Today we are putting out our March edition (a bit late in the month, right?) of the GEGUtah Newsletter. We have great resources from our Utah Educator community including a UCET/GEGUtah look-back, our collection of Daily Resource Shares, a great episode of PDTV from UEN, and a look at GEGUtah/UEN's new webinar series on PCBL + Technology. Check it out below:

https://www.smore.com/a9ke7

As always, feel free to share it with any educators you think would benefit from it. Also, we are looking for an educator to spotlight in April & May. If you are interested, please contact Kelli Cannon or Matt Winters.

Today's Resource Share is mostly for our elementary students but could be a fun project for any level of learner. Be Internet Awesome is an amazing gamified curriculum for Digital Citizenship. It helps students learn about a variety of topics within Digital Citizenship and help students to identify potential issues on the internet before they happen to them. The curriculum is fun, engaging, and gamified for students. Check out the link below:

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/

As an extension to the curriculum, Google just created a Be Internet Awesome coloring book for students. You can find that at the link below:

https://t.co/jzl9YrU8uq

As always, feel free to share this resource with any educators you know.

Today's Resource Share comes from Google for Edu's Youtube channel. Each month they produce a 2-3 minute video that introduces some of the vital additions or changes to Google for Education. This month they cover some great material from Applied Digital Skills, a new badge in Workspace for Education, and a research study. Check it out at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYIOZgyXq9o

I totally have missed this craze, but I hear Wordle is pretty awesome. So awesome that Google's Applied Digital Skills program put together a lesson on how to make a Wordle with your students. The lesson, which is based in Google Sheets, takes about 45-90 minutes to complete and could be used for many different lesson plans across curriculums. Check it out at the link below:

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/middle-and-high-school/en/make-a-word-game/overview.html

Also, for those of you that have teachers that are hesitant to join GEGUtah or need a quick reference of these daily Resource Shares for your teachers, check out our site for a monthly running list of what we share:

https://sites.google.com/pd.uen.org/geg-utah/daily-resource-share/march-2022-daily-resource-share

To wrap up our week of UCET presentations shares, we have Ogden School District's own Ian Davey's presentations from UCET. If you don't know Ian and his amazing work with Google Sheets and Forms, get ready to have your world rocked. Ian presented two amazing sessions on using Google Sheets to streamline your teacher data life and he offers dozens of amazing, simple ideas to bolster your Sheets use. He also was the lead for the Utah Google Trainer Demo Slam and that presentation is also available via this link. Check out all three of his presentations at the link below:

https://bit.ly/UCET_2022

Next week, we will return to the usual amazing Google shares, but I am so happy that we had such amazing presentations at UCET this year and that many of them were from GEGUtah members. Thank you for your continued support of this amazing community!

Today's Resource Share comes from GEGUtah Leader and Jordan School District's own Deanna Taylor. She did an amazing presentation at UCET on how to incorporate Google and Nearpod together to create innovative and engaging games for your classroom. This presentation is full of great ideas and examples of how to connect those programs together. Check it out at the link below:

bit.ly/gng-ucet

As always feel free to share this resource with any educators in your community!

For today's Resource Share we have another amazing presentation from UCET by Jordan School District's Bonnie Muir. Her presentation at UCET was on how to create apps without any coding. She pulled resources together from Youtube and she created a wonderful one-sheet Google Doc explaining the whole process. You can find her links below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lEHUmBo2dYOzvGEAtXBBuTGVkDEUO8pc_WaQ5pKTMuE/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lutqO8WSPkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRuA3upKkOA&t=317s

As always share it with any other educators you think would benefit from it.

Today we have another amazing presentation from last week's UCET. This week it is Murray School District's Geri Smith and her presentation entitled Google Drawings: The Underdog Tool. If you are like me, I sometimes forget to use Google Drawings, but in her presentation, Geri makes a great case for daily Google Drawings use in your classroom for both teacher projects and with students. Check out her slide deck and her entire presentation (!) in a 30-minute video:

Presentation - https://bit.ly/DrawUCET

Video Presentation - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1keWkwVpG6ixK2ri952zaVzXjBSfnVxhU/view?usp=drive_web

Thanks again, Geri! Tomorrow we will continue our post-UCET presentation share with resources for building apps without coding.

This week GEGUtah is sharing UCET presentations from the Utah community. Get ready to learn from amazing Utah educators! Today is Jami Gardner, a trainer at UEN, and her presentation on Google and Nearpod. This presentation offers some great solutions for using both tools in harmony and to accelerate student learning. Check it out below!

https://app.nearpod.com/presentation?pin=B2F29C61C4798F4E86E111002487E782-1

Also, Jami just started a group called Utah Nearpod Community. This community, like GEGUtah, is a space to share ideas, built community, and help each other learn. You can learn more at the site below and join other Utah educators in their Nearpod journey!

https://sites.google.com/pd.uen.org/unc/home

As always, feel free to share these links with any educators you think would benefit from them.

Today I thought it would be great to share a wonderful presentation from one of our GEGUtah members at UCET. Colby Hawkins is a Digital Learning Specialist from Jordan School District and he did an amazing presentation on using Canva in the K-12 classroom. Follow him on Twitter - @colb_hawk. There are so many amazing ideas in this presentation and even though it is not directly a Google product, it was too good of a presentation not to share with GEGUtah. Check out the presentation at the link below:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAE3tNPIbqE/LxYbANcGgN3u6ZB_hbx81A/view?utm_content=DAE3tNPIbqE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=homepage_design_menu

Also, any educator can get a free Canva account at this link: https://www.canva.com/education/ I use it daily and love what it does in terms of design and presentation features. As always, feel free to share this with any educators that you think would benefit from it.

For today's Resource Share, I thought it would be great to share a wonderful set of Google resources from Eric Curt's blog, Control Alt Achieve. These resources are meant to be used with and for struggling learners. Whether your students need reading support or help with behavior, Eric has tools for a lot of classroom needs. Check out the resource below and make sure to make a copy for yourself:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JrkpV_nqKIMJGf9stP-8jgMZuXVuqRF7vtCSUti0-Ds/edit

In honor of UELMA meeting today, I thought it would be fun to share a resource that allows books to talk back to you... kind of. Talk to Books is a Google Experiment that allows users to ask questions to an AI bot that searches books across genres for answers to those questions. It is a very quick, very fun way to start building research. Check it out below:

https://books.google.com/talktobooks/

Today's Resource Share is from Google's Arts and Culture site. Arts and Culture is a great resource for finding materials from some of the best museums around the world. It has also become a repository for some of Google's experimental projects like 360 videos. On the page below, check out dozens of great 360 videos available through Arts and Culture and Youtube that explore Science, English, Math, Music, and Art in interesting and engaging ways. You might be even find some Utah's focused videos in the collection as well! Just a word of warning, Arts and Culture is a museum, so make sure you check your content before you share it with students:

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/360-videos

I am getting to our daily resource share kind of late in the day, but I came across this great post by Granite School District with an amazing template for a Tic-Tac-Toe HyperDoc. If you are unfamiliar with HyperDocs, they provide learners with choice and voice throughout a learning process by providing options in what they learn about a subject and how they show that learning. This is a great example by one of our great local districts. Check it out:

https://www.graniteschools.org/edtech/2019/04/lesson-design-idea-tic-tac-toe-hyperdoc-template/

For today's resource share I thought that I would share one of my favorite resources for myself: Ocean of Books. This is a map of imaginary islands that are labeled with books and authors from around the world. Each island gives you information about the author and the book. It is a wonderfully relaxing way to explore literature. Enjoy:

https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/ocean-of-books

I spent some time this morning exploring some of the new offering in Google's Applied Digital Skills program and there are some great lessons and collections for all levels of learners. However, the Discover AI in Daily Life lesson leaped out at me because although being short, 45-90 minutes, it covers a lot of tools (Autodraw, Slides, Translate, etc) and teaches students how to recognize Artificial Intelligence in their lives. Check it out at the link below:

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/middle-and-high-school/en/discover-ai-in-daily-life/overview.html

Also check out all the recent additions:

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/curriculum.html?sort=created

As always, feel free to share this with any educators that you think would benefit from learning about it.

Today's resource share is a deep set of resources from Eric Curt's Control Alt Achieve blog. In the resource below Eric has compiled some of his favorite elementary level activities including templates and instruction guides. There are over 10 pages of activities and templates below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XOHatBn5PzwAT40Pp_CA7UQ5ElkWiVtSKmTfcuyy1Ak/edit

Today's resource share is on the surface goofy fun, but when you examine the sheet it is a really cool example of the power of Google Sheets. Ben Collins, a Google Data Specialist, makes amazing sheets for a variety of situations. In this Sheet, he made a functioning Etch-A-Sketch in Google Sheets! After you make a copy of the sheet, the instructions are hidden in + next to row 41 and if you want to see the formulas as you draw, click the + above column P. Grab a copy at the link below:

Google Sheet Etch-A-Sketch by Ben Collins

Ben Collins' original post about building this Sheet

For today's resource share, I wanted to share that Utah Education Network's eMedia just did an update to their Google for Edu Hub. The hub has hundreds of resources from a variety of Google professional development sites including Google's various Youtube Channels, Applied Digital Skills, Google Earth, and more. They also included all the GEGUtah video resources over the last few months! The resources are broken up by Google Tool and by content area. eMedia is doing another update in late March/early April, so if you have lesson plans, ideas, or resources that you would like to share with the community, please feel free to reach out to Matt at mwin...@uen.org and he will help you to get them included. Enjoy exploring the update:

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