PSU Professional Development

This site shares many different features from news for education, blogs, conferences, professional development courses, and much much more! You do have to join and become a member to this site if interested in taking part in their resources. There are also journals, articles, and webinars to follow from this site.

A list of workshops, conferences, and institutes that will have something for all educators. Also has teacher resources including free downloads and an email address if you can't find what you are looking for.

This is a great site for educators or districts. It offers so many options. There are teacher resources, online learning, timely topics, workshops, and even conferences. The site itself also features professional development courses to take or have done at your school.

Educational videos collected from all sorts of other sites like YouTube. Easy to find the subject you are looking for.

Good for Elementary/primary grades and technology. Nicely organized and has a nice How-To section for things like video and podcasts.

This sites provides it all. Resources for lesson plans, rubrics, clip art, and more!

This site has lots of link to lots of other resources. Its a good place to start looking if you need something...it's also nicely organized. It's my best go-to site for other resources

As a Language Arts teacher and a hopeful librarian, I love Donalyn Miller and jump at any chance to spread her love of books to those who have not found her yet! Enjoy!

This is the best resource ever! There are so many great videos, slidshows, songs! This site has it all and the material is wonderful to show in the classroom. The site is free and you can add your own material if you wish to share it. There are some really creative teachers out there! This will be a place you can spend hours upon hours exploring.

This site is similar to YouTube only it features videos, audios, etc. that relate more to education. This site allows you to find videos to use in your curriculum and your classroom to help students understand the material. Anyone can pick from the videos already available or you can upload your own material. Also, teacher tube has an educational blog that you can access and add to.

It's like a YouTube for educators. It has lots of fun videos.

Great site for sharing your book reccommendations with students, parents, and colleagues. Kind of like Facebook for book worms.

Very witty and humorous at times, blog by a credible librarian blogger.

Really great blog about pushing the envelope in the roll of librarian. This blogger is an active advocate for the 21st century Library Media Center and fun to read to boot!

Very intelligent yet accessible blog for technology in the library nd classroom setting. Witty and entertaining blogger.

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.

This is by far one of the best talks I've ever heard regarding why our schools are failing. You've probably already seen this, but if not, you need to spend the 12 minutes to watch this.

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.

This is an impressive list of tech tools with a brief description of the tool as well as the link for the tool.

You can search for lessons by the state standards. You put in your state, grade level, and subject area and it finds lessons that would fit.

This blog has good information about current tools being used in the classroom.

Blog for teacher librarians. connects to other blogs, YouTube videos embedded, reviews of student literature, etc.

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.

A tutorial on how to share slide with other teachers.