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Welcome to Eduspire Insights, our new bi-weekly 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 Solutions Introduces New Products for Student-Centered Scheduling and Activity Period Administration
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VoiceChoicer
is an innovative cloud-based application which allows groups of teachers to offer multiple activity choices and let students rank their choices. Through an easy-to-use interface and activity sorting system, students vote for their favorite options and are assigned to activities based on their choices. Instead of using the often unfair “first-come, first-served” basis to sort students, VoiceChoicer helps teachers balance all selections in order to place students in their first choice activity as often as possible, maintaining fairness and promoting balance throughout the school year. New webpage coming soon — contact us for more information, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn to stay informed!
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SCHedOOL is a uniquely student-centric scheduling system which facilitates customization and flexibility for both students and teachers. This innovative, cloud-based application allows flexible scheduling between a small team of teachers and their students. Teachers can offer sessions that are different from day to day, free of any bell schedule, without constraints of start time, end time, or length of period. SCHedOOL gives students choice in scheduling sessions, but also allows teachers to override as needed. Full transparency, overview, and accountability is provided so that teachers and admins have full visibility into student activities. Both students and teachers are sure to enjoy the enhanced communication, ease of scheduling, and choice of activities tied to learning goals. New webpage coming soon — contact us for more information, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn to stay informed!
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Instructor Spotlight: Robin Seneta
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Eduspire Instructor, Robin Seneta
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Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Robin Seneta
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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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Printable PDF Download for Classroom Inspiration
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If you follow Eduspire on social media, you've probably seen our education quote graphics. They've been pretty popular, so we thought we'd make a few of them available as printable PDF downloads. Simply click the image to the right or the button below to download a PDF version of the graphic that you can print for your classroom, and don't forget to follow us on Twitter to see more!
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Three Ways to Expand Your PLN This Summer
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For teachers on Twitter, Jen has listed several educator influencers and organizations to follow, so that you can build your network.
She also lists popular education blogs in case you're looking for some summer reading of your own. Bookmark each site in your web browser so they're easy to find when you catch a few spare minutes.
Podcasts are another great time-saving option for keeping up with education topics throughout the summer, and this article includes links to five different ones. The blog also provides ways to stay connected with EdTech Teacher, including workshops, webinars, and eBooks. Original post appeared on Daily Genius.
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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 just 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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