Heartland AEA Digital Learning News

Heartland AEA’s Digital Learning Team is excited to announce the keynote speakers for this year’s Heart of Innovation Summer Summit! This year’s Summer Summit will once again be a virtual event taking place from 8:30-12:30 on the mornings of August 8th and 9th. In addition to informative breakout sessions led by area educators and Heartland AEA consultants, we are thrilled to welcome Jon Corippo and Punya Mishra as our keynote speakers!

Registration is open for this year's Heart of Innovation Summer Summit! Participants may choose to register to attend for free or pay a small fee to receive one license renewal credit (requires additional activities). Click the buttons below to register!

A Micro Summit provides face-to-face, edtech learning provided by members of the Heartland AEA Digital Learning Team. Upon learning about your district or school’s interests and goals, a Digital Learning Consultant will coordinate with you to plan a Micro Summit, on a date you choose, with varied sessions you choose, available to educators on your campus.

Some potential areas of interest could include, but are not limited to:

• Sharing digital resources educators can use to enhance learning opportunities for all students

• Connecting standards to edtech tools and strategies that help students master concepts

• Providing professional learning opportunities for educators to connect and access new information and innovation learning

• Digital learning best practices, including methods to support the Universal Constructs, authentic learning, blended learning and Universal Design for Learning

Check out the Micro Summit Flyer or contact your regional Digital Learning Consultant for more information.

🗓️ June 11-17

📍 University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls Iowa

🔗 Statewide AEA CS Ed Week

Full Program Schedule Coming Soon!

All offerings will be face-to-face.

Offerings will include:

• PD for specific curriculums, content integration, physical computing, cybersecurity, & artificial intelligence

• PD for elementary, middle, and high school classroom teachers, school counselors, instructional coaches, & administrators

• Single and multi-day programs

• New program providers and returning programs from last summer

• License renewal and graduate credit options for some programs

Check out the Computer Science PD Week Overview and The Who, What, Where & Why of CS PD Week!

Want to know when registration is open? Complete this CS PD Interest Form.

The following updates may be of interest to educators using Google Workspace for Education

• Eyedropper tool - Slides, Docs, and Sheets now include a built-in tool to quickly match colors
• Follow feature for Slides - click a collaborator's avatar to follow them as they move through the presentation
• Smart Canvas upgrades - users can now create custom building blocks (great for things like rubrics!), insert variables (easy way to personalize content), emoji voting chips (fun class activity), and add a stopwatch chip
• New toolbar for Docs, Slides, & Sheets - these tools are getting a new layout

As Spring Break nears, many educators, students, and families will be traveling, which offers a great opportunity to dig into some of the audio books available through Heartland AEA. Try out a few of the options below for audio books. Log in with the username and password assigned to your school.

• MackinVIA
• BookFLIX
• Freedom FLIX
• Pebble Go
• Pebble Go Next
• Science FLIX
• TrueFLIX

Our team of five consultants serves the 8 regions of Heartland Area Education Agency and designs and delivers the Heart of Innovation Summer Summit and Webinar Series. We are ready to deliver professional learning focused on effective digital learning and technology integration. Please reach out if we can design learning just right for you!

Email: haeatech@heartlandaea.org
Website: https://www.heartlandaea.org/educators/cia/digital-learning/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/heartlandaeainnovativeeducators/