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great site. she helps you develop your idea and say exactly what it is you want to say through brainstorming, creative direction, and presentation development.

4Teachers.org is designed to help teachers integrate technology into their classroom by offering online tools and resources. There are also tools for student use. Here teachers can discover valuable professional development resources addressing a variety of issues including technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

Since 1994 Classroom Connect has been the leader in helping teachers use technology to improve learning. The company's high quality professional development programs and online instructional materials meet the changing needs of K-12 school districts nationwide.

Advanced Education is a online professional development site that provides information and training on the latest 21st century technology that is used in the classroom, such as the SMART Board. Lesson plans for these technologies are provided, as well as links to other helpful educational resource websites.

The KNEA website provides a listing of professional development opportunities available to Kansas teachers. Teacher tips and links to various teacher resources for those employed in Kansas are shared as well.

This site is FULL of amazing podcasts. They are well organized and it is easy to locate what you are looking for. There is a massive range of podcasts. The ones I checked out were really interesting and I thought they were og good quality.

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.

A very clean site with lots of classroom and professional development resources. Lots of interactive (most Flash-based) activities for students. It appears to be free to use...

This site has a wide variety of information and links including technology, magazines, and much more. Some of the resources are for you to purchase, but there are many great resources that are free.

A library weblog that provides professional development resources. What I like about this blog and find useful is the "130 Tools". Provides links to 130 different web tools.

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.

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!

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

This site provides the latest information on what is happening in the world of books. It has articles addressing censorship, copyright, funding, even professional development. It would be a great resource for any LMS.

This blog has a lot of relevant information and addresses everything from good books to read to Facebook to MLA formatting. There is also a good amount of information on transliteracy I found really interesting.

This blog provides great resources and practical ideas for librarians and all those interested in technology. This is a great professional development blog especially for librarians.

Includes tutorials, workshops, powerpoints, handouts, etc. There is a wide-range of information: from how to put a border on your page to create a web page with Netscape Composer.

This website has many tutorials, articles, powerpoints and other tools to help teachers use technology in the classroom

This site has some great podcasts for 21st Century Skills. Most are brief and to the point. There is a variety of speakers and topics.

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.

Online math practice with the option of playing against others online. Developed for K-5 students. Fun!!

that was fun, I made the little character and played for awhile :)