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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 online conference site is used to share your expertise, experiences, and knowledge relevant to the use of information technology in learning, teaching and academic services.

This online conference, which takes place in June, will actually feature a panel of students who speak on their thoughts on the future of technology and education. It would be interesting to check it out to see how teachers are collaborating with students on the issue of future education.

A site to get information on conferences, books on technology topics, and articles with the latest on up and coming technologies.

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 may be of interest for those looking to attend a conference for professional development.

SC EdTech offers content and activities that span all areas of educational technology with diverse workshops, presentations, speakers, exhibitors, and recognition events.

This site is devoted to literacy education. Their goal is to reach children to share the love of reading and writing. The site includes seminars, webinars, video conferences, blogs, and podcasts. This site would be helpful to any teacher devoted to teaching reading and writing.

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.

I like this blog because it incorporates professional development as well as many other hot topics in education. There are blogs about technology, staff training and conferences, and about funding issues. This is a good resource for any educator.

This site shares many different features from news for education, blogs, conferences, professional development courses, and much much more! You do have to join and become a member to this site if interested in taking part in their resources. There are also journals, articles, and webinars to follow from this site.

Focuses on middle school professional development. Lists resources, has newsletter, and has conferences available.

I was introduced to this site in another class I have taken through PSU and find it to be really powerful. TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design. This site goes beyond technologies for the classroom, and discusses real life technologies…some our students might be using in the future. This site contains a number of videos. The videos discuss a variety of topics, more than just technology. Two such videos that would be really thought provoking and/or great conversation pieces for a professional development day are found at the following links: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/taylor_mali_what_teachers_make.html http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html