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Shelly Terrell offers FREE webinars every Friday at around 21:00 GMC/UTC at americantesol.adobeconnect.com/terrell/. This page gives a list of topics for upcoming webinars. Get somefree prof development with inspiring examples of how to use Web tools with your students.

"Learni.st makes it super easy to share what you know by pointing to existing web resources. You can use videos, blogs, books, documents, images, anything to explain how to learn something. This short video will teach you about the basics of Learnist like how the homepage is laid out and what is on a Learn Board." You will need an invite in this current Beta stage, but I think it will catch on.

This is a tutorial on how to get started at Learni.st, which lets you aggregate neat things you find on the Web. You can add it to your Facebook timeline (or not), Tweet it, and use images and video, while adding a few paragraphs on how to use the "learning" you added. As with a blog, others can comment on your contributions. Like WallWisher or Pinterist, items are collected bulletin board style. This tool might be useful for professional development, and for students as a means to collect Web items for a project. If being an archivist is an important part of the new Web, this might be a helpful visual tool.

"This Twitter Wiki has been designed with the needs of individual teachers in mind and can be used in a number of ways: * ...present all or part of this ... to staff * ... powerpoint document can be saved and used at any time * ... individual learning ... " Professional development--how do you use Twitter for educational purposes?

"Technologies emerge, evolve, and sometimes become obsolete very quickly. Occasionally, a simple technology designed for one purpose is adapted to meet an array of quite different purposes, some of which may be educational. In the case of Twitter, the needs and goals of users have transformed a simple status updating software into a versatile networking and learning tool used by an estimated three million people. I became one of these many users in 2008, after hearing about Twitter from a colleague at my university who raved about how it had become her primary resource for professional development." Very extensive annotations on using Twitter for prof development.

Modules explaining aspects of teacher training theories - theatre and Drama, creative writing, gestures/action English, patterns of SLA, etc.

An online professional development system--commercial, but looks to be very useful, and is used widely in Canada.

Like most items at TeacherTube, these videos are uneven in content and production values, but contain several real gems.

Jane Hart's blog on various aspects of technology and social networking.

"IMAGINE a world in which teachers and students all across the planet are able to work collaboratively on projects that make a difference in the world. Among the tens of thousands of schools worldwide that participate in iEARN, there is no shortage of success stories to demonstrate the power of iEARN's vision, not only to make a difference in the world, but to deepen the learning that takes place in these connected classrooms. "