Today's Resource Share comes from Utah Education Network. Yesterday UEN shared the first edition of their new weekly Professional Development newsletter. The newsletter includes three sections: UEN videos, podcasts, and resources; local and national conferences and professional development opportunities; and a section on a topic of interest in education with resources and ideas for classroom educators, this week is on Artificial Intelligence. You can sign up to receive the newsletter each Thursday on the newsletter itself. Check out the newsletter at the link below: 

https://www.smore.com/ya93p

Today's Resource Share is a brand new episode of UEN's PDTV. This episode was shot live at UCET23 in Provo, Utah. Join host, Katie Blunt, as she explores the conferences, shares highlights, and speaks to attendees throughout the conference. If you were there, you may be able to spot yourself in the background, and if you were not at UCET23, you can check out what the conference was all about and think about attending next March at the Salt Palace. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snwL1UJ4rvE

Today's Resource Share comes from Google Workspace's YouTube Channel. In this short video learn about how to use Response or Data Validation in Short Answer or Paragraph questions on Google Forms. This little feature gives educators ways to check for specific types of answers (URLs, emails, words, or numbers) and check for length minimums and maximums. If you have never used this in your classroom to make a digital escape room, a self-checking quiz, or as a way to assure student learning, this is a great time to try it out. Check out the video at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsR22ipX5k

Today's Resource Share comes from Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve. Google recently unveiled some upcoming updates at BETT, a conference in London. These updates are coming in the near future depending on the version of Google your school or district has purchased. Updates include adding questions to Youtube videos in Classrooms, custom Building Blocks in Docs, Timer and Stopwatch chips in Docs, Voting Chips in Docs, and more. These updates are coming in the next few months and again availability is based on the version of Google your school or district has available to you. Check out the full post below: 

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/03/15-updates-to-make-google-better.html

Today's Resource Share is a collaborative project between Wakelet and Google for Education. They have teamed up for the project with the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, and helping educators apply them to our classrooms and build lesson plans around them. This Wakelet collection, which is copyable to your own library, offers some great resources for introducing the SDGs to your students, some starter questions, as well as some great videos on how to use Wakelet if you are new to the program. Check it out at the link below: 

https://wakelet.com/wake/DJHF3vcPLcrixCkSGjWVp

Today's Resource Share is a great little video from Google Workspaces. This may be a review for many of you, but adding videos to Google Slides is a great way to avoid advertisements, spotlight a specific point in the video, or to add in timers. This videos shows all the steps and has some great ides for adding video to our Slide Decks. Check out at the link below: 

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

Today's Resource Share comes from the Google Workspace Updates Blog (a great site to bookmark). If you have been on Google Drive recently you may have noticed that it has received a very different cosmetic update. Along with Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides are also receiving a new look. This rollout as explained in the post below is part of Google Material Design 3, a project to keep the interface fresh and updated. If your Drive is still the same as it was in February, your district/school may not have allowed the update as of yet, but it might come soon. For more information about the changes and to preview them if you haven't seen the changes yet, check out this page: 

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/03/refreshed-ui-google-drive-docs-sheets-slides.html

Today's Daily Resource Share comes from the Utah Rural Schools Association. If you have not attended their annual conference in July, it is such a fantastic conference with educators from across the entire state. This year the conference will be held in Price from July 12th-14th. They are currently looking for proposals for a variety of presentations at the conference. GEGUtah will be there, just like last year, with a room on a variety of Google-related topics. Come join the conference by applying to present: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEOZKPfBvAlDBZPad9QVZZvRilkIlE3mgXHI7U9QSF2eiXTQ/viewform

Today's Resource Share comes from the Utah Teacher Fellows. If you are unaware about this program, the Utah Teacher Fellows are a teacher leadership program that help classroom educators develop their leadership skills over the course of a two year fellowship. They are currently taking applications for their fourth fellowship group that will start over the summer. If you are interested in this program, you can check out the application process, with a FAQ, at the link below: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11TljESGI5qRr0WlusDmNOb1mO_gq3cmdJknZVL7Ho_g/edit

Today's Resource Share comes from Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve. He compiled the sessions he ran at last week's UCET conference into one convenient post on his site. Check out all the resources, ideas, and some of his thoughts about the conference at this link: 

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/03/my-2023-ucet-sessions.html

Also, it is great to welcome 16 new GEGUtah members from UCET last week. We are almost at 350 members and our leadership team could not be happier. We have some great events coming up, including sessions at URSA and ISTE.

Today's Resource Share comes from Matt Miller's blog Ditch That Textbook. Check out this resource for 15 different templates for Google Forms that you can use today to help build your use of Google Forms for a variety uses in your classroom. From scheduling events with students to course evaluations to self-correcting quizzes, there are some great templates to use in any classroom. Check it out at the link below: 

https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-forms-templates/

Today's Resource Share comes from First Lady Abby Cox's Show Up Utah Program. The Show Up for Teachers Conference just opened registration for all attendees and it is sure to be a fantastic program. The conference will take place on July 19th at the Mountain West Expo Center in Sandy, Utah. Come join the conference for a celebration of teachers and teaching. Last year's conference was one of my personal, professional development highlights and I hope to see many of you there as well. Registration is free for all educators, counselors, and administrators. You can register here: 

https://www.showupforteachers.org/event/742b0a6b-f9cc-4a75-ad86-135e3f15ed85/summary

If you are headed to UCET23, come see First Lady Abby Cox and her team discuss this conference from 2-3 PM on March 15th in Marriott Cedar. 

Today's Resource Share is a brand new episode of UEN's PDTV. This episode digs into technology integration in a Murray School District classroom.  The classroom teacher, Kayti Graham, decided to integrate the LEARN Platform into her 5th-grade classroom to some great results. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWtKK_EJ7hs

Today's Resource Share comes from the Utah Teacher Fellows. If you are not aware of the Utah Teacher Fellows, the program supports Utah educators who would like to explore how to interact and work with local and state policymakers to help improve teaching and learning conditions in Utah's Public Schools. They are currently working towards an application process for their upcoming two-year cohort and they put out an interest form to help find potential fellows. If you are interested in this great opportunity for Utah educators, you can fill out the following interest form. The current cohort of the Utah Teacher Fellows will also be at UCET23 on both days to present and share their work in Utah schools: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5BJqZnPwG7g4IlriZayYSFlgFPOk_itajxDKvF1ghPesGpg/viewform

Today's Resource Share is a special session at UCET23 for our GEGUtah members. Eric Curts from Control Alt Achieve has agreed to do a lunchtime session from 11:30-12:30 on March 14th in the Google Room for GEGUtah members only. In this session, he will be delivering a session on Artificial Intelligence and its possible impacts on education. It should be a great session! Although this session is at lunch, you will have time to still grab food before or after the session. To attend, you will need to fill out the form below and have the password when you arrive at the Google room in UVCC Cascade E. Sign up at the form below: 

https://forms.gle/FWcJqAeAR8TasSUe7

The GEGUtah Leadership team is very excited to see those of you who attend UCET at this session. If you cannot attend, don't worry, I have a special resource share from the session coming your way after UCET. 

Today's resource share comes in the form of a new program from UCET. This year UCET is offering a scholarship to help cover the registration costs to present at ISTELive 2023. UCET is the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) affiliate and they know that there are some amazing Utah educators who are presenting at ISTELive 2023 in Philadelphia. UCET is also aware of the conference fees associated with presenting. If you have been accepted to present at ISTELive 2023 and need help with your conference costs, please apply for the scholarship with the Form below. Again, you may only receive funding if you are already presenting at ISTELive 2023. UCET will fund only your registration fees and there are only four scholarships. The deadline to apply is March 9th. Check out more information at the link below: 

https://forms.gle/etMJFAKfjwg4aRzu6

Today's Resource Share is a new free tool from Mote called Conker. If you are unfamiliar with Mote, it is a Google Add-On that allows users to leave audio messages on Slides, Forms, and more. They recently released, in beta, a new program called Conker. Conker uses AI to create quizzes from a topic or from text (up to 12,000 words).  The quizzes are then customizable to the number of questions and in future updates question types (right now it is multiple choice only). Once you are satisfied with your quiz, you can export it to a Google Form and share it with your students, add visuals, and more question types. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.conker.ai/create