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Powerful Learning Practice Professional Development for 21st Century educators. This site looks interesting. It is a free site and appears to provide a variety of professional learning opportunities for teachers that they can take back to their classroom and immediately implement.

Teachbook.com is a professional, online community for teachers. When you join Teachbook, you can communicate with your colleagues in a secure, professional online environment. You can create, share, and search a database of lesson plans and instructional videos created by other teachers, as well as find online courses, instructional modules, and other education resources. Managing your classroom and communications with parents and studetns is easy with Teachbook.

from Getting Smart by Miriam Clifford

Teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum

Instant Professional Portfolio Site from your Flickr Photos

Can't remember/find your PPID? Quickly access it by completing the requested information, so you can receive Act 48 for your professional development. For future reference, create a contact in your phone and add your PPID there, so you have access to it wherever you are located!

Article on BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) as it applies to corporate America. The writer makes the case that coming generations will make centrally-controlled IT obsolete as they demand choice in their devices and a union of their personal and professional on one computing device/mobile device.

Article on BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) as it applies to corporate America. The writer makes the case that coming generations will make centrally-controlled IT obsolete as they demand choice in their devices and a union of their personal and professional on one computing device/mobile device.

"Welcome to the Pennsylvania Department of Education free online Act 48 professional education programs of study provided by Learning Sciences International. The free self-study courses are provided for eligible Pennsylvania educators 24 hours a day/7 days a week."

PBS Teachers is a wonderful site with lots of resources and supplemental material for teachers to use with students. This particular link will take you directly to the STEM education resource center: Professional Development and the focus on this page is Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA. However, if you look at the top of the page you can choose a specific grade band and then within that there are various content areas that can be chosen. Looks like a very interesting site with lots of resources to select from.

Looks like a good site full of supplemental resources. Worth the search and a look.

VodBurner Features * Create complete video productions directly from Skype calls. * Record both sides of any Skype video conversation, directly to your hard disk. * Captures at full frame rate and maximum resolution for the best quality possible. * Once the call is complete, generate a single complete video, incorporating both sides of the call, with just a couple of clicks. * Edit the video prior to publishing, using the built in Post-Production Console. * Alter which camera is used at any point (this side, other side or both sides). * Trim portions of the call so they do not appear in the final production. * Add text captions to the final production, with the ability to alter font, color and background. * Add pictures to the final production. * Add background audio to the final production, with professional fading options and volume control. * Generate ASF/WMV files suitable for uploading directly to YouTube and other services. * Upload directly to YouTube for public or private sharing. * Generate video with your choice of aspect ratio and resolution. * Anti-drift technology keeps both sides of the call in sync. * Ideal for podcast interview recording. * Ideal for recording shared desktop sessions.

"Open Spokes answers complex professional and personal questions through collaborative media. As a platform, we answer what web search can't: the biggest questions that people have within their lives and livelihoods. Questions like "What is the next step in my career?" or "How can we make our brand better" are answered through webcam video and robust analytics, providing a process for anyone to find solutions to their most pressing issues."

I saw on Twitter that one of my peeps was told that this year they will develop their own /Professional/Personal Learning Network. Just in case that happens here, this may help get someone started.

Wondering what someone else thinks about having a PLN (Professional Learning Network)?

The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

What Twitter can be to users . . . Broadcast medium, PLN builder, Professional Development, Edchat, Virtual conference attendance, Live blogging, Backchannel, Complaints dept., Tech support, Subscription service, Disaster and emergency tool, Share your tastes and activities, Real time search, News on demand, Broadcast the revolution, Journaling, Look at me, look at me!

For teachers of mathematics, we: * Offer you FREE enrichment material (Problems, Articles and Games) at all Key Stages that really can help to inspire and engage learners and embed RICH tasks into everyday practice. * Help to promote RICH thinking in classrooms by offering on-line and face-to-face support at Primary and Secondary level. * Deliver professional development courses and workshops in rich mathematics. * Help teachers to think strategically about 'next steps' and progression in problem solving.

Good Professional Development Site created by ITS

"The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement. It presents five goals with recommendations for states, districts, the federal government, and other stakeholders. Each goal addresses one of the five essential components of learning powered by technology: Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure, and Productivity."

"The 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. They have been a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been great fun connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. Thanks for all the help so far. It all began with One Idea, One Slide and One Image as a premise for the IWB presentation and that has always remained. I hope we can all continue to create them - let me know if you have any other ideas for a presentation. I wanted to keep the family together in one place and give you one page to see them all, as so many of you have requested. Don't forget that if you want to contribute an idea just let me know and I will give you access to share your thoughts."

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.