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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.

An interesting presentation that outlines what professional development is and how librarians can best utilize professional development.

LearningTimes.org is an open community for education and training professionals. Members have free access to a wide range of opportunities to interact and network with peers from across the globe. Member activities include live webcasts and interviews with industry leaders, online debates and discussions, live coverage of industry conferences, and international working groups. The LearningTimes.org community also features free group collaboration tools, such as virtual meeting rooms, a site-wide instant messenger, and virtual office suites, making it a vital place on the web for thousands of education professionals to meet and interact at any time. This would be good for my school and district. It would be a good place to collaborate and interact with each other.

This blog was started by a staff devleopment team at Austin Community College. It would be a great place for librarians to find professional development opportunities specific to libraries. The site offers information on webinar dates, library-related conferences, e-learning, etc. It is a site I want to return to so I can explore free professional devleopment opportunities for librarians!

This site is a direct link to Professional Development in Kansas. It is a KNEA site.

This is a professional development site for educators and librarians. There are video collections, technology tools, higher education learning and lots of great development resources. There are 4 main areas: Technology and Learning, Internet Resources, Libraries and Literacy and Technology Tools.

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 site provides some great articles about assessment and testing. There are also blogs and articles about professional development, how to incorporate technology in to the classroom, and leadership.

This is a magazine that shares resources and strategies in education. It also is used as a professional development tool to help with the newest technologies. A great website for all educators to learn about the newest technologies.

A site for webinars, blogs, videos and current events in tech and learning. I like this site because it has reviews of new tech and also has a professional development section in how to implement tech in the classroom and in the school in general.

This page would be helpful for librarians searching for professional development opportunities. It includes handouts to use in your library, ideas, institutes, online courses, articles about library issues, opportunities for learning, and much more! I had fun exploring this site.

This website describes the tools, resources, and opportunities that the state of New Jersey is using for professional development. There are many interesting resources posted! A great way to see what other states are doing for professional development, how they are incorporating technology, and how they are merging the two areas!

This is a site you have to pay to have access to, but I think some of the courses have real merit for classroom teachers. This would be a neat way for teachers to inidividualize their professional development time.

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 site offers teachers professional development that is standards based. Teachers can earn graduate credit, professional development points or CEU's while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to the classroom

This is a site by the PBS channel. This site offers standards based graduate-level courses. There are trainings offered from preK-12. There is a wide variety of courses and they are full of amazing information.

There usually are teacher discussion booklets and or teaching materials to go with most things. I have also found that the standards base curriculum is very helpful

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.

This site has podcasts for professional development from the American Speech Language Hearing Association. This would be great for speech paths, along with regular ed. teachers who want to learn more in this area.

For those of you looking for online professional development, these webinars would be of interest to school librarians. This publishing company offers webinars on "Best Graphic Novels of 2009" and "Beyond the Big 6" among others.

A list of workshops, conferences, and institutes that will have something for all educators. Also has teacher resources including free downloads and an email address if you can't find what you are looking for.

This is a great site for educators or districts. It offers so many options. There are teacher resources, online learning, timely topics, workshops, and even conferences. The site itself also features professional development courses to take or have done at your school.

This page is a new, experimental class at Bentley University that Mark Frydenberg's is teaching. Anyone can follow the class through the class blog and through Ustream Videos that are posted on the website. The class is Web 2.0: Technology, Strategy, and Community. The focus of the class is how he learned about Web 2.0, started using it as a knowledge management tool. It also describes how he uses Web 2.0 for professional development.

This website explains Web 2.0 and Professional Development. It lists and explains popular Web 2.0 tools and then lists several examples of each. There are many areas to this site: Blogs, Contests, Opinions, Tips, etc.