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Android Design Introducing Android Design: The place to learn about principles, building blocks, and patterns for creating world-class Android user interfaces. Whether you're a UI professional or a developer playing that role, these docs show you how to make good design decisions, big and small.

"A professional learning community or PLC is an opportunity for a group of colleagues within a specific field to participate in collaborative learning. Typically PLCs are used in schools as a way to organize teachers, students and/or community personnel into specific working groups where they can help enhance curriculum, share visions, contribute and encourage each other with the ultimate purpose of improving education."

"CRSTE creates synergy across the national capital region for advocacy, infrastructure, policy, practice, professional development and strategies that promote the infusion of instructional technology across the curriculum in public and private PreK-12 education and higher education."

"As you know, classroom management presents the most difficult - and most important - aspect of the teaching profession. Maintaining discipline and winning students' cooperation requires tremendous skill. Our book, "Classrooms That Work: A Teacher's Guide to Discipline Without Stress" and the resulting companion workshops for educators have been developed to provide teachers with the proven techniques and strategies they need to meet the challenges of today's teaching environment. These are based on theoretical and practical guidelines towards creating a democratic classroom based on mutual respect between teachers and students, as well as group problem solving. Thousands of teachers have already proven the worth of this book, using it every day in their classrooms."

EdCamp is a movement that encourages educators to get together, learn from on another, and grow professionally in a casual "unconference" environment.

"Math Teacher Link is a web-based professional development program for mathematics teachers at the 9 - 14 grade levels. It provides short courses on the use of technology in teaching mathematics in the areas of Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, and Statistics"

The Math Forum Is... ... the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992. _We are teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents using the power of the Web to learn math and improve math education. _We offer a wealth of problems and puzzles; online mentoring; research; team problem solving; collaborations; and professional development. Students have fun and learn a lot. Educators share ideas and acquire new skills.

For 30 years, Tech & Learning has served the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies. Our audience includes all job roles within the district community, with district-level technology coordinators the primary recipients. Beyond that, our magazine is often used as a professional development tool to help educators across the board get up to speed with the newest technologies and products in order to best prepare students for the global digital workforce.

"Get the most out of your eInstruction® technology. We offer many online training resources and some more in-depth training and professional development options. Learn more ways to effectively use technology in the classroom and continue to drive greater student achievement."

Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.

Doodle eliminates the chaos that comes from scheduling and saves you a lot of time and energy when you're trying to find a time to bring a number of people together. Instead of using just one option, you can propose several dates and times and the participants can indicate their availability online. With one look, you'll be able to see what the best time is for the meeting, and this works with any calendar system that is being used.

A list of projects created by Steve Hargadon focused on helping educators communicate ideas globally for schools, libraries, and classrooms.

"The calendar below shows live web events from the programs below, including webcast shows from our own Classroom 2.0. All times are shown in Eastern Time. If you want to add this calendar to your own Google calendar, use the link on the lower right ("+ Google Calendar") and all events will show in your calendar in your local time. "

""Finally! A One-Stop Resource To Integrate Technology Into Your Classroom That You Can Access In The Next 15 minutes...""