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== =September 2014= =Now Registering: Updating Your UEN Classroom Website (Beginner and Advanced)= =Twitter 101= =Educational Technology's Website Gem of the Month= =Earn 2/3 of Your Tech Endorsement in SHIFT's Big Screen Science Professional Development= =See What's New In the Ed Tech Blog= = =

 = Now Registering For Updating Your My.UEN Classroom Website Technology Classes =

= Starting or Updating Your UEN Classroom Website (Basics Class For Beginners) =

Learn how to:

 * === Save and manage websites, documents and files in your personal folders ===
 * === Make your public pages visually appealing and useful for students and parents ===
 * === Get great ideas from other example UEN sites and add some excellent resources to your own site ===

Click Here to register for the Starting or Updating Your My.UEN Classroom Website Class for Beginners
=and=

= Updating Your UEN Classroom Website (Intermediate-Advanced) =

Time: 4:30-7:30 PM
=Click Here to register for the Updating Your UEN Classroom Website (Intermediate-Advanced)=



= Twitter 101 =

Dani Sloan - ED Tech STS - Dani used Twitter in her Granite District 4th grade class as a teacher to communicate with parents and to increase student engagement and literacy. Currently, she uses twitter to learn new and exciting tools in the world of EdTech, engage with other teachers, and participate in Twitter Chats.

=== Twitter is an awesome social media tool that can be used for sharing the latest news updates, hilarious cat photos, etc., but did you know Twitter can be used to enhance your class beyond your four walls? Twitter can be used to learn from other educators, share the awesome things you’re doing in your classroom, connect with parents, send out reminders, and even give enrichment videos and links to students. ===

=== Step 1: Set up a Twitter profile! Sign up and make a professional twitter account to use with your classroom. Feel free to use your Granite School District email address and use your name or the name your students call you! Examples: @MrsSmith @MrMath32 @TechyTeach01 ===


 * ===Tweet: Each of your Twitter posts or updates is known as a tweet. Whatever you want to say/share in 140 characters or less. ===
 * ===@: The @ symbol is a way of referring to another Twitter user. For example, @EdTechGSD means you're either sending a message to the Ed Tech Department at Granite School District or you're talking about them in your message. ===
 * ===Retweet (RT): A retweet - or RT - is when you share the tweet of one user with all of your Twitter followers. ===
 * ===Reply: Reply is when you respond to a tweet from a particular user. ===
 * ===Direct Message (DM): Whereas replies are completely public, a direct message is akin to a private message that you send through a discussion board. ===
 * ===Follow: To follow someone on Twitter means to subscribe to their Tweets or updates on the site. ===
 * ===Mention: Mentioning another user in your Tweet by including the @ sign followed directly by their username is called a "mention". Also refers to Tweets in which your username was included. ===
 * ===Hashtags or #: Hashtags are words or acronyms that begin with the number sign. They are used when many people are tweeting about the same topic or from the same event. They make your tweet searchable or are a way for you to search for other people’s tweets. ===

=== Step 3: Grow your Professional Learning Network (PLN)! Start following all stars and your all star coworkers. Granite School District teachers are starting to have a very strong twitter presence, start following educators within our district to see what they’re sharing. Careful, don’t let your twitterverse be as small as our district, follow teachers from around the country and around the world. ===

=== Who to Follow: @PFlanagan2 @daniksloan @edtechGSD @downrightdave @coolcatteacher @shareski @gcouros @covili @MrJFawson ===

=== Step 4: Tweet, retweet, reply! Start interacting via twitter. Like something someone tweets? Give them a star to show you enjoyed it. Love something someone tweets? Retweet and share with your followers. Want to learn more? Reply to someone’s tweet and get more information from them. ===

=== Step 5: Try out a Twitter Chat! Twitter chats are a great way to chat with people with the same interests. A twitter chat is when a group of people log on to Twitter at the same time to talk about a specific topic and follow a specific hashtag. There are chats for fourth grade teachers or high school marketing teachers, science teachers and ed tech geeks! One chat that everyone (all grade levels and specialties) in Utah should give a try is the #UTEdChat. Every Wednesday night at 9:00 pm educators from all over the state meet to chat about a new topic each week. #shamelessplug ===

**www.shiftworkshops.org**




 = See What's New In the Ed Tech Blog =

The latest posts include information about:

 * ===EdCamp Utah===
 * ===Pioneer Library===
 * ===Safari Montage===
 * ===Overdrive===
 * ===Destiny Library Catalog===

 = Educational Technology's Website Gem of the Month =



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