Photography is an amazing gateway for students to express their ideas on a variety of topics both in the photo and in the process. In this playground session, come learn how to make a cinemagraph and gifs using Adobe Creative Cloud. We will also explore content area possibilities for using photography, particularly cinemagraphs and gifs, as choice-based projects.

Utah’s Online School Library (UOSL) is a virtual library designed for all Utah publicly-funded K-12 students and teachers. UOSL allows users to research and share resources from databases, including Culture Grams, EBSCO, Gale Reference, Scrible, Soundzabound, eMedia, and Preschool Pathways. UOSL provides a model for other organizations to fulfill the needs of educators and learners in their own constituencies. The reference materials in UOSL are designed to support “lifelong skills of selecting information from a wide variety of sources, assessing its worth, and applying newfound knowledge to problems, preparing them for learning, doing, and problem-solving in college, career, and throughout life.” (Utah Core Information Literacy Standards). Come learn with UOSL!

Adding an outdoor classroom to an existing school provides students and educators with ample opportunity and reason to spend class time outside. However, developing appropriate and technologically enabled lesson plans for these excursions is incredibly important to the development of the space and to providing engaging learning opportunities for students.

Creating and building breakout rooms continues to be an innovative process in classrooms. However, finding starting points and developing an appropriate curriculum can be difficult. This session solves that problem by providing appropriate and scalable ways you can engage students with escape rooms.

Over the course of ISTE Live 2023, I will be adding resources, ideas, social media posts, and more to this Wakelet Collection. It will be organized by when I attend sessions from the beginning of the conference to the end.

If you are presenting or come across an amazing resource that you would like to share (with permission), please feel free to email me at matt@teacherwinters.net and I will get it added to this collection. Thanks!

There are many entry points to understanding artificial intelligence and sharing it with your students, but one some of the best ways to explore AI are right in your Chromebook. Through an exploration of Google Arts & Culture, Applied Digital Skills, and Practice Sets educators and students alike can experience AI and start to build their skills with engaging practice and thoughtful collaboration with AI. We will explore fun starter points with Google Arts & Culture experiments and games that help learners explore AI in tangible engaging ways. In order to help facilitate deeper learning in our students we will explore some Applied Digital Skills lessons and some possibilities for student-created AI-infused artifacts. Finally, we will explore the possibilities for AI as a learning partner in Practice Sets and how that can support personalized and competency-based learning goals for educators.

Earlier this month Dani and I were lucky enough to sit down with Utah’s First Lady Abby Cox and her Deputy Director of First Lady Initiatives Sarah Allred about the Show Up for Teachers Conference. If you are a Utah educator and you did not attend the summer conference, make sure to look for announcements for next Summer’s conference. As you will hear in the podcast, the goal of Show Up for Teachers was to help them feel pampered. From point one entering the conference, I felt it.

On August 1st, 2022 I am so excited to share my keynote at the Utah Charter Network Annual Symposium at Thanksgiving Point. My keynote is entitled “Reconnect with your passion as an educator through connection.” In it I share my journey as an educator to find my community in education and how I continue to share and build up my community in Utah and beyond. Check out the entire presentation above!

My first time at UCET was in 2018. I had just gone to SXSWEDU week with my district team and had a great time meeting people and really starting to understand the bigger picture of K-12 education. Coming from the higher education world I knew that conferences and working with others were a huge part of understanding the professional landscape and being able to establish yourself as a professional. Building those connections led to other conferences and ideologies.