To end out the year and help you find some PD this summer, you may want to check out Utah Education Network's free Summer 2022 courses. There are options for all educators and you can find a lot of great options to give you a boost before next year. Below are links to the UEN Course Catalog and a few self-paced, free courses you can start and finish at any time:

UEN Course Catalog

Google Certified Educator Level 1

Google Certified Educator Level 2

Personalized, Competency-Based Learning + Tech

Research Ready with Scrible

Nearpod Certified Educator

Canvas Foundations

Adobe Creative Educator

Today's Resource Share is another great professional development opportunity for Utah educators this summer. UEN Nearpod Product Manager Jami Gardner will be running a six part webinar series this summer on all things Nearpod! Starting in June and running twice a month through the end of August, she will explore topics like What's New in Nearpod, Nearpodizing Professional Development, Differentiation in Nearpod, and more. Check out the link below to see all the sessions and to find the Zoom link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pInBGEYuq4GIQcIcZkcrkd2VjfcyJ5s3/view

UEN is sponsoring the Leading Schools Conference on July 12th-14th, 2022 in Riverton. This conference will help with building problem-solving skills, design thinking, building a network of support, and building communication within your school community. If you are an administrator in Utah this will be amazing professional development. Learn more and register here:

http://uen.org/leadership

Today's opportunity is the Show Up Conference on July 12th, 2022 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. This free conference is supported by Utah First Lady Abby Cox and is a conference centered around teacher wellness and supporting educators in the field. It is a one-day conference covering dozen of topics on teacher wellness with top speakers from across the country. Check it out and register at the link below:

https://www.showuputah.org/wellness

Today's opportunity is the Utah Rural Schools Association Conference in Cedar City July 6th-8th, 2022. The conference is a great opportunity to meet with other educators and see their work across Utah. GEGUtah will be there for all three days in the GEGUtah room. We will have session on creativity, what's new with Google, and a Google Certified Educator Level 1/2 Bootcamp with GEGUtah co-leaders Kelli Cannon and Matt Winters. Check out the link below to learn more about how to register:

https://utahruralschools.org/conference

Over the next week, we are going to round out our Daily Resource Shares with some professional development opportunities throughout the summer. Today's opportunity is EdcampUtah at Spectrum Academy in Salt Lake City on June 11th. If you have never been to an Edcamp, it is an unconference. That means that all participants help build, teach, and share in all sessions. It is one of my favorite professional development sessions of the year. Check it out below to sign up:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edcamp-utah-2022-tickets-309943458227

Over the next week, we are going to round out our Daily Resource Shares with some professional development opportunities throughout the summer. Today's opportunity is a free PD on offer from Google on June 7th called the Anywhere School. This one-hour PD offers all educators an opportunity to see what is new to Google Workspaces for Education and meet their team. You can sign up for the opportunity at the link below:

https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/events/the-anywhere-school-2022

Many of our students may be graduating or leaving the district. Google Takeout is a lesser known tool that helps users migrate their data from one Google account to another. In this great one-page infographic from Google Trainer Brandy Nichols, she walks users through how to use Google Takeout and move your data to a new account. Check it out below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WIGehGoLqiNLXBmjHGBxKFhfF2iA0-Js/view

We have a new Google Arts and Culture Experiment called the Pyramids of Meroe. This experiment takes users through a journey to southern Egypt to explore the lesser known Pyramids of Meroe. It takes users to the pyramids, explains how they were built, and takes them inside the burial chambers. It is quite an amazing and beautiful experiment. Check it out below:

https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/meroe/

We have Eric Curts' Get The Most Out Of Google Meet. Google Meet has changed a lot over the last year and added tons of new features for teachers to meet the needs of their students. Eric jumps in and shares all these features both on his website and in an accompanying 30 minute video. There are some wonderful new updates and he has some great ideas on how to utilize them. Check it out below:

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2022/05/get-most-out-of-google-meet.html

Today's Resource Share is a bit different; it is the conclusion to the PCBL + Technology webinar series and it covers Microsoft. I know that is not a Google tool, but UEN Trainer Kayla Towner offers some amazing insights into how to not only use Microsoft (which has some great analogues in Google), but also how to do some amazing, easy to do moves for classroom personalized, competency-based learning. Check out her amazing webinar below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhSPQd2WKU

If you are interested in PCBL + Technology, UEN is opening a self-paced course for any teacher to introduce themselves to PCBL in their classroom. Sign up for the course starting Monday, May 16th at https://uen.catalog.instructure.com/.

Today's Resource Share is a great activity for all ages, but particularly in our K-6 learning environments. For Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve, he outlines how to use Google Docs' new create a dropdown feature to help students do close reading. It is a fairly simple idea with some great applications across content areas. Basically, copy a paragraph of text, remove the important words, and make a color-coded dropdown. It is a quickly assessed formative assessment that lets the teacher use any text they desire. Check out the post and the video tutorial below:

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2022/05/docs-cloze.html

Today's Resource Share is a quick, but very nice update to Google Classroom. If you are a Google Classroom user, you may have noticed that when you add an image to an Announcement in the Stream that image is put below in the attachments. I found that sometimes students did not see these images and that could be a problem for instruction. The new update, available today allows for one image to be embedded in the post as a highlight for your students. You can see how to do this on a gif on our Daily Resources page:

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

Today's Resource Share is a set of new features in Docs. If you were unaware, by typing the '@' anywhere in a Doc opens the Smart Chip menu. This feature gives you quick access to frequent collaborators, formatting options, tools, dates, and more. In the last couple of weeks Google has added new features to this tool including a create a dropdown option and some new formatting options for quickly building documents out. To find these options check out the gif on our GEGUtah May Resource Share page:

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

Today's Resource Share is Ian Davey's May The 4th Be With You "Great Race" activity from our last GEGUtah Meetup! If you were not there live, this site walks users through a great race to do a quick design challenge and keeps track of their work as they go. Give it a try as it might be a great activity for the last few weeks of school. If you would like a copy for your class or for ideas on how to make a "Great Race" style activity, email Ian at iancdavey@gmail.com. Here is the link to the resource:

bit.ly/gegthe4th

Also, here is a link to this month's Meetup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veP_HjkgZ8M

Today's Resource Share is Google Arts and Culture's Cultural Crosswords. This great resource has dozens of pre-created crossword puzzles that are complete done through Google Arts and Culture. Users can choose from Arts, Around the World, Science and Technology, Fashion, Nature, and a Weekly Crossword. Each one is challenging and engaging with deep cultural knowledge from around the world. Check it out at:

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/cultural-crosswords/JgGaXxGHVxpn4A

Today's Resource Share is the PCBL + Technology series which continues today at 3:30 PM. Today's guest is UEN Product Manager Katie Blunt who will share some insights about eMedia and how it can be utilized in a PCBL learning environment. Feel free to join us at the following Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/ksUaQyTDcmA

Today's resource share is our May 2022 GEGUtah Meetup, our last meetup of this academic year! For this meetup, we will first have representatives from Derivita, who will share their new Google Classroom integration with our community. Then GEGUtah Leader Ian Davey will lead us through an end-of-year design sprint. We will also share some announcements of GEGUtah events over the summer including the Utah Rural Schools Association Conference, ISTE presentations, and some online offerings. Here is the Youtube link to join:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veP_HjkgZ8M

Today's Resource Share comes from the Personalized, Competency-Based Learning + Technology Webinar Series. This past Thursday, I spoke with UEN Adobe Product Manager Rob Bentley on how to use Adobe's products, specifically Creative Cloud Express and Character Animator to help personalized instruction and build towards a competency-based model. Remember as well that Adobe is free to use for every educator and every secondary student in Utah! Check out the video at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jn-HAVBwL4

Today's Resource Share is a great resource from Google's Computer Science First program. In this lesson, which would be great for our K-8 learners, students learn how to make letters move to spell out a name in Scratch. The lesson is available in either English or Spanish as well! Check out the resource below:

https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/animate-a-name/overview.html