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Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – May 2015
Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – May 2015
Our department’s monthly newsletter was recently sent out to all teachers in Granite School District. If you missed it you can also access it here.
This month’s highlights include:
- Now Registering For Summer Technology Classes
- Educational Technology’s Website Gem Of the Month
- Chromebooks In the Classroom From Kathy Schrock’s Guide To Everything
- Two Awesome Digital Language Arts Resources
- Excellent Reading Apps For the Chrome Browser
- GSD Teacher Spotlight: Integrating Technology In the Classroom
- ESRI’s 2015 Storytelling With Maps Contest Is Open
#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
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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:
- Now Registering For: Shift Your Reading Into Overdrive
- Now Registering For: Google Your CANVAS Parts III AND IV
- Now Registering For: Collaborating With Google Docs, Presentations and Forms
- Educational Technology’s Website Gem of the Month
- Digital Learning Day: March 13, 2015
- Pi Day: March 14, 2015
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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:
- Now Registering For: CANVAS Feedback, Scoring, Rubrics and More
- Now Registering For: Google Your CANVAS Parts II, III and IV
- Educational Technology’s Website Gem of the Month
- Citations Made Easy For Teachers and Students
- KidSmartz School Safety Dance Video Contest
- OverDrive in Granite School District
- Highlights From The First Lego League Event Hosted by Granite District
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