"My eCoach has so much to offer. There is
always something new to discover and I know I have only begun to skim
the surface of available resources!"
~ Elizabeth Austin
Princpal
San Diego Unified - San Diego, CA
"My eCoach has been the best tool I have
used. My eCoach is a user-friendly, time saving, and a universal website.
My eCoach does it all!"
~Donna Blanton
Teacher
Pinellas Park Elementary - Pinellas Park, FL
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Greetings!
Happy Holidays to all of our members and supporters! Thank you for being in our community and supporting us through the years. We hope that 2009 served you well and that the season brings you happiness and joy. Please read below to learn more about this month's new features, our professional development scholarship, video tours, our free holiday projects, and more. We wish you and yours a fantastic holiday season and a Happy New Year!
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New Features in My eCoach
- Share your blog or your project on Twitter and Facebook: Projects: share by selecting the networking buttons from the sidebar. Blogs: share by selecting networking buttons beneath each post.
- Request eCoach feedback on your ILP:
30-day
Trial Members and team members can now request eCoach feedback on their
Individual Learning Plan.
- Captions for pictures:
Now you can properly cite your images when you insert an image into a project. When you click on the image icon from the text editor, Add A Resource will pop up. Simply enter your citation in the Caption box at the bottom.
- Drag and drop in your blog sidebar:
You can now drag and drop your widgets in your blog sidebar when in your blog's edit mode.
- New standards added:
We recently added some new national standards.
- New team reporting tools:
Team managers can now provide even more focused support to their team
members by using our new team reporting tools. You can see who is using
what tools, how often, and view by each team tool or by each member. 
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Give the Gift of Membership
Great gift for educators at only $35
Looking for an easy gift to give a teacher? How about a gift membership
to My eCoach? It's easy, quick and no worries about wrapping or
shipping. This is a great value for the teacher in your life who wants
to make a website, surveys, quizzes, or more. Click here for your gift of a Lifetime membership to My eCoach.
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Leadership Coaching & PD Scholarship
Free for members to apply: Deadline 12/31/09
Do you have a coaching program where your literacy, math, or technology
coach needs an online community and support to supplement their
face-to-face coaching? We are offering a coaching scholarship to one school or district. Deadline to apply is 12/31/09. more...
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Educational News, Grants and Updates
Noteworthy updates from the educational community
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Did you Know...
that we have a QUIZ Builder?
You can create a quiz, invite a co-author, clone any quizzes you
created, send the link to non-members, embed your quiz in a  blog or
website, and add images, videos, presentations, audio files and more to
your quiz and quiz description. Teachers can also put in correct answers
with a score, view individual results, see at-a-glance class results,
and leave comments for students on different answers. By the way, this
is all free for Lifetime, Trial and Team My eCoach members.
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Featured Holiday Projects
Free Projects with Resources for K-12 Teachers
 Celebrating December Holidays Project: This project was built by eCoach Charlotte McGovern in our Universal Builder and has a great list of holiday resources for teachers and students.- Gingerbread Man Around the World:
This is
a K-2, learner-centered, thematic unit introducing children to the
classic Gingerbread Man theme including stories from around the world. It was created using My eCoaches Universal Builder tool.
- Ma Buche de Noel:
Here
is another fun My eCoach project created to teach children French
through making a Buche de Noel cake for Christmas. Suitable
for all ages. - Holiday Traditions Around the World:
This site contains links to holiday traditions in 56 countries around the world.
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National Educational Technology Plan
Thanks for your votes and comments!
A big THANK YOU to everyone that visited the U.S. Dept. of Education's website! The website surveyed teachers for their recommendations for the best technology tools to be included in the upcoming National Educational
Technology Plan. My eCoach received some genuine and authentic comments
of personal experiences and successes. more...
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Tip: Build an ILP and a Simple Webpage
Monthly Tips and Tricks
- Video Tutorial: Individual Learning Plan:
Here is a short video demonstrating how easy it is to  create an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) that can help you make an action plan towards reaching your goals. This video uses integrating technology in the classroom as the example goal. It shows you step-by-step how to create an effective action plan, how to edit it, and how to solicit valuable feedback from trained eCoaches. - Video Tutorial: How to Make a Webpage:
Here is a video tutorial that shows you how to make a simple webpage using My eCoach's easy-to-use Universal Builder. In the video eCoach Ken Bakken goes through the basic steps of setting up a website,
adding categories and content to the pages, embedding video, and
changing the template.
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My eCoach is an online learning community built on a coaching platform complete with collaboration, communication, curriculum, resources, and publishing tools all in one place. My eCoach works for everyone: organizations, schools, districts, classrooms, individuals, businesses, universities, families, etc. For questions or more information about how we can customize our services to meet the needs of your organization, contact us today.
Sincerely,
Barbara Bray
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Barbara Bray
President/CEO
My eCoach
800.633.2248
ecoach@my-ecoach.com
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