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=**May 2012**=

=GSD Educational Technology Summer Classes Being Offered=

=GSD Educational Technology's Website Gems of the Month =

=Please Help Spread the Word About Granite Connect=

=2012 Granite Book Awards - Now Accepting Nominations from Teachers and Students=

=www.etnewsupdate.wikispaces.com=

=**www.youtube.com/user/gsdedtech**=

 = **GSD Educational Technology Summer Classes Being Offered** =

All of these summer class are currently full. Please check back in the fall. We'll be offering more technology classes.

= Writing Projects With Pixie =



This class is currently full.
===The Writing Projects With Pixie Class is a 15 hour course offered over a three day period and is being offered to all GSD grades 2-4 teachers.===

The writing instruction is aligned with the common core and will cover opinion, informative and narrative projects.
choice of 15 licensure points or 1 USOE credit. Attendance all three days is necessary.
 * There is no cost for this class.
 * Upon successful completion of the three day course, participants will each receive up to ten Pixie licenses depending on individual or team participation, and a

= Microsoft Office 2010 For Elementary Teachers =

these applications with the instructor's help in class.

 * The cost for this course is $35.00. Details for payment are on the registration link.
 * Upon successful completion of the three day course, participants will receive the choice of 15 licensure points or 1 USOE credit. Attendance all three days is necessary.

= Using iPads to Teach in the Elementary Classroom =

*Do you have your own iPad and want to know how to utilize it to teach with in your elementary classroom?
===*This course is not part of the GSD iSchool program, however, elementary iSchool teachers are welcome to attend. The instruction will not be geared with the assumption that students have access to iPods.===

They are about $30 and can be purchased at any Apple store or online.

 * The cost for this course is $35.00. Details for payment are on the registration link.
 * Upon successful completion of the three day course, participants will receive the choice of 15 licensure points or 1 USOE credit. Attendance all three days is necessary.

= Emerging Technologies/Summer Class =

Class Description:
=== In this course, teachers will be introduced to a variety of exciting new technologies that will help them to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner, WITHOUT reinventing their current curriculum. We will explore, exciting online assessment tools, Google Tools like Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Lit Trips, and we will spend some time experimenting with handheld devices like iPods. === === The goal of this course is to provide teachers with free emerging technologies that will help them to create a classroom that is more interesting, diverse, and able to meet the needs of digital learners. If you are looking for a way to move beyond worksheets, paper pencil assessments, and outdated curriculum material, this class is for you! ===


 * The cost of this class is $17.50. Details for payment are on the registration link.
 * Upon successful completion of the class, participants will receive the choice of 7 licensure points or .5 USOE credit.

 = **GSD Educational Technology's Website Gems of the Month** =



Over a million students a month are using Khan Academy!

It has an enormous database of academic lessons on video.




See if Spreeder can help you improve your reading speed and comprehension using their online speed reading tool.
After taking a look at what the site has to say on the homepage, click on the link that says, "Click Here to Speed Read This Introduction." Run the tool once with the text that's already in the box and then practice reading other text by copying and pasting text from anything else you're interested in on the web. Gradually increase your speed in the settings and see what you're still able to comprehend.

We tested it out by having two people read the same new passage from a scientific article on the web. Then we discussed what we had read to see how much we had comprehended. It's pretty amazing how fast you can actually read and still comprehend by silencing the inner voice that tries to read at your normal read-out-loud voice and just let your brain go to work!



as well as stories and videos in a well organized layout.




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== = Please Help Spread the Word About Granite Connect =

[[file:Granite Connect Summer 2012 Program.pdf]] Granite Connect Flyer
=**Enrollment is open for Granite Connect’s Summer 2012 Program. **= =**Classes are for original credit and are offered at no-cost to students. **= =**Many students have utilized the program in order to open up space in their schedule for classes that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to take. **= =**Like many other district programs, student participation in Granite Connect does not affect their standing at school nor the WPU received by the school. **=

=**Please help us to spread the word! **=

== = **2012 Granite Book Awards – Now Accepting Nominations from Teachers and Students ** = 

==The Granite Book Awards are student/teacher/librarian choice awards sponsored by school media centers in Granite School District. == ==Differing from many other literary awards, our primary criterion is simple: we are looking for great, fun books published within the last == ==year that will get a diverse group of students excited about reading. This year the awards will have three categories: Picture Books, == ==Children’s/Middle Grade Fiction (Grades 4-7), and Young Adult Fiction (Grades 8-12).  Books will be nominated by students, teachers, == ==library staff, and other members of the Granite School District community. <span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Finalists will be chosen from the nominations by volunteer == ==<span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">committees of library staff and teachers. Students will then vote for their favorites from the lists of finalists, thus determining the ==

<span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> final winners of the award.
= **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Nominations for the 2012 awards are now open! ** = ==<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Click here for our simple nomination form. == ==<span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">For more information, please visit the <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Introducing the Granite Book Awards <span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> page on <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Granitemedia.org <span style="color: #323232; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">. ==