Due: 4th posting period (F-Su) for Lesson 1 discussions: One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings. (Vista Discussion Board)
Due: 3rd posting period (M-Th) for Lesson 1 discussions: One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings. (Vista Discussion Board)
Speak Up, a national online research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow®, gives individuals the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key issues in K-12 education.
Take the survey: http://www.speakup4highered.org/speakup2009/
Due: 2nd posting period (F-Su) for Lesson 1 discussions: One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings. (Vista Discussion Board)
ETC Community will start within 20 minutes, at 7 pm. Join us at Elluminate: http://elm.elluminate.com/NAU-Institution/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1226177297180
Due: 1st posting period (M-Th) for Lesson 1 discussions: One posting at least: Respond to discussion question. (Vista Discussion Board)
Join Us in Tucson This Weekend for AZTEA's Teaching & Technology Conference
We hope to see you Saturday, January 23, 2010 at the 18th Annual Teaching & Technology Conference in Tucson. We have 3 breakout sessions planned for the day-long conference designed to provide you with a wealth of fresh new ideas:
For additional information or to register for the event go to http://www.aztea.org/TnT2010.
Don’t forget IDEAL Online Professional Development Courses start today!
Time is running out! A few seats remain for select IDEAL Professional Development online courses, but seats are going fast! Whether you are looking for re-certification hours or to extend your professional knowledge, IDEAL online courses are the perfect answer.
Register today at www.ideal.azed.gov.
The IDEAL Professional Development Team
Questions? Contact IDEAL at announce@ideal.azed.gov
Title: ETC Updates & How to write proposals
Date/Time: January 20, 2010, Wednesday, 7-8 pm Arizona Time.
Speaker: Drs. Michael Blocher; Shadow Armfield; Chih-Hsiung Tu
Sponsor: ETC Community
Facilitator: Chih-Hsiung Tu, Ph.D. [Chih.Tu@nau.edu]
Place: NAU Elluminate.
Who should attend? All ETC students since all ETC students must write effective project proposals. This talk would help you to gain a better understanding about proposal writing, prepare your project goals, activities, and assessments etc. Be sure you have reliable Internet access, speakers, headset etc to participate in this talk.
· ETC Community Twitter: http://twitter.com/ETCCommunity
· ETC Community Facebook: New Site; Old Site (Still contains good information)
If you are having difficulties to link your NAU e-mail to Google Apps (Calendar, Docs etc.)
See NAU’s instructions at:
Follow the NAU's instruction on NAU's Google Apps.
Vista Build course shells ready for you to use to evaluate Vista CMS for Assignment 2: LMS/CMS Evaluations
https://build.vista.nau.edu/webct/entryPageIns.dowebct
Use your NAU account to log in. NAU’s Vista Build is different server from out regular Vista server to host our course. If you decide to use Vista Build to develop you final unit. This course shell will be the place for your to complete your distributed learning unit development.
Grades & Feedback for Assignment 1 PLE Setup posted. See Vista Drop Box and Grade book for the grades & feedback. Questions? Contact me within two days.
Common feedback for Assignment 1 PLE Setup
Delicious Tips
· Start bookmarking your online resources on Delicious and apply relevant tags to share with different communities.
· Here are tips to help you to tag to share your bookmarks:
o Share with your groups: Tags: ETC677 Group1
o Share with the class: Tag: ETC677 Lesson1
o Share with other people: MCC (Mesa Community College)
o Check “Mark as private” for private bookmarks to maintain your privacy.
o The more tags applied; the easier it is to locate later; create better community learning resources.
Twitter
· We will use for course announcements.
· If you have smart phones, by following ETC647, you can get updated on the course with Twitter.
· Get real time help from the classmates: including the hashtag #ETC677 in your tweets. Our classmates may it and respond to your tweet. It is likely getting support faster than e-mail.
· Follow your teammates for collaborative work.
iGoogle
I encourage you to use iGoogle as your personal portal page to allow you to manage multiple web 2.0 tools on the same page. If you have other ETC courses using Web 2.0 tools, you can add them to your iGoogle as gadgets. Feel free to share gadgets with your teammates, classmates, and me. There are many useful iGoogle gadgets available to support our learning.
Personally, I visit my iGoogle when I start working on computer and leave it logging in so I can monitor my personal learning environments within fingertips.
Diigo
· Keep signing in to Diigo when you work online so you can annotate any web page and for later retrieval.
· Annotation for personal use: Keep it as private
· Annotation for sharing: Share with ETC647 Group or public.
Due: 1st posting period (Monday-Thursday) for Lesson 1 discussions: One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings by Thursday, 01/21/2010, midnight. (Vista Discussion Board)
Have you finished all Orientation tasks? Subscribe TaskStream, Self Introduction, Assignment 1 PLE Setup, Join a team, Team Governance, Lesson 1 Readings
Title: ETC Updates & How to write proposals
Date/Time: January 20, 2010, Wednesday, 7-8 pm Arizona Time.
Speaker: Drs. Michael Blocher; Shadow Armfield; Chih-Hsiung Tu
Sponsor: ETC Community
Facilitator: Chih-Hsiung Tu, Ph.D. [Chih.Tu@nau.edu]
Place: NAU Elluminate.
Who should attend? All ETC students since all ETC students must write effective project proposals. This talk would help you to gain a better understanding about proposal writing, prepare your project goals, activities, and assessments etc. Be sure you have reliable Internet access, speakers, headset etc to participate in this talk.
· ETC Community Twitter: http://twitter.com/ETCCommunity
· ETC Community Facebook: New Site; Old Site (Still contains good information)
