SUECON 2015: Full Schedule

3:40pm MST

Microsoft’s Sway: New Tool for Great Presentations and Reports

Come learn how to use Microsoft’s newest free tool for creating beautiful presentations, interactive reports, personal stories, and more. It’s called Sway, and it makes content creation easy, fast, cross-platform, shareable, and remixable. When combined with UEN resources and tools, Sway can be an amazing teaching and learning tool.

Speakers

Rob Bentley

Instructor and Adobe Product Manager, Utah Education Network

Rob taught Language Arts and Spanish for 6 years. For the last 15 years, he's been teaching teachers how to integrate technology effectively into their curriculum. During his time at UEN, he's presented at URSA, UELMA, UCET, ISTE, FETC, UFLA, and the CTE conferences many times.

Friday November 6, 2015 3:40pm - 4:40pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall

4:50pm MST

Excel 4 The Classroom

In this introductory session to Excel/Google Sheets, participants will explore Excel activities that go beyond the basic for classroom use. In this session participants will learn how to work within and navigate your way around spreadsheets, enter/format/sort data within cells, import data into Excel, use formulas and functions, and develop charts and graphs.

Speakers

Michael Eves

Learning & Innovation Specialist, WCSD

Mike Eves graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Math. He is in his 5th year of teaching in Washington County School District. Mike currently teaches Math at Sunrise Ridge Intermediate. He has been married for about 4 years... Read More →

SUECON Excel Presentation xlsx

Friday November 6, 2015 4:50pm - 5:50pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall

12:00pm MST

Create HTML5 Games & Apps

Learn how to create an HTML5 game or app using Microsoft TouchDevelop. The programming environment is Web based. The programming environments lets the creator share the app with a short URL that can be used on any Internet connected device. Resources

Speakers

Carl Lyman

Utah CSTA, Utah CSTA

A teacher of 30+ years from grades 2-12 and adults with most of the time as a computer teacher on a secondary level. A UCET presenter since 1982. A specialist at USBE for 10 years over Computer Science and Information Technology education. A creator of curriculum for teaching coding... Read More →

Saturday November 7, 2015 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall

1:10pm MST

Creative Coding through Games and Apps

Come learn how you can take advantage of Microsoft’s “Creative Coding through Games & Apps” curriculum using TouchDevelop to teach a “creative coding” middle school class. The curriculum will introduce students to computer science concepts in a way that they are the creators. It is designed to get students excited about “coding” as they explore computational thinking, collaboration, coding, problem solving, and computing ethics through a variety of projects.

Speakers

Carl Lyman

Utah CSTA, Utah CSTA

Saturday November 7, 2015 1:10pm - 2:10pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall

2:50pm MST

Google Sheets Made Easy

Spreadsheets in Google Docs allows teachers and students to easily aggregate, organize, and analyze information in one place. In this session participants will learn how to use advanced tools for sorting, formatting, creating charts, visualizing information with gadgets, and entering formulas on Google Sheets.

Speakers

Michael Eves

Learning & Innovation Specialist, WCSD

Saturday November 7, 2015 2:50pm - 3:50pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall

4:00pm MST

Webquests Made With Google Sites

In this course you will learn how to create an interactive website (webquest) for your students to use to research, complete projects, etc.... You will also get access to some great sites that are already made for 2nd and 3rd grades. This is a don't miss class if you are looking for a way to get your students active and engaged! BYOD to create a site during class!

Speakers

Pamela Orton

Teacher, Washington County School District

This is my 5th year teaching! I work at Crimson View Elementary and have the opportunity to use technology daily in my classroom. My classroom is a 1:1 classroom which allows for some amazing opportunities. I have used webquests with my second graders and they have loved it. I also... Read More →

Webquests

Saturday November 7, 2015 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Room 110 - LAB Desert Hills High School

Red Hall