Issue 33: January 2, 2018
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Welcome to Eduspire Insights, our new, semi-regular online publication to keep you informed! Insights features news and announcements, events, interesting new course offerings, updates from our software division (
Eduspire Solutions
), links to our blog posts, instructor highlights, and more!
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Thank You For a Successful 2017!
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Thanks to the thousands of dedicated and innovative educators who took our courses and spread the word to their colleagues, 2017 was a year to remember. There were hundreds of new enrollments into the Wilson College
Master of Educational Technology
degree program, and our sister software company, Eduspire Solutions, grew substantially as well.
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Brand New, Practical and Innovative EdTech Courses
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Are you motivated to reinvigorate your classroom in the new year? Keep your resolution and give your students the cutting-edge instruction they deserve with these new topics:
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This course will immerse educators in a design thinking process. Participants will research and develop a project that engages students in a human-centered, problem solving process, specific to their area of study.
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This course will research and define Adaptive Technology for struggling students and its application to the classroom. It directs participants in correlating adaptive technology tools/apps/extensions for compliance with student plans and integration of standards into curriculum. Provides instruction and practice in creation of projects using adaptive technology tools, apps, and extensions.
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This course examines the use of non-fiction text and student notebooks in the K-12 science classroom. Participants will explore online resources for identifying quality science trade books, learn how to engage students in claims-based writing and speaking in science, and will create science lessons that address ELA Common Core Standards.
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Register for January Courses Now! Deadlines Approaching!
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Registration deadlines
1/4 - 1/5:
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Registration deadlines
1/6 - 1/19:
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Registration Deadlines 1/19:
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Want to stay warm & cozy this winter? Although we're always adding local courses throughout PA, many of our courses are 100% online, which means you can learn from the comfort of your own home this (frigid) winter!
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Instructor Spotlight: Claire Signorello
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Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Claire Signorello —
click here
to read her instructor spotlight profile and learn her favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Eduspire Instructor,
Claire Signorello
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It's one thing for our skilled instructors to develop new and cutting-edge courses, but it's another thing for the content to be well-received and gain traction so that we can continue to offer the course. Here are just some of the recently developed courses that are receiving positive feedback from local educators:
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“This course really provided projects that were meaningful, as well as applicable to my current class that I'm teaching. The final project I thought was a great culmination, but also a great application of what this course was all about.”
— R.P., Fairview School District
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“The course was informative and gave helpful sources for educational technologies. I enjoyed the new use of apps and technologies to use in the classroom and how to consider ‘the rewired brain.’”
— K.K., Perkiomen Valley School District
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Be sure to check out our other new and recently developed courses:
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2017 was a busy year for both Eduspire and its software division, Eduspire Solutions. Between product development and conferences, software upgrades and national expansion, we've got a lot to be thankful for — but more importantly, we've got even bigger goals for 2018. Help us ring in the new year by checking out what our year was all about and subscribing to our newsletter so that we can keep you informed of our goings-on and whereabouts.
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Upcoming EdTech Conferences
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We're Looking for Guest Bloggers!
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We want our blog to be a place you visit for interesting, relevant, current, and informative content. In order to help us better cater to our readers and audience of education professionals, we invite you to submit ideas for blog topics that you'd like to see the Eduspire team write about.
Feel free to submit more than one idea with your response! Topics can range from the latest ed-tech news and developments, to new apps you've begun to use in your classroom, to common experiences faced by educators that you'd like to see your peers weigh in on.
We may write about your suggested topic and highlight it in an upcoming newsletter, so keep an eye on your inbox — and our blog!
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We're Here for You
Whether you'd like to bring a course to your district, learn about becoming an instructor, make a suggestion, or just let us know how we're doing, we'd love to hear from you!
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