PSU Professional Development

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

This is a free online journal that addresses the use of multimedia resources in online education. You can sign up to get notifications when new issues appear online.

Classroom 2.0 discussions that specifically address Library Media Specialists.

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

This site helps explain the basics of web 2.0 tools to a technology immigrant. It is a great site that would allow educators who are scared to learn about technology, because it is a very simple site that would teach them about what students are using today.

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.

A librarian created this blog in order to answer all the "foreign" questions she is asked. She answers the questions in hopes of teaching others about new technology and how to integrate it into the classroom.

The online Journal of Academic Leadership is aimed at those in the academic world who are dedicated to advancing the field through their research. ALJ provides an array of articles and essays that speak to the major issues of the field faced by those in leadership roles across all content areas and disciplines - from classroom instructors to university presidents.

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

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

I get e-mails from this site.

This site has a load of resources for every educator. There is an Ed Tech newsletter, clip art, lesson plans, journal articles, web classrooms, templates and Ed Hound schools on the web.

This site is sponsored by SMART Technologies who produce the SMART Board. The site offers a variety of videos featuring SMART Board lessons and tutorials and you can even post your own videos to the site.

This is a journal article that tells of the impact that clickers are having in schools for teachers and students.

You can use a picture they provide or you can upload a picture that you want to use through their browser button. You adjust the mouth to where you think it best fits on the picture for opening and shutting like a real mouth would when talking, then you do a voice recording either through your computer if it has a microphone or you can call in the recording over the phone. Give your blabber a title, description, tag and save it and you have created your own character that talks with your voice that is telling the info you want to share. Our 3rd graders did this using pictures of famous inventors and pretended they were the inventor and told a little about their life and invention.

All types of games, activities and resources for teaching and learning multiplication. The games are great to use on a SmartBoard as a class activity.