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As part of its longstanding crime prevention and public outreach efforts, the FBI has a free web-based initiative designed to help teachers educate learners about cyber 
Marsha Johanning
Marcelo Leal
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FAST - Fusing Art, Science, and Technology 
Observe: When you are trying to come up with a new project or idea, study how others do something similar and the problems they might be having.
Russ Knopp
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Roxanne has been a member of My eCoach since 2004 and continues to use My eCoach for many of her projects, surveys, blogs, and websites. ... 
Smartphones and mobile devices are changing the business world. Instead of IT departments being able to force a particular set of mobile solutions on the workforce, employees now expect to be able to use the smartphones — and increasingly, iPads or other mobile devices — they bought for personal use.
Eyes on the Solar System
Don't miss any of the 325 presentations starting this Monday as part of the 
Using Google Docs
The Wild Classroom
The world is shaking and the wind is blowing all over the place. We found some lessons and activities that you can use in your classroom. 
A playshop July 18-22, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii for teachers excited about project-based learning (PBL). There are a few spots left where you can join K-12 teachers who will collaborate by topic to create a video and then group by content area or grade level to transform lessons to inquiry-based PBL. A big plus is that the playshop is in Hawaii on the beautiful campus of Mid-Pacific Institute then play even more later on the beach.
Instructional Development Timeline
Amazing Space
Madison Middle School in Oakland Unified School District, CA with the leadership of Dr. Lucinda Taylor put on a successful Expo the evening of June 7th. Everyone in the school community was involved including the district Instructional Technology Team. You could feel the excitement everywhere. Students, parents, teachers, and community members attended in the biggest event ever. Parents shared how much they enjoyed seeing the types of projects their children were doing: CSI Oakland, BizWorld, Dream Houses, Glogs showing Algebra 1 Problems. and a Film Festival. 
Measuring your Online Community
Click on "More search tools" and then click "Reading Level."
After you click on Reading Level you will see at ... 
Transcontinental Railroads 
Ms. Elphick's 6th grade
The My eCoach team and the Oakland USD Instructional Technology team are working together to support Madison Middle School teachers. Language Arts and History teachers and students are preparing for their exposition Thursday, January 27. Students worked collaboratively and used their netbooks to research and design their posters and presentations. Two of the project-based activities include 8th grade students creating songs and skits about the 
On the Team Manager, the eCoach has access to loads of tools. Now there's a link to Export Roster right above the roster to the left of Send Message to Team.
Webinars
are a convenient way to participate and gain professional development
without the hassle of flights and travel details. Here are a handful of
upcoming FREE webinars for educators:
Flat Stanley Meets our Community
You get a pop-up with your eCoach(es). Choose one and send request for help. All communication between you and your eCoach is private and confidential. Only you and your eCoaches can see your comments and the eCoach replies. 
When you receive a comment, you get a message in My eCoach and an email notification if you set that up in your settings. You can also see a comment icon next ... 
The 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium
The
United States wastes approximately 749 pounds of paper a year... per
person. That would be one tree per person... if all trees were 18
inches around and 100 feet tall. 
ILPs were created to put in one goal with
where you are currently and where you want to be by a specific time. You
can add 5 steps and concerns. To know if you are doing this right, you
can request for feedback ... 
Then ... 
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ow when you are on any team in My eCoach, you have your own personal notes tab to store files, reflect, keep notes about work on the team, and whatever else you might need while you are on that team. 
or
to My Community on the left navigation to Forums where your team forums
will be at the bottom. You can see the number of posts and last date of
any posts.
Click
on the forum and you can see if you are following that topic or ... 
Congratulations to Cathy Keck, Technology Integration Specialist at the Academy of Notre Dame, in Pennsylvania for winning our Leadership Scholarship! Her school is a private, college-prep, all-girls academy for grades 6-12 in the suburbs of Villanova, PA. Cathy teaches grades 6-9 and help the faculty integrate technology into their
curriculum and hold technology wokshops for faculty development.
-to videos that you just have to check out. 
We are gearing up our focus on authentic assessment strategies with ePortfolios. We are in the process of building a team with steps for you to create ePortfolios based on your individual learning plans. Our dream is that you and your students have ongoing support and access to the tools you need to demonstrate evidence of learning and reflect on your progress in meeting your learning goals.
We added a new free team for My eCoach members who are teachers of English Language Learners (ELL). This team is where they can
ask questions, find resources and research, connect with other ELL
teachers, and share tips and best practices that will help make their job more effective. Some of the members of this team who teach English as a Second Language live in other countries: Ecuador, China, and Korea. ELL/ESL/ELD teachers want to connect and share especially those that work remotely. Discussion topics include: 
Click on Settings and select either Home (default), your Profile, or one of your teams. Then click Save.
Logout and login again to see your new landing page.
The way we used to have it is clicking on the up or down arrows to move items one at a time.
Barbara Bray November 23, 2009 -- 01:08 PM
My ... 
Ronarae Adams October 20, 2009 -- 08:44 PM
Have you made fun or interesting projects using the Universal Builder in My eCoach? If so, submit it and win!!!! We’re looking to add YOUR great projects to our 
write grants to incorporate eCoaching and Class Teams into your school? 
Are
you interested in streamlining your team's communication and
collaboration skills but are not sure how? Are you an individual who wants to be on a team but are not familiar with the tools? Schedule a demo today where
we will walk you through team pages using our unique team tools. 
We recently added a new feature for My eCoach blogs: Follow. You can
now follow someone's My eCoach blog or other members can follow your
blog. The FOLLOW icon is in the sidebar of your public and team blogs
and to the right of Add New Post for Community blogs.
Teams will soon be able to co-author, share, communicate and collaborate with other teams in a new feature in My eCoach: 
Sara Zimmerman August 31, 2009 -- 03:40 PM
The National Professional Development Grant was developed through San
Francisco State University (SFSU) aimed towards professional
development and implementation of instruction for English Language
Learners. My eCoach will be the web-based component to help implement
this program so curriculum, program information, and communication can
be done virtually. SFSU faculty and students will be working with
teachers from San Francisco USD, Palo Alto USD, Santa Clara COE,
University of San Francisco, University of Santa Clara, and San Jose
State University. My eCoach members will soon be seeing ... 
Over 200 teachers, (including many K-12 science teachers), will soon be
part of the newly-formed Accomplished Teaching and Collaborative
Leadership Community, a team within My eCoach for National Board
Certified Candidates and Support Providers. National
University created this online learning community so candidates will
have the tools, resources,
people and support materials available to them, anywhere at
anytime. If you are interested in registering with National University
to join this team, contact Ronarae Adams at 
Teachers can now set up Class Teams as an eTeacher for up to 40 students per team for the calendar school year right in My eCoach. This gives their students access to all of the features in My eCoach. Students can create team blogs where they can share links and resources, participate in confidential threaded discussions, create, co-author, and publish websites, presentations, and surveys, and use a secure messaging system.
My eCoach and HyperStudio of Software MacKiev, will announce their
partnership at the June 2009 National Educational Computing Conference
(NECC) in Washington D.C. Created by Roger Wagner, The My eCoach -
HyperStudio partnership provides an exciting way to extend classroom
learning by creating, sharing, collaborating, and publishing
interactive projects created with HyperStudio 5 to the Internet using a
safe and supportive online learning community. Certificate eCoaches
will be providing training on HyperStudio and manage an online
community for HyperStudio users.
Russ Knopp June 15, 2009 -- 09:45 PM
wn community or the entire My eCoach community. On the top of the right sidebar, there is a link to Search for Members.
Lots of exciting things are happening with My eCoach. One is our new look. After 12 years with the same logo, we thought it was time to change to represent people helping each other and coaching. 
Create or save a Flash file to your desktop. 
Did you notice that there is a new tab on the left navigation bar? Now you can quickly access the message center inbox and even see how many new messages are waiting for you. When you have any messages waiting, you willl still see the flashing envelope above your profile on the upper right.
Congratulations to Barbara Bray for winning the prestigious Platinum Disk Award at the Computer Users Educators (CUE) Conference in March 09. Barbara won this award for her contributions to the educational technology community. Mike Lawrence, Executive Director of CUE, is congratulating her as Bonnie Marks, CTAP IV Director, takes her picture.
San Diego County Office of Education’s Leadership Services continues to provide AB 430 training for California principals. Melissa Hunt, Director, with the support of eCoaches Cynthia Sistek-Chandler and Ward Smith, set up one leadership team for over 400 principals who have participated in the training. 
The left navigation has been changed and streamlined. My Community is where you can find Certificated eCoaches and other community resources. This is where you can find events, conversations, your teams if you are on any teams. The Message Center is the glue that connects all the features and people in eCoach. 
My Locker is where all of your work is stored. We moved My Locker next because some eCoach members were going to My Toolkit that used to be in this area to start new blogs instead of adding posts to the blog they started. We encourage everyone to check their work first ... 
We set up a new program for eCoaches who wanted to market themselves, their programs, and any services they provide. You can check out 
The 
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.
Charles Cummins June 25, 2008 -- 10:10 AM
of resources already available to maximize our time, energy, and creativity.
Click Bulletins on the left and go to View All Posts to create a new bulletin to be approved and posted. 
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 
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 ... 
Laura Smith November 26, 2007 -- 07:55 PM
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. 
We decided to try a different format for our booth at NECC in Atlanta this year. We wanted to sit with each person and give a personal tour. This seemed to work much better. At least we think it was better than doing stand up and deliver presentations. 
County Schools (Nancy Kuznicki, Phyllis Hand, and Susan Brown) along with Barbara and Ken shared the ... 
Sarah Zykanov March 26, 2007 -- 10:55 AM
So glad I wasn’t the only one singing. Don’t have much of a voice even if I look like Bette.
Donna Taylor December 26, 2006 -- 08:52 PM
you’d be interested in "What do you mean Civil Rights is More than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks?" Jeff finds grants, contests, and giveaways for his classroom. He has won CTAP grants, CUE grants, presented at the Palm Springs CUE Conference with 5 of his students, goes to 
ince becoming a ... 
Hills School District in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a one-to-one laptop initiative with tablet PCs supported by a coaching and mentoring program for nine schools: 6 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high schools. Twelve teachers and media specialists signed up as eCoaches and attended several workshops including a three day training end of August and September by Barbara. Cary Harrod as the League eCoach will provide support for each of ... 
the principal certification program. eCoach Cynthia Sistek-Chandler led Team A along with the support of Ward Smith as the "trailblazing team" for the NEW AB75 (now AB430) curriculum. Sheri Barker, Director of Leadership Services, provided direction while Cynthia adapted a comprehensive curriculum folded into a very full three days. All AB75/430 participants are required to complete all seat 
time (24 hours) and practicum hours (16-20 hours), totaling 40 hours for Module 3. 
league in the eCoach community: The Hornets from Chillicothe RII Schools in Chillicothe, Missouri. Anne Jeschke, participated last year with eMINTS and again this year with the Veterans eMINTS teachers. Anne won our raffle at NECC in San Diego - YEAH!! This gave Anne eCoach training at our site in California for two eCoaches and to set up 3 teams for a total ... 
James August 18, 2006 -- 10:22 AM
, Florida. We are working with up to 38 e-Mentors as they develop technology integrated, project-based curriculum with 109 teachers and administrators. 
There are multiple ways to meet your learning goals. Most professional development involves workshops and coaching. Setting up a workshop takes lots of planning, at least three hours for every hour of a workshop. Workshops ... 
Choose the access ...