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Issue 17: December 3, 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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Application and enrollment are available for the new Wilson College Master of Educational Technology degree program!
Eduspire and Wilson College are pleased to present a new Wilson College Master of Educational Technology (MET) degree program, primarily consisting of courses offered through Eduspire. The innovative MET degree is one of the most flexible and customizable programs in the nation, allowing enrolled participants to customize the program based on personal and/or school district priorities. Each MET enrollee will work with an advisor who will provide guidance and advice regarding course selection. In case you missed the announcement email, click here to view it or visit eduspire.org/met for more information!
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Spring Courses Open for Registration!
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The spring semester starts January 4th, and there are dozens of online and face-to-face courses to choose from (most of which are also available as part of the MET degree program through Wilson College).
To browse available courses, click here, and check back often because new course offerings are continually added!
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Eduspire Instructor,
Lisa Sands
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Instructor Spotlight: Lisa Sands
Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Lisa Sands
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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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"iPads in Education" available online 1/4 — Let Your Colleagues Know!
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The well-known "iPads in Education" course, which includes an iPad, kicks off the spring semester and 2017 as a fully online course and with the ability to be taken as part of the Wilson College Master of Educational Technology (MET) degree program.
If you're interested, be sure to register by 12/20 because the course is filling up quickly! If you've already taken this course, please spread the word to others who may be interested. Other offerings available, see course page for a complete list of dates and face-to-face locations.
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*Limited Space!*
Online: January 4 — January 29
Be sure to register by 12/20
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Happy Holidays from Eduspire
We hope you are able to take a step back from the busy-ness of teaching and the buzz of technology to spend some time with your loved ones in quiet reflection on the meaning of the season.
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Eduspire has reached 1,000+ followers on Twitter!
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We appreciate our entire network and ed-tech community for engaging with our content and exploring our news and offerings. We remain committed to keeping our finger on the pulse of innovation in education, and we look forward to continually sharing and promoting the work of our great team of instructors, colleagues, ed-tech influencers, innovators, and friends.
If you're not already connected with us, we'd love to keep in touch on social media. And if you think your friends would be interested in what we share, we'd love for you to invite them to connect with us, too.
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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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