My eCoach is pleased to announce that the Center for Interactive
Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is a new partner. Established in
1994, CILC specializes in videoconferencing and collaboration
technologies to deliver all types of programs to K-12 students and
educators. As CILC continues to build their cadre of professional
development content providers, their subject matter experts will
utilize My eCoach to create online learnng communities to continue
dialogue and provide ongoing professional support and coaching. Go to http://www.cilc.org to find out more about CILC.
The East Bay BTSA (Beginning Teacher Support) Alameda BTSA program is designed for new teachers to be successful with their teaching practice with the guidance of their Support Providers. The Program Coordinators, Theresa Anderberg, Shirley Clem, and Teri Olsen with support from Diana Kenney, District Technology Instructional Specialist, designed an online learning environment in My eCoach that included communication, coaching, resources, project builders, induction standard 16, and a digital drop box. They set up one team for Support Providers with the Program Coordinators as eCoaches as the ... more...
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Last Comment By Laura Smith November 26, 2007 -- 07:55 PM
The Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch (AEB) has set up an eCoach program and communities for each elementary and secondary arts discipline: Theatre, Dance, Music, and Visual Arts. The AEB staff are the League eCoaches who were trained this June as part of the AEB staff team: Karen Coates, Robin Lithgow, Steven McCarthy (Theatre), Shana Habel (Dance), Luiz Sampaio (Visual Arts), Steve Venz (Music), Chris Gilman and Dain Olsen (Media Arts to be developed).
The Elementary AEB developed Arts Instructional Guides (AIG) for each discipline with modules for each ... more...
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Last Comment By Rachel Feldman July 1, 2010 -- 11:26 AM
Several new updates with the eCoach blogging tool:
New templates
Add categories to posts
Blog posts now appear in recent activities
New Templates Check out the extended list of templates for your public blog.
We adapted the new templates in the Universal builder so you could extend your collaborative projects using a similar template. Just put a link to your blog in the Universal builder.
Add Categories to your Posts Why would you do this? If you have multiple posts and people are having trouble finding a post on a particular topic, they can check your list of categories on the right sidebar.
Now you can see a list of all of your events on your calendar over as many months as you want. Go to My Calendar on the left sidebar. At the top of the calendar you will see a link to List:
Click List and you will see a list of current events.
You can choose the dates (from one date to another) to view your event list. more...
Go
ahead and check out the chat feature now. Some of you were concerned
about the jumping when you were chatting with others. We fixed that
because of your request, so now it is seamless. Just make sure you are
in the right chat room. The room that shows up is the All Community
Chat room and everyone can read what you are writing.
You
will also notice that your messages will stay in the room even after
you leave. We did this because many of you wanted to archive the chat.
So now the messages will last about 2 hours.
Also
one more thing - when people left the chat room, their name and profile
would ... more...
Thought I’d share a Voki welcome by embedding the code here. I’ll share how to do this in a tip. Try moving your cursor around and my eyes will follow it. Kind of eery! Then click play to actually hear my voice welcome you.
We thought you might want to change the look of your website that you create with the Universal builder. So we checked out some pictures from our eLibrary and played around with color schemes to come up with some interesting templates that we hope you will like. We have other ideas floating around in our heads on designs.
Since it’s almost Fall, Barbara took the picture in the banner when she was up at Tahoe and gave to Pearl to make a new Fall template:
To see the new templates, edit one of your Universal builders and go to Customize to Templates and scroll to the bottom rows.
Have you ever wanted to join a book club to discuss a book you just read, are reading, or want to read? Do you want to share ideas about a book that you would like to develop into a curriculum project?
We set up a book club with help from a few of our members and are determining focus. The book club is available to members of the eCoach community who have full access to all features. Here’s our ideas so far:
Use team forum to
discuss focus and direction of book club
submit books to discuss
determine how we will set up the forum
We also plan to use other team tools such as the team page to put up ... more...
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Last Comment By Elizabeth Oviedo August 14, 2007 -- 06:00 AM
Are you looking to create an online course, facilitate an existing course, or develop and sustain an online community? Ever have a problem keeping participants motivated or staying in your community? How about encouraging online participants to share and collaborate?
We developed this five week course to give you the skills, tips, and resources you need to become an effective online facilitator and to provide an online community for facilitators.
First Session begins August 1st and goes to September 4th, 2007 (30 hours). Course Content includes: