GEGUtah's Favorite (Free) Lesson Plan Sites
If you have not visited GEGOhio's Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve, we guarantee that you have seen one of his lesson plans. He offers hundreds of high quality lesson plans that are all focused on Google products. All lessons have a great outline and all the resources needed to complete the lesson plan with your students. Also check out his Google Updates posts to explore what is new within Google.
Again, if you have never visited Ditch That Textbook, you have definitely seen a lesson plan from it. Matt Miller offers hundreds of ideas for teachers for free to use in their classrooms. He also has a great podcast offering lots of great ideas for teachers.
Jan Brett's site offers hundreds of lesson plans for a variety of classroom subjects, but particularly for our elementary teachers.
Google Chrome Extensions Educators Love
Scrible is a research curation and annotation tool that is now free for all Utah teachers through USBE. Add the toolbar and then head to scrible.com to sign in and get a free account to use in your classroom.
Sometimes speaking a comment can change how that comment is received. Mote allows users to add audio comments to a lot of places around the web, but specifically on Google Slides and Forms.
Wakelet is a great curation tool for saving pages into collections that then can be shared with students and teachers. It is a free application for all users.
Local Utah Resources
Utah Education Network helps provide teachers with high quality resources from in school networks to lesson plans, podcasts, television programming, and professional development.
Here are links to some of their great resources:
Request Professional Development at your school
UCET is Utah's ISTE affiliate and provides teachers with a network surrounding their edtech usage. Not only does UCET put on the premiere edtech conference every March, but it also provides newsletters, edchats, and podcasts chock full of resources:
The Utah Film Center provides teachers with professional development programs and toolsets to build their use of film in their classrooms. Whether you are looking to do a one-week film unit or a whole class, the Utah Film Center has material for you:
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities