The significance of my- ecoach

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How My-eCoach Can Help Meet My Classroom Needs Marcelo Leal BAFLP Team Member My-eCoach Trainer

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To introduce My-eCoach as a tool for: Helping teachers plan / organize Engaging students Helping teachers professionally Purpose:

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Essential Questions: What are the expectations for the 21st century educator? What are the tools that are going to get you there?

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Outcomes: Identify the benefits of My-Ecoach to support web-based lesson and unit plan development. Introduce the My-Ecoach library and its free teacher resources. Invite and review how participants can sign up for a free my-Ecoach account.

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STEP #4

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Group Activity With a partner discuss the following in a Pair Share: Introduce yourself, the school where you teach, and what you teach. Discuss: How technology has or can improve collaboration and make it easier to share lessons and units. How do you organize or store your units, lessons, student work, and resources etc ? What do you think are the obstacles to collaborate and sharing ideas with other colleagues? How do you manage working on units together with a colleague

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What is My- Ecoach? An educators’ website created by teachers who wanted a one-stop-shop to create on-line units and lessons with easy to use templates with no web experience needed. A site to store student work, find peer reviewed resources, and improve your tech savvy with tools like blogs, podcasts, webquests, e-quizzes etc

How will it help me in the classroom : 

How will it help me in the classroom Build units lessons no need for binders and file cabinets Nicole's unit Sarah's unit

How will it help my students : 

How will it help my students Student’s work, on-line quizzes review, webquests My class website

How will it help me professionally? : 

How will it help me professionally? Professional looking, e-portfolio, mobility, transparency Migrant Ed program

Pair Share : 

Pair Share Which of the features of My-eCoach did you find the most helpful? Classroom uses Student uses Professional aspects

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Communication Why use My-Ecoach Sharing best practices Community Units matched with standards Collaboration Mentoring Online organizer for lessons/Units

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Access to the My-Ecoach Library- which includes teacher’s lessons as well as Handouts Images Templates Videos Audio files Podcasts Finally

Obtaining a free accountwith My-Ecoach : 

Obtaining a free accountwith My-Ecoach http://my-ecoach.com/

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Please go to: http://my-ecoach.com/

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Click on “FREE ACCOUNT”

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Text Text Click on “I agree continue to sign up!”

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Fill in all of the required fields in the form below.

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This is your welcome page Your email + password

Let’s explore : 

Let’s explore My-Ecoach’s library

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Click on Language Arts

What does the TEAM PAGE look like? : 

What does the TEAM PAGE look like?

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Post resources to help the team

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A forum serves as way to communicate and keep in touch

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Team activities, project review, calendar,tech support,etc.

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Text Text Other e-coaches and teachers online Everyone’s projects

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How are you rethinking teaching in the 21st century? Please read the following article: www.time.com