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These educator-created videos illustrate the tremendous value of Twitter as a tool for professional development, as well as some its possible applications in the classroom.
Why Tweet: A Personal Journey Through the Twitterverse
Educator Skip Via relates his journey to discovering Twitter as a tool for professional learning and his experiences in introducing it to his fellow faculty members and students in higher education.
How To Use Twitter in the Classroom
Dani K. Sloan, one of Granite Ed. Tech’s own school technology specialists, shares ways educators can use Twitter to grow a professional learning network, share and promote positive images and messages from the classroom, and provide students with hands-on practice in digital citizenship.
Re-Imagine Your Professional Development Experience… with Twitter!
Educator Victoria Olson introduces Twitter and describes three stages of utilizing social media for professional development: lurking, participating, and authoring.
Why Share?
In “Obvious to You — Amazing to Others,” author Derek Sivers gives a simple, inspiring reason for all teachers to share their ideas and practices via social media.
Toni Blattman is the Library Media Educational Technology Specialist at Kearns Jr. High School in Kearns, UT. Each month Toni and media assistant LaVada Brinton host a major promotion in the school library. For September 2014 the theme for their activity came from the Divergent book and movie. Following the premise of the story, students were invited to take the Divergent Factions Aptitude Test to determine which “faction” they were to join. Then, students engaged in Library Faction Challenges, such as checking out and reading a book or visiting the library to study with a friend, etc., for which they earned faction medallions upon completion. Over 40% of Kearns Jr. students participated in the activity, with 780 medallions being awarded to students.
Technology Tip: Toni utilized an easy Google Form to share the library faction aptitude quiz with students. She posted links to the quiz, the challenges, and other materials for the promotion on the school’s library catalog home page (Destiny Library Catalog), where students could easily access it from computer search stations and iPad kiosks in the library, or with a personal device from any other location at home or school.
The Divergent activity is just one example of the many ways Ms. Blattman promotes reading and information literacy at her school. As one result of her efforts, Kearns Jr. High currently has the highest circulation of OverDrive electronic books in Granite School District, although one of the smallest secondary schools. Ms. Blattman is one of our leaders in #graniteedtech and #granitelibraries, doing awesome things for and with students at her school.
Spotlight Author: Cindy Moyle, Granite District Secondary Media Supervisor
Andy McIntyre is a math teacher who uses technology seamlessly with his students at Valley Jr. High School in South Salt Lake, Utah. He participated in a classroom Chromebook pilot program last year, and the laptop computers are now fully integrated into the learning activities in his classroom. Check out the video above, showing his math students in action on a typical day of learning.
Here’s how Mr. McIntyre described the lesson he shared with students on the day of this video:
Some of Mr. McIntyre’s awesome technology tools shown in this video:
Spotlight Author: Teresa Bruin, Granite District Educational Technology Specialist
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You can now find Granite’s Educational Technology Department sharing resources and engaging in conversations on numerous social media channels. Here are a few of the ways and places to connect with us and join in the conversation.
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Follow us on twitter for the latest learning resources, conversations about educational technology, spotlights on granite classrooms and libraries, and news of the department.
Individual Granite educators are also using the #graniteedtech hashtag on Twitter to share resources and talk about ways they are using technology in the classroom. We similarly use the #granitelibraries hashtag to talk about great things happening in our school libraries. Everyone is welcome, just use these hashtags in your own tweets to join the conversation!
Soon to come on this blog and on our twitter account we will be curating lists of Granite educators to follow and classrooms to connect with on Twitter. Watch for these and let us know if you’d like to be included.
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Follow and collaborate with us on Pinterest as we begin to curate educational technology and library resources for students, teachers, and librarians.
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This e-newsletter is sent out to all teachers in Granite School District each month, and past issues are archived at the website linked above. The newsletter features notices of professional development opportunities and technology classes for teachers, tips for technology use in the classroom, website spotlights, and more.
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If you are reading this post, you have likely already found our blog. This is our hub for news, resources and content that we share via the other channels already mentioned above. If you use an RSS feed reader, you can point it to this feed to subscribe to our blog: https://www.graniteschools.org/edtech/feed/
Granite’s SAFARI Montage digital media library has just been updated with new licensed content for the 2014-2015 school year. [Read more…] about New 2014-15 Content in SAFARI Montage
Whether you’ve been curious about AppSmashing or you’ve never heard the words ‘app’ and ‘smash’ used in the same sentence, it’s sure that AppSmashing is a fun way for students to learn and present content.
What’s an app smash, you ask? An app smash is when multiple apps are used to create a finished project. Your students might already be AppSmashing and not even know it! The most important app is already on your device – the ‘Photos’ app or camera roll is where you save each piece of the smash. Then, put them all together using a different app (like iMovie or ThingLink).
Check out these websites created by GSD School Technology Specialists for more information and resources:
Choose Your Own Appventure By Dani Sloan and Brittany Dimick (http://chooseyourownappventure.weebly.com/)
AppSmash for UCET By Brandi Gollinger, Jayanne Unander, and Kristen Johnson (http://appsmash4ucet.weebly.com/)
Hope you’ll have a smash!
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#UTEdChat is a weekly online conversation on educational topics open to all Utah educators. This chat happens on Twitter every Wednesday night from 9-10 PM MDT. To participate, follow the #UTEdChat hashtag on Twitter, and include the same hashtag in your tweets to join the conversation. If you’re new to Twitter or haven’t participated in a Twitter chat you can watch the video below for more information. Also scroll down for a full schedule of topics and hosts for September 2014. Dani Kauerz Sloan, one of Granite’s own school technology specialists, will be hosting tonight’s discussion on engaging new teachers in technology.
September 3, 2014, 9-10 PM MDT
Host: Dani Kauerz Sloan (@daniksloan)
Topic: Engaging New Teachers in Technology
September 10, 2014, 9-10 PM MDT
Host: Jared Covili (@covili)
Topic: Building Community at School
September 17, 2014, 9-10 PM MDT
Host: Derek Larson (@lars3eb)
Topic: Why Use Twitter?
September 24, 2014, 9-10 PM MDT
Host: Josh Decker (@edtechucation)
Topic: Instructional Technology Philosophers Unite!
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