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New Memberships for 2010-2011

CIS eLearning Consortium membership is now available to additional schools. If you are interested in joining the Consortium for the 2010/2011 school year please contact: Lesley Monette, eLearning Director, email: ciselc@yahoo.com.

Mary Anne Ballantyne, vice chair of the ELC Board of Directors on Panel at Lower Canada College workshop with Alan November

ELC presents at CAIS Best Practices Conference in Montreal

Lesley Monette and Mary Anne Ballantyne presented the CIS eLearning Consortium model to CIS teachers and administrators from across the Canada at the CAIS Best Practices Conference in Montreal.

St. John's-Kilmarnock School (Waterloo) and Elmwood School (Ottawa) Newest Members of the Consortium

Welcome to Ian Hornsby of SJKS and Cheryl Boughton of Elmwood School as the latest Heads of school to join the CIS eLearning Consortium. They are now our 15th and 16th members respectively.

Ridley College Latest Member of eLearning Consortium

We are delighted to welcome Ridley College, and principal Jonathan Lee, to the CIS eLearning Consortium. Ridley is now our 14th member of this growing and enthusiastic eLearning community

UOIT/ELC Now Grants Teachers first eLearning AQ Credit in Ontario!

The University of Ontario Insititute of Technology, a partner with ELC in the delivery of the unique Online Teaching and Learning course co-delivered between the two organizations, will now be granting all ELC teachers who successfully complete the course an OCT AQ credit. All ELC teachers presently take this course, which develops online teaching and course development skills. This program is available to all teachers whose schools are members of the CIS eLearning Consortium, including teachers who deliver ELC courses as well as for continued professional develop of existing member school staffs.

ELC Members to present at International Conference

Lesley Monette, CIS eLearning Consortium Director, and Mary Anne Ballantyne, CIS ELC Board Member and Director of Technology and Innovation,The Bishop Strachan School , presented at The International Conference on Learning at the University of Barcelona this summer discussing the CIS eLearning Consortium. The topic of the presentation is: 21st Century Collaboration, Community and Excellence: Online Course Delivery As a Progressive and Sustainable Model of Learning for Today
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Blackboard Upgraded to 9.0

ELC successfully upgrading to Blackboard 9.0 during the March break. The new interface provides additional tools such as blogs and journals, a dashboard that indicates student work completion, and a drag and drop interface that is user friendly and web enhanced. This adds to the existing tool box of Wimba virtual classroom and voice presentation/podcasting tools and Learning Objects Wiki. All CIS eLearning courses will be offered on this platform.