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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 is an excellent resource for teachers who want to put technology into their classrooms. This site is geared more for home schooling kids, but I use it all the time. There are tons of sites you can use for all grade levels. Once you go to the grade level you want, you then can look at it for each specific subject area. This has been a wonderful source that I use for my Computer Center for guided reading.

Create a map of your favorite places, travels or destinations. Public, private, or community maps are available to make. I could see using this site in a variety of ways. It could be used as a beginning of the year "Get-to-know-you" activity. It could also be used to focus in on a specific geographical area in a Social Studies or Geography unit.

Classroom 2.0 discussions that specifically address Library Media Specialists.

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!

What I liked most about this blog is that it is specifically designed for how you can integrate technology into your own classroom. It would be a great tool for teachers to utilize to help them turn their classroom into a 21st century learning environment. This site can also help give the support teachers need when they are trying to integrate different tools and technologies that districts sometimes lack after having taken a professional development course. I found it very encouraging.

This site is an online journal that contains many useful materials for educators. This specific aricle is all about professional development in the 21st century.

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

This is a blog that other first grade teachers in our district follow and myself. The blogger has cute ideas and gives resources to use for specific lessons.

This is an educational news site that has articles, webinars, blogs, events you can attend. It is a great resource to stay current with education and where it is going. This is great resource for all educators to follow.

An online journal related to topics in education. Provides blogs, specific topics to choose from related to education, discussions, and links to other publications

This educational technology website was created to house articles, news, and information about Ed Tech in general. What I found to be the most interesting was how it gave history as to how and when technology and internet specifically started impacting the classroom and how it currently impacts all around the world. There are all kinds of great tabs on the left side that lead to articles and discussions that are very relevant to our field.