Bobby Hobgood

Bobby Hobgood has been involved with LEARN NC since its beginning in 1996, when he represented Chatham County Schools on LEARN's Central Region Pilot Team. From August 1997 to November 1998 he served as Educator on Loan and was responsible for providing a teacher's perspective to the program. Bobby is now responsible for the content and design of LEARN's Professional Development programs. He also coordinates teacher training and works to build partnerships with other educational organizations.

A former high school French teacher, Bobby has conducted workshops on the integration of technology into the foreign language classroom. He holds an M.A.T. from the School for International Training and is currently pursuing an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bobby's dissertation research focuses on the role of teacher presence in online, Advanced Placement courses.

Resources developed by Bobby Hobgood

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Becoming an online teacher
For even the most experienced classroom teacher, teaching online requires a thoughtful transition to the new environment.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Blogging: an introduction
Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, have many uses in education, as tools for publication, research, administration, and more.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Concept maps: an introduction
Using concept maps can help students make connections among subject areas. This article explains how teachers can use concept maps effectively and provides links to tools for creating them online.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Consider the source
Information is everywhere — especially in the presence of the Internet. It's hard enough for adults to make sure that information is valid, but it's even harder for students to make that judgement. Here are some suggestions for helping students learn to recognize bad information when they see it.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Discuss it with discussion boards and forums
This "Teacher Time Saver" looks at free tools for creating Web-based discussions.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Greeting your limited English proficient students in their own language
Even a simple "Hello" or "How are you today?" can help to integrate a student into a new environment. This article offers strategies and tools for teachers wishing to learn a few words of a new language.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Jump start your creativity: question yourself!
A short webliography of tools to help you ask good questions.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
Author: Bobby Hobgood, Melissa Thibault, and and David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Navigating the Subway: Indicateur des métros
Traveling in a foreign country often requires knowledge of how to use the subway to visit various points of interest in a particular city. The activity is in the form of a role-play in which one student serves as an employee at a government Tourist Office. The other plays the role of a tourist who wants to go to a particular location within the city. He must convey this information to the employee in the target language. The employee then inputs the information into the program and orally gives the directions to the tourist.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
Professional development by email
Conducting professional development by email can be an effective way to reach busy teachers, tailor the content to their needs, and provide an authentic context for learning.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
When teachers don't understand
Teaching should be informed not only by the content of the discipline but also by the lives of the students.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page
Writing conventions
Examples of common errors in sentence formation, usage, and mechanics.
Author: Bobby Hobgood
Format: article/single page