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Mike Fisher of http://www.digigogy.com/ developed this infographic addressing the flow of professional development externally and internally. 

"Footsteps2Brilliance, Inc.™'s Academic Language Program for Students (ALPS) delivers a robust library of stimulating ebooks and educational games to parents, children and teachers anywhere/anytime through innovative mobile gaming technology. Developed by educational experts usingthe latest research on cognitive development, ALPS provides young learners with 1,000 essential vocabulary words through interactive eBooks that are sure to engage today's digital students whether at school or home."

Aghora Design Academy is a training Institute run by Aghora Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.The academy was entrusted with the responsibility of developing the new generation of technical manpower that can spearhead the industrial development of the state.Aghora Design Academy has been envisaged to be the grooming ground for the future engineers ,designers and researcers.

Steven Anderson provides multiple options to use if considering app development. 

Here is the coding for you to embed a button to start GHO sessions within your own site.

The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games. The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.

"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."

Interactive collection of boxes that provide verbs and nouns to be used in developing learning objectives. 

FREE app for lesson plan development and recording. 

Recently I've been experimenting with a number of curation sites that are beneficial for creating and sharing lists. While exploring these tools, I've been "fine tuning" my Web 2.0 list for schools. I created a list of 25 Web 2.0 sites for education over a year ago -- but a lot has changed since then. More sites have been developed and more tools are available to students and educators than ever before.

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

1 -What is Pinterest 2- How does Pinteres work ? 3- Pinterest Tips 4- Some suggestions on teachers can use Pinterest 5- Pinterest for professional development 6- Some prominent educational Pinner to follow 7 Pinterest tutorials 8- Webliography ( links for further reading )

Great resource to download for use in professional development workshops or just for improving oneself. 

The great (former DEN Genius) Jennifer Dorman has developed thiis fantastic resource regarding infographics.  

Blog of Proximal Development. (teaching, blogging, learning)

Tips and Tricks for making WIkis standout from the crowd. This wikis has been developed by the same person that brought us Cool Tools for Schools wiki.

WebJunction has collected training materials and resources that have been developed by library staff from around the country. These materials can be downloaded, reused and repurposed by other trainers. We would also encourage you to add your own training materials to WebJunction to help grow the resources and contribute to the learning community! Please add your technology training resources to the document tab above or to the Patron Training discussion. "