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Great blog with tips on how to use social networking to your advantage and to your LMC's advantage. Don't shy away from technology, just look at this blog to see tips and tricks that will make your LMC a great place for everyone involved.

The Horn Book magazine features reviews of books for children and young adults. This site includes several Classroom Tips for promoting the love of reading and reading skills. Includes podcasts featuring conversations with authors, illustrators, and editors.

Cool websites, cool software apps, howto articles and Internet tips.

The Tech Integration section of the Education World website. Provides tips and information from different columnists. Features a different "gadget of the week".

eLearning eVolution: Transforming Teaching & Learning through Innovative Technology. This edublog gives tips on using technology for your professional development. This would be helpful for your school and district when planning professional development days.

Education Oasis is an online "oasis" for teachers, administrators, and parents to visit to get ideas, information, and inspiration for their students. The site provides graphic organizers, printables, bulletin boards, lesson plans, subject resources, and instructional and classroom management tips and tricks. Links are provided for articles on various educational topics, as well as websites for teachers and students. It also shares book reviews and book lists for children and teens.

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 website has great articles dealing with libraries and stories that keep you up to date on whats up and coming. It also is a great tool that has tips on social networking, and interesting literature-related videos.

This blog includes great tips and resources along with links to other great sites and blogs for librarians.

This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.

Of all the sites, the teachers that set this up, are right on track. I love this site.

A host of information and links for connecting librarians. This site contains lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, and teaching tips. A great place to share and learn.

A wiki just for librarians to take from others and share their own ideas and insights.

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

The purpose of this site is to provide professional development for educators by sharing resources, lesson plans and files for classroom use. There are even podcasts that you can listen to. This would be great for me personally to get to see others lesson plans and files.

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.

eSchool News is a website that shares technology news with educators.

A technology news website. Provides resources, videos, and webinars on technology in education. Current topics that I found interesting are: "Ten tips for using social media in communications" and "Empowering education with video".

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.

I came across this article and thought it was pretty cool. Our district has been putting lots of emphasis on having a classroom website and how to better connect and communicate with parents. This website give 14 tips on ways to use technology to better connect! Check it out!