NCLOR

I only spent two hours at RMS today, escorting children to the bathroom during the morning test-taking. At 10A I was at Randolph Community College for a day of NCLOR training. My training was offered by my community college, but NCLOR is largely at K12 resource so I was tickled that my training opportunity was during my scheduled internship time--I would not have been able to get off work and attend otherwise.


NCLOR, like NCLIVE and NC-NET, is another wonderful state-sponsored resource for educators. LOR stands for "Learning Object Repository". It is an online archive of lesson plans and multimedia classroom supplements that can be used in the classroom or imported directly into Blackboard or Moodle. Guests may view content that has been created free of charge, but NC educators can (free to them) request a username and password and access purchased content as well. It is hoped that educators across the state will be inspired to add their own creations to share with their colleagues. To this end, there are collaborative functions within the software that will allow teachers in remote locations to co-create new lessons and aids.


The instructor was from the company that created the software, and while he'd worked with the folks in NC who were actually implementing this project, it was evident he was not familiar with NCLIVE and NC-NET. It appears that both these resources may end up linked to NCLOR as well. I hope so. As harried as our faculty seem these days, one stop-shopping could be a real help to them.


Most of us in attendance were community college faculty. I may have been the only librarian. My login sets me up to view most of the collection, with emphasis on community college resources, but I do have access to lots of K12 resources and could request a K12 login at some point in order to see all of them. There was also a lot of professional development stuff, including tutorials for a wide array of Web 2.0 technologies. Maddie wants to brush up on her Web 2.0 stuff over the summer. I've already introduced her to NC-NET. I think she needs this trick in her bag as well.


Last day of EOGs tomorrow. If she's not too pooped at the end of it, we'll sit down and have a look-see. http://www.explorethelor.org/