David Walbert

David Walbert is Editorial Director and Lead Designer/Developer for LEARN NC in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education. He is responsible for all of LEARN NC's educational publications, oversees development of various web applications including LEARN NC's website and content management systems, and is the organization's primary web, information, and visual designer. He has worked with LEARN NC since August 1997.

David holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America, published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. With LEARN NC, he has written numerous articles for K–12 teachers on topics such as historical education, visual literacy, writing instruction, and technology integration.

Resources developed by David Walbert

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Writing for the Web
How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.
Author: David Walbert
Format: edition
Best practices in school library website design
You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Media: image
Does my vote count? Teaching the electoral college
Students will learn about the electoral process and its history through reading, research, and discussion. They will then convene a constitutional convention to debate altering this process.
Author: David Walbert
Format: lesson plan (grade 10)
Evaluating multimedia presentations
A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
From documents to digitization
To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Higher order thinking with Venn diagrams
Graphic organizers are powerful ways to help students understand complex ideas. By adapting and building on basic Venn diagrams, you can move beyond comparison and diagram classification systems that encourage students to recognize complex relationships.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Keep it short (but not too short)
Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
The not-so-famous person report
Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Scannability: organizing for the web
How you organize and format your writing can go a long way toward making it readable.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
To link or not to link? Using hypertext wisely
Links are the soul of the web, but make sure they support your content rather than detracting from it.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page
Transit of Venus
On June 8, 2004, a transit of Venus will occur, the first in 122 years. This article explains what a transit is, why it matters, and when and how you can safely view it.
Author: David Walbert
Format: article/single page