PSU Professional Development

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Savevid.com works well with YouTube and several other sites that I have downloaded video from. I found that the video can be downloaded as an mp4, mp3, a flv, HD or computer, IPod, burn DVD's and more. Downloading, burning or embedding video into PowerPoints or SmartBoard lessons has become something I do on a regular basis and more reliable than hyperlinks.

Wow Sandee, thanks for that one! I always get stumped and have to flail around when deciding where to begin with video.

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For those of you looking for online professional development, these webinars would be of interest to school librarians. This publishing company offers webinars on "Best Graphic Novels of 2009" and "Beyond the Big 6" among others.

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.

Students can create, share, publish, and read digital books.

Great for students and teachers. You can communicate with other classes in the same grade. The teacher is the manager of the student blogs for it is very safe. There is also advance privacy available. The students can upload text, photos, and videos. Easy and fun!

Teachers can host and manage blogs for your students, use a Class Homepage to communicate with students, review capabilities of entries, and it offers advanced privacy. Students get fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos, fun learning experience, customizable visibility and comment settings, and no e-mail address required.

This is great for Science or Social Studies! Great video, and can read ahead to what will be on the National geographic!! Great learning tool. It is really easy to access.

This site offers teachers professional development that is standards based. Teachers can earn graduate credit, professional development points or CEU's while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to the classroom

This is a site by the PBS channel. This site offers standards based graduate-level courses. There are trainings offered from preK-12. There is a wide variety of courses and they are full of amazing information.

There usually are teacher discussion booklets and or teaching materials to go with most things. I have also found that the standards base curriculum is very helpful

This site is broken down into the five main math standards and from there, it breaks it down into grades. These are excellent virtual manipulatives that students can use online. They are organized neatly and each one has directions on how to use them. Some of them are more confusing than others, but well worth it. My kids love using them.

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.

Elluminate goes beyond web conferencing with best-in-class web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that help you create a 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration environment

This is a stellar site. There is lots of great materials for the classroom as well as professional development. There are online modules that you can take or ready made materials you can use to deliver.

This may be of interest for those looking to attend a conference for professional development.

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

This lady did a Technology seminar in Kansas City that I was able to attend two years ago. Since then, I always use her website that she has. There is incredible ideas and websites for teachers, parents, and students. Whenever I am trying to find something, this is almost always the first place I go to.

Social networking at your fingertips! This site allows you to set up, create, and personalize your OWN social network. It's yours. Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Everything is created by YOU for YOU! Imagine the possibilities with Ning in Education!

I wondered what Ning was! Thanks!

Create and discover social networks for your interests. Connect with people that have the same ideas, beliefs, concerns etc. Create a page that centers around you. This could be used in education to connect to your students and incorporate technology into the classroom. This site could be used in multiple ways within your classroom and district. This would be a great way to connect with your students. I believe that allowing your students to chat on a site like Ning would make them more likely to participate in classroom discussion. Sites like these are the things that our students do everyday.

In-depth lesson plans following the Core Knowledge Curriculum. These are great supplements to state requirements, even if your school doesn't use the Core Knowledge Curriculum exclusively.

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

Ok, so this site won't really help you in your classroom activities so much, but if you're looking to get out of your current job and start teaching at the university, this is the site for you.

This is an educational news site that has articles, webinars, blogs, events you can attend. It is a great resource to stay current with education and where it is going. This is great resource for all educators to follow.

An online journal related to topics in education. Provides blogs, specific topics to choose from related to education, discussions, and links to other publications