you ensure your students get the best experience navigating embedded content in Canvas.

In this episode of Canvas Corner, host Val shares tips for embedding your favorite tech tools in Canvas and gives insight into how this could help make your courses more engaging.

This video is a read aloud of the children's book Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. Caps For Sale is about a peddler who walks along the countryside offering caps for sale. The peddler carries his caps on his head. He doesn't have much success so he takes a rest by a tree and when he wakes, his caps are missing. Read the story to find out what happens to the caps.