Melissa Thibault
Melissa joined LEARN NC as Education Resource Coordinator in August 2000 and, shortly thereafter, assumed the role of Director of Media Services. In her current position as Associate Director, Melissa oversees all areas of the LEARN NC program, including publications, professional development, online learning, and instructional technology.
Before joining LEARN, Melissa was a Media Coordinator at W. G. Enloe Gifted and Talented International Baccalaureate High School in Raleigh, N.C. Her experience as a librarian has included university, public, literacy and school programs. Her master’s degree in Library and Information Science is from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and her undergraduate degree in Economics is from Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
When not working at LEARN NC, you may find Melissa on the sidelines of her daughter’s soccer games or creating scrapbooks of her extensive extended family’s photos and memorabilia.
Resources created by Melissa Thibault
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- A road map to reading
- Students struggle with informational texts and websites. Understanding the structure of these texts is essential to efficient information gathering. The "Road Map" is a pre-reading strategy. Like the road map in your atlas, this mapping activity will help students visualize the layout of the text before they start reading so they will have an idea of where they are going (or where to find the information they are looking for) when they start reading. This lesson will also address active-reading strategies students can use to find information for research in print and electronic sources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Elizabeth Hubbe and Melissa Thibault.
- The student pathfinder
- By creating pathfinders, students not only learn to manage time and produce a higher quality research project, but they also develop twenty-first century learning skills.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Today in History
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 1
- In this first installment to the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide discover the in and outs of making calendar connections to primary source materials using the Today in History feature.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Tools of the trade for information seekers
- A guide to understanding and using search engines, directories, and the invisible web.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Vienna Dill grave marker
- A grave marker in the Beaufort Burying Ground indicates the grave of Vienna Dill. Stone reads "Vienna H. infant daughter of Geo. W. and E. A. Dill born Oct. 5th, 1863. Died Oct. 23rd, 1865." Grave marker is topped with a sculpted figure of a small child resting...
- Format: image/photograph
- Vote for me! A re-election editorial
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.4
- A research assignment in which students write an editorial for or against the re-election of a selected president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
