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Issue 18: December 17, 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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Wilson College, Eduspire Make Local Headlines
This Public Opinion article out of Chambersburg, PA highlights Wilson's new MET degree program and its partnership with Eduspire. Based on this press release from Wilson College, the article quotes Dr. Eric Michael, Director of Wilson’s Master of Education program, explaining that there is great potential for enrollment in the MET program at Wilson, and that Wilson receives numerous inquiries about an MET degree every semester.
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“School districts across the country have invested heavily in technology,” says Dr. Michael. “People with the MET degree will be sought to move into leadership positions.” Dr. Michael also speaks on the uniqueness of the program due to being able to offer such a wide variety of electives in partnership with Eduspire. Photo Credit: Markell DeLoatch
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Keystone STAR Nominations Now Being Accepted
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The time has come to ask your principal to nominate innovative educators who use technology to advance learning in their classrooms. Eduspire is proud to sponsor the 2017 KTI Summit in partnership with PAECT.
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Eduspire Instructor,
Dr. Aileen Hower
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Instructor Spotlight: Aileen Hower
Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Dr. Aileen Hower
—
click here
to read her instructor spotlight profile and learn her favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Is Meaningful Classroom Tech Integration Part of Your New Year's Resolution?
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Eduspire offers a wide variety of technology-driven courses for teachers across Pennsylvania looking to transform their classrooms. With over 40 graduate-level courses (offered through Wilson College) to choose from, educators of any subject area can find a course that will be directly applicable to their content and style of teaching.
Maybe you're already familiar with our broad range of cross-disciplinary courses focused on tech integration, the use of devices in the classroom, and blended learning methodologies. But did you know that Eduspire also offers many subject-specific courses for teachers of social studies, language arts, math, science, special education, world languages, and more?
Now that our courses are also available as part of the Wilson College Master of Educational Technology (MET) degree program, there's no better time to commit to making 2017 your best ed-tech year ever!
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Many subject-specific courses across multiple grade levels available!
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Happy Holidays
and Happy New Year
from Eduspire
We hope you are able to take a step back
from the busy-ness of teaching and the buzz of technology
to spend some time with your loved ones in quiet reflection
on the meaning of the season.
As always, we're here to support you in 2017 with diverse educational enrichment opportunities.
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Eduspire has reached 1,000+ followers on Twitter!
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We appreciate our entire network and ed-tech community for engaging with our content and exploring our news and offerings. We remain committed to keeping our finger on the pulse of innovation in education, and we look forward to continually sharing and promoting the work of our great team of instructors, colleagues, ed-tech influencers, innovators, and friends.
If you're not already connected with us, we'd love to keep in touch on social media. And if you think your friends would be interested in what we share, we'd love for you to invite them to connect with us, too.
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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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