Today's Resource is a silly, fun AR project you can do on the quick for the holiday tonight. Google Arts and Culture's app includes an Art Filter you can use to create a video of you in famous paintings including famous Halloween art like the Scream. The filter turns you into the subject of the piece and allows you to create a quick video using the filter. A super fun little project that combines the holiday with art! It is an app for mobile devices, so make sure to check out this link on your phone or tablet: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/camera/art-filter/hQGZa2I9Xi6lpA

Today's Resource Share is a quick video from Google Workspaces that explains how to create meeting notes for all attendees in a Google Calendar invite. With just a few button presses all attendees can have access to a shared Google Doc with an agenda and action items for all participants. I have been using this over the last year and it saves so much time in planning for and carrying out items from a meeting. Check out the video below: 

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

Today's Resource Share comes from Google's Applied Digital Skills lessons. They just added a collection of lessons focused on College Readiness for students. These lessons include Preparing for FAFSA, Searching for Colleges Online, and Search for Scholarships. These lessons are self-paced, can be done without a login, and have all the materials for the lessons embedded into the website. Check out this great collection: 

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/collegereadiness?utm_source=google-applied-digital-skills&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221027-college-readiness--hsms-ins-&src=em-20221027-college-readiness--hsms-ins-

Today's Resource Share is Google For Edu's Support English Language Learners course. The course is free, self-paced, and takes about 2 hours to complete. Learners will explore how to add agency, accessibility, and access to courses while also exploring how to engage families in the learning process. The course offers great ideas and solutions with and without using Google. Check it out at the link below: 

https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/path/61215-support-english-language-learners?sid=c2ed9abd-980f-45d3-b3fa-421f6e887aff&sid_i=8

Today's Resource Share is Google for Education's Accessibility Blog. This often updated blog explores how to use Google's Workspace and Chromebooks with Accessibility in mind. On the blog you will find links to recent posts about accessibility updates, how-to and help guides, and guidance on best practices for accessibility. Check it out at the link below: 

https://edu.google.com/why-google/accessibility/

Today's Resource Share is a tour of the world-famous CERN collider and labs in Switzerland. This Google Arts and Culture tour takes students into the inner workings of the lab and collider for a tour, not every visitor gets to see. It also explores the science behind the collider. Check out the quick tour at the link below: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/DAUBchupaFTnJw

Today's Resource Share is a great set of activities from Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve for Halloween. From making a jack-o-lantern with Google Slides to magnetic Halloween poetry with Google Drawings, these activities could be scaled for many grade levels and content areas for the Halloween season. Each activity has a template to copy, edit, and share with your students. Check them out at the link below: 

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2022/10/4-googley-halloween-activities.html

Today's Resource Share is our October '22 Newsletter. This month's newsletter is chock full of great content and resources for Utah educators. Check out a great Leader Spotlight from Deanna Taylor, our GEGUtah October '22 Meetup from Kelli Cannon, information about a Google Event in Utah on November 5th, and some great material from UCET and more. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.smore.com/9260t

This month's meetup is Wednesday, October 19th from 4-4:30 PM. This month join us for a great Make-And-Take Marvel with co-leader Kelli Cannon. We will also share our monthly newsletter and some Googley updates. You can join us at the following Youtube Link (or you can watch the replay there as well):

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

Today's Resource Share is Google Arts and Culture's In Rhythm with Nature. This digital experiment, co-authored by Google's Wellbeing Lab and Johns Hopkins, is a digital wellness online app that allows users to do a mindfulness activity with a digital plant. It is a simple, but effective way to connect students to mindfulness activities and nature in our digital world. Check it out at the link below: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/in-rhythm-with-nature/1AHie_rumRxQOA?hl=en

Today's Resource Share comes to us from Google Sheets expert Ben Collins. In this quick tutorial, he shows you how to use formulas in Google Sheets to generate QR codes directly in the sheet. It is an amazing bit of formula work that can help those teachers who are using QR codes. However, if you don't want to build it yourself, you can make a copy of his template at the bottom. Here is the link: 

https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/qr-codes-in-google-sheets/

Today's Resource Share is a fun Google Arts and Culture project with music. In Assisted Melody, users are given a digital keyboard where they can select notes and then using the Harmonize button, your notes will be combined with the works of great composers like Mozart, Back, and Beethoven. Users can also change the instrument and tempo to hear different styles of music. Check it out at the link below: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/assisted-melody/cAGcgh18Zi7DqQ

Today's Resource Share is Google's 22 Digital Days. The program operates as a challenge program for educators to dive into adding digital content to their classrooms. Each slide of the deck is a challenge but it also has templates for each challenge to help educators get started. Even if you are not interested in doing the challenge, there are a lot of great resources within this project to use in your classroom. Check it out at the link below and make a copy for yourself: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uNwySZB6Bboib6aXnE0Az34qximMsAg2fMGziKRizSs/edit?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-Yn_kfoNhiU1JIGAjBN35vw

Today's Resource Share is our GEGUtah October Meetup! This month's meetup is next Wednesday, October 19th from 4-4:30 PM. This month join us for a great Make-And-Take Marvel with co-leader Kelli Cannon. We will also share our monthly newsletter and some Googley updates. You can join us at the following Youtube Link (or you can watch the replay there as well):

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

Today's Resource Share is a suggestion from Ogden School District's Ian Davey. Ben Collins, Google Data wizard, has a weekly newsletter in which he shares out some amazing tips, tricks, templates, and resources for using Google data software including Sheets, Forms, and Data Studio. Below is a link to his most recent newsletter with some great ideas about setting up data collection through Google Sheets and some best practices. You can subscribe to his newsletter at that link as well: 

https://ckarchive.com/b/v8u3hrhx4el3m

Today's Resource Share is Google's free, self-paced course entitled Inspire Creativity Through Student Engagement. This roughly three-hour course walks educators through creative tools, project-based learning options, and more. One of the best modules walks educators through creating using Google's Earth Engine, which allows users to use Google Earth's data to create engaging presentations.  Check out the course at this link: 

https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/path/56557/activity/76258#/page/626187c2b327940b6b58574c

Today's Resource Share is The Descent of the Serpent by Google Arts and Culture. This fun, Zelda-like game allows players to explore ancient Mesoamerica and learn about Central American culture. Players learn about different items, ideas, and the culture of ancient Mesoamerican people.  Give it a play for free at: 

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/the-descent-of-the-serpent/vAEAZBv58OliBA

Today's Resource Share is the newest edition of Google's Edu in 90 series. This episode just came out at the tail end of September and covers a lot of great updates, a new series on Chromebooks and ChromeOS, and Google's new standalone Read Along site for our younger students. Check it all out in a very short 90 seconds. Here is the link to the video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJOan5dePk

Today's Resource Share comes from Adobe's Creative Education, a Google partner. Adobe Creative Education has been doing monthly lessons and contests for the past year, but this Fall they amped it up with a series of great back-to-school and getting-to-know you activities and lessons that are premade and use Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Spark) to create posters, portfolios, and other creative projects within your classrooms. Check out lesson plans, templates, how-to videos, and the contest at the link below: 

https://edex.adobe.com/challenges?sdid=85665QHB&mv=social&mv2=ownsoc-org

Today's Resource Share is the newest edition of the Utah Nearpod Community Newsletter. Jami from UEN and her team spent a lot of time getting materials together to make this newsletter a great resource for educators who are using Nearpod within their classrooms. Links to new lesson plans, the recordings from their webinar series from the Summer, and ways to engage with the UNC and beyond. Check it out at the link below: 

https://www.smore.com/wfz49

Today's Resource Share is a free, self-paced Chromebook Training Course from Google's Teacher Center. If your school or classroom uses Chromebooks, this is a great time to explore a course like this to check out new features, ideas for using them, and, perhaps most importantly, best practices for using Chromebooks in our classrooms. The course is designed to take just over two hours and is completely self-paced. Check it out below: 

https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/path/61211-chromebook-training?sid=c2ed9abd-980f-45d3-b3fa-421f6e887aff&sid_i=3