HOT OFF THE PRESSES…
(from Justin Karkow, NC DEN Account Manager)!!
Wake County Public Schools and Discovery Education are pleased to present a Day of Discovery at Panther Creek High School on September 19, 2009.
This Day of Discovery will provide North Carolina educators and welcomed guests with an exciting and enriching day of professional development focused on creative ways to engage your students using digital media from the Discovery Education streaming library (formerly known as unitedstreaming).During the day, participants will learn how they can use images, audio clips and videos to create engaging multimedia presentations, digital stories, and virtual field trips!Lunch will be provided and the day will conclude with fun and prizes!
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009
Where: Panther Creek High School, 6770 McCrimmon Parkway, Cary, North Carolina
Time: 9:00am – 3:30pm (registration will begin at 8:30)
Cost: Free!
Space is limited, so register today!WCPSS Educators: Register via eSchools SRN: 296440601Educators outside of WCPSS: Visit http://tinyurl.com/wakedod to register.
Contact Justin Karkow at Justin_Karkow@discovery.com for more details.
Humor
This is my favorite Back-to-School TV commercial. Disclaimer: I do not work for, nor do I receive any compensation from the Staples company or its subsidiaries, unless you can count the sales taxes collected from their stores in our state. It just made me laugh and with all the financial turmoil in our schools, humor might prove to be the best tool.
LEARN NC Curriculum Database
Time is money. While struggling with which grade level, teaches a particular topic, I have rediscovered this little trick: The NCSCOS Curriculum Matrix. 
One example I will share is while reading articles from my RSS feedreader this morning, I ran across a learning activity featuring the Cold War. Instead of just forwarding it as SPAM to all the social studies teachers I wanted to try to send it those teaching the Cold War.
I clicked on my bookmark for the LEARNNC.org NC Standard Course of Study & Aligned Resources page (note hyperlinked image). I used the Find It! feature to search for the phrase “Cold War”. Placing the quotes around the two words focused the search in the database and only pulled up the exact objectives containing the words Cold and War. Without the quotations, dozens of objectives with war appear. This search told me that Cold War is taught in 9th grade, not middle school.
I am sure this is not a perfect way to correlate the standards with instructional material, but it sure helps, and it is free.
Via RSS
