Professional+Networking

==If you are looking to find other educators and organizations interested in sharing teaching advice, insights, and lessons, check out some of the following websites. I want to make as many connections with other educators as possible, to keep my teaching and lessons as interesting, engaging and informative for my students as possible. ==

__ History Wikispaces __
MrLuxsclass
 * A fellow student teacher, working on a wikispace similar to my own. Contains many links, resources, and a lot of videos and interesting sites that I explore pretty regularly. Some of the most interesting videos I've seen! It's too late to apologiiiize...a declaration!

InterestingChemistry
 * Yeah, yeah, it's not history. But it IS another fellow student teaching, working in science. And let me tell you--it's cool! I don't know about you, but I think rock candy can be added to any history class, and make it d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!

resourcesforhistoryteachers "**//resourcesforhistoryteachers// is organized by teachers and students from the History and Political Science Teacher Education Program in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It features primary source, multicultural, and multimedia resources for teaching history in K-12 schools based on the Massachusetts History & Social Science Curriculum Framework, the AP World History Key Concepts, and the AP U.S. History Themes.**"
 * Description is taken from the homepage of this wonderful website. Robert Maloy coordinates this project, and was a professor of mine when I went to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as an undergrad and graduate student. This contains frameworks for so many history classes, so take a look, learn a bit....and find yourself some great teaching resources.

__ Technology Wikispaces __
Teaching-with-Technology
 * Still one of my favorite wikispaces. Their goal is to "[change] teacher practice with thinking and technology" and I still find myself coming back to this site whenever I want to get up to date on new technology.

Differentiate-with-Technology
 * Similarly, this wiki gives you specific ways to differentiate with technology. Contains lesson plans, how-to's, blogs, and some great sources of information!

__ General Education Blogs __
[|Teacher Reboot Camp: Challenging Ourselves to Engage Our Students]
 * A great blog by Shelly Sanchez Terrell, author of The 30 Goals Challenge, international speaker, and technology teacher trainer. This blog has free resources, professional development and her personal reflections. She also has a [|livebinder]of her work! Check it out!