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Issue 21: February 11, 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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Check Out These Exciting New Courses!
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Online: March 27 — April 30
Register by March 17
Instructor: Brenda Boyer
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Online: March 27 — May 7
Register by March 17
Instructor: Matthew Heckmann
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Understanding how to manage digital information is a requisite skill for educators of all kinds. Recognizing information needs, locating and evaluating appropriate resources and using digital resources ethically and effectively ensures that teachers can, in turn, nurture these critical skills in their learners.
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This course will focus on effective formative assessment pedagogy, and the integration of appropriate instructional technology tools to facilitate successful formative assessment in the classroom. The knowledge gained from this course will allow each participant to be an instructional leader in his or her school district.
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Eduspire Instructor,
Mara Linaberger
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Instructor Spotlight: Mara Linaberger
Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Mara Linaberger
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click here
to read her instructor spotlight profile and learn her favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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What is Personalized Learning?
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"For all the technological progress, though, implementation remains a major challenge. Schools and educators across the country continue to wrestle with the changing role of teachers, how to balance flexible and “personalized” models..."
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8 Ways to Be a Good Digital Citizen
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Eduspire Solutions, our software division, recently networked with GoGuardian to co-host some ed-tech content. GoGuardian's Kayla Hammons shares 4 major dos and don'ts of digital citizenship for teachers and for students in her guest post which appears on the Eduspire Solutions blog. Read the post to see if these are recommendations that you and your students are currently following.
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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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