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CULLOWHEE—From the mountains to the sea came to life at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching when two faculty members used technology to connect teachers in Cullowhee and Ocracoke.

NCCAT Senior Digital Specialist Elizabeth Joyce and her “Designing Project Based Learning in Digital Format” group in Cullowhee and NCCAT Senior Literacy Specialist Amy Jo Spencer and her “Literacy Strategies For 21st Century Teaching and Learning” program in Ocracoke in May conducted an online Paideia discussion using a poem by Robert Frost.

Canvas, North Carolina’s Learning Management System (LMS), is your place for one stop learning and course management. Engage students by creating blended lessons using Canvas and a variety of Web tools by attending NCCAT. Canvas certified instructor Elizabeth Joyce teaches the courses.

CULLOWHEE—Jean Paul Powell, a distinguished educator who first proposed the idea of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, passed away on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. She was 98.

A visitation will be held from 7–8 p.m. Friday, May 19, 2017, at Crumpler Funeral Home, 131 Harris Avenue, Raeford. A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, May 20, 2017, at Scotia Village, 2200 Elm Street, Laurinburg. A graveside service will be held 4 p.m. Saturday, May 20, 2017, at Clinton City Cemetery. The family will receive friends also after the service at the gravesite.

CULLOWHEE—Quiz-Quiz-Trade is the Swiss army knife of teaching tools. Teachers can use it for mastery, for higher order thinking, for practicing social skills and students of every age love it.

NCCAT faculty member Dr. Deb Teitelbaum has created videos that show teachers learning the technique and using it to practice some vocabulary they just learned. The video links are below.

Click here for Quiz-Quiz-Trade I: The Basics