The MACUL Conference, Michigan's premier educational technology event, will be held March 7-9 at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, MI. Over 5,000 educators attend this conference annually and another year of record-level attendance is anticipated!

REMC1 recognizes the value of this conference and would like to assist our local schools in participating by providing the following accommodations:

Free Conference Registration & Bus Transportation to the conference for one person from your school district (Copper Country and Gogebic-Ontonagon ISD Schools only) Sign up here.

Discounted registration fee and bus fare for additional teachers to attend the conference from your district (We plan to reserve a charter bus again and subsidize the cost. We also coordinated with MACUL to receive a discount on registration through group pricing. Both of these items are dependent on reaching a minimum of 20 people from our region, though) Sign up here.

In order to receive the one complimentary registration and the discounted rates for additional teachers, REMC1 will need to register you with MACUL (DO NOT REGISTER ON MACUL's WEBSITE). Instead, please see our MACUL Registration & Bus Form. However, you will still need to book your hotel accommodation on your own and please visit MACUL's Conference Hotel Web page for reservations.

We are recommending the Holiday Inn and please reserve your hotel as soon as possible.
Additional information on the conference can be viewed at https://maculconference.org/ and questions can be directed to Steve Kass at steve@remc1.org

The latest release of PowerSchool (11.1) will feature “Unlimited Contacts”. This will completely change the way that contacts (parents and emergency contacts) are handled by PowerSchool. Instead of being limited to mother, father, emergency 1, emergency 2, emergency 3, there is now a choice of over ten types of contacts (including “Other”). Each student can have an unlimited amount of contacts; each contact can have an unlimited amount of e-mail addresses and phone numbers. This will also track when certain contacts are associated with the students (start date, end date).

Here are the features:

 Search for Contacts
 Add/Edit/Delete Contact
 Add/Edit/Delete Phone, Addresses, and Email
 Web Access Account Integration
 Backward compatibility with core original contacts. (Mother, Father, Guardian, Emergency Contact 1-3 and all existing Access Accounts).
 Student Contacts page.
 Edit Relationship details
 Consolidate Contacts (To see feature: Click "Select by hand" from the Contact Search Results.)
 Import New Contacts in Data Import Manager (Import template will be posted soon.)
 View contact data on custom reports via new *Contact_Info Data Access Tag (Documentation will be posted soon.)
 New: Ability to Change Original Contact Type from Relationship Details
 New: Recovery Email for use with Web Access Accounts
 New: Guardian email integrated with contact emails
 New: Student Column displays on Contact search results
 New: More Countries seeded into the Country code set

There is currently a lab where you can log in and test-drive this new feature.

Jason Springel has mentioned unlimited contacts in an insider episode. Log in to PowerSource, click on the labs tab, and click the "unlimited contacts" link. Starts at 5:40.

EduPaths is a free resource from TRIG created to centralize PD around the state. Find resources and get FREE SCECH hours!

Current REMC Connect (REMC Association of Michigan Newsletter)

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MeL is a great place for Michigan Teachers to find classroom resources. They have just recently launched MeL Teachers which offers eight centers that will help with site navigation and make important information easier to access.