PSU Professional Development

Online workshops on educational topics that teachers can move through at their own pace.

National professional development standards guidelines.

This site has many helpful elements. It has powerpoint presentations and tutorials that help with different web 2.0 tools.

Has many great ideas and programs to use in class. I like the engrade program.

Great website for educators to share slideshow presentations in all content areas of education. Share you own shows or download slides already created. Don't reinvent the wheel or hesitate to share something of your own.

Heads up on another type of "smartboard".  This system has a website and there are blogs talking about how to implement this Mimio technology into the classroom.  

What I liked most about this blog is that it is specifically designed for how you can integrate technology into your own classroom. It would be a great tool for teachers to utilize to help them turn their classroom into a 21st century learning environment. This site can also help give the support teachers need when they are trying to integrate different tools and technologies that districts sometimes lack after having taken a professional development course. I found it very encouraging.

I found this site to be great not only for personal use, but for educators as well. She has her own list set up of different blogs to choose from which takes away having to search for them. Her website itself also features some great aspects such as workshops, presentations, and her own blog.

Education Week is great to follow with daily articles on educational topics, as well as discussion boards, events, and blogs. Don't worry if you miss a daily article they have an archived section too. This site would be beneficial to both teachers and district personnel.

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.

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

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!

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

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 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.

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

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.