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2015-2017 Educational Technology Endorsment Program (ETEP) Information

The Educational Technology Department will be accepting applicants for the 2015-2017 Educational Technology Endorsement Program starting Monday, May 11th at 7:00 A.M.  It is a two-year, 18 total credit hour program that will include a teacher Chromebook, but not a set of classroom devices. It is open to all teachers and administrators. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-serve basis. The application form will be open from May 11th at 7:00 A.M. until May 22nd at 5:00 P.M., or when the class limit has been met.

The application form is available at this link: https://goo.gl/mSkVYd, but will not open until Monday May 11th at 7:00 AM.

Click here to see the two-year program schedule. Please contact Kristen Johnson if you have any questions at kajohnson@graniteschools.org or at 385-646-4110.

Thank you,

Patrick Flanagan
Director, Educational Technology
Granite School District
385-646-4110

#GraniteTechChat Archive: “Tech in 20” Training Ideas (4/23/15)

The Granite Education Technology department sponsors a monthly twitter chat on teaching with technology called #GraniteTechChat. This chat is open to any interested parties, but is especially focused on the participation of school technology specialists and library media educational technology specialists in Granite School District.  Archives of these chats are kept on this website using the Storify service.

In the April 2015 chat, technology specialists discussed strategies and ideas for engaging teachers with optional educational technology trainings, often called “Tech in 20” trainings.  These were the questions:

Q1: How do you get your teachers involved in trainings you offer?

Q2: How do you select relevant trainings you offer to your teachers?

Q3: How do you evaluate the quality of the trainings you offer?

Q4: Tell about the most successful training you have conducted with your teachers.

See the full archive of the chat below.

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Exploring Educational Hashtags on Twitter

You may have heard of Twitter being touted as a great place to find teaching resources, ideas, and other professional development opportunities, as well as a place to grow your Personal Learning Network (PLN.)  You may also have signed up for Twitter at some point, only to be confronted with suggested follows consisting of comedians, musicians, actors, athletes, and politicians, but not necessarily educators. Perhaps your  Twitter timeline currently consists of updates on what your uncle watched on TV last night. So where is this promised land of professional resources for educators on Twitter?   [Read more…] about Exploring Educational Hashtags on Twitter

Featured Resource: TweetDeck

Tweetdeck (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) is a customizable, multi-column interface for Twitter that makes it easy to follow twitter chats, hashtags, or events as they happen in real time.  Users can set up as many columns as they choose, showing not only the regular timeline of updates from people they follow, but also hashtags or other search results, twitter lists, notifications, and much more.

We are featuring TweetDeck today because it is a simple tool for following a twitter chat (such as the upcoming #GSDEdTech Chat.)  Here is a quick video that shows how to sign in to TweetDeck and quickly set yourself up to follow and participate in the #GSDEdTech chat or any other Twitter educational hashtag chat.

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Granite ELA Digital Conversion Kick-Off

On March 20th, secondary English Language Arts teachers will participate in Granite’s Digital Conversion Kick-Off. Please watch the video above for details on the March 20 professional development session. For more information on Granite Digital Conversion, please see our Digital Conversion pages. Also feel free to join in the digital conversion conversation on twitter by following and using the #GraniteDC hashtag. [Read more…] about Granite ELA Digital Conversion Kick-Off

Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – March 2015

Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – March 2015

Our department’s monthly newsletter was just sent out to all teachers in Granite School District, but if you missed it you can also access it here.

This month’s highlights include:

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#GraniteTechChat Archive: Digital Learning (2/26/2015)

The Granite Education Technology department sponsors a monthly twitter chat on teaching with technology called #GraniteTechChat. This chat is open to any interested parties, but is especially focused on the participation of school technology specialists and library media educational technology specialists in Granite School District.  Archives of these chats are kept on this website using the Storify service.

The February 2015 chat focused on digital learning, and technology specialists shared some ways they have incorporated technology with teaching, taught digital citizenship to students.  They also shared ideas for activities for the upcoming Digital Learning Day (3/13) and Pi Day (3/14.)   See the full archive of the chat below.   [Read more…] about #GraniteTechChat Archive: Digital Learning (2/26/2015)

Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – Feb. 2015

Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – February 2015

Our department’s monthly newsletter was recently sent out to all teachers in Granite School District, and you can also access it here.

This month’s highlights include:

Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – January 2015

Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – January 2015

Our department’s monthly newsletter was recently sent out to all teachers in Granite School District, and you can also access it here.

This month’s highlights Include:

#GraniteTechChat Archive: Hour of Code (12/15/2014)

Granite EdTech sponsors a monthly twitter chat on teaching with technology called #GraniteTechChat. This chat is open to any interested parties, but is especially focused on the participation of school technology specialists and library media educational technology specialists in Granite School District.

#GraniteTechChat Archives

Follow the links below for archives of our most recent chats, saved and published via Storify.

#GraniteTechChat: Hour of Code – December 15, 2014

Below is an embedded selection from our archive of the most recent chat, in which we reflected on recent Hour of Code activities and began to look at how to expand upon student interest in coding by integrating it into everyday classroom activity, after school clubs, etc.