January+2015

== =January 2015= =Now Registering For: Google Your CANVAS= =Now Registering For: CANVAS Feedback, Scoring, Rubrics and More = =Educational Technology's Website Gem of the Month= =A Glimpse At the Maker Movement= =Educational Technology's Teacher Spotlight=

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 = Now Registering For: Google Your CANVAS =

Class Description:
=== This class is open to all GSD secondary teachers. This course is designed to help teachers use the Google tools to save time in course creation in //Canvas// and to make their courses more interesting, interactive and easy to use. Participants will learn how to create automatically updating "pages" in Google and allow student submissions without worrying about sharing and more. ===

 = Now Registering For CANVAS Feedback, Scoring, Rubrics and More =

Class Description:
=== This class is open to all GSD secondary teachers. Make your courses paperless, interactive and correlated to the Utah Core by learning how to give quality feedback to students, by scoring your assignments, quizzes and discussions online, and for those interested in standards-based learning how to create rubrics and outcomes in //Canvas.// Come prepared to work in your existing courses with ideas, plans and materials you intend to use in your classes. ===

CLICK HERE to register for: CANVAS Feedback, Scoring, Rubrics and More
 = Educational Technology's Website Gem of the Month =

Students can use timetoast.com for:

 * ===Historical event timelines===
 * ===Plotting events from a book===
 * ===Personal Timelines===
 * ===Planning an event===
 * ===As part of a biography===

The free version includes ads, but meets the needs for most any purpose. The paid versions also allow for collaboration on a timeline.
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 = A Glimpse At The Maker Movement = ===Students are becoming makers around the globe. "Making" includes a variety of technologies that allow anyone to create the things we need and use. We no longer have to settle with being consumers only. 3D printing is one such technology. "Making," as seen in the videos below, is an incorporation of STEM skills at its finest.===

Eighth-grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, Arduinos, and other hands-on lessons in STEM skills.
===Learn more about the Maker Movement from the Edutopia, July 22, 2014 Article, How The Maker Movement Connects Students To Engineering and Tech.===

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Why I Love My 3D Printer by Schuyler St Leger on Ignite
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 = Educational Technology's Teacher Spotlight = media type="youtube" key="ofit5XCe7J0" height="283" width="499" ===Mrs. Suzette Prevo is a fifth grade teacher at Fremont Elementary. I had the opportunity to visit her class and watch the innovative things she is doing in her classroom. The students had written an essay, //A Person I Admire,// and they were working on editing their writing. Mrs. Prevo had the students using Voki to help them with the editing process. The students would copy text from the essay into Voki and then listen to the avatar read the text back. The students were listening for correct pauses and word choice. After listening to their writing they would then go back to the essay and make the necessary changes. The students were highly engaged in the editing process.===

===Practicing math facts has taken on a new twist in Mrs. Prevo’s class. The students used Socrative to work as teams to propel their rocket ship across the screen. You could feel the excitement in the air as they worked together to accomplish their goal.===

===These students use technology everywhere they go. The final activity I experienced during my visit was the fifth graders working with their first grade buddies. They went to the first grade class and helped them practice reading. Each student had a leveled reading book, and the fifth grade student would record their buddy reading. Once the student finished the book they would then watch the video clip of themselves and talk with their partner about how they read. What a truly collaborative experience!===

===Mrs. Prevo has created a classroom environment where technology is the norm, just like using paper and pencil. Her students are engaged in the learning process, they collaborate, and the classroom environment is so inviting.===