The New Empower 2.0

If you haven't seen it already, Empower's (formerly Educate) site has had an overhaul on its layout and design.  Very new; and very different.  However, much more user friendly and much simpler to navigate through.  It's designed to allow the user to have most everything they need without having to look to hard for it.  I think the one feature that many will appreciate is you have immediate view and access to your classes and class data right on the homepage when you login to your account.

Before, the homepage was the messaging service (which, you can still access in the top right-hand menu) and you had to look around for you class data.

I have embedded below a string of tweets I posted yesterday during workshop loaded full of helpful tips and demos of the new Empower site design.  Be sure to peruse through these posts to help you learn how to navigate and use Empower.

You can access our SAD1 Empower Site by going to:

sad1.educatek12.com

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Two Proficiancy-Based Learning Hashtags

Here are two popular Twitter hashtags that are associated with Proficiency-based Learning.  If you are not familiar with what Twitter hashtags are, they are specific search quarries that are used within tweeted messages and using the "#" symbol to make it a hyperlink.  Hashtags in general are a great way to find common tweets and content.

Proficiency-Based Learning
There are two hashtags that I have found that will deliver to you a lot of great content when trying to learn and incorporate proficiency-based learning.

#SCLChat (student-centered learning)
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Tweets about "#SCLChat"


#competencyed (competency-based)
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Tweets about "#competencyed"