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Pinellas eMentor Cross-Age Cross Curriculum Projects
By Barbara Bray June 26, 2008 -- 12:52 PM
Pinellas County Schools received the EETT grant again to expand the cross-age cross curriculum projects they started in 2006. Barbara spent a week with a fantastic group of eMentors from Kings Highway Elementary School and John F. Kennedy Middle School. The focus is on science where there will be six new cross-age projects. The 12 eMentors mapped the curriculum, looked for gaps in the standards and where their students needed more engaging projects. The topics so far include the Changing Earth, Forms of Energy, Habitats and Life Cycles, Force and Motion, Ecology and Ecosystems, and Space. This ... more...

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Announcing New Partnerships
By Barbara Bray June 25, 2008 -- 09:31 PM
My eCoach proudly announces new partnerships with EduTone and We The Teachers. The EduTone Xchange^TM brings easy, convenient access to applications and information with a Single Sign-On Portal for all users, including administrators, teachers, parents and students. The EduTone area of the EduTone Passport will offer a single sign on access to My eCoach for free memberships or be able to join as full lifetime memberships. We The Teachers (WTT) is a social network for teachers with forums, groups, tools, and lesson planning. My eCoach will provide the professional development solution for ... more...

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Add a Calendar to your Project
By Barbara Bray June 25, 2008 -- 08:51 PM
Several eCoach members requested the ability to add different month calendars to their class site. Now you can add a calendar to the text editor. Click the calendar icon on the text editor toolbar. A pop-up window appears where you can choose the month, year, and border color. Then click Insert Calendar. The calendar uses the table feature with the appropriate days of the month you chose. You can change the fonts, add color fill, insert images, links, animation, and much more. more...

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Add a Widget
By Barbara Bray June 25, 2008 -- 06:54 AM
You can share that you are a lifetime member of eCoach or post a widget from eCoach on any blog. Go to My Toolkit to Widgets A widget is a logo or image of a site that your users can click to access that site quickly. We created four different widgets for you: the eCoach logo, I am a Lifetime Member of eCoach, one that goes to our free eLibrary, and a login to eCoach. Choose one of the widgets to put on the sidebar of your blog. If you use another blog outside of eCoach, embed the code from the widget you would like to share with your readers. more...

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New Features in Survey Tool
By Barbara Bray June 19, 2008 -- 06:34 AM
The survey tool works with any program and can be shared with anyone on your team, specific members, and others outside of eCoach. We even have newspapers using eCoach for public only so they are the only ones seeing the results. We have received requests for some new features in the surveys. You now have access to the text editor in the description and each question. What that means is that you can upload images, videos, podcasts, and most types of files. ... more...

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Embed Code - We made it easy!
By Barbara Bray June 6, 2008 -- 09:23 PM
Now you can add Web 2.0 tools like SlideShare or stream videos from Teacher Tube using our new Embed Code box in the Universal Builder. Under Contents either Add a New Page or Edit an existing page and now your will see an Embed Code box. I went to TeacherTube and found a great presentation by Karl Fisch called "Did you Know?" and copied the embed code. After you click Save. The video will appear below the text box. You can use the text box to introduce your embedded file or video. You can still use View Source that is in the lower left corner of your text editor to embed code. The text editor works with blogs, surveys now, message center, and calendar. We found using View Soure was a little difficult for some of our members so now with the embed code box, all you have to do is copy, paste, and save. You also have a similar box to embed code on the sidebar of your blogs and Universal builder. more...

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