PSU Professional Development

eMINTS -"enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies. The eMINTS National Center is an independent business unit of the University of Missouri offering professional development programs created by educators for educators.

The School Mentor Model is a working model for on-site, on-going technology professional development, "just-in-time" support for technology use, and technology-infused curriculum modules. Lots of lesson plans are here to help integrate technology, along with how-to documents, handouts, hardware trouble shooting and forms.

This is a site you have to pay to have access to, but I think some of the courses have real merit for classroom teachers. This would be a neat way for teachers to inidividualize their professional development time.

A resource for librarians to communicate with other fellow librarians. There are some resources for TIS, but mainly for the use of reading and libraries.

An interesting presentation that outlines what professional development is and how librarians can best utilize professional development.

This is a blog that other first grade teachers in our district follow and myself. The blogger has cute ideas and gives resources to use for specific lessons.

State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the national member association that serves, supports and represents the interests of the educational technology leadership of state education agencies in all 50 states+.

I like this blog because it incorporates professional development as well as many other hot topics in education. There are blogs about technology, staff training and conferences, and about funding issues. This is a good resource for any educator.

"KET (Kentucky Educational Television) has been helping teachers help learners since 1968. On air. Online. In print." GED videos and many websites providing useful tools and information for adult educators.

With Geni, you can build your family tree, invite relatives to collaborate, preserve your family history, discover new relatives, share family photos and videos, and remember birthdays and anniversaries. Geni is private and secure. Only the people in your family can see your tree. I think this would be a wonderful tool to help teach research and organizational skills in a very secure and controlled environment.

This is an amazing book. Wow what a resource!

This site helps nonprofits and individuals to streamline their work with the web. Up dates on new technologies are also available.

WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through virtual classes, online tests, educational content, and content network. You can set up a free virtual classroom.

Similar to the phrase, "If you've got it, flaunt it. If you have Promethean technology in your building or district, be smart and make use of it for professional development.

This is an online tool that will help you manage and cite online sources. This could be a valuable tool in getting kids to properly cite the resources they use.

This article lists many sites that could be of use for digital storytelling projects and slideshows. Some of them I had never heard of yet and am anxious to try them out!

This is a website that has links to online popular resources such as Jing, Ning, YouTube, voicethread and many more. They are organized in a visual that makes it very appealing.

This site would be a great tool to use in the classroom (or in a library). A "wallwisher" wall allows everyone to communicate on a "wall" answering a question you have posed. Using sticky notes, those in the class answer on the virtual/visual wall. The wall I built asked the question, "what are you reading and what do you like about it so far?" Students can answer with both words and images. Therefore, it is my hope students will upload a picture of the book cover and give a quick review of the book based on what they have read so far. You can design the color/design of the wall. I found this tool to be lots of fun and it could be used in many ways in a classroom or library. Wallwisher could definitely be used to inspire collaboration and communication.

This is an online notice board maker where you can post announcements, greetings, jokes; just about anything you would want to put on a Post It. I think this would be a great tool for students to use in a note taking assignment. This would be fun to collaborate multiple students' posts and try to combine them randomly to create a funny poem or short story.

This site provided by the Library of Congress has professional development opportunities for all types of educators: teachers, librarians, administrators, and facilitators. The site allows you to download ready-to-view professional development modules. All of the pd opportunties on the site are standards-aligned.

This blog was started by a staff devleopment team at Austin Community College. It would be a great place for librarians to find professional development opportunities specific to libraries. The site offers information on webinar dates, library-related conferences, e-learning, etc. It is a site I want to return to so I can explore free professional devleopment opportunities for librarians!