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Issue 20: January 28, 2017
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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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Eduspire is a Platinum Sponsor at PETE&C February 12-15 in Hershey
We are pleased to again sponsor the PETE&C convention in Hershey this year. If you are attending, please stop by our double booth outside the entrance to the exhibit hall to learn more about our partnership with Wilson College and the Master of Educational Technology (M.E.T.) degree, as well as what's new with Eduspire Solutions, our software division. There are plenty of great speakers and presentations that you won't want to miss! Visit peteandc.org for program and scheduled information.
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Final Days: Keystone STAR Nominations Being Accepted Until Tuesday, 1/31
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There's still time 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,
Alicen Hoy
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Instructor Spotlight: Alicen Hoy
Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Alicen Hoy
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click here
to read her instructor spotlight profile and learn her favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
Alicen teaches the Eduspire course, Chromebooks in Education, available online and face-to-face several times from now until April.
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From Around the Web: "We Don't Need to Teach Our Kids to Code, We Need to Teach Them How to Dream"
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Goodwin talks about taking an inside-outward approach to shaping kids' futures in a changing world.
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"It’s staggering to me as to how much the world has changed, and how little education has," Goodwin says.
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Excellent Courses Approaching Registration Deadlines — There's Still Time to Reserve Your Spot!
We're always adding to our diverse offerings to bring you the best in relevant tech integration training, whether through online courses, offerings that are face-to-face in your local community, or through a cohort. Please be sure to check the course listing page regularly if graduate-level educator training is part of your New Year's resolution for 2017 (most courses also available as part of the new Wilson College Master of Educational Technology (M.E.T.) degree program).
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Eduspire Solutions Introduces "Auto Pass"
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Eduspire Solutions, our software division, is constantly innovating and improving its school technology products. The most recent upgrade to e-hallpass, a digital hall pass application, is "Auto Pass" — a feature which provides teachers with hands-free classroom management. Students initiate and activate their own passes, minimizing interruptions, and teachers can enable or disable the feature at any time! Read our blog post to learn more and see a video.
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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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for the love of ed-tech.
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