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- Discuss it with discussion boards and forums
- This "Teacher Time Saver" looks at free tools for creating Web-based discussions.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Jump start your creativity: question yourself!
- A short webliography of tools to help you ask good questions.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- National news
- In Election 2008, page 1.3
- These links to some of our most trusted media outlets will help not only to instruct about the elections themselves but also to demonstrate the role the press plays in the electoral process.
- Format: bibliography
- 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.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Blogging: an introduction
- Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, have many uses in education, as tools for publication, research, administration, and more.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- 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.
- Carolina Online Teacher Program (COLT)
- Now you can earn a LEARN NC Certificate in online instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT). In five core courses and two electives, totaling a minimum of 17 CEUs, you’ll master the component skills of online teaching: effective collaboration and facilitation, creating learning communities, navigating the virtual classroom, and developing student-centered instruction.
- Format: article/help
- What's in a "digital textbook"?
- An overview of the features of our digital textbook for North Carolina history.
- Format: article/help
- About this "digital textbook"
- LEARN NC's "digital textbook" for North Carolina history provides a new model for teaching and learning. It makes primary sources central to the learning experience, using them to tell the stories of the past rather than merely illustrating it. Special web-based...
- Format: article
- Five tips to improve students' information evaluation
- Teach your students how to separate the good online information from the bad with these five strategies.
- Format: article
- By Bill Ferris.
- Play with purpose
- Electronic whiteboards make the internet an active communication vehicle of engagement and learning.
- By Jace Hargis and Tuiren Bratina.
- It's all about them!
- Students will create a class database in preparation for the North Carolina Test of Computer Skills using information about their classmates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Skip Thibault.
- 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.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Reading comprehension on the Web
- Sixth-grade students are relatively successful with online reading assignments, but previewing and providing them with strategies for online reading improves their comprehension.
- Format: article
- By Carrie Bartlett.
- 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.
- North Carolina
- “Tarheels”, “the Old North State”, “the Land of the Longleaf Pine”, all mean North Carolina. Here you will find a sampling of instructional resources to teach your students about the history, people and places, government, and economy of the state you live in - North Carolina!
- Format: bibliography/help
- Teaching with primary sources
- This collection of resources includes best practice articles, primary source process guides, lesson plans that model historical inquiry, and book-length materials that incorporate primary sources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Colonial North Carolina
- Colonial North Carolina from the establishment of the Carolina in 1663 to the eve of the American Revolution in 1763. Compares the original vision for the colony with the way it actually developed. Covers the people who settled North Carolina; the growth of institutions, trade, and slavery; the impact of colonization on American Indians; and significant events such as Culpeper's Rebellion, the Tuscarora War, and the French and Indian Wars.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
Resources on the web
- Online Tools for Schools
- The Office of School Services in the College of Education operates as a clearinghouse for Web-based and other educational technology projects. Online Tools for Schools provides an entry to our Internet-based materials for K-16 education. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: North Carolina State University
- Tree of Life Web Project
- An online database with information on hundreds of organisms and their evolutionary relationships with one another. Contains a learning section called Treehouses where Web-based publishing tools are provided for students and teachers to create new materials... (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: Tree of Life Project
