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In This
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January 2008
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1. Welcome
2. DE Student
Feature
3. DE Student
Cards
4. Second Life-
3D
Virtual
World
5. Blackboard
6. Division
of Continuing
Studies ~Message
7. Joyner
Library
8. DE
Forum
9. Campus
News
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Second
Life-
The 3D Virtual
World
ECU has entered another
life! Second Life that is….the 3D
virtual world
which is gaining
popularity
in the real world. Academic Outreach
now has space available and
instructors are using virtual world for
classes, office hours, and research. Other
universities such as UNC-Chapel Hill and
Duke
University
have also embarked on this new
and exciting method of teaching. If you
are interested in learning more about Second
Life, please contact Sharon Collins(collinss@ecu.edu) or Travis Hufford
(tjh0713@ecu.edu).
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 Blackboard
Updates
and Information:
Blackboard 7.3 Upgrade - The Blackboard 7.3 was successfully
completed over the winter break. Many new
features have been added to the faculty view of
the course to enhance the learning environment.
A full list
of these new features can be reviewed
HERE. The student view of Bb is
unchanged.
Here is a quick list of
the most important new
features.
- Browser
compatible: Internet
Explorer 6 and 7. Firefox
1.0 and 2.0. Netscape
8.0.
Mozilla 2.0
- Spell
Check within the email
interface
- Improved
Discussion Board.
Contact the
Blackboard
administrator by email
at
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Distance Education Forum
in
OneStop
Have you checked out the Distance Education forum
yet? This forum is a place for distance
education students to share ideas, questions, or
comments. Feel free to post new
discussion topics as you communicate throughout
the semester. To access the Distance
Education forum in OneStop, log in
at the
following URL
https://onestop.ecu.edu/onestop/
and click the
Community
tab.
Campus News
Visit the Campus
News page for up to date East Carolina University headlines. http://www.news.ecu.edu/
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Pirate
Athletics
Here you will find links to campus
sports, Pirate Club, purchase tickets, radio &
television broadcast information, history and records,
traditions, & more. http://www.ecupirates.com/
East Carolina
University
Office of Academic
Outreach
301 Evans Street ~ Suite
401
Greenville, NC 27858
www.ecu.edu/academicoutreach
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~Welcome to East Carolina
University~
Welcome
to the 2008 Spring Semester and another
edition of
D-ECU News -- the newsletter that will keep you
informed of university news, resources, and
announcements that affect the distance education
community. If you will be traveling to
campus to use ECU Libraries & computer labs,
be sure to read the information below about the
Distance Education Student
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DE Student
Feature
Meet
Sarah Jane
Benken~
Distance Education
Student
My
name is Sarah Benken and I am 25 years old, and a
mother of a 10 year old. I have
worked my way through high school, community
college and ECU as a single mother. I have
risen and fallen countless times, but my education
was never an option of giving up. I am a
senior in the Business program and hope to jump
right into the MBA program after graduating. I stand
for hard work and dedication! Currently I am an
Accounting Manager for a large Contracting company
in Durham, but have
held other positions such as: General Business
Manager and Subrogation Specialist. With over 9
years experience in a professional environment, I
believe that higher education has helped me grow
as a person and as a leader.
One
could say that I am a true success by overcoming
the odds of being a teenage mother.
AND,
honestly, I could not have done it without the
flexibility from the distance education
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Distance
Education Student Cards ~ A New
Look
Distance
Education Student Cards for Spring 2008 semester
will be mailed to all distance education
students, with a new look. It will now
include your ECU ID number (Banner ID) on your
card, along with your signature. The card
will be included in letter form, and you will just
detach it from the bottom of the letter. You
should receive your card by January
31st. The Distance Education Student
Card grants access to ECU computer labs and allows
students to check out books from the ECU
libraries. Please note that the Distance
Education Student Card will not provide access to
the Student
Recreation
Center,
Student Health Services, Athletic events and other
activities that are available to on-campus
students because DE students do not pay these
additional university fees. The Distance
Education Student Cards are valid for one
semester and are mailed to your home
address. If your address has changed, you
will need to update your address through
OneStop https://onestop.ecu.edu/onestop/
in order to receive future cards. Please
contact Kim Wilson for replacement cards
or if you have not received your card by
January 31st at wilsonki@ecu.edu. |
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A Message from the Student
Services Staff of the Division of
Continuing Studies…
Welcome
to the spring semester! If you haven’t visited
recently, check out the Current
Students section of the Options for Adult
Learners website (www.options.ecu.edu). You will
find links for: tutorials on Piratemail and
Blackboard (under “How to”); view links to
department websites, academic resources and
administrative offices (including Joyner Library,
Financial Aid and the Registrar’s Office) plus
other helpful information. Be sure to check the
Academic Calendars for important dates. Check the
website frequently as we are always revising it to
include helpful information for distance education
students.
Fall
semester produced a record number of over 5,000
students enrolled in over 60 degree and
certificate programs at ECU. Fall
semester also presented a new option for paying
your tuition bill. Beginning with fall 2007
payments, ECU implemented an online payment system
through OneStop allowing distance education
students the convenience of paying tuition online.
You no longer have to worry about busy phone lines
or the hassle of getting your payment in the mail
on time. 24 hours a day, seven days a week you
have a safe and secure method of paying your
tuition bill. Did you
pay online this semester? If not, try it out this
summer or fall and see just how easy and
convenient it really is.
In
closing, watch your Piratemail account for
frequent updates and reminders from the
Division of Continuing
Studies. Throughout the semester
we’ll send information to your email account about
registration, tuition and other important
information.
Please feel
free to contact us anytime you have a question or
problem arise. Have a great
semester!
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Joyner Library
~New
Connections For DE Students & Faculty
J oyner
Library's distance education (DE) website has a
new look!
We also have a new toll free telephone
number:
1-866-291-5581. Our library DE newsletter,
DECOVE is still available
online.
Look for the spring 2008 issue it will soon
be available. Past
issues are archived.
Online
History at Joyner
Library
Distance
learners should check out the Web sites of the
Special Collections Department and the Verona
Joyner Library North Carolina Collection at Joyner
Library. Here you will discover finding aids,
indexes and full-text resources that unlock rich
historical information about North Carolina, military and
naval history and other topics. Staff members are
available to answer questions or to mail copies of
materials not available in full-text format.
Contact the Special Collections Department or the
North Carolina Collection at the addresses and
phone numbers below:
Special
Collections
Web
site: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/spclcoll/index.cfm
E-mail
reference: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/Reference/email.cfm
Phone:
(252) 328-6671
North
Carolina
Collection
Web
site: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/ncc/index.cfm
E-mail
reference: nccollection@ecu.edu
Phone:
(252) 328-6601
Synergy,
Student Organization of Joyner
Library
Interested
in being part of a campus organization, but unsure
how a Distance Education student can participate
in an on-campus organization? Synergy
may be the organization for you. Synergy is
the student organization affiliated with Joyner
Library here at ECU. The goal of Synergy is
to fuse the voices of the students with the
mission of Joyner Library. As a
DE student, you can become actively involved in Synergy,
regardless of your physical location. You can
help shape the selection of electronic resources,
evaluate the library’s interface, and provide
feedback to the library executive body. You can
also participate in Synergy’s
outreach division through volunteering in your
local library or school’s media center. If you are
a DE student within driving distance to ECU
campus, you are more than welcome to attend Synergy’s
meetings.
For more information or to receive Synergy’s
newsletter, please contact Brittany Smith at
Synergy@ecu.edu
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Getting
Books
Joyner
Library will send Distance Learning students
living
outside of Pitt County the
books
you
need to do your research. Simply use the
Joyner
Library
Catalog
to find the titles you want and fill out
an
Interlibrary Loan
Request.
Currently, return postage is covered by the
library. For more information, see the
Getting Books
web
page.
Getting
Articles
Joyner
Library also has a new research tool called One Search. You will
find this listed on the library homepage.
Just insert a
search term & multiple
databases will be searched at
once!
Use
the
E-Journal
Portal
to
see what journals are available online.
Citation
Linker
will
help find articles when you have partial or full
citations. What if
you still cannot find full text online? Request it
via ILLiad and we
will find it and send it to you for free!
Visit
Joyner ILL for more
information.
Please contact
us at
any time for research assistance through:
IM:
JoynerRef
Telephone: 252-328-6677 and
Email.
Attention
DE Faculty:
If you are
teaching online classes this fall and are
interested in having tailored Online Library
Research Guides & or pathfinder folders
added to your Blackboard course page(s), please
contact the Joyner Library DE Coordinator, Yolanda
Hollingsworth, directly at hollingsworthy@ecu.edu
or
252-328-2259. We would
be happy to work with
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