Educational Continuum Organization (ECO) offers many opportunities for online professional development and support of Engineering in the classroom. The instructional support uses Moodle as Learning Management System (LMS) for writing tutorials and online learning centers for students and teachers. ECO also includes Khan Academy for teacher and student tutorials and zoom.us and Skype for face-to-face video conferencing and chat as well as online subject specific tools and ideas for practical applications. All tools can be used on smartphones and tablets as well as computers.

An ECO learning session is integrated into teacher workshops so participants become familiar with the ECO Moodle environment including participants building there own areas for sharing with other teachers; activities for students; reaching zoom.us, Khan Academy, Skype and other online interactive tools.

A series of monthly classroom-based online learning activities are provided for teachers with or without their students, based on their face-to-face educational program and integrated into their ongoing professional development during the school year. These activities reinforce learning, and give teachers an opportunity to practice new leading and learning skills in their classrooms and sharing the results with their peers. The online environment provides a bridge between professional development and classroom practice.

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Educational Continuum Organization (ECO) offers many opportunities for online professional development and support of STEAM including mathematics mastery learning in the classroom. The instructional support uses Moodle as Learning Management System (LMS) for writing tutorials and online learning centers for students and teachers. ECO also includes Khan Academy for teacher and student tutorials and zoom.us and Skype for face-to-face video conferencing and chat. All tools work on smartphones and tablets as well as computers.

An ECO learning session is integrated into teacher workshops so participants will become familiar with the ECO Moodle environment including building their own areas for sharing with other teachers and activities for students;  reaching zoom.us, Khan Academy, Skype; and other online interactive math tools. 

A series of monthly classroom-based online learning activities are provided for teachers with or without their students. These are based on their face-to-face educational program and integrated with their ongoing professional development during the school year. The activities reinforce learning, and give teachers an opportunity to practice new teaching and learning skills in their classrooms and share the results with their peers. The online environment  provides a bridge between professional development and classroom practice.

Notes for Chilean Moodle:

1) Easy email list serve, including security and moderation
and capability to see messages without logging on
to Google Groups or Facebook. That is, in one or two clicks, a teacher
can email everyone on the Chile GTTP list, if they so desire.

2) Store Chilean GHOU/GTTP Curriculum as a function age of student, subject, etc.

3) Calendar and activity announcement page.  When will be
the next on-line teacher training event, for example?

4) Store teacher power-points for curriculum (above)

5) Store astronomy activities and videos of activities

6) Store/link to videos of workshops/teacher training,
dances, activities, etc.

7) Store and order student work and support collaborations
amongst students (Icollaboratory?)

8)  Capability to give tests and upload exams/papers and store grades.

9) Badges for accomplishing good work! (If students achieve something, they can print out a badge!)

10)  Student Blog

10) Teacher Blog