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Welcome to the Maine Content Literacy Project's Technology, Literacy, and Content (TLC) site. TLC contains a collection of unit exemplars that were designed to strategically utilize technology and literacy instruction in order to support and deepen content area understanding.  The site includes units for elementary, middle, and secondary school students that provide examples of effective literacy and technology integration in the core content areas of Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, and Science.  Each unit contains unit plans, lesson plans, resource materials, instructional tools, and exemplar videos.    The units, lessons, videos, and resources are free to use by schools for instruction or professional development.  

This Google site provides a fantastic layout for "Flipped" pedagogy professional development. 

Nice blog post from Powerful Learning Practice and Professional Development for 21st Century Educators. 

Scholastic, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and DonorsChoose.org bring you the Teacher Wall - a virtual teacher town square where America's educators can share their stories, knowledge, and ideas on our nation's schools. The Teacher Wall provides teachers with an opportunity to talk about what's important to them. From challenges to A-ha! moments, from professional development to job satisfaction, from curriculum to parent engagement - the topics tackled on the Wall showcase a wide range of voices and provide teachers with a chance to interact, share, and learn from one another, all while contributing to the conversation on American education.

Teachers' Domain is a extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development

"Educational Technology Guy In this blog, I talk about educational technology, educational theory, educational pedagogy, and other topics related to these. I teach Physics and EMS classes, so some times I'll talk about those specific areas. I'll also discuss 21st Century Skills and Education. I explore free educational technology resources, ways to integrate technology into the classroom, professional development, project based learning, and tips and resources for new teachers."

Welcome to the blog! I post as often as I am able, and you will see posts on iPods and iPads in school, Educational Leadership and Professional Learning. I am a teacher from just north of Calgary, Canada. My joy (aside from my wonderful family) is creating opportunities for students and teachers to learn in engaging and creative ways. My views are my own, and are not the views of my employer. Enjoy the discusion!

"This Strategy Guide describes the processes involved in composing and producing audio files that are published online as podcasts."

This website has been designed to provide Teachers with a repertoire of digital literary resources for the teaching of literary texts, particularly recounts. The activities on this website can be used as standalone individual activities or alternatively, as a series of activities which would form the digital component of an English unit focusing on recount. The series also addresses the use of multimodal texts to target the teaching of comprehending.