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Great district professional development blog/website. Check it out! - updated by Justin Tarte

Some ideas on how Google+ can be used effectively in professional learning, collaboration, etc.

"The PLN Matures. The Progression of the 21st Century Personal Learning Network" - learn how some educators are growing in good educational practice & collaboration and the process that is taking place in that development. Excellent post!

Here is a LiveBinder with resources used for a Virtual Summer Camp (technology camp for teachers). Again, using LiveBinders makes it a snap to organize resources you want to share.

"How is it now that so many adults are reduced to tears when confronted by an unfamiliar technology?" One answer is that, "We have learned to become helpless; most likely by playing the traditional game of 'school'." Our evaluations through PD surveys, conversations, and focus groups indicate that teachers feel they don't use technology because they don't have enough training. Tom Whitby advises educators hesitant to use the modern tools of today, to stop relying on others and take ownership of their learning and suggests this can be done through developing a personal learning network.