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Issue 11: August 20, 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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In Case You Missed It:
New University Partnership with Wilson College Beginning this Fall!
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Eduspire is pleased to announce its new partnership with Wilson College, a Pennsylvania-based university located in Chambersburg, PA. Wilson College offers undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree programs, including a Masters in Education degree.
Beginning this fall, Wilson College will offer Eduspire courses as graduate-level courses. Registration will continue through Eduspire and is now open for many online fall courses. Note that Wilson courses have new course numbers and often new, shorter names, but the content is largely similar to prior courses.
If you aren't sure if you've already taken a course, feel free to use the contact form to check with us.
To view the full announcement that was sent on 7/26 which includes fall course information, click here.
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Instructor Spotlight: Jenny Krzystowczyk
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Eduspire Instructor,
Jenny Krzystowczyk
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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 Jenny Krzystowczyk
—
click here
to read her instructor spotlight profile and learn her favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Eduspire's Flagship "iPads in Education" course now available 100% online!
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In addition to locally scheduled face-to-face courses, our popular iPads in Education course is now more accessible because it can also be taken 100% online! There is still a face-to-face component to the online courses through a series of mandatory, scheduled video conferences, so you'll still feel connected. Anyone who isn't local to the face-to-face courses can take the online courses at different times, and the graduate-level Wilson college version of the course still includes an iPad!
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Online:
Face-to-face offerings also available; see course page for details
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Our Popular "Chromebooks in Education" course is also now available 100% online!
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In addition to locally scheduled face-to-face courses, our practical Chromebooks in Education course is now more accessible because it can also be taken 100% online! There is still a face-to-face component to the online courses through a series of mandatory, scheduled video conferences, so you'll still feel connected. Anyone who isn't local to the face-to-face courses can take the online courses at different times, and the graduate-level Wilson college version of the course still includes a Chromebook!
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Online:
Face-to-face offerings also available; see course page for details
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Have You Participated in the #eduFollowChallenge? Eduspire Instructors are Named!
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Keith O'Neal,
Instructional Designer at Lipscomb University (follow him on Twitter @iTeachLipscomb), started this "50 states in 50 days" #eduFollowChallenge, as a fun way to connect educators before the upcoming school year and help build PLNs nationwide. It's definitely been a social media frenzy, and you can read about why he decided to start it in his LinkedIn article here.
Among the
100 Pennsylvania educators
named as follow-worthy, we're proud to recognize a few Eduspire instructors who made the list: Robin Seneta (@rseneta), Dianne Krause (@diannekrause), Brooke Mulartrick (@brookem1015), Traci Landry (@tlandrydtsd), Brandon Lutz (@blutz01), Jim Gates (@jgates513), and Jenny Krzystowczyk, featured above, who was named on the Tennessee list (@jennyktechin). Nice job, everyone!
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Eduspire Solutions Product Marketing Materials Available: See Them Here First!
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Our software division, Eduspire Solutions, develops applications for schools in need of streamlined processes, from scheduling, to activity period management, to hall pass administration, and more. Some of the marketing materials are available for these products, and you can see a special preview of them here first — before they're even on our website! In case you'd like to know more about our products (and pass the info on), click any of the red links for a PDF download. These (and other) documents will be available on the Eduspire Solutions website in the very near future.
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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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