Today's Resource Share is GEGUtah's January Newsletter! I know we are sending this out a bit late in the month, but it is full of great materials for your classrooms. In this edition, you will find our newest meetup, information about UCET23 (which GEGUtah will be at!), a new GEGUtah spotlight from Katherine Hejazi-Far, new videos from UCET, and links to educator podcasts from across the state. Check it all out at the link below: 

https://www.smore.com/ta986

Today's Resource Share comes from Matt Miller's popular blog Ditch That Textbook. In the next few months, teachers and students are gearing up for testing season and on way to help maintain and elaborate on existing knowledge is by using a graphic organizer. Matt Miller put together 25 free Google Drawing templates for any teacher or student to use. These templates are force copies so that you can make a copy, make them your own, and then share them back with students. Remember to make a force copy link, you need to share your doc so that anyone on the web can view then look at your URL, find 'edit', and change it to copy. I always hit enter to make sure it is a copy link. Check out these great resources below: 

https://ditchthattextbook.com/15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own//

Today's Resource Share comes from a recent research effort through Google for Education. The Future of Education is a report completed with educational researchers from around the world to understand the trends and ideas that are changing education around the world and how they could affect us in the future. It is a three-part report that dives deeply into education in general and where we are going. Check it out at the link below: 

https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/future-of-education/

Today's Resource Share is a brand new episode of PDTV from UEN. This episode explores Personalized Learning with Hannah Ence, a third-grade teacher at the Jean Massieu School of the Deaf in Salt Lake City. Learn more about Personalized Learning and engaging all of your students' needs in your classroom in this great video. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QumPWXjFDTQ

Today's Resource Share is a great video from Google Workspace on Google Sheets. Timeline View was a recent addition to Google Sheets and is an easy-to-use way to set up a timeline of events in your classroom, events at your school, or PCL/PD timeline. In this quick video, the Google Workspace team walks you through how to turn on Timeline View from a specific data set in your Sheet. For anyone with upcoming Parent/Teacher Conferences, this could help build out a schedule for your visits. Check it out below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbR28NGXFdg

Today's Resource Share is Google's annual Doodle for Google Contest for K-12 students. If you are unfamiliar with Doodle for Google, the contest asks students to create a piece of artwork for the Google search header under a specific theme. This  year they are asking students to respond to "I am grateful for..." Students who are selected win college scholarships, technology prizes for their school, and Google swag. The contest is open until March 7th, 2023, so plenty of time to create a great design. Check out the contest at this link: 

https://doodles.google.com/d4g/

Today's Resource Share is about the upcoming UCET23 Conference on March 14th-15th. This year UCET is bringing in a handful of national speakers to present throughout the conference and GEGUtah favorite Eric Curts is one of them! Join Eric in his room throughout the conference for sessions on all things Google including his ever-popular Hipster Google. His sessions always fill up at national conferences like ISTE and FETC (where he is speaking this week), so make sure that you get your registration (and substitute) and get to his sessions early to learn all the Googley goodness. Register for UCET23 today at: 

https://ucet.org/conference/registration/

Early Bird Registration ends on January 31st. UCET23 will also have over 150 sessions from national speakers, incredible local education leaders including First Lady Abby Cox, State Superintendent Syd Dickson, and Utah Administrator of the Year Robert McDaniels, and some surprises throughout the conference! Also, get ready for the Highlight Hive from ULEAD which spotlights best practices across the state, a Makerspace sponsored by the STEM Action Center, a book fair from the Friends of the Salt Lake City Public Library, and meet and greet some of our speakers and take pictures at the UEN booth. Come join us for UCET23!

Today's Resource Share comes UEN's eMedia. Today I am at the Magellan Summit in Nebo School District (shoutout Nebo!) for great discussions about Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in Utah with state and national leaders. USBE just shared their new hub through eMedia on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). The hub has dozens of resources for educators at all levels of learning about PCBL and more resources will be shared over the coming months and years. Check it out at this link: 

https://emedia.uen.org/hubs/pcbl

Today's Resource Share is our GEGUtah January Meetup from last night! We had a great activity on Google Keep by Deanna Taylor from Jordan School District and a great discussion about how we use Google Keep in our lives/classrooms to take notes, develop to-do lists, and connect our thoughts together. Deanna put together a great resource at bit.ly/gegjanmeet and she would be happy to see you make a copy and use it in your classroom to teach your students about Keep. You can watch the entire session at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJH4MNqMpE

Today's Resource Share is a great upcoming conference/contest for our K-8 students. The annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival is a co-sponsored event from Utah Film Center and Utah Education Network. This year they have great film screenings, conversations with directors, and workshops for aspiring filmmakers. The conference is going to be held on April 21st and you can find out more (including about their fieldtrip program) at this link. 

This year they are also sponsoring a film competition for our K-8 Utah students. Students can submit their own film, either fiction or non-fiction, and no longer for 5 minutes. If you are looking for a great way to teach film in the next month or you have a student who already is creating their own films, this is a great program to join. Submissions for the festival are due on February 14th, 2022. 

You can learn more by watching the following webinar: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVk78Y2fxvI

Today's Resource Share is a quick video from UEN on using Google Slides in Canvas. UEN Trainer Val O'Brien walks users through how to add Google Slides to an assignment in Canvas using the Google Assignments LTI. Check out the video at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNYz13IqVec

Today's Resource Share is a great new feature of Google Slides. In Google Slides, you might already know that if you are working on a deck with a team or watching a presentation, wherever a team member or the presenter is on the deck, a small picture appears on the slide in the filmstrip to the right. In a recent update, Google added a feature that you can click on the picture of the person you are looking for in the top right and it will drop you on the slide they are working on and what they are specifically working on within that slide. As an educator, this is a great way to see where work is happening on a shared slide deck with students or during group projects. To see this in action, check out the gif below: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLcuT5wCwl0tNkBIbTzEyMfQ49NSz05r/view?usp=sharing

Today's Resource Share is the newest episode of Get Googley from UEN. Over the past month or so, many educators have learned more about Artificial Intelligence due to ChatGPT. However, Google has been using AI for many years to help us with our daily work. This video explores some simple ways to introduce AI to students through Google Translate, Quickdraw, Google's AI Blog, and a great Applied Digital Skills Lesson. If you are curious about AI or want to better understand how it works in education, this is a great place to start: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSso2a7qveE

Today's Daily Resource Share comes from Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve. His newest post is on Creating Photo Words with Google Slides. It is a great little stylistic change that teachers and students can use to highlight information and ideas within their presentations. He also points out that this is a great activity to set goals/intentions for the new year with a "Word of the Year" challenge to students. Check out the process in his post below: 

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/01/creating-photo-words-with-google-slides.html

Today's Resource Share comes from Ben Collins' blog and is a great update to Google Sheets. If you are unfamiliar, Google Docs added dropdowns into their toolset last year. If you need a reminder, here is a great blog post by Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve. Google Sheets added this tool to make it easier to make dropdowns. This is great for data-minded educators and helps to make quick assessments of new data. Ben Collins walks users through how to create dropdowns at this link: 

https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnh480296

Today's Resource Share is a reminder about EdcampUT this Saturday. Edcamps are some of my favorite events of the year and EdcampUT is no exception. Edcamps are an unconference where sessions are proposed by attendees on the day. Sessions are formed and then they are more discussions than presentations. EdcampUT has a great keynote this year with Lauren Merkley, Utah's 2020 Teacher of the Year and Utah Teacher Fellow. The event is free with breakfast and lunch provided. There are also some great prize giveaways. Registration for the event is completely free and can be found at this link: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edcamp-utah-2023-tickets-470151725467

Today's Resource Share comes from Google Arts and Culture. Blob Beats is a new game that introduces students to classical music while testing their reflexes. Blob Beats is a rhythm game, think Dance Dance Revolution, that asks players to hit notes during classical songs like "Fur Elise" or "Valkyrie". It introduces students to these pieces of music while playing them during the game. Check out Blob Beats at the following link: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-beats/ZgF_e3-CO-iRPw 

Today's Resource Share comes from Google's Applied Digital Skills program. As we come back from Winter Break and look towards the end of the school year, many of us may want to help our students do a long-term project to end out the year. Google's Applied Digital Skills program has a collection of lessons that help students complete a Capstone project with lessons about scheduling volunteer time to creating a project checklist. It is a great set of lessons that would support both learner and educator in a Capstone project timeline. Check them out at this link: 

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/capstone