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This site provided by the Library of Congress has professional development opportunities for all types of educators: teachers, librarians, administrators, and facilitators. The site allows you to download ready-to-view professional development modules. All of the pd opportunties on the site are standards-aligned.

This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.

This is a PBS site about media literacy. It has teacher resources and professional development ideas related to media literacy.

This site offers so much. The teacher activity packs allow teachers to upload lessons, links, and activities to their own websites. There is a PD section with online courses for teachers. Lesson ideas are connected to standards and are available for many different grades.

A site full of lessons that can be categorized by grade levels and topics. With each category there is a "professional development" tab with great instruction and ideas.

This site is developed by the American Federation of Teachers. It has many relevant topics. It has a great section titled "hot topics" that provides information on topics related to Professional Development.

This is the go to site for professional development! There are sites upon sites here. Everything is organized by 4 main areas: Content Area, Specific Populations, Leadership, and Science and Pedagogy. The information here is unreal!

This website is from the National Science Teachers Association professional development. They even have web seminars that you can watch and interact with others. This would be good for my district and those that focus on the content area of science in my district.

Great podcasting website for teachers. It has plenty of podcasts that you can download yourself and use. You can also post your own podcasts. This site also includes video tutorials on how to use it.

The goal of Verizon Thinkfinity's professional development is to help educators, parents and afterschool practitioners engage students and enhance learning using their online resources. The site also offers many lesson plans and interactives for teachers to use in their classrooms.

I have been impressed with this site. The assessment is a great tool. As a future TIS, I know I will use this to help assess where the school district staff needs are.

Love this site! Google has provided schools with a professional development guideline to teach Google apps. These are awesome tools that are not utilized enough in the classroom and this would be a great way to show your colleagues what is out there for them.