Professional+Development+Resources

=Walden Week 3 Application - Resource Evaluation Tool = = = =//Professional Development Resources// = 5 Star Resource Evaluation Rubric Instructional Resources

This resource category contains technology based resources offering content related to professional development. These teacher resources are not directly related to student instruction and include applications such as professional learning communities, educational research, PD webinars, educational blogs, technology integration support, teacher discussion forums, etc. **//the 21st Century Educator//** //Authors:// D. Garth Holman; Michael Pennington //URL://Teachers for Tomorrow || Naida Casado-Pagán || **5** || A professional blog, where teachers from all around the world can share ideas and experiences regarding technology integration into the classroom. || Blogs; Webshows; Skype; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook; Google; My Space; Author Conferences || A great resource to keep teachers updated about the new trends in technology integration. Allows exchange of ideas and suggestions; an at-hand physical resource to integrate technology. || //**Community of Teachers**//
 * Resource Name || **Resource** **Evaluator** || ** Average Rubric Score: 1-//5 Star//Rating ** || Description of ResourceContent || Available Resources || OverallResource Comments ||
 * **//Teachers for Tomorrow: Helping Create//**
 * //**Teachers Circle 360: A Worldwide**//

//Authors:// Dolphin Smart Community Builder; Boonex Community Software Experts //URL: TeachersCircle360// || Naida Casado-Pagán || ** 4 ** || A //Facebook// forum for teachers from all around the world. A user-friendly website providing Internet interaction opportunities, uploading of videos,photos, and events. The website is still upgrading and requires a subscription (free). || Forum; Blogs; Polls; Advertisements; Photo/Video Upload; Email/Inbox; Link to groups; RSS Feed; Facebook || This website is relatively new but is a very promising resource for teachers. It provides resources on various topics related to education. A great tool for teachers to learn and interact with other educators. ||
 * //**TES**//

//Authors:// TSL Education Ltd. //URL:// TES || Trevor Henderson || **5 ** || Online web resource designed to increase efficiency and help teachers through the sharing of their best ideas and practices. Largest network of 1.6 million members and access to over 100,000 resources designed by teachers for teachers. || Printable, editable resources; job postings; discussion forum; print publications; resource purchasing discounts and group buys; current trend and learning research information on educational topics, including technology integration || Website is a great tool for locating resources on any curricular topic. Discussion forum is active, searchable, and provides relevant information on current pedagogy trends and development. Job postings feature offers information on regional and international placements. || //Author:// 2learn.ca Education Society //URL: 2learn.ca// || Trevor Henderson || **5** || This web site is a technology rich resource offering matreials and links for use with a variety of grades, subject areas, and technology types. This resource explores educational innovation, and offers a wealth of imaginative practices for learning with technology. || Site offers links to educational interactive sites; webinars; VC PD events; instructional workshops; VC support and program resources; multipoint events; P2P collaborations; links to productivity and creative multimedia tools and tutorials; theme-based collections of weblinks, media, classroom activities, VC events, and Web 2.0 tools || Extremely useful resource which allows teachers to access a multitude of different online resources organized by subject area, grade, and curricular topic. Site provides not only classroom resources but also access to meaningful professional development options on current educational topics. This resource effectively supports teachers in relation to pedagogy and applications of differentiated instruction. || //Author(s): // //URL: // Corner Stone for Teachers || Shelby Murphy || **5** || Online website/blog for teachers of any grade level. The information is easily adaptable to fit any need.Teachers who are in need of classroom management tips, class set-up, supplies necessary, blogs of latest educational news, and free printable materials. || Free printables, Facebook, RSS feeds, blog membership, lesson plan ideas, webinars, and videos. || A useful tool for any teacher! I highly recommend this website for any teacher, new or veteran. The resources included are highly sought after and are applicable the minute one is finished reading. Great resource. ||
 * 2Learn Education Society
 * === The Cornerstone for Teachers ===
 * === ASCD: Association for ===

Supervision and Curriculum Design
//Authors(s):// //URL: [|http://www.ascd.org]// || Shelby Murphy || **4** || This is an online website/blog for educational administrators as well as classroom teachers. There is a wealth of information on toda's hot topics in education. The site includes top educational leaders and mentors, webinars, videos, back e-editions of the Educational Leadership magazine, blog posts, and resources to link in other areas of education || Facebook link, RSS feed, blog, membership sign up, videos, and webinars. || This is a great site for furthering the lifelong learners desire to know more about how and why decisions are made in education. While that is not the only available information on the site, it is the backbone of the company. The guest speakers are amazing and will really reach out to the reader. The topics that show up on this site, eventually make it to the classroom. I's great to be in the know before. ||  //Authors(s):// //URL:// [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com] || Shelby Murphy || **5** || This is a great website for the techy teacher in all of us. All items on this site are geared towards tech in the classroom and tech in the teachers hands. The author of this site is a tech lover and he loves to share the latest and greatest with educators. || Contains, RSS feed, blog membership, Twitter, and Facebook. Also has free lesson plan ideas, downloadables, links to national geographic, and Youtube. || The likeable thing about this site is that fact that it is right up everyone's alley that loves technology. The information written is easy to understand, applies to what we are doing in the classroom and learning from outside sources. || Authors: CSC Holdings, LLC [|URL: An Education Initiative] || Damilola Alalade || **5** || This website empowers teachers of K - 12 in the use of technology, and to facilitate the home school connections. It provides multimedia educational content to teachers, students and parents. || The site contains: Blogs; Technology Resources; Software Reviews; Lesson activities; gadgets; subscription to newsletters; maps with links to National Geographic videos; RSS feeds; and school tube. || A well organized site with links to other useful sites which is great for teachers who will like to have a diversified knowledge about the use of technology. It provides free programs and information about free digital media use. ||
 * Free Tech for Teachers
 * Power to Learn
 * Technology Resource Center

//Author(s): Education World // //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">URL: // Teachers || Damilola Alalade || <span style="color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 300%; text-align: center;">**5** || This site is filled with different resources that are useful to teachers, touching most aspects of the learning environment like students, parents, classrooms and teachers. It is set to improve students achievement through professional development and use of technology. It expands the teacher's horizon of knowledge by offering ways to integrate technology in education. || Technology:Professional: Development:Administrators: This week in Education; Lesson Plans; Other Resources like; Authors: International Reading Assoc. and NCTEURL: readwritethink || Chelsea Kalnoske || || This site has numerous resources for teachers, students, and parents. The site is user friendly and well organized. This site’s focus is resources to use in the classroom for language arts instruction. There are numerous activities, interactive games, printouts, and lesson plans focusing on specific writing skills, phonics, and reading strategies and skills. || This site contains: || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This blog was created by Steven Anderson as a way share with educators ways to “harness the power of technology to enhance learning.” Steven is a District Instructional Technologist whom presents at conferences and will do workshops or PD at your school upon request. His blog presents web 2.0 tools, their uses, and ideas for using them effectively in the classroom. || This site is a blog that contains: Author(s): Wendy Drexel URL: Teach Web 2.0 Wiki || Chelsea Kalnoske || || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">This is a wiki was created by a professional learning community of teachers who research Web 2.0 tools and social networking sites. This site provides links and explanations of a multitude of web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom, evaluations of each tool, and uses for the classroom. || This site contains: Author(s): Tammy Worcester URL: http://www.tammyworcester.com || Melissa Young || || I have seen Tammy Worcester present a few different times. She has great ideas and ways to use technology in the classroom. || This site includes technology tips for teachers to use in the classroom as well as multiple resources that teachers can use. || Tammy includes all the notes and handouts from all the lectures that she presents. ||
 * Teacher of the day
 * EdWorld Marketplace
 * Survey of the Week || This website is packed full of technology tools and resources for teachers, The main academic subjects covered are mathematics, reading and science. Tips are also given about online safety. There is an interactivity center that free features collaborative projects, virtual field trips, educational games and other activities. There are suggested sites to see for exploration. The site has so many tips that can help the teacher develop professionally ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read Write Think ** [[image:http://www.shilohes.org/graphics/read_write_think.jpg width="229" height="216" align="left"]]
 * Classroom resources: lesson plans, student interactive games/activites, calendar activities, printouts
 * Professional Development resources: strategy guides, professional library, lists of meetings/events, and online webinars for professional development
 * Parent resources by student grade level to use with child: activities/projects, games/tools, tips and how to’s || This site is a great resource for language arts teachers seeking professional development. The site has a professional library in which teachers can access journals to find research on language arts in the classroom. The site also has lists of online webinars in which teachers can get access to language arts specific professional development. The site is very user friendly, as you can search by grade level, resource type, objective, or theme. ||
 * ** Blogging About The Web 2.0 ** ** Connected Classroom ** [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRiuwg7KomBSCtsSaFJvM_p4tyxrzZ1k6RZyKQh9EunoXzDzme7 width="216" height="158"]] Author(s): Steven W. Anderson  URL: Web2.0 Blog || Chelsea Kalnoske || [[image:walden-k4-technologyrace/star.jpg width="38" height="36"]]
 * Profession Development requests for Steven
 * Web 2.0 tools descriptions, uses, and implications for the classroom
 * RSS feed
 * Podcasts || This is a great resource for teachers to get information about web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom. Steven does a great job explaining how each tool works and ways to integrate the tools into daily instruction. ||
 * ** Teach Web 2.0 ** [[image:http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/space/showlogo/1307653896/logo.jpg width="212" height="87" align="left" link="@teachweb2/home"]]
 * Links to Web 2.0 tools
 * Evaluation of tools using (SWOT)
 * Effective and appropriate educational applications for each tool
 * Membership to wiki
 * Discussion about web 2.0 tools and uses || This site takes introducing web 2.0 tools to the next level. The site has descriptions and links to web 2.0 tools that can be used in all content areas. The difference between this site and others like it is that is identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats (SWOT) for uses of each web 2.0 tool listed. Teachers work together to develop effective, appropriate educational applications for each tool listed. ||
 * = Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers =
 * ** ISTE Connects ** [[image:walden-k4-technologyrace/iste-logo-short.png width="231" height="156"]]

**Chief Executive Officer, et al.**
URL: [|ISTE Connects] || MichelleRose  || <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 300%;">**5**  || ISTE encourages excellence in learning and teaching through innovative and effective uses of technology. They facilitate webinars, workshops and blogs for educators to collaborate. || ** ISTE ** National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S), Teachers and adminiistrators.
 * current technology news
 * connects through blogs, facebook, twitter, and other social networks.
 * webinars and forums/discussions for technology related topics and education
 * FREE and paid membership sign up
 * RSS feeds
 * Up-to-date and current sometimes live sessions. || This site is well established and organized to meet the professional's needs for development. There is an opportunity to sign up for free and participate in the webinars and blogs among other connects. There is also a live chat to an operator. I think this website is important to the integrating of technology in the classroom at all levels. It provides us with the standards necessary for effective integration in teaching. ||
 * === Collaborative Working to Enhance ===

Tribal Education
URL: [|Enhance Mathematics Teaching] || Michelle Rose || <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 300%;">**5** || This is a free website for educators in the numeracy field. it was created with online resources that provides tools and ideas for the professional development of mathematics educators across all phases, and is a dynamic means of communication between them. || This website has an extensive outlook on mathematical needs and resources. It provides for both areas to develop mathematics education for all. There is current news, resources, online courses and training are provided, community of professionals-blogs, personal learning, access to researches, projects, online magazine, mathemapedia, among other resources can be found on this site. || The NCETM is an online collaborative effort to enhance the development of mathematics teaching. I think it is well organized and caters to the educator. It seeks to professionally develop teachers of mathematics. It also caters to professionals collaborative efforts. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Author: (LSIS) through active collaboration with learning providers, Government agencies and a range of sector organisationsURL: Excellence Gateway || Michelle Rose || <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 48px;">**5** || This website gives access to a comprehensive collection of information and resources, networks and professional development opportunities. brought together specifically for the further education and skills sector. It supports leaders, managers and practitioners in the development and improvement of your work with learners and communities. || This is an awesome site for educators as it provides support for * continued professional development * teaching and learning **<span style="color: #ff00c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Model Classrooms ** <span style="color: #ff00c1; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> Author(s): URL: Model Classrooms || Shelley Seavy || || This is a site from my state's Tech21 Website. It gives great models of project based lessons. || This website is a good resource for the core classes. There are lesson plans, videos, and resources. || The model lessons on this site were written and published by teachers. || Author(s): Verizon URL: ThinkFinity = = || Shelley Seavy || || This site is a great tool for every subject and grade. It is loaded with interactive whiteboard activities, lesson plans, and much, much more. || This site has something for everyone. || This website has thousands of free lesson plans and activities for every grade and every subject. There are great interactive games for the whiteboard. It has a great search engine to help you find exactly what you need for every grade/subject. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Author: Kelly Tenkely <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">URL: iLearn Technology || Rachel Geha || **5**  || This is a blog about integrating technology into the classroom. || Provides links to iLearn Zines technology tips freebies search area to find anything you need || This site provides tons of resources for all grade levels. It is a great place to learn about using technology in the classroom. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27px;">Excellence Gateway: Learning and Skills Improvement Service
 * leadership, management and governance
 * literacy, language and numeracy
 * preparing for inspection || Current and relevant to educators of the 21st Century. Ongoing professional development catered to for all educators including administration. ||
 * ** WV Department of Education **
 * = ThinkFinity =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">iLearn Technology