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Approach for establishing professional development.

Nice collection of resources for each of the 5 C's for developing your PLN/PLC.

Providing world-class professional development opportunities for educators.

A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities. "Behind the Lesson" provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch the 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

List of tool options to create applications for iPhone.

Create screencasts and screen recordings with this free online service. It is very simple. A great way to develop video tutorials for your students and colleagues.

The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games. The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.

"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."

Interactive collection of boxes that provide verbs and nouns to be used in developing learning objectives. 

Great resource to download for use in professional development workshops or just for improving oneself. 

Free professional development from educators and students around the globe.

Site developed in Australia provides a wealth of Web 2.0 tools, integration ideas, and tutorials for successful engagement.

Jennifer Wagner has developed a great collection of resources and lessons that promote inquiry based learning.

interest resides most specifically in the development of personal learning networks (PLNs) in teaching and learning.

Tips and Tricks for making WIkis standout from the crowd. This wikis has been developed by the same person that brought us Cool Tools for Schools wiki.

Blog of Proximal Development. (teaching, blogging, learning)

Imosaic is a set of tools for producing mosaics of images.

Imosaic is a set of tools for producing mosaics of images. Currently we are developing 2 tools that achieve this task:

Thinking Maps, Inc. is an educational consulting and publishing company specializing in providing professional staff development for K-12 schools across the country. Our main focus is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.

Their primary objective is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.

a humorous discussion of PLNs with a serious purpose: How to integrate more of our peers.

It's a perennial question.