Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D.
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 an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bobby’s dissertation research focused on the role of teacher presence in online, Advanced Placement courses.
Resources created by Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D.
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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.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Blended learning
- Blended learning is a student-centered approach that integrates learning experiences in online and face-to-face environments. This article defines blended learning, discusses its history, and provides suggestions for creating an effective blended learning experience.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- 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.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- 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.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- 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.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Inclusion in the 21st-century classroom: Differentiating with technology
- In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 7
- While most teachers recognize the need to differentiate instruction, many face barriers in implementation. These barriers include lack of time to prepare lessons, the need to cover a wide range of content in a small amount of time, and extensive classroom management needs. This article advocates for using technology as a means to overcome some of these barriers.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. and Lauren Ormsby.
- Jump start your creativity: question yourself!
- A short webliography of tools to help you ask good questions.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
- An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D., Melissa Thibault, and David Walbert.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Piazza San Marco
- The Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark's Square, is the principal square of Venice, Italy. Unlike other European square of its size, no motorized vehicles can be seen nor heard in or around the piazza since Venetian traffic is by foot or boat on one of its canals....
- Format: image/photograph
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. and David Walbert.
- Planning a successful (and educational) field trip
- The world can be your classroom -- but ensuring that your field trip is a productive learning experience for students takes planning. This article helps you prepare your students, yourself, and others for a successful field trip.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. and Lesley Richardson.
- Ponte di Rialto
- The Ponte di Rialto, or Rialto Bridge, is one of the largest bridges spanning the Canal Grande of Venice. It was built in three years in 1588 and was the only way to cross the Canal Grande until on foot until the Accademia Bridge was constructed in 1854. More...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Venetian Gondola and Gondolier
- Transportation through one of Venice's 150 canals includes the option of a romantic excursion by gondola as seen here. Gondolas are long, asymmetrical, narrow boats made of one of only eight types of wood. The left side of the gondola is made longer to counterbalance...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
- Writing conventions
- Examples of common errors in sentence formation, usage, and mechanics.
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D..
