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In This
Issue
June 2007
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1. Welcome
2. DE
Student Cards
3. DE
Day
4. DE
Forum
5.
Blackboard
6. Joyner
Library
7. Course
Management
System
8. New Horizons Online
Training -
ITCS
9. Career Center Update
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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.
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Course Management
System
At Academic Outreach, one of
our major commitments is to provide a feature rich
and user friendly course management system
(CMS) for teaching and learning for both
on-campus and distance education courses at
ECU. In order to provide this service, we are
looking at three course management
systems: Blackboard Version 7, Moodle, and Sakai.
During the second summer session faculty could be
using Moodle, which is an open-source CMS we have
chosen for the study. We are just beginning this
study, so expect additional information as we
proceed. To read about Moodle, visit
the website
http://www.ecu.edu/cs%2Dacad/moodle/. If you have questions
about this study, send email to ecuao@ecu.edu. |
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New Horizons Online
Training
ITCS
offers Web-based non-curriculum training courses
that are free of charge to all ECU faculty, staff,
and students. You can choose from a
comprehensive library of courses that cover:
Microsoft Office software, operating systems, Web
browsers, Web design/layout and programming,
Adobe software, and much more. These courses are
beneficial for personal development, self-paced
learning or faculty course enhancements.
Submit an
online New Horizons account
request form at www.ecu.edu/itcs/webtraining.cfm to receive a user id and password
within 2-3days. For more information, please go to www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/training.cfm or contact Gloria
Schwartz 328-9129; schwartzg@ecu.edu or Rita Bilbro 328-9183; bilbror@ecu.edu |
East Carolina
University
Office of Academic
Outreach
301 Evans Street ~ Suite
401
Greenville, NC 27858
www.ecu.edu/academicoutreach
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What's New - Second Summer Session
Update
 Welcome to Second Summer Session
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 during summer
school to use ECU Libraries and computer labs, be
sure to read the information below about the
Distance Education Student Cards.
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Distance
Education Student Cards -
Distance education student cards
grant access to ECU libraries and
computer labs. If
you are enrolled in summer school and plan to
travel to campus to use the libraries and computer labs, you will need to
request the distance education student card.
Submit your request to Kim Wilson at wilsonki@ecu.edu using the subject
line distance education student card. Your
request must include your name and mailing
address
. Please note that the distance
education student card does not provide access to
the
Student
Recreation
Center
, Student Health Services, Athletic
events and other activities available to campus
students who pay
additional university fees. If you already
have a valid ECU 1 Card, you will not need the
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DE Day- ECU
Pirates From A
Distance
 Academic Outreach and
the Division of Continuing Studies at
ECU will be sponsoring it's
second "DE Day" for Pirate Football fans on
October 27, 2007. This will be a
great time to come to Greenville, visit
the ECU campus and show your Purple and Gold
Pride! We would like for you to attend
and show your support for the PIRATES!
You will be receiving more information at a
later date with regard to what the "DE Day"
package will include. There will be
something for everyone so lets kick-off this
years "DE Day" and make it the best
yet!
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Joyner Library
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Connecting With DE
Students and Faculty
The Summer 2007 issue of Joyner Library's
distance education newsletter, DECOVE is now available
online.
 We are
analyzing the results of the
LibQual survey and will be
identifying ways we can improve. We will
communicate these changes to you through emails,
the DE Cove Newsletter, and announcements on
the
library website. Two improvements to watch
for this summer and upcoming fall: more online
journals and a new Quick
Search that will let you search across
multiple databases at one time
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We learned that many
students do not know that they can check out
materials from other UNC-system
libraries.
Getting
Books
Joyner
Library will send Distance Learning students
living outside ofPitt County
the books you need to do your research. Simply
find the titles you want and fill out an
Interlibrary Loan Request. Currently, return
postage is covered by the library.
(http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/distance/books.cfm)
Please contact us at any time
for research assistance
through: IM:
JoynerRef
Telephone: 252-328-6677 Email:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/email.cfm
Joyner Library has several
new databases. Among the biggest is the
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online; it
provides digital images of books, pamphlets,
Bibles, sheet music, and other types of
publications from the 1700s. Another exciting new
database is Theatre in Video, which
provides streaming productions of many famous
plays, including the BBC Shakespeare series.
Theatre in Video is limited to 3 simultaneous
users, so people should try again if they can’t
get in the first time. We’re hoping to be able to
advertise other new databases and online journal
packages soon. Off-campus users should connect to
all databases using library links. Begin at the
databases homepage: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/erdbs/.
Can't 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.
Attention
DE Faculty: If you are teaching
online classes this summer or in the fall and
are interested in having tailored library
research guides 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. |
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Thinking About a New
Job? The Career Center Can Help!
A Database of
14 Million Employers at Your
Fingertips
Have you been thinking about finding
a new job? TheCareer Center at ECU is
here to help you!
We have a
virtual career center designed to help DE students
achieve success in their job
search. Check it out at www.ecu.edu/e3careers/ This web address will be
changing by the end
of June to www.ecu.edu/careers/.
One great tool that is available to you as
a student at ECU is the
Reference USA
database. As
you may know, research done
annually by The Career Center shows that
the most effective way to find a job is
through networking. However, it’s
important that you understand what
networking means. Networking
is
NOT talking to
everyone you know and asking them to help you
find
a job. That isn’t
anymore effective than applying to jobs online.
Networking is
identifying companies in your field of
interest and using your
contacts to Network
your way to someone within that organization.
This
means that first you have to know
the companies you are targeting! Reference
USA is an
EXCELLENT resource for identifying the
companies in your area or any area that you
should be
talking
with.
To access Reference
USA, go
online to Joyner Library at ECU. Click on
Databases. Find
Reference
USA.
Enter your Pirate ID. Once you have access to the
database, click on
Business Databases, Custom Search (Tab at
the top). Click on City, State and Major
industry.
A form will be
created which you can use to locate all the companies in
your area! It’s
fabulous! Try
it.
All this and more is available to
you online or by phone at The Career Center.
Call us toll free:
800-391-0506.
Call The Career Center at ECU today!
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