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6.4 Candidates use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. The Library of Congress Online offers a Teacher's Resource page that provides self-paced modules for professional development with completion certificate awarded, links to classroom materials that meet the educational standards of each state, lesson plans, a blog for teachers, and much more. I recommend completing the Introduction to the Library of Congress Module under Professional Development as a starting point.

Education World offers an educator a website to find numerous teaching tools. This website provides links and outlets to resources available on the internet. The professional development section of the website gives teachers countless ideas for improving their educational practice.

I chose this website because I feel that it is a site that students, teachers, and parents would benefit from. It is an Award-winning educational software and technology professional development to help students develop essential 21st century skills with project-based learning.

This website offers teachers, parents and students resources for use in the classroom and at home. Resources include lesson plans, strategy guides, activities and more. 6.4 Candidate use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. I believe this website met the 6.4 standard because it educates teachers on innovative ways to set up lessons and activities in the classroom. This website also offers teachers educational websites which show them how to incorporate technology into their lessons.

Teachers Social Network (TSN) has the same concept as the ever popular Facebook. Teachers can create a free account, and begin chatting with other professionals about important issues or ask for help concerning a certain lesson plan. This website meets standard 6.4 because the information one obtains from chatting with other teachers is integrating technology into his/hers own learning process and is very likely to influence their teaching habits or change their current educational practices. Overall, this website is a good tool to get ideas and answers from fellow teachers.

This website goes along with Standard 6.1 by providing teachers with multiple ways to enhance their classroom. There are free worksheets to print out, many links to other websites to get educational material, educational games, and more. It has lesson plan ideas sorted by subject area and even emergency lessons for substitutes to keep students engaged. As a beginning professional, you can look at tips on how to write a lesson plan and improve it as well.

If knowledge was power this site would be invincible. With countless free lesson plans, activities, and games for both students and teachers this site has it all while adhering to standard 6.1.

Teachnology.com is a teacher's resource site that offers educational and instructional tools for teachers. This site reflects Standard 6.5, because this site features research in educational topics and teacher development, student and teacher safe search engines, information in educational technology, teacher newsletters, and teacher forums that allow teachers to communicate on updates and ideas in the educational world. Teachnology.com also offers classroom resources such as lessonplans, worksheets, templates for graphic organizers, and rubrics that can be used in the class.

This is an incredible tool that offers learning centered videos to enhance the 21st century classroom. The search directory has the ability to categorize, subcategorize, and select age appropriate titles for the intended curriculum. The site content is reviewed by teachers and other professionals for accuracy and appropriateness.

ClassMarker's secure, professional web-based testing service is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly - saving hours of paperwork! The ClassMarker hosted online testing software is the best test maker solution for business and training tests; recruitment & pre-employment assessment; educational facilities - including schools, distance learning, online courses & E-Learning and self-study groups, practice tests and more.

PBS Teachers has a variety of resources for teachers, free of charge, including lessons plans and access to PBS programing filtered by subject area. Members also have access to teacher discounts through the PBS store.

Find teaching resources and program information such as episode descriptions and educational learning goals for PBS KIDS shows. Also includes professional development opportunities for all teachers.

This online writing lab meets the requirements of Standard 6.5: Candidates use technology to gather, sort, and analyze information needed for their own research projects. The site has many useful tools in working with research and projects. There are links to guide you through your research and organize your paper in a professional way. I have found it to be very helpful.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

This website offers resources geared toward continuing professional development for teachers through reflective practice.