PSU Professional Development

A wiki about everything from videos to widgets, graphing to collaboration

I like that this site is organised so nicely and is very user friendly.

A blog about integrating tech into the classroom. Lots of ideas, resources and news to keep you busy. Great for the classroom teacher, LMS or TIS.

A list of ways you can introduce tech into your classroom. They are simple and easy ways to get tech going in your room. Great for teachers who are just starting to introduce tech.

This article takes a slightly different spin on the "How to work with teachers to help them integrate technology" aspect: It looks at it from the perspective of the teacher and putting some of the responsibility on them to take advantage of the Tech Coordinator as a resource.

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

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.

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy and free! I think this would be a fun way to allow students the creative freedom to construct graphic-novel-type book reports or fictional stories. This would also be a wonderful way for students to retell the plot line of the story for the class.

The directions are easy: Upload your files from your desktop, edit and view your docs from any computer or smart phone. This is a great resource for teachers and students as the students can work on an assignment from their computer at home and the teacher can access it and see how they are doing.

Excellent website for sample policies and procedures, written as a resource for school directors.

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.

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.

Links to interactive math activities

Wow! My kids will love this site! It would be a great link to add to your classroom webpage for students to access from home.

free service for making polls, quizzes and surveys you can use with your students. The free account limits you to 100 survey responses a month, 10 questions per survey or quiz.

This website provides short videos of 'teachers-in-action'. My personal favorite is China through Mapping, as you follow an Early Childhood Teacher through the steps of a class-created GIANT map, all while learning about China. \nThe entire site is filled with great videos that 'teach teachers' about great classroom ideas!

K-12 resources in arts, foreign languages, literature, language arts, math, science, and social studies. These resources can be accessed for FREE at Learner.org or can be purchased through the website.

Has lots of great resources across the curriculum both for teachers an for students, the vast majority can be view VoD directly from the website.

This is a great blog with tons of resources for teachers! I love the must watch educational videos section, as well as the "cool links" area of the site. Everyone should check this out!

This site lists the top 25 librarian blogs according to visitor traffic.

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