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Issue 15: October 22, 2016
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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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This Week's News
Keep reading to learn what's new with Eduspire
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From the Eduspire Blog: Student Assessment That Modern Learners Deserve
From using a variety of tech tools to complete projects, to making social media a part of the classroom, modern students are changing the shape of classroom learning and the way teachers evaluate it. Eduspire instructor Jenny K. (who is teaching the upcoming courses Social Media for Educators and Multimedia Classrooms, shown below), delves into these topics inside this blog post.
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Learn How Social Media Supports Education Professionals, or Cultivate Multimedia Proficiency
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Social Media for Educators: Explore the use of social media as an educational tool to enhance the learning environment and to create connected learning communities. This course provides administrators, teachers, and other education professionals the competencies to connect, collaborate and create a personal learning network. Participants will leverage the power of social media to build a connected community which enhances the learning environment for themselves and for their students. Register here by 10/27 to reserve your spot!
Multimedia Classrooms: Learn best practices in efficiently creating and manipulating audio, video and image content for the classroom. Investigate and evaluate options that provide cutting-edge technical and educational solutions to educators, empowering them and their students to develop authentic, engaging, and relevant digital learning. Register here by 10/27 to reserve your spot!
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Online: November 6 — December 3
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Online: November 6 — December 3
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Eduspire Instructor,
Wes Ward
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Instructor Spotlight: Wes Ward
Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Wes Ward
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click here
to read his instructor spotlight profile and learn his favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Online: November 13 — December 10
Instructors: Wes Ward & Kevin McGuire
Please register by November 3
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Explore Strategies for Teaching Writing Across ALL Content Areas in Grades 4-12
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This course is for any teacher of grades 4-12 who wishes to incorporate more writing into their classroom, regardless of subject area or grade level. While refining their own writing skills using the standard writing process model, participants will incorporate various technology tools that support the steps of the writing process. Instructional focus will be on modeling researched teaching of writing techniques, writing and the Common Core, and assessing student writing.
This course is being team-taught by a librarian and a high school English teacher, both of whom are prolific, passionate writers.
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Eduspire Instructor, Dr. Chris Mangan, Named in Top 100 Educators Leading Flipped Learning Worldwide!
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The Flipped Learning Global Initiative Top 100 List
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Dr. Chris Mangan, instructor of Eduspire's advanced follow-up course The Flipped Classroom II (upcoming, 11/13) has been named one of FLGI's top 100 educators leading flipped learning worldwide! FLGI
coordinates, orchestrates and scales the key elements required to successfully expand flipped learning around the globe.
Dr. Mangan has also been recognized by the PA Hybrid Learning Institute for sharing his philosophies on implementing Mastery-Based Classrooms. Great job, Chris!
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In Case You Missed It: New University Partnership with Wilson College Begins this Fall!
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Eduspire is pleased to announce its new partnership with Wilson College, a Pennsylvania-based university located in Chambersburg, PA. Wilson College offers undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree programs, including a Masters in Education degree.
Beginning this fall, Wilson College is offering Eduspire courses as graduate-level courses. Registration will continue through Eduspire and is now open for many online fall courses. Note that Wilson courses have new course numbers and often new, shorter names, but the content is largely similar to prior courses.
If you aren't sure if you've already taken a course, feel free to use the contact form to check with us.
To view the full announcement that was sent on 7/26 which includes fall course information, click here.
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Eduspire is 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.
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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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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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Keep your friends informed!
Share this link with any colleagues not already subscribed to our newsletter or course emails,
for the love of ed-tech.
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