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		<title>Putting Students on the Fast Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Errol Shook from Watauga High is one of the most successful teachers I know at preparing high school students for the high tech workforce. Over the past decade, an average of four seniors each year have gone on from his program to internships or paid positions on college or university IT staffs &#8211; many of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=352&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Things We are Thankful for This Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the overall national unemployment rate is at 8.6%, the tech industry unemployment rate is 2.4%. And the outlook for 2012 is even stronger. It’s a great time to be teaching Information Technology, or working with teachers who are doing it! In spite of educational budget cuts and fiscal challenges for schools, we continue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=339&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congrats Due for Teacher-Student Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about working at ExplorNet is the opportunity to associate with some real quality CareerTech teachers who are preparing students for lifelong success. This fall we&#8217;ve trained more than a hundred Microsoft IT Academy teachers across North Carolina, helping them take best advantage of a wealth of resources that prepare students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=331&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading the Transition to the Common Core</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The move to Common Core state Standards &#8211; now underway in 45 states, two territories and the District of Columbia – brings challenges for educators.  The transition is getting into full swing in North Carolina, and as administrators and teachers learn more about what the standards are, they’re working through how to implement them.  What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=328&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session Features Windows 7, Cool Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 and cool tools for the Computer Engineering classroom were in the spotlight at the North Carolina Trade and Industrial Teacher Association&#8217;s fall conference.  Asheville High teacher Bryan Morrisey led a session for us on preparing students for the A+ exams. One change that exam takers are already seeing is additional questions on Windows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=317&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Conference Links and Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of great tools and links were shared during Wednesday’s Computer Engineering and Networking sessions at NCDPI’s CTE Summer Conference. We’re using one of them to showcase the others. LiveBinders is an online tool for organizing links and documents. It allows you to very quickly post favorite links into a tabbed structure that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=304&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CompTIA Authorized Academy Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting students certified is an ongoing challenge for IT teachers, and CompTIA’s Alan Rowland is joining us at an NC Summer Conference to talk about ways to overcome it. CompTIA has long had a partnership program for schools called E2C. This year the name has been changed to the CompTIA Authorized Academy Program. Rowland says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=303&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online PLCs Can Help Teachers Meet Evaluation Requirements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Carolina’s new teacher evaluation instrument includes measures of a teacher’s involvement in a Professional Learning Community. PLCs are great, but a problem for Career and Technical Education teachers is that they are often the only teacher in their school – or even the whole district – teaching specialized courses like Computer Engineering. Moodle forums [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=297&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Better than Wordle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tag clouds have been an engaging way to reinforce vocabulary and other lessons, and over the past couple of years we’ve shown Wordle to a lot of teachers in QTL sessions and other workshops. Now comes a tool that is even fancier. Tagxedo lets you create word clouds that have interesting shapes, with enhanced interactivity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=271&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Deal That Will Cost NC Teachers and Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers who are touting a “budget compromise” at the North Carolina General Assembly say it will save educators’ jobs. But in fact, the opposite is more likely. The budget deal, which would cement cuts proposed by Senate Republicans – now reportedly has the support of the handful of Democrats needed to override a veto from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explornet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13055788&amp;post=261&amp;subd=explornet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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