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Inventory of Ecoaching Tips

Fall 2009

Tip 70 Course Beginnings - Finding the Patterns in Your Content
Tip 71 When Students Are Away from a Course for a While
Tip 72 Course Closures - Making a Difference Years Later

Summer 2009

Tip 69 Using Peer Feedback to Increase Confidence and Community
Tip 68 Samples of Blog Projects - Getting Started with Blogs
Tip 67 Developing Rigor in Our Questioning: Eight Intellectual Standards
Tip 66 Social Intelligence and Presence - And Reminders about Course Beginnings

Spring 2009

Tip 65 Best Practices for Wrapping Up Courses
Tip 64 Three Best Practices in Assessment
Tip 63 Design Practices for Quality Course Experiences - "Designing with Threes"
Tip 62 Course Beginnings- Launch with Confidence and a Holiday Picture!

Fall 2007

Tip 51: A Garden of Three Presences - Social Presence, Teaching Presence and Cognitive Presence
Tip 52: Course Middles and Muddles -- Souped-up Conversations Help Build Community!
Tip 53: Hybrid Teaching and Learning Strategies -- Combining Social Networking Features with Blogs and Discussion Boards
Tip 54: Course Wrapping with Concept Mapping -- A Strategy for Capturing Course Content Meaningfully

Spring 2008

Tip 55: Getting an Early Start on Cognitive Presence
Tip 56: Sharing the Teaching and Learning - Working with a Teaching Assistant
Tip 57: The Performance Dashboard for Quick Student Learning Snapshots and Faculty Uses of Blogs and Audio with Powerpoint: A Pedagogy and Tools Potpourri
Tip 58: Reaching the Heights of Learning -- Authentic Problem-Solving
Tip 59: "Are You Reading My Postings? Do you Know Who I am?" Simple Rules about Feedback in Online Learning

Fall 2008

Tip 60: Personalizing Learning Content so that Students Grow with the Course Experiences
Tip 61: Steps in Memory-Making: What Teaching Behaviors Make a Difference!

Spring 2006

E-Coaching Tip 1: The Importance of Interaction and “Virtual Presence” — Being There for Your Students.
E-Coaching Tip 2: More on Online Discussion Experiences
E-Coaching Tip 3: Developing Great and Effective Questions
E-Coaching Tip 4: Managing and Evaluating Discussion Postings
E-coaching Tip 5: The Role of Faculty in Discussion Boards
E-Coaching Tip 6: Getting to Know Students Individually
E-coaching Tip 7: Promoting Peer Interaction and Discussion
E-Coaching Tip 8: Setting Up and Structuring Groups
E-coaching Tip 9: Managing and Facilitating Group Projects
E-Coaching Tip 10: Assessing Group Projects

Summer 2006

E-Coaching Tip 11: Virtual Presence-Again and Branching out to Audio
E-Coaching Tip 12: Knowing what students know and don't know
E-Coaching Tip 13: Re-shaping Learning Habits of Online Students
E-Coaching Tip 14: Podcasting -- Taking a First Step with Audio
E-Coaching Tip 15: Audio -- Why Should I Bother?
E-Coaching Tip 16: Simple Reminders about Course Beginnings
E-Coaching Tip 17: "Getting into the Swing" of a Course -- Is there an Ideal Weekly Rhythm?
E-Coaching Tip 18: Questions and Answers -- Upside Down and Inside Out
E-Coaching Tip 19: Feedback on Assignments: Being Timely and Efficient
E-Coaching Tip 20: Debriefing Technique with Students -- What One Change Would They Recommend?

Fall 2006

E-Coaching Tip 21: Five Simple Reminders about Course Beginning
E-Coaching Tip 22: Emails or Announcements -- Which Tool Should I Use for What?
E-Coaching Tip 23: "Making Your Students' Knowledge Visible" --Three Questions to Ask Your Students
E-Coaching Tip 24: What Do Your Students Think About How the Course is Going?
E-Coaching Tip 25: Discussion Wraps -- A Useful "Cognitive Pattern" or "Collection of Discrete Thought Threads?"
E-Coaching Tip 26: Preparing Discussion Posts that Invite Reflection and Response
E-Coaching Tip 27: A Rubric for Analyzing Critical Thinking
E-Coaching Tip 28: Designing Assessments and Tasks that Matter
E-Coaching Tip 29: Creating a Closing Experience -- Wrapping up a Course with Style
E-Coaching Tip 30: For Your List -- "Course Wrapping" Reminders plus Fun Personal Learning Action During Break

Spring 2007

E-Coaching Tip 31: Tools for "being present"
E-Coaching Tip 32: Intro to building a course community
E-Coaching Tip 33: What Makes a good Discussion Post?
E-Coaching Tip 34: Threaded Discussions and Knowledge Construction
E-Coaching Tip 35: Structuring Online Discussions Using Problem Formulation and Resolutions Behaviors
E-Coaching Tip 36: Developing Cognitive Presence
E-Coaching Tip 37: Pausing, Reflecting and Pruning Strategies
E-Coaching Tip 38: Four “Best Practices” During Project Time
E-Coaching Tip 39: Story of Real Time Gatherings
E-Coaching Tip 40: Potpourri ofEdge Happenings
E-Coaching Tip 41: Stage Three of a Learning Community — Stimulating and Comfortable Camaraderie

Summer 2007

E-Coaching Tip 42: Seven Strategies that work in Online Courses
E-Coaching Tip 43: Customizing and Personalizing Learning
E-Coaching Tip 44: How Do I Know what Learners Have Learned? Planning Assessment from the Beginning!
E-Coaching Tip 45: Freshening Your Course with Podcasts- A Source of Authentic and Current Course Content
E-Coaching Tip 46: Experts - A Touch of Spice!
E-Coaching Tip 47: Journaling and Blogging
E-Coaching Tip 48: Using “What-If” Scenarios — Flexing Our Minds with Possibilities
E-Coaching Tip 49: Learners as Leaders

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Revised February 10, 2010
Copyright Judith V. Boettcher, 1997-2010