Online+Professional+Learning

A world of resources is at your fingertips. The trick is finding the right place to look to help you navigate all that is available. Here are some sites that can help you find available content for teaching or help you learn more if you need support in your technology learning.

Edublogs.org is a site that allows classrooms to have blogs, but it is much more than that. There is an extensive community under the "community" tab that can help you learn about how to use many Web 2.0 tools. Edublogs frequently offers 30 day challenges that can guide you through learning about many useful tools in education.

Thinkfinity.org not only contains thousands of ready-to-go lesson plans, it also has an online community that can offer online courses and support for your professional learning.

[|FreeTech4Teachers] is a blog with great archived links and resources as well as lesson ideas for your classroom. The blogger is a US History and Civics teacher, but has ideas and links for all levels of students.

Interactive NETS*S has a **plethora** of lesson ideas and resources that align directly with the **National Education Technology Standards for Students.** (Including the 4 C's for 21st Century Learners). The wiki creators have great, easy to integrate lesson ideas for teachers who are beginners in tech integration to more advanced "techies"!

[|"Tech Tip of the Week"] archives from Tammy Worcester - an ESSDACK Instructional Technology Specialist - her site has links with great tech information - all you want to know, and then some.

[|Diigo] is a free online bookmarking tool. You can access your bookmarks form any computer anywhere. You can also connect with colleagues or other educators and find links they are using. (You can also add links that are private.)