Next week Granite School District is holding GraniteCon, a professional development conference for all teachers working in our district. Over three days at four high school locations, teachers will be given opportunities to attend breakout sessions on a diverse range of professional learning topics, all led by fellow teachers, specialists, and administrators.
The Educational Technology department is excited to help support this conference. Many of our educational technology teacher specialists (school technology specialists and library media educational technology specialists) will be presenting sessions on topics such as:
- Introduction to using Chromebooks in the classroom
- Student collaboration tools in Google and Office 365
- Canvas learning management system
- Google Classroom
- Hyperdocs
- Breakout EDU
- Lessons with interactive whiteboards
- OverDrive Digital Library and Utah’s Online Library
Check out the detailed schedule to plan your conference attendance and find out more about these educational technology sessions, as well as other quality sessions hosted by teachers and specialists from schools and departments throughout the district. Visit https://gsdconference.org/, the official conference website, for schedules, directions, maps, resources, and answers to frequently asked questions about the conference.
Love the conference hated that I can’t quickly find all of the presenters material in one location! Very frustrating I don’t have the time for this! I spent all this time going to these classes and everyone telling me I can find the information and now I can’t find it or open documents! Also too much information in one day we should be able to have a half a day conference and then half the day in our schools implementing what we learned and then maybe go back for another day of learning and then go back to schools for another day of practical application. We need much more time as educators to go to classes and then a few days to process and Implement what we’ve learned this is ridiculous that we have one day in our classes to try to take everything we’ve learned at the end of the week and process it. I feel.like I’m going to forget half the great things I learned. Something needs to be done about this because it keeps happening year after year. Also with this age of Technology why isn’t somebody recording all the classes so that we can go back in and watch it so not having to take a ton of notes that we’re going to lose or can’t remember what the experience was like. I had so many great classes that I want to remember and I got up and did things with the class but I wasn’t able to take notes. Please provide some sort of way for people to record themselves when they’re teaching us so we can go back and rewatch! I thought the presenters were amazing and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for the excellent keynote speakers, classes and lunches!
Natalie,
Thank you for the comments. We will take a look at how we in Ed. Tech. can improve upon our parts of the conference for future years, and we will also pass the ideas along to the conference organizers.
Here is one thing that might help with one of your questions. I noticed on the conference website there is a “Presenters” page: https://gsdconference.org/speakers/presenters/. Most of the presenters have a link icon next to their name. When you click on it a screen pops up with their bio, and many of the bios have a link to the session resources below the bio. If there isn’t anything shared there you could also contact the presenter via email and I’d hope they’d be willing to share their documents with you or answer any more questions that you have.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. Let us know if we can do anything to help you.