Welcome to LEARN NC!
LEARN NC gives you what you need for K–12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it. Here’s how to get started.
Classroom
Lesson plans? Sure, we've got 'em — but also learning materials from slideshows to digital textbooks, all correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Professional
Learn on your own from articles and multimedia best practices, or take an instructor-led CEU course — all correlated to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.
Projects and special collections
- North Carolina History
A “digital textbook” of primary sources, background readings, and multimedia.- World Cultures
Photographs and audio with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.- Critical Languages
Digital textbooks for Mandarin Chinese and Arabic.- Environmental Science
Virtual field trips, lesson plans, and classroom content for a variety of grade levels.- Field Trips
Find educational opportunities in your county or region.
- New Teacher Support
Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.- COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher
A certification program for online instructors.- Differentiated Instruction
Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.- Technology Integration
Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.- Education Reference
Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.
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Tips & tools
- Getting the most from your search
- Tips for searching LEARN NC’s new website, and how to use our advanced search form.
- Flyers, brochures, and workshop tools
- Whether you’re adding to your own toolbox or arranging staff development, these tools will get you started.
- Teaching an online course
- What you’ll need to teach one of LEARN NC’s online professional development courses.
- LEARN NC wallpapers
- Put us on your desktop!
Here’s what’s new.
Just published
- Hightouch Hightech -- Science Made Fun!
- Tiering to avoid tears: Developing assignments that address all learners' needs
- Reading comprehension: From research to practice in middle-grades English language arts
- Student work from a tiered classroom
- Reviving dead school computers, one operating system at a time
CEU courses
- Teaching Online Courses - COLT (Sep 7–Oct 11)
- Facilitating Online Collaboration - COLT (Sep 7–Oct 4)
- Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies (Sep 8–Nov 2)
- Moodle Training - COLT (Sep 8–Sep 28)
- Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum (Sep 8–Oct 12)
From our blogs
News & updates
- 2010 annual report coming soon — reserve your copy now!
- The 2010 LEARN NC annual report will give you a rundown of our accomplishments of the past school year, as well as provide a glimpse at coming developments in the year ahead. Sign up to receive a free hard copy.
- Save the date: LEARN NC’s 2010 Interactive Conference Oct. 14
- On Thursday, October 14, LEARN NC will conduct our 2010 Interactive Conference in Chapel Hill at the Center for School Leadership Development. As we did last year, you can attend the conference in person or online.
- NC Digital History: What’s the buzz?
- Getting started with our "digital textbook" of North Carolina history, from the quick-start to the in-depth. (Or just watch the trailer!)
- Addressing differentiation through articles, web conferences, PLC
- This school year, LEARN NC will publish a series of articles that address a variety of topics within differentiation. We'll also offer web conferences and a professional learning community.
- Invest in Teachers Award winners announced
- Through LEARN NC's Invest in Teachers Award, several schools and school systems across North Carolina received a combined $170,000 in matching-funds awards to be used for online professional development.
Instructify
- Story construction with My StoryMaker
- My StoryMaker is the perfect tool for younger students just learning about plot design and character development for short stories. Hosted by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, My StoryMaker walks students through the process of story creation using a variety of online tools.
- Can’t keep up with your files? Dropbox is the app for that
- Dropbox is a web service that allows you to store up to two gigabytes of data online for free. Install the Dropbox application on any computer or mobile device you own and get instant access to all your files with a simple login.
- Twitter updates for 2010-08-31
- Quest to Learn makes gaming central to its curriculum: http://bit.ly/dCkFAs # Powered by Twitter Tools
- Quest to Learn makes gaming central to its curriculum
- Quest to Learn is a school that views teaching with video games as an integral part of the curriculum, utilizing everything from problem solving to teamwork to actual game design to engage students.
- Instructifeature: Reviving dead school computers, one operating system at a time
- This article introduces the Linux operating system, explains the process of downloading and installing it, and describes the advantages of using Linux in schools.
