This is the section of the Minnesota Dept. of Education's website called "Educator Excellence," furnished with resourses to help educators succeed such as Early Learning Resources, Professional Development and Teacher Programs. Worth taking a look at to compare with FL Dept. of Ed's website.
Professional development is important - we should try to continually learn and grow as teachers - so good thing the FL Dept of Education website has a page listing some upcoming conferences and workshops (http://www.fldoe.org/JustForTeachers/conferences.asp). This, however, is a FREE webinar called "Preparing Teachers to Implement the Common Core State Standards." It is next Tuesday, Jan 29 2013, from 1:00-2:00 PM. I'm not sure if it will be archived for later viewing.
Sadly, according to this county website, technology programs are offered during non-school hours. Of course, this does not account for the good that is going on in individual schools in the district.
With my daughter being a recent UCF graduate in Elementary Education, she has given me insight on her internship experiences in Marion County Schools. In her opinion, she noticed that if and when technology and media resources were available, the teachers did, in fact, make use of them in the classroom. This is definitely encouraging to me.