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This is the site where technology peer coaches, from within the Northern Arizona Technology Coaching Consortium, will collaborate to create their Web Lessons and Coaching Chronicles articles.
Web Lessons
You are going to work with a partner during coaching session 4 and 5 to improve an existing instructional lesson. The goal of this activity is to prepare you to work on collaborative lesson improvement in your schools by applying skills for coaching and knowledge of effective lesson design.

Each grade-level or content-area pair will work on improving a single lesson that includes the following six major steps:
  • Student Task
  • Standards
  • Student/Teacher Directions
  • Uses of Technology
  • Design Assessments
  • Identify Resources
Use one partner’s computer to build the lesson and the other partner’s computer to read the directions and conduct research. During session 4, your facilitators will conduct mini lessons on each of the six major steps above, and will then provide time for each pair to add each element to their improved web lesson on this wiki site. Once each of the six steps has been accomplished, time will be made available in order to add enhancements (hyperlinks, graphics, links to other documents, etc.) to your lesson.

eZine Articles
Each team will need to collectively write one article that includes:
  • A title and the authors' names and school districts;
  • Two pictures or graphics that add detail to your article;
  • Two citations and links to coaching artifacts, such as a collaboration log, improved lesson, or student work;
  • At least one reference to information received from the other teams' responses to your letter of introduction.

In order to create your eZine, follow these steps:
  1. Determine which stories and ideas generated by your group members should be used.
  2. Decide on the stories and ideas shared by other groups that will be used, as appropriate.
  3. Identify pictures and other artifacts that could be included.
  4. Write the article in Microsoft Word, without hyperlinks, tables, or other formatting.
  5. Save the article, pictures, and other artifacts in a single folder.
  6. Using IE on a PC or Firefox on a Mac, return to this wiki page, log in, select the eZine page from the navigation menu on the left, select your assigned Team link on the eZine page and click on the "Edit This Page" button.
  7. Copy the text of your article written in Word and paste it into your team's wiki page.
  8. Add any hyperlinks using the "Insert Link" icon from the Editor floating toolbar. Type in the text that you want to appear on your page as the hyperlink. Click the External Link radio button and type in the URL of the site that you want to link to.
  9. Add any files and images using the "Insert Images and Files" icon Picture_2.pngfrom the Editor floating toolbar. Browse and upload the file. Select the radio button to insert the file or link to the file. Place your cursor in the location within your page where you would like the file and double click on the image or file name within the Images & Files window.
  10. Be sure to click the "Save" button from the Editor floating toolbar upon completion of your eZine.
  11. Have fun!