North Carolina ECHO

NC ECHO collaborated with The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) and LEARN North Carolina (LEARN NC) to offer a series of seminars and workshops in which public school teachers and information specialists learn to incorporate the NC ECHO web portal and its resources into their curricula. Seminar participants are encouraged to create lesson plans utilizing NC ECHO's unique statewide directory of cultural institutions and their online primary resources. The resulting lesson plans are shared through the NC ECHO website and LEARN NC.

Melissa Thibault of LEARN NC and Kim Cumber of NC ECHO work with teachers.

Photo of teachers at Maritime Museum around flatbottom skiff Photo of teachers sitting at tables listening to the instructor at the museum seminar

North Carolina teachers visit the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort and then work to build a flatbottom skiff by “rack of eye” under the direction of Paul Fontenoy from the Museum.
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NCCAT provides residential seminars from January through December (including the summer months). Most seminars have a duration of five days. The daily schedule includes informational sessions, hands-on activities, and opportunities for reflection, reading, and networking with other educators from throughout the state. Teachers choose the seminars they would like to attend.

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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, is a statewide network of educators using the power of the Internet to improve K-12 education in North Carolina. The LEARN NC website offers a wide array of quality resources for K-12 classroom instruction and teacher professional development, all tied to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

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Explore the LEARN NC/NC ECHO lesson plans. (A new window will open when you do this.)

North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, http://www.ncecho.org, is the World Wide Web doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites.

The NC ECHO project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources (a state agency). Lisbeth C. Evans, Secretary, www.ncculture.com.

This innovative and collaborative project seeks to build a statewide framework for digitization in order to facilitate deep, wide, and comprehensive access to the holdings of North Carolina's cultural institutions. NC ECHO is sponsored by the State Library of North Carolina in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Questions and comments may be directed to the NC ECHO staff.