Building Collaborative Learning Communities a division of Computer Strategies, LLC Your professional development solution.

Building Collaborative Learning Communities

a division of Computer Strategies, LLC

Your professional development solution

Mentors become eCoaches

eCoaches coach their players

Players connect, learn, and share in the My eCoach® community

My eCoach® Program

My eCoach® Online

online coaching and mentoring system eLibrary with royalty-free resources collaboration and communication tools multiple curriculum builders content, technology, and professional standards simple tools to align standards personal lockers to store resources and projects eCoach management system a growing learning community

My eCoach® Online

Home FieldYour Digital Dashboard

• view projects & resources

• search for resources• ask eCoach a question • read latest eCoach news • check feedback• start a project• access discussion boards• see who’s online

Edit Your Profile

Under About Me tab

share a little about yourself including:

• personal philosophy• title, city, & state• community info• environment info• about classroom • upload a picture

Select the Standards set(s) you may want to align any projects with.

Provide the hardware and software including versions so your eCoach can help you.

Individual learning plans assist your eCoach to help you reach your curriculum and technology integration goals.

Team Roster is where you can see each other’s work -

eCoaches can view date last logged in and view and edit projects in progress.

Access the Team Discussion Board and View Last 5 Responses

Post Resources for Your Team

Use the discussion board for assignments, sharing ideas, or starting new discussions.

Search for Resources

Drawings by Rosalie Ritz

Copyright-Friendly Resources

Thousands of Photos and Videos

Clip Art, Animations, and Illustrations

Search Results show Projects and Resources

Not only get a list of projects and resources from your search criteria, click the directory matches to get even more.

Save any of the resources or projects you find in your Locker to use later.

Choose from a variety of curriculum builders.

View the samples, and then start with the Web Resource List to see how it works.

You can co-author a project with others. Click Plan to put in Topic, Themes, Curriculum Areas, Grade Levels, and Standards.

Publish dynamic web pages that your students can access and use.

Choose the Standards set and click Add Standards. This will take you to a Quick Jump to the standards.

Select the performance indicators, save and add more or save and done.

You can add content, technology, information literacy, and professional standards.

Since you can add standards easily. coaching and planning are important so you align to the right standards.

Not sure about standards, use Ask eCoach.

Your question or comment using Ask eCoach is emailed to your eCoach. All comments and replies are archived here.

Under Develop, fill in the fields with a catchy title and an essential question for your subtitle.

Web resources can be put in categories that show up as an index at the top and bottom.

Publish your Web Resource List (WRL).

Image are automatically resized for you.

Include a proper citation that links to the place where you got the picture.

Receive coaching support from your eCoach. Throughout all of the builders, eCoaches can write you suggestions and ideas.

Use the Teacher Reflections as your reflection journal.

Create an Activity that expands on the WRL.

Put in directions for the activities.

You can upload documents, handouts, videos, presentations, rubrics, and link to your WRL.

The Inquiry Leading to Understanding (ILU), Custom, and UOP builders provide tips, examples, best practices, and more.

You learn pedagogy and ideas while you create an inquiry unit.

You are not alone in creating your project. Some of these resources are included in the Activity Builder also.

When your project is published, it looks professional and is easy to navigate.

You can customize the student guide so your students have just the information they need on one page.

Use the Custom Builder for your ePortfolio or Course Builder.

Research supports My eCoach® Online

• “ongoing guidance and opportunities for teachers to understand the theory and rationale for new forms of instruction” (Learning First Alliance, 2000)

• “a mentor or ‘translator’ of technology applications and instructional integration for teachers” (Office of Technology Assessment, 1995)

• “professional development activities that encourage the development of teachers’ learning communities” (Bransford & Brown, 2000)

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My eCoach® Online partners with:

K-12 schools and districts

Teacher education programs

University departments

Committees needing online collaboration tools

Students as Cybermentors

Curriculum specialists developing content

Companies and organizations

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