PSU Professional Development

This is a great compilation of SMART board lessons. Why reinvent the wheel? Teachers have alread created some great lessons to use.

This is awesome! Thank you! I am a new SmartBoard user and these pre-made lessons will be awesome for a beginner like me!

Allows students to create free, simple blogs of their own, without an email address.

I have been looking for a site like this! Thanks!

Great tool for teachers and students. It is safe and simple. Teachers monitor all activities.

Discovery Education aka United Streaming is a widely used source for videos on just about any topic you might need in your classroom. I really can't imagine teaching without such easy to use resources at my fingertips.

Our school district has this and I love it! I wish there was more for high school and college students, but it is still great! What I don't find in the way of video here, I get from youtube.

PowerPoints that are already created on just about any area you can think of including library skills. This is a link to the library one, but the home page has PowerPoints for every subject area. (Parts of a Book, Dewey Decimal System, More - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives for Kids)

Great site! I use this at least twice per week. Power Point presentations, web links, games and activities for nearly every topic in every subject being taught. The work has already been done for you!

Huge collection of free, already made, Power Points in a variety of different subjects and topics.

This is a professional networking site where educators can learn about what is happening in technology in the classroom by following the latest news in Ed Tech, sharing content such as favorite webpages, lessons, video, audio, and written content. Visitors are encouraged to join in and add content.

A great resource for personal learning. I enjoyed listening to several podcasts.

This is a great site that you can use as an instructional tool or for learning activities for your students.

This site allows students or teachers to create comic strips to enhance a variety of different lessons.

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".

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. Larger words indicate the those used more frequently in the text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

This is a simple but clever tool that will take words or passages and randomly create a poster. This would be a good thing to generate word walls for vocabulary or even to do a passage that one might use to emphasize a theme or style.

This site is an online journal that contains many useful materials for educators. This specific aricle is all about professional development in the 21st century.

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.

This website shares 100 ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom.

This is a really good site for keyboard practice. Students can set their own pace from novice to advance. It's even good practice for the teacher!

This site allows you to read, create, and share books online. You can read books online for free. You can also have students create their own books and publish them online with over 7,000 images. There is a fee of $12.95 a month for one teacher. You could plan your lessons around creating books and pay the fee for the months you used the program.

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.

This site has excellent online activities, instructional aids, and games for younger elementary kids. I personally love the 2-digit with regrouping activities.

A great website for watching webinars and videos, reading blogs, communicating with other educators. Also, great for staying up to date on technology and what others are doing with it.

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The Reading Lady is a great resource to all involved in literacy. It offers ideas for comprehension, author studies, poetry, writing, assessment (including rubrics), reader's theater (one of my favorite things, and even a blog. These are very user friendly ideas and lessons.

AWESOME site! And FREE!!! Great resource for teaching teachers to use Virtual Field Trips. I especially like the one about teaching student to mummify things (morbid, I know, but this is very easy-to-use steps for teaching students science processess!)....this site has exceptional 'trips' (otherwise known as 'lessons', but don't tell the students that!) on a wide variety of topics!