“Name This Blog” contest!

Welcome to the first eTeachers' Blog from eCollege!

Technorati be advised!  The eCollege Academic Training & Consulting team is entering the world of blogging today!  What better place to begin our constructed entrance onto the Web than the CCA conference in Las Vegas?  I can’t think of a better way to kick off our addition to the eWorld, and I hope you agree.

As the leader of this team, I know in this weekly (essay-style) blog, you will find interesting ideas, great links and engaging online teaching concepts in both theory and application.  Knowing this group of educators as I do, in the upcoming weeks and months I imagine you’ll get some quality resources to bolster your online class as well as some ideas to challenge your current ways of being and doing.  You’ll read about research, assessment, Web 2.0, rubrics, the semantic web, leadership, teams and communication, just to name a few potential blog posts.  We’ll talk wikis, chat, discussions, images, Podcasts, video, screencasting and much, much more.

But, as you know if you are a veteran of this particular medium, bloggers and blogs often have a clever, pithy name to capture the imagination. Their blog's name is as much about the blogger as the audience intended to read the blog.  As such, the eCollege ATCs would like to invite our first piece of reader-generated content.  Yes, we’re applying a significant tenet of Web 2.0 – FEEDBACK and user generated content.  We would like your help clarifying our vision and our goal on these pages through the submission of a name.  What should our blog be titled?

The winner of this suggested moniker will be awarded the distinct honor and privilege of knowing they contributed to the annals of eCollege history and made their mark on the Net!  (Ok, we’ll also come up with a prize TBD.)

So, please post some feedback to this blog for consideration.  If the right name jumps out at us, we’ll take it!  If there are several options, we’ll likely set up a vote of some kind.  And, in the meantime, we’ll start generating some great content for you to think on, apply, and use.  Thanks for reading and welcome to our blog.

-Jeff Borden, eCollege Director of Academic Training and Consulting