PSU Professional Development

Great blog with tips on how to use social networking to your advantage and to your LMC's advantage. Don't shy away from technology, just look at this blog to see tips and tricks that will make your LMC a great place for everyone involved.

This website has great articles dealing with libraries and stories that keep you up to date on whats up and coming. It also is a great tool that has tips on social networking, and interesting literature-related videos.

This website offers free webinars throughout the year. All you need to do is sign up and you can watch them free. The webinars offered vary on topics, but everyone is bound to find one topic that interests them.

What a WONDERFUL tool for beginning LMS! I can't wait to dig into this site and use it as a get started in my own library!

This was a great site I stumbled across last Fall. Great uses and great tools to search for curriculum, along with connecting with other teachers.

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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NetSmartz® is an interactive, educational safety resource teaching children how to stay safer on the Internet.

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.

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+.

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.

"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.

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.

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!

Love this site! Google has provided schools with a professional development guideline to teach Google apps. These are awesome tools that are not utilized enough in the classroom and this would be a great way to show your colleagues what is out there for them.

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.

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

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.

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.