Participate and share: Poster 
Participants will leave this session with a firm understanding of how to make a sustainable and impactful newsletter.
Participants will leave this session with the start of a newsletter, including their identified audiences, purposes, features, and publishing dates.
Educational coaches will find sustainable strategies utilizing edtech to create regular digital newsletters with a clearly identified purpose, audience, and goal for continuation.
1. Explore the weekly newsletter I create for Illinois Digital Educators Allicance and the weekly newsletter I previously created for Regional Office of Education 53 in Illinois. (10 min.)
- Identify elements they like
- Identify elements they would change/leave out
2. Identify your audience and purpose (10 min)
- Why and how
- Time to apply the concepts and identify audience and purpose
3. What features are important to include (10 min)
- Possible features, collect ideas
- Time to identify features that would be important to the identified audience and purpose
4. Which platform should you use for newsletter creation? (10 min)
- Examine factors and potential platforms
- Time to identify which platform would be best based on the previously identified audience and purpose
5. It’s all in the details (10 min)
- Name
- Design elements
- Privacy and sharing settings
- Noting interactive links
- Misc.
-Time to identify/brainstorm these elements for the newsletter participants are creating
6. Potential pitfalls (7 min.)
- Time
- Copyright
- Ignoring stakeholder feedback
- Too ornate/complicated
- Time to identify potential pitfalls/roadblocks and potential solutions
7. Questions (3 min)
This is supported through my own ongoing practices, reflection, and feedback collected in several positions.
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