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This is the complete list of all currently available LEARN NC online courses. For further details on each course, click on course headings. Please note that not all courses are open for enrollment at all times.
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You can download a PDF version of LEARN NC’s Online Professional Development Catalog for the Fall 2009 semester.
- e-Learning for Educators - Data-Driven Decision Making: Using Objective Measures to Improve Student Learning
- Identifying, analyzing and acting on the right data can help you improve student learning and achievement. In this course you'll create an action plan to guide instructional change in your classroom. (Learn more)
- Provider: http://edtechleaders.org/
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on February 17.
- e-Learning for Educators - Designing a Virtual Field Trip
- Use Internet resources to design a "virtual field trip" for their students. Study strategies and resources to design these field trips. Design effective and engaging virtual field trips for their students that are aligned to state and national standards. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- Take this course: Offerings of this course are scheduled to begin on March 24. and May 12.
- e-Learning for Educators - Getting Ready for Algebra by Using Virtual Manipulatives
- Learn how to use virtual manipulatives and other technologies to help students become proficient, successful algebra students. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on March 24.
- e-Learning for Educators - Getting Started in the 1:1 Classroom
- Leveraging technology in a 1:1 classroom can create an exciting learning experience for students and instructors, but it requires a shift pedagogy. This workshop will explore aspects of teaching in a 1:1 classroom such as safety and ethics, copyright and fair use, designing lessons for a 1:1 classroom, and more. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- e-Learning for Educators - Improving Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
- Raise student achievement by integrating literacy strategies into course content. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- e-Learning for Educators - Integrating Primary Sources into the Social Studies Classroom
- Develop a personal collection of web-based resources for curricular use, as well as create preliminary plans to enhance a curriculum unit. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- e-Learning for Educators - Internet Safety for Schools in the Digital Era
- Internet Safety in Schools, co-developed by NEIRTEC (Northeast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium), the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and SERC (Satellite Educational Resources Consortium), is an online course designed to help school administrators understand their specific options for protecting children when they access the Internet over a school-based or statewide educational network. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- e-Learning for Educators - Internet Safety for Schools in the Digital Era in 1:1 Computing Environments
- Internet Safety in Schools, co-developed by NEIRTEC (Northeast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium), the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and SERC (Satellite Educational Resources Consortium), is an online course designed to help school administrators understand their specific options for protecting children when they access the Internet over a school-based or statewide educational network. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- e-Learning for Educators - Leading Schools in a Web 2.0 World
- This workshop is designed to acquaint administrators with new online communication and web 2.0 tools that support school operations. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- e-Learning for Educators - Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools
- In this workshop, participants will be exposed to many of the tools of the Read/Write Web and will get the chance to experiment with new tools each week. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on January 26.
- e-Learning for Educators - Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom
- Readers differ in how they approach reading and the meaning they construct from text. Good readers use specific strategies to comprehend text, this workshop will examine teaching practices that help develop concrete strategies for constructing meaning. Participants will also explore instructional procedures that help students learn how to coordinate key comprehension strategies. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- e-Learning for Educators - Reading First: Supporting Early Reading Instruction with Technology
- Discover the many ways new technologies can support classroom reading instruction in kindergarten through third grade. Participants will review areas of reading instruction, with special emphasis on evidence-based uses of technology. (Learn more)
- e-Learning for Educators - Science 2.0: Using Web Tools to Promote Inquiry-Based Science
- Use online resources to enhance inquiry-based teaching and learning in your science course. Over the course of this six session workshop, you'll familiarize yourself with science-themed websites, online collaborative projects, science blogs and wikis, and the mapping applications Google Maps and Google Earth. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- e-Learning for Educators - Teaching Writing in the Middle School Classroom
- All students have the capacity to be good writers and writers learn to write by writing. Participants will learn instructional strategies to teach students how to write narrative and informational text. Explore how to teach students through mini-lessons and writing conferences and how to use established criteria to evaluate writing. Go through the instructional cycle from writing prompt to revision as they create their final projects. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on April 6.
- e-Learning for Educators - Using Digital Portfolios to Foster Student Learning
- Take an in-depth look at the power of digital portfolios to document student learning. Explore a variety of tools for creating and assembling digital portfolios, and investigate portfolio component criteria. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on April 6.
- e-Learning for Educators - Using Patterns to Develop Algebraic Thinking
- Explore the nature of algebraic thinking, and create strategies for encouraging its development in your middle school mathematics students. (Learn more)
- Provider: EdTech Leaders Online
- e-Learning for Educators - Using Real Data in the Math Classroom
- This workshop will enable middle and high school math teachers the opportunity to explore a range of web-based resources and exemplary projects which utilize technology to support their instructional goals. (Learn more)
- Provider: The Friday Institute
- Elementary Science Learning
- Science is fundamentally about the process of making sense of phenomena in the natural and social world. In this course you will think about the scientific process and how it applies to teaching science in the elementary classroom. (Learn more)
- Developed by Dr. Mark Enfield.
- Take this course: An offering of this course is scheduled to begin on March 22.
- Teach this course: This course is available to be taught by qualified instructors.
- Facilitating Online Collaboration - Carolina Online Teacher Program
- Develop the skills to facilitate good online communication, moderate online discussion, and promote better accomplishment of instructional goals within the virtual classroom. Communication is the lifeblood of online courses - learn how to make the most of it. (Learn more)
- Developed by Adria Kempner.
- Take this course: Offerings of this course are scheduled to begin on February 23. and May 5.
- Introduction to Online Learning
- Are you interested in taking an online course, but unsure about where to begin? Maybe you're a little nervous about not seeing your instructor and your classmates in-person. If so, Introduction to Online Learning is the course for you. This course introduces first-time online learners to the characteristics, requirements, tools, and practices of distance learning. (Learn more)
- Developed by Diana Chang.
- Take this course: Offerings of this course are scheduled to begin on March 2. and April 28.
- Teach this course: This course is available to be taught by qualified instructors.
