Ambassador Update for EduPaths
Weekly Update - 3/21-3/25
Website Updates
Dear Ambassadors and Advisory members,
Well, it's ALMOST spring!!
There are no significant website updates, but we registered 90-100 new users to EduPaths during the MRA conference last weekend AND added 7 new courses to the site. The titles:
- Introduction to Vocabulary - Curriculum Pathway
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Introduction to Phonemic Awareness - Curriculum Pathway
Organize with Slack and Trello - Technology Pathway
M-STEP Math Assessment Practice - Assessment Pathway
MAC Common Assessment Series - Assessment Pathway
MAC Website Overview - Assessment Pathway
Microsoft: Getting Started with Microsoft’s Educator Training - Technology Pathway
Below, a few snapshots of our happy visitors at the MRA booth!
T-Shirts for interest in Creating Content in EduPaths
MRA Booth
Swag Bags for registering in EduPaths at booth
Last weekend was MRA at Cobo, and this week has been crazy-busy finalizing courses, getting them published, working with vendors on content they are contributing, and developing our own! We are excited to see the number of users increase each week - 1,417 registered EduPaths users (up from 1,219 last week) and 28 new Twitter followers. Other things we are working on:
Thank you for all you do to support and promote EduPaths! We enjoy our partnership with you!!
- Working on Summer PD plans - We have identified statewide sites to work with educators who are interested in creating content for EduPaths (will forward promo materials when we have finalized our sites)
- FYI - At MRA, 57 principals and teachers signed up to create content for EduPaths this summer - they will be the first group (after you) to receive the promo materials
- Identifying statewide conferences to host booths
- Our Twitter Chat went well this week, Tuesday @ 8:30 pm. Starting to gain followers and participants from MI and around the country
- A lot of Twitter chatter during MRA
- Another Twitter Chat is scheduled for Wednesday, March 29 @ 8:30 pm - Developing and Planning for Cross-Curricular Classrooms at #EduPaths. Join us!
Resources for Ambassadors
- The G-Presentation is available for showcasing EduPaths.
- The updated list is courses for SCHECHs
- Our updated list of External link courses/resources
Things we are still working on...
- Still adding curriculum standards to the site - Ken is working on a different way to import standards without manually adding them one by one!
- Still working to add content that was created outside of Canvas...getting closer to breakthroughs in this!
Thank you for all you do to support and promote EduPaths! We enjoy our partnership with you!!
Jake Gentry, Kim Garcia, Molly Bruzewski