Welcome to Eduspire Insights, our 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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A Year of Giving Back: Enter the June Educator Giveaway
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You may have heard by now that Eduspire is giving back to educators all year long with a new tech giveaway every month! It's just our way of saying thanks.
This month's teacher giveaway is an Apple iPad mini!
Click below for your chance to win, and stay tuned for the announcement of the May winner and future prizes!
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School's (Almost) Out for the Summer — But Our Courses Aren't!
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Hang in there, you're in the home stretch! And although you're probably exhausted, ready for vacation, and definitely
not
thinking ahead to September, we just want you to know we're always here for you whenever you need some PD refreshers. With our broad selection of summer
and
fall courses open for registration, we're sure there's something that'll spark your excitement about teaching again. And we thought we'd share some cute end-of-year memes with you, just for fun.
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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. This course fosters the development and refinement of these skills with practical and relevant activities for discovery and evaluation of digital resources.
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This course will research, define, and teach educators how to increase their students’ success by building vocabulary and understanding of critical words and concepts across content areas. Participants will explore, practice, monitor and modify technology and tools to support students in building their vocabulary and comprehension skills in a variety of content areas.
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This intensive course (for educators who have taken our Level 1 course or who are familiar with the use of iPads in the classroom) is designed for classroom educators to explore, and practice with, the Apple iPad and how the integration of this device into their practice impacts their teaching, student learning, and classroom dynamics. The course focuses on the SAMR Model for building technology focused lessons and the concept of increasingly the effectiveness of learning through app-smashing.
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Instructional Technology Leadership in the Classroom will enhance the learner’s understanding of supporting educators effectively through developing and implementing a Leadership Plan. Learners will explore relevant frameworks, strategies, tools, and resources used to advance their leadership efforts.
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Congratulations, MET Grads!
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Wilson College held its 149th annual commencement ceremony on May 19th. Congratulations to the 27 graduates of the
Master of Educational Technology
degree program (in partnership with Eduspire) who received their degree!
Click here
to read the news story on Wilson's website.
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Countdown to ISTE - 22 Days!
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With the largest national EdTech conference only a little over 3 weeks away, there's plenty to look forward to. Eduspire is attending and, in February, we gave away a conference pass to the lucky winner of our monthly "Giving Back" contest. We look forward to seeing some familiar faces. We also asked our Twitter followers what they are most looking forward to at #
ISTE19,
out of a small selection of available topics, and the answers were evenly split between "Coding Demystified" and "GameStorm EDU." Coincidentally, we have EdTech courses about
coding
and
gamification
!
We're also giving away an iPad mini at ISTE, so be sure to stop by our booth for your chance to win!
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Congratulations to the 2019 KTI STARs!
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Becoming a STAR is something to be proud of! Each participant has been nominated by their principal as a teacher who effectively uses technology in the classroom.
Eduspire is proud to again reward innovation by sponsoring the Keystone Technology Innovator program in partnership with PAECT in 2019, providing room and board at the
Keystone Technology Integrator Conference
held at Shippensburg University during the week of July 22 through July 26, where course takers will participate in the week-long Summit by attending a variety of sessions led by instructional technology experts.
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Whether you'd like to bring a course to your district, learn about becoming an instructor, or make a suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!
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