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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.

Kansas Coaching Project from KU Center for Research on Learning. KU-CRL offers Instructional Coaching Institutes to explore issues and ideas related to this form of professional development.

This works with google earth. Teachers can create lessons on google earth that are centered around literature. This will take the student to the place on the "map". The teacher can embed bits or bytes of information there for the student to view.

Really great blog about pushing the envelope in the roll of librarian. This blogger is an active advocate for the 21st century Library Media Center and fun to read to boot!

Social networking at your fingertips! This site allows you to set up, create, and personalize your OWN social network. It's yours. Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Everything is created by YOU for YOU! Imagine the possibilities with Ning in Education!

I wondered what Ning was! Thanks!

Create and discover social networks for your interests. Connect with people that have the same ideas, beliefs, concerns etc. Create a page that centers around you. This could be used in education to connect to your students and incorporate technology into the classroom. This site could be used in multiple ways within your classroom and district. This would be a great way to connect with your students. I believe that allowing your students to chat on a site like Ning would make them more likely to participate in classroom discussion. Sites like these are the things that our students do everyday.

Website shares all the professional development offered by Greenbush in Southeast Kansas.

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.

Quick, easy and effective elementary teacher resources. Teaching tools, materials, podcasts, lesson plans, literacy centers, curriculum and many many more.

The tutorials on this page are very good and are worth the time. Some of the live tutorials were frustrating because you needed a phone and a computer, but you have a live instructor and that is worth a great deal. The techniques, the fun, the time involved were very different yet the same as making a PowerPoint only with a twist.

eMINTS -"enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies. The eMINTS National Center is an independent business unit of the University of Missouri offering professional development programs created by educators for educators.

This website offers a ton of great resources including lesson plans, rubrics, links to other sites, and even printables all centered around the use of technology in the classroom.

Education Week is great to follow with daily articles on educational topics, as well as discussion boards, events, and blogs. Don't worry if you miss a daily article they have an archived section too. This site would be beneficial to both teachers and district personnel.

You've got to check this one out, especially if you are or plan to be an elementary school librarian. This librarian, Keisa Williams, has such great ideas. She even talks about some of the professional development she has done with the staff. Awesome!

This site is a must for school librarians. View blogs, free webcasts, sign up for free newsletters, read current book reviews and so much more!